Libertés by the belgian short film agency
- 30/04/2025 – 17:00 – 19:00 – Galeries
- Program with subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired
Shams
Pauline Beugnies
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 24' - Color
Eden, a 30-year-old Belgian woman, works in a cultural center a few thousand kilometers away from her home, in the bustling capital of Cairo. She learned to love the city thanks to Shams, a bubbly Egyptian girl almost 10 years her junior, who challenges her vision of the world.
Fearing of what others may think, Eden has hard time accepting her feelings and this new relationship, until Shams brutally disappears following her coming out to her mother. Eden is forced to face her unconfessed love in order to find her. With the support and friendship of two valiant young Egyptians, Eden starts a fight against her own fears, denials and bias in the quest of Shams.
Si-G
Frederike Migom
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2017 - 16' - Color
Si-G is a 13-year-old rapper. She dreams of fame but has never believed she could possibly make it, being a special needs student living in a small apartment with her father and sister in the Molenbeek neighbourhood of Brussels. When Brussels-based rapper Zwangere Guy decides to make a track with her, her dream comes closer.
Titan
Valéry Carnoy
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 19' - Couleur
Nathan, a thirteen-year-old boy, is about to join his new friend Malik's gang for a strange ritual.
Récit de soi
Géraldine Charpentier
Pays Belgium
Genre Animation
2018 - 4'53" - Color
While non-binary representations are rare, Lou talks
about their relationship to gender, clothes, and other markers.
Matriochkas
Bérangère McNeese
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2019 - 24' - Couleur
FEDERATION WALLONIA-BRUSSELS
BEST ACTRESS
RTBF-LA TROIS AWARD
(NATIONAL COMPETITION)
Anna is 16, and lives with her young mother, Rebecca. It is the end of another summer defined by her mom's flings and conquests, but during which Anna begins to discover her own sensuality. As Anna learns she is pregnant, her mother sees herself in her daughter, at the same age, facing the same choices.
BEST ACTRESS
RTBF-LA TROIS AWARD
(NATIONAL COMPETITION)
Anna is 16, and lives with her young mother, Rebecca. It is the end of another summer defined by her mom's flings and conquests, but during which Anna begins to discover her own sensuality. As Anna learns she is pregnant, her mother sees herself in her daughter, at the same age, facing the same choices.