National Competition 1
- 25/04/2025 – 18:30 – 20:30 – Flagey
- 29/04/2025 – 18:30 – 20:30 – Vendôme
Gadjé
Georges Vanev
Pays Belgium
Genre
2024 - 22'43'' - Color
Nikki, a 17-year-old Belgian-Bulgarian teenager, dreams of taking the bus with Nadé, his lover. To leave this remote village and visit the new shopping centre in Sofia. Their relationship is threatened by Nikki's family because Nadé is of Roma origin. Everything changes when Nikki learns that he has to go back to Belgium to study in 3 days.
La Moisson (The Harvest)
Alice D'Hauwe
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2025 - 17'10'' - Couleur
Since her father's death, 15-year-old Rosie hasn't said a word. But as the weeks passed,
her silence, once a refuge, quickly became a poison that refuses to leave her. Now, it is
the last day of the harvest, the end of a season. Yet for Rosie, everything is only just
beginning.
Cimarron
Cédric Bourgeois, Remi Vandenitte
Pays Belgium
Genre Animation
2025 - 14' - Color
Martinique, 18th century. For rebelling after defending his pregnant wife, Mathieu, a slave working on a sugar cane plantation, is sentenced to death. However, the judge suggested that he could escape to death, if he agrees to leave for Canada to work as an executioner. Having no choice, the young man accepts.
Yves
Charlotte Zweers, Tom Dupont
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2024 - 12' - Noir et Blanc
A peculiar roadtrip. Yves, prisoner since twenty years, is allowed a visit to his mother. Over time
his mind has become filled with Hollywood fiction. He is accompanied by a priest, with whom he
seems to share more than one might initially suspect…
Levures Sauvages
Joachim Soudan, Maud Girault, Jérôme Zahno
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2025 - 33'33'' - Couleur
In the distant future, Brussels is the last possible place to live on earth, thanks to its regular rainfall. The city is flooded and a thick grey sky forms an increasingly tight lid over it. Transformed into a vat and now overrun by wild beer yeast, Brussels begins to ferment. Faced with this threat, a group of residents is asked to come up with a strategy.
Têtes d’enterrement (Long face)
Nicolas Galoux
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2024 - 15'29'' - Couleur
It's the story of a man who can't cry at his mother's funeral. It's the last straw for this single father whose modesty and the way others look at him are overwhelming. Could it be a rejection of propriety? A bittersweet comedy about letting go.