CARNATIONS
by Martijn Van de Wiele
2021, 16’

SWOLLEN STIGMA
by Sarah Pucill
1998, 21’

Curated by Iris Diane Palma

by Sarah Pucill • 1998 • United Kingdom

Swollen Stigma is a visual, surrealistic narrative about a woman travelling both literally and psychically through several rooms. Memories, or fantasies, of another woman, fill her imagination. The film proposes lesbian imagery, and its shifting points of ...

by Martijn Van de Wiele • 2021 • Belgium

An artificial summer rules the greenhouse. Workers tend to carnations. In a multitude of splendid colours, they grow towards the sun until they’re ready to fulfill their cut-flower destiny. Carnations is an audiovisual meditation on movements within a car...

DA-DZMA
by Jaro Minne
2019, 16’

MAGIC, A PORTRAIT OF JORIS
by Chloë Delanghe
2018, 15’

Curated by Rebecca Jane Arthur

by Chloë Delanghe • 2018 • Belgium

In this film, images sourced from different periods in time are glued together. Worn-out VHS footage filmed by the artist’s father is placed beside 8mm images she filmed herself. Both have the same subject: one boy, both a son and a brother. Connecting images o...

by Jaro Minne • 2019 • Georgia, Belgium

Winter. A fifteen-year-old girl in a remote Georgian town tries to get closer to her older brother just as he decides to leave home in search of work abroad.

MARS, OMAN
by Vanessa del Campo
2019, 20’

THE END OF SUFFERING (A PROPOSAL)
by Jacqueline Lentzou
2019, 20’

Curated by BEAST International Film Festival’s artistic director Teresa Vieira

by Jacqueline Lentzou • 2020 • Greece

Sofia is panicky again. The Universe decides to contact her—an other-worldly dialogue. Lentzou’s short film is a planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.

by Vanessa del Campo • 2019 • Belgium

Oman’s vast plains look so much like Mars that they are used as a training ground for astronauts. Two local girls gaze at the starry sky like curious scientists while the astronauts philosophise about living on the Red Planet—people who differ greatly becaus...

GESTES DU REPAS
by Luc de Heusch
2017, 23’

LOVE GOES THROUGH THE STOMACH
by Neozoon
2017, 15’

Curated by freelance film programmer Emilia Mazik

by NEOZOON • 2017 • Germany

Dedicated to nutrition and the human attitude towards “production animals”, this YouTube-found footage collage provides disturbing insights into the behaviour of a Western affluent society towards animal products.

by Luc de Heusch • 1958 • Belgium

This satirical ethnographic film shows eating Belgians in diverse contexts. Dinner scenes at weddings, funerals, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve portray a country: loneliness and community alternate, just as wealth and poverty.

BACK AND FORTH
by Lisa Foster
2018, 4’

MOI
by Inès Sedan
2011, 5’

Curated by Olga Bobrowska, Festival Director of StopTrik International Film Festival

by Lisa Foster • 2018 • Belgium

We all have a different rhythm. This film is a dance about individual rhythms that go together, seem to clash, or just stay separate.

by Inès Sedan • 2011 • France

In a binary universe, a man must hide his true feelings and dance, dance, until he has the courage to defy the norms and reveal who he really is.

0,2 MILLIGRAMS OF GOLD
by Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
2021, 24’

YAROKAMENA
by Andrés Jurado
2022, 22’

Curated by Oana Ghera, Artistic Director of Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival

by Diego Quinderé de Carvalho • 2021 • Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Brazil

Eight thousand five hundred kilometres lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, filmmaker Diego looks from the outside at the inaccessible forest from the outside. Its Belgian counterpiece, h...

by Andrés Jurado • 2022 • Colombia, Portugal

In an unknown place, futuristic ruins overlap with the story of an indigenous saga. In 20th-century Colombia, resistance fighter Yarokamena, a member of the indigenous Uitoto tribe, called for rebellion against violent exploitation of the rubber minin...

by Pol Merchan • 2018 • Germany

Punk author Kathy Acker’s work is the starting point for a conversation about gender identity and body transformation and is linked to the punk movement of the 1970s and 1980s. This hybrid mix of documentary, fiction, photography, and literature aims to portray th...

by Olivier De Vos • 2021 • Belgium

An introspective essay about the search for a place between reality and imagination: a placeless place made up out of dreams and a longing for fluidity. Slowly, the grains of the compressed image become the sands of the atopic beach, revealing an imaginary place.

ATOPIA
by Olivier De Vos
2021, 18’

PIRATE BOYS
by Pol Merchan
2018, 13’

Curated by filmmaker Daniel Šuljić, Artistic Director of Animafest Zagreb.

OH WILLY...
by Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels
2011, 17’

IMPOSSIBLE FIGURES AND OTHER STORIES II
by Marta Pajek
2016, 15’

Curated by filmmaker Daniel Šuljić, Artistic Director of Animafest Zagreb.

THIS DAY WON’T LAST
by Mouaad el Salem
2020, 25’

SCUM MUTATION
by Ov
2020, 10’

Curated by media scholar and film curator Borjana Gaković.

HOUSES WITH SMALL WINDOWS
by Bülent Öztürk
2013, 15’

MOTHER PRAYS ALL DAY LONG
by Hoda Taheri
2022, 24’

Curated by Anne Gaschütz, festival director of Filmfest Dresden.

+6 GAIN
by Jorn Plucieniczak
2019, 26’

AKABOUM
by Manon Vila
2019, 30’

Curated by film programmer Aurélien Marsais.

RED GIANT
by Anne Verbeure
2021, 11’

LEMON TREE
by Joana Silva
2016, 5’

Curated by film programmer Margarida Moz.

SHE ASKED ME WHERE I WAS FROM
by Aulona Fetahaj
2020, 24’

LOST EXILE
by Fisnik Maxville
2016, 29’

Curated by film curator and lecturer Delphine Jeanneret.

À GIS
by Thiago Carvalhaes
2017, 20’

HERMAN@S (LES ADELPHES)
by Hélène Alix Mourrier
2021, 29’

Curated by Diego Armando Aparicio, Artistic Director of the Cypriot LGBTQIA+ film festival Queer Wave.

D’UN CHÂTEAU L’AUTRE
by Emmanuel Marre
2018, 40’

NO SIGNAL
by Adrien Genoudet
2021, 23’

Curated by filmmaker and programmer Thanasis Neofotistos.

THE JUNGLE KNOWS YOU BETTER THAN YOU DO
by Juanita Onzaga
2017, 20’

NOWHERE ELSE
by Lee Kyeong-won
2021, 28’

Curated by Sanghoon Lee, Artistic Director of the Busan International Short Film Festival.

WAITHOOD
by Louisiana Mees
2019, 21’

COPA-LOCA
by Christos Massalas
2017, 14’

Curated by Émilie Poirier, film programmer at Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) in Montreal.

WATER AND SALT
by Luisa Mello
2019, 10’

SNOW EDGE
by Juan Francisco Rodríguez
2021, 15’

Curated by film critic Valentina Giraldo.

ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING
by Enzo Smits
2014, 19’

I AM GOOD AT KARATE
by Jess Dadds
2021, 11’

Curated by film programmer Ren Scateni.

À L’USAGE DES VIVANTS
by Pauline Fonsny
2019, 27’

TRAJECTORY DRIFT
by Iván Castiñeiras Gallego
2018, 24’

Curated by Batalha Centro de Cinema film curator Ana David.

TRAINS DE PLAISIR
by Henri Storck
1930, 8’

NIGHT TRAIN
by Aya Kawazoe
2019, 15’

Curated by film programmer Nanako Tsukidate.

NOTE ON MULTITUDE
by Ibro Hasanovic
2015, 8’

THE MIGRATING IMAGE
by Stefan Kruse Jørgensen
2018, 28’

Curated by film programmer Aleksandra Ławska.

THE SUMMER MOVIE
by Emmanuel Marre
2017, 30’

UNDER THE SUN
by Eduardo Esquivel
2017, 15’

Curated by Nina Rodríguez, Head of Programming at Guanajuato International Film Festival.

ELEPHANTFISH
by Meltse Van Coillie
2018, 27’

THE AGE OF ANXIETY
by Taiki Sakpisit
2013, 14’

Curated by Leong Puiyee, Programme Manager at Objectifs.

SIRENS
by Raoul Servais
1968, 9’

SEEN IT!
by Adithi Krishanadas
2021, 10’

Curated by Aneta Ozorek, Artistic Director of the Kaboom Animation Festival.

by Marta Pajek • 2016 • Poland

A woman trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up only to discover that her home has unusual features—it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions, and covered with patterns. The film is the second in the triptych Impossible Figures and Other...

by Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels • 2011 • Belgium

Fifty-something Willy returns to the naturist community, where he spent his youth, to visit his dying mother. When she dies shortly after he arrives, Willy is confronted with the choices he made in his life. In a state of sadness, he retreats ...

by Ov • 2020 • France

In this cyberpunk animation, four creatures wobble like marionettes in a black void. An alien power tries to subdue them; police voices strike as if they were truncheons, but these vulnerable bodies start to fight back.

by Mouaad el Salem • 2020 • Belgium, Tunisia

In this authentic and urgent diary film about longing for freedom and community, the filmmaker reflects on the individual and collective experience of being young and queer in Tunisia.

by Bülent Öztürk • 2013 • Belgium

Dilan pays with her life for her forbidden love for a young man in a neighbouring village—a powerful poetic portrait of an honour killing in the rural Kurdish southeast of Turkey.

by Hoda Taheri • 2022 • Germany

Confused about German bureaucracy and questioning her sexuality, Hoda, an Iranian asylum seeker in Berlin, finds herself hooked on Magdalena, who promised to ensure her asylum by marrying her. Due to changes in Magdalena’s private life, her decision to marry Hoda ...

by Manon Vila • 2019 • France

This is the story of a gang of teenage boys from the north-western part of Paris. We follow them in their wanderings, from the suburb of Cergy to that of Marne-la-Vallée. Somewhere between documentary and fiction, we are plunged into the superimposed worlds of the g...

by Jorn Plucieniczak • 2019 • Belgium

Symen and Sam pass their time in the monotony of a post-industrial suburb. They seem to linger in a kind of perpetual twilight countered by the invisible presence of ‘hardcore’. While gaming, they end up searching for the core of their desires.

by Anne Verbeure • 2021 • Belgium

Day and night, a giant sits on a hill, far away from his smaller fellow man. He fills his days organising things, making sure everything is in the right place at the right time. But he himself is usually nowhere to be seen.

by Joana Silva • 2016 • United Kingdom, Portugal

A fictional character’s body is assembled from memories embedded in an abandoned space.

by Aulona Fetahaj • 2020 • Belgium, Kosovo

Drawing on digital memories and using online tools such as Google Maps, Aulona Fetahaj reflects on how it feels to be the child of refugees in the digital age.

by Fisnik Maxville • 2016 • Switzerland

Hana is trying to escape from a lack of perspective in Kosovo. She meets Emir, a Serbian smuggler who will drive her to Hungary. On the road, complications arise as Emir’s unscrupulous associates take advantage of Hana’s vulnerability. In the midst of a fr...

by Hélène Alix Mourrier • 2021 • France

Mexico, October 2011. A mysterious dream gives birth to Cuco, a transgender latex pirate activist. A manifesto is written, and a first appearance occurs in a French queer club. But Cuco is not just a night owl. In confronting transphobia and the current st...

by Thiago Carvalhaes • 2017 • Portugal, Brazil, Belgium

The Brazilian trans woman Gisberta lived as an immigrant in Portugal. After she was brutally murdered, she became an icon for the transgender rights cause. Piece by piece, this documentary offers a delicate portrait of a woman torn apart by...

by Adrien Genoudet • 2021 • France

Sitting in her kitchen, Marie-Thérèse realizes she misses everything except her husband. She wanted to be the Princess of Monaco, but after being unhappily wed for seventy years, she must accept she is not.

by Emmanuel Marre • 2018 • Belgium, France

Spring 2017, during the French presidential election. Pierre, 25 years old and on a scholarship for a prestigious Parisian university, is lodged by Francine, 75, disabled, and confined to her wheelchair. Both puzzled and disoriented, they witness the el...

by Lee Kyeong-won • 2021 • South Korea

Six years ago, a woman in a mariage de raison went missing in Hamyang after a bus accident. Upon learning that she has registered her marriage with another man, her husband pays her a visit. She is unable to remember the past. The man asks her current husb...

by Juanita Onzaga • 2017 • Belgium, Colombia

Colombia is a land of ghosts. Two siblings roam these mystical landscapes searching for their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from the city of Bogotá to the Colombian jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams....

by Christos Massalas • 2017 • Greece

This is the story of Copa-Loca. Paulina is the girl at the heart of this abandoned Greek summer resort. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone – in every possible way.

by Louisiana Mees • 2019 • Belgium

Athens, 2018. 44% of youth are unemployed. A generation lost in a no man's land, wandering outside the classroom and labour market amid a booming sharing economy and gentrification. Five youngsters avoid waiting for an empty future by seeking entertainment in t...

by Juan Francisco Rodríguez • 2021 • Colombia

In the tropics, the so-called perpetual snows disappear. A new landscape emerges. Humans build a monument to the loss and, at the same time, a portal to travel to that ancient ice age. Different audiovisual materials are used to build a heterogeneous...

by Luisa Mello • 2019 • Brazil, Belgium

During the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, a woman floats in waters far from home. When everything seems calm, a wave hits and carries her to the depths of her being. Water and Salt is a journey through the consciousness of someone whose country is ...

by Jess Dadds • 2021 • United Kingdom

Portrait of a young teenager with mental health issues who is passionate about karate. They wander around a housing estate in East Kent, locked in verbal and physical battles with a hallucinatory demon made of football shirts.

by Enzo Smits • 2014 • Belgium

A portrait of young skateboarders growing up in a Flemish suburban town. We meet different characters going through their daily routines: riding around on their skateboards, waiting, hanging out, daydreaming... They fantasize about going away, but wouldn’t know whe...

by Iván Castiñeiras Gallego • 2018 • France, United Kingdom

In a container, sitting between crates of merchandise, two men talk about their exile. Their stories about the crossing of endless borders come together in a common dream: to reach England.

by Pauline Fonsny • 2019 • Belgium

In 1998, Semira Adamu, a 20-year-old Nigerian immigrant, died on Belgian soil by suffocation under a police pillow. Twenty years later, two women tell her story in a cry for justice. Through this film, they highlight the reality of detention centres: the harsh ...

by Aya Kawazoe • 2019 • Japan

A young couple in Kyoto. A girl makes up an excuse to run away from her monotonous life. She would like to say something to her boyfriend. Can she still return now that night is falling?

by Henri Storck • 1930 • Belgium

The beach and its sunbathers. A series of sketches and portraits, small moments that culminate in a wry, loving portrait of a Sunday at the beach.

by Taiki Sakpisit • 2013 • Thailand

An audiovisual meditation on the fin de siècle in Thailand. The film deconstructs hallucinatory footage of the typical 80’s Thai melodrama B-film into thousands of frantic fragments. They feel like violent stabs: disturbing memories and reinvented histories th...

by Eduardo Esquivel • 2017 • Mexico

Ana’s life changes radically when she divorces at the age of 40. In front of her family, it gets harder every day to keep pretending everything is fine.

by Adithi Krishnadas • 2021 • India

A marvelous menagerie of monsters, straight from the imagination of Mr. P. N. K. Panicker of Kerala, India, a top-notch teller of tall tales.

by Emmanuel Marre • 2017 • Belgium

A film about highways, tourists, concrete picnic tables, and lukewarm melons. About a man who wants to leave and a child who stops him. A summer movie.

by Meltse Van Coillie • 2018 • Belgium
with Dutch subtitles

A ship drifts in the middle of an endless sea. Aboard is a crew of five: three Dutchmen and two Filipino sailors. They all cope with boredom—some by trying to overpower it; others by escaping into a parallel world guided by dreams. elep...

by Stefan Kruse Jørgensen • 2018 • Denmark

Following a fictional group of refugees across Europe, the film questions the overproduction of images surrounding real-life tragedies and deaths. Each segment takes its cue from the destination of the refugees, from the Mediterranean Sea to a warehouse...

by Ibro Hasanović • 2015 • Belgium, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

A large and anxious crowd prevails in this chilling black-and-white short film, shot with one camera in Pristina, Kosovo, in 2015. Intimate, emotional, and sometimes violent moments of farewell: men, women, and children leave the...

by Raoul Servais • 1968 • Belgium

Monstrous cranes and prehistoric flying reptiles dominate an inhospitable seaport. A lonely angler witnesses a strange idyll between a cabin boy and a mermaid. Dream or reality?

by Meltse Van Coillie • 2018 • Belgium
with English subtitles

A ship drifts in the middle of an endless sea. Aboard is a crew of five: three Dutchmen and two Filipino sailors. They all cope with boredom—some by trying to overpower it; others by escaping into a parallel world guided by dreams. el...