National Competition 6

  • 27/04/2025 – 16:30 – 18:30 – Flagey
  • 30/04/2025 – 14:00 – 16:00 – Flagey

ICARUS

Christos Kardana

Pays Belgium, France, United Kingdom
Genre Fiction
2024 - 20'05'' - Couleur
Luca, a young Greek immigrant living in Cargèse on the Corsican coast, misses Greece. The boy finds solace in training and an obsession with apnea, an ancient sport that involves diving in a single breath. But his father, Alex, an ex-champion tormented by the life he has given up and the recent disappearance at sea of his wife while freediving, forbids him to pursue his art because of his risky behaviour. Unable to find his place in the village and at odds with his father, Luca is at his wits' end. The boy is prepared to risk everything to prove that he has what it takes... and make the ultimate dive.

CAGE

Paul Vincent de Lestrade

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2025 - 16'40'' - Color
On her return from holiday, Aline finds herself stuck at her front door with her 6-year-old daughter and their luggage. She has forgotten her keys and her partner, who was supposed to welcome her, is missing. As the hours pass, what was supposed to be a trivial event leads to the collapse of Aline's world.

Sous ma fenêtre, la boue (The mud under my window)

Violette Delvoye

Pays Belgium, France
Genre Animation
2024 - 12'32'' - Couleur/N&B
One of Emma’s mother is too busy, the other one is too far away: a presence she rejects, an absence she sublimates. Out of a trivial tension, an intimate and unsettling face-to-face confrontation suddenly arises.

BO BACKSTAGE

Inès Eshun

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2024 - 14" - Color
Bo, a stand-up comedian, struggles to find her voice and show her true self during her final moments backstage. On stage, we discover how she transforms her pain into art.

Corps étranger (Foreign body)

Cécile Delberghe, Mathieu Mortelmans

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2025 - 17' - Color
In the middle of the night, a police detective is called to a crime scene in a monastery on a remote island. Left alone to examine the body, she realizes that it may not be human…

Sauver les meubles (Out Loud)

Faustine Crespy

Pays Belgium, France
Genre Fiction
2025 - 21' - Couleur
Yann, an eccentric performance poet, hopes to have an impact on the world and its injustices, armed with his megaphone. After a property seizure, he arrives at his daughters for the weekend. At sixty years old, Yann realizes that Dune doesn't really have a place in her life to continue dealing with this inconvenient father.