Kortfilmfestival Leuven
- 30/04/2026 | 5 PM – 7 PM | Flagey 1
(OV ST FR / EN)
Carte blanche to the Leuven Short Film Festival with a sensitive and daring selection: troubled empathy, icy poetry, unsettling mystery and a search for meaning intertwine.
Object 817
Olga Lucovnicova
Pays Belgium
Genre Documentary
2024 - 22' - Color/B&W
A poetic journey to the heart of the Ural, where the discovery of an alien creature uncovers a haunting secret.
A Study of Empathy
Hilke Rönnfeldt
Pays Denmark, Germany
Genre Fiction
2023 - 15' - Color
Feelings are art. Or is art feelings? Dana wants to show empathy. Penelope wants to explore empathy. Penelope’s artistic experiment unfolds and Dana’s feelings are whirled around.
The Miracle
Nienke Deutz
Pays Belgium, France, Netherlands
Genre Animation
2023 - 15' - Color
The Miracle, a place where the sun always shines, with endless opportunities to relax and food in abundance. But how do you relate to a place that constantly confronts you with the things you don’t have?
Ik ben geen robot (I’m not a robot)
Victoria Warmerdam
Pays Netherlands
Genre Fiction
2023 - 23' - Color
After repeatedly failing CAPTCHA tests, music producer Lara becomes obsessed with a disturbing question: could she be a robot?
Ice Merchants
João Gonzalez
Pays France, Portugal, United Kingdom
Genre Animation
2022 - 14' - Color
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.