In La Jetée, within this cruise ship of short film, there are many gangways one can take. One of these leads to the Archives. The stairway that carries us there is the only place in the building that is painted red. Yes, like the famous carpet cut from the same cloth. It is a solemn moment when we enter this holiest of holies, […]
8 short films conquering Europe! The Brussels Short Film Festival and nine other partnering festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand (France), Encounters (UK), Go Short (Netherlands), Curtas Vila do Conde (Portugal), Interfilm Berlin (Germany), Alciné (Spain), Short Waves (Poland), Tampere (Finland) and Wiz-Art (Ukraine), are pleased to announce the creation of the first European Short Film Audience Award. All eight of the short films won the Audience […]
The Age of Potential To borrow the apt title of a film by Pascale Ferran, the young girls and boys – and sometimes girl-boys – we meet here are often at the age of potential. Mixed emotions are a strength, the first flutterings of the heart open up infinite possibilities, and when only pain and suffering can be expected, patience can unlock poetry. Children […]
Militant dances permeate the 2020 Lab Competition: against totalitarianism, racial discrimination and gender inequality. At the end of the 20th century, Michel Foucault tied the question of the body to that of power and institutions. He brought to light numerous tactics aimed at controlling bodies by dispersing them and locking them down in space and time. Bodies policed by a body police as […]
“Who runs the world?” From the 7,000 short films we received this year, the committee has chosen to present eighty. Hailing from fifty-eight countries and ranging in duration from six to thirty-eight minutes, they tell dozens of stories involving hundreds of lives both real and fictive. The 2020 International Competition is made up of intimate portraits and personal stories that still resonate […]
The ArtFX school in Montpellier, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary, has participated in the festival since 2006. In “L’Atelier”, we see a behind-the-scenes look at cinematographic creation. As part of the carte blanche offered to ArtFX, graduation films will be projected. The selection illustrates both the diversity of the themes addressed and the rapid evolution of animation and post-production techniques. Everything you wanted […]
Taking full advantage of the fact that the entire team will be on hand for the ciné-concert scheduled during the Festival, the program DB1 focuses on the work of As Human Pattern, the filmmaking duo behind the visual world of Oiseaux-Tempête, and Khamsin, the documentary about the recording of their third album in Lebanon, which used musician’s from Beirut’s free improvisation scene. They wanted […]
Rosto the Baroque-and-Roller Beheaded (1999) is the title of Rosto’s first film. Beheaded is how he left the world of short film and animation when he took a one-way ticket to join his chimerical worlds in March 2019. Beheaded… and disheartened. Between these two dates, twenty years went by during which Rosto, to our great delight, unveiled his one-man-band panoply: filmmaker, screenwriter, […]
