National Competition 4

  • 26/04/2025 – 17:00 – Flagey
  • 30/04/2025 – 11:30 – Flagey

Cherchez le garçon (Find the boy)

Paulin·e Goasmat

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2025 - 17'25'' - Color
While Charly, a young trans man, is buried under his birth name, Tom, Louise and BB, his queer friends, decide to pay him a final tribute in his image in a place where they used to meet, Charly's childhood home. But Victor, Charly's brother, arrives unexpectedly with his wife Iris.

Naissance d’un feu (Birth of a fire)

Archibald Martin

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 21'59'' - Couleur
Romane and Marcus, friends since childhood, are hiking in a forest. As Romane catches her breath, she catches sight of a shadow in the distance.

Klein Verhaal (Little Story)

Mirjam Plettinx

Pays Belgium, Netherlands
Genre Animation
2024 - 13'37'' - Couleur
A shuttle bus full of ants. At the rear, lying on a seat is a small, red Egg. It rocks back and forth. At a bend, it rolls gently against Ant. The young woman looks at her Egg. When the bus stops, she holds it close to her so it doesn't roll away again. At first she doesn't know what to do with this new companion. Ant takes her egg to her job as office assistant and her second job as a cleaner. She sings to her Egg. She so desperately wants to take good care of it, but constantly feels that she is falling short. The egg grows and grows in Ant's arms, becoming heavier and heavier to carry. It is enormous and fragile at the same time. When Ant, on her way to her second job, has an accident with her Egg, she realizes that it needs more care and attention than she can give. She has to make the most difficult decision of her life.

Baby Boum

Léa Dedeurwaerder

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2024 - 5' - Color
A panicked assistant calls her friend after a branch crushed the baby she was walking. Fearing her boss won’t believe her, they come up with absurd plans to save the situation…

Ortie (Nettle)

Toni Hilgersson

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2025 - 20'15'' - Couleur
Some say Jeanne is mad/crazy because she doesn’t let boys push her around, which doesn’t sit well with everyone. To protect herself, she decides to say stop. From now on, consider yourself warned, don’t touch Jeanne, she stings.

Sous le radar (Under the Radar)

Frédérique De Montblanc

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2025 - 20'04'' - Couleur
Overwhelmed by her mental workload, the case of Vonvon, magazine editor and mother of two, gets worse when she's forced to telecommute under a cloud of airplanes. Convinced that she'll manage just fine without the help of her husband Diamantis, a kindly but somewhat soft-spoken civil servant, sleep-deprived Vonvon gets caught up in her neuroses and ends up losing her grip on reality. Fortunately, the tide turns and she returns to her little secret garden: the office.