Shortscreen 2024

Shortscreen 2024

© Ardent Other (Alice Brygo, 2023)

Shortscreen is Kortfilm.be’s yearly appointment with genre cinema. In collaboration with the Brussels film festival Offscreen, we present a short film programme featuring recent European work that is difficult to categorise.

Love affairs and existential fears alternate in this eclectic programme that includes many excellent animated films. From stop-motion to 2D and 3D computer animations, the presented works are diverse in content and form.

 

Shortscreen is an annual collaboration between Offscreen and Kortfilm.be: a programme of short genre films in the festival spirit—edgy and surprising.

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© Ardent Other (Alice Brygo, 2023)
Ardent Other
Alice Brygo, France, 2023, 16’

A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured; fire must be turned into a sign.

© The Lovers (Carolina Sandvik, 2023)
The Lovers
Carolina Sandvik, Sweden, 2023, 12’

A man and a woman are having a romantic dinner at a restaurant. Suddenly the man’s face starts to change. Soon the couple is forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations in this relationship horror and unromantic comedy.

© From.Beyond (Fredrik S. Hana, 2022)
From.Beyond
Fredrik S. Hana, Norway, 2022, 14’

A kaleidoscopic vision portraying mankind’s first meeting with alien life, told through faux archival footage combined with practical FX, miniatures, and old-school in-camera trickery.

© Le Crépuscule (Laura Vandewynckel, 2023)
Le Crépuscule
Laura Vandewynckel, Belgium, 2023, 14’

On a vibrant square, the crowd absorbs the sun to the fullest. A flux of newspapers gently spreads seeds of unrest amongst the bathers. Unrest turns to fear when a sudden eclipse clads the square in total darkness. The minds turn desperate for light.

© Drijf (Levi Stoops, 2023)
Drijf
Levi Stoops, Belgium, 2023, 15’

Jeremy and Aurora are lost at sea, floating on a log in the vast openness of the ocean. As they fail to understand each other’s desires and boundaries, the fight for survival and for their relationship becomes a bloody mess.