Agenda
Iedere maand licht Kortfilm.be een handvol niet te missen kortfilms uit, te zien in een bioscoop of museum in Vlaanderen of Brussel, of online.Every month, Kortfilm.be highlights a handful of must-see short films, screening in a cinema or museum in Flanders or Brussels, or online.
March 2023
As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.
A portrait of a leper colony in the north of Iran, where 'ugliness' is juxtaposed with religion and gratitude.
A magical fairytale about a cat in a long trenchcoat.
A classic from the oeuvre of one of the comic pioneers of silent cinema.
February 2023
Filmmaker Nikita Diakur's AI avatar teaches itself how to do a backflip.
Every day, a father and son parachute jump down from their cold cliff-side house to a remote village in the valley to sell the ice cream they make.
Children dance to music under the watchful eye of their teacher. A young girl witnesses the scene and disrupts their ritual.
A father and son take part in a folk race. To win, the boy turns himself into a car tyre. Loosely inspired by the director’s childhood.
Eén maal per jaar mogen de voormalige inwoners van Ma’loul terug keren naar hun door Israël bezette dorp. Tijdens de traditionele picknick documenteert de Palestijns-Belgische filmmaker Michel Khleifi hoe de geschiedenis van deze plek in de herinneringen van de oude generaties en in de verbeelding van hun kinderen verder leeft.
A devastating portrait of the artist's niece, haunted by the abuse she suffered as a child and the passivity of the family members who allowed it to continue.
A Hollywood villa on a sultry summer night. The escort does what he was hired to do and gives his client the illusion he has paid for. “I’ll make you a star”, the customer says, before the tide turns abruptly and the power dynamics are unsettled.
January 2023
Udo Kier dies his way through film history. He screams, falls, is dismembered, shot or commits suicide. Again and again his empty gaze, again and again his rigid body.
An adaptation of a play by Aimé Césaire, in which a revolutionary contemplates his life just before dying in a great collective disaster.
A young man approaches some sailors, who eventually turn on him, strip him naked and beat him to death. Subsequently, fireworks explode.
Large parts of Goma were covered with lava after the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano in January 2002. Today kids live in the ruins on the lava. They sell paper hankies to grown-ups in the city, and lava rocks to construction builders.
A sensory insight into the life of an Iranian refugee. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, numerous Iranian intellectuals and artists had to flee their beloved country. Many of them settled in Paris and tried to build a new life, often without success.
December 2022
A trip to the Côte d'Azur, with its blue skies, beaches and endless sunbathing people.
November 2022
A collage about mortality by Stan Brakhage, one of the most prominent figures of experimental film of the 20th century.
A sleeping man dreams of a city at dusk. Or is the city dreaming of him?
A crane operator discovers a freedom he finds nowhere else, dozens of feet above the ground.
Surrounded by the sound of nocturnal animals, a girl falls into a deep sleep. Gradually we slip into her dream that takes us on a cosmic journey through the meadows of Erpe-Mere.
October 2022
A group of people who don't know each other are stuck in a traffic jam on a foggy highway. The fog just won't clear up, creating a lot of uncertainty.
Jean Vigo's very first film. The silent documentary shows Nice residents in their daily routines, and the prevailing social inequalities.
In Dominique Loreau's very first (short) film, a woman wanders the streets of Brussels, waiting to leave for the tropics with a man she happened to meet in a pub.
A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is in no hurry to finish the cherry job though, as he tries to catch up with his son. The cherries remain in the background.
A sleeping man dreams of a city at dusk. Or is the city dreaming of him?
A conceptual experiment about what it means to start a film with a black image grows into a subtle personal essay about the filmmaker.
February 2022
La briglia sul collo (1974) is a wonderful example of Cecilia Mangini's talent for pointed observation combined with humor and social criticism.