A young man unleashes a disturbing force : Guy de Maupassant’s Horla.
Section: Belgian Short Film Competition
HELL BENT FOR WHISLEY
Chicago, 1928. Gang wars, prohibition and some very deadly whiskey.
MR. J. RUSSELL
Man or dog ? Instinct will decide !
L’ETRANGE PORTRAIT DE LA DAME EN JAUNE
The last moments of a woman seen through a shard of glass.
A LOVE STORY IN B-MINOR
A film noir is not always a film noir.
IRKUTZ 88
A nuclear disaster at the Russian-Mongolian border. Ultra Marxists and ultranationalists seize power. Jean-Jacques Rousseau strikes again !
MORT D’UN POULET
Belgium’s enfant terrible Jan Bucquoy as an axe murderer. His favourite chick as the victim. Say no more.
LE SECRET DES DIEUX
A shocking documentary reveals the true impact of mad cow disease.
PLAN B
Nazi spies steal a strange black box from a secret lab of the US Army.
LA PEAU DU LOUP
Little Red Riding Hood is actually called Virginie and she’s pursued by Italian werewolves.
WHAT A DAY
Jean leaves the house, notices the time and sets off.
STORY OF THE DEAD
Curiosity killed the cat, especially when she poked her nose into a den of zombies !
ANTHROPEAU
Fantastic cinematic sculptures.
YSE
Ysé doesn’t see things like we do and life is not the same for her as it is for us.
TEMPOLIS
Jeanne D’Arc and Gilles De Rais had a child, who would become a Knight of the Order of the Big Hourglass. He was trained in secret at the fortress of knowledge : Tempolis.
LUEUR BLEUE
Romain, pursued by Hakim, meets Lisa. Her strange visions start to haunt his mind.
ETAT D’AME
Thomas wants to have an out-of-body experience. His girlfriend Alicia will help him realise his obsession.
ESSENCE EXIT
A young man’s soul is torn to shreds in a mechanical inferno.
URECA
Because of a rather peculiar personal problem, Lode Pinon doesn’t have an easy life, not even when he finds his dream job.
GENDER
This black comedy explores the limits of gender identity.
LE MASQUE DE LA MORT ROUGE
The plague ravages the land. A prince and his court isolate themselves to party… until death !
CHAHUT
A reveller in search of the carnival, only finds deserted streets. He discovers that the party has gone underwater.
FOREVER
The story of a tattoo that keeps on growing.
PRELUDE
EVA RESTA AU PLACARD LES NUITS DE PLEINE LUNE
Michel is spastic. He finds comfort with Eva, his inflatable doll. But when the moon is full, Michel’s handicap disappears and he becomes “normal”.
BARBARA BROADCAST
Two friends tell each other stories in a room where they don’t seem to be able to get out.
MEDELIJDEN
A woman feels sorry for a poor, old man. One day she decides to follow him…
CHLOE
A tender encounter in a mortuary.
JAKOB
Little Jacob really loves his mum, but her lover starts to become an obstacle.
ANGE
Octave, who repairs puppets for a living, develops an obsession for carnivale attraction Ange, a girl without a spinal cord, who’s held up by a metal construction.
MUR
A boy is bouncing a ball against a wall. The sounds of the ball are being echoed in a strange way by the wall.
ZONDVLOED
An old man is held in the attic by his daughter. To stop him from going out, she makes him believe that it’s raining all the time.
LOS HERVIDEROS
A audiovisual fable, set in an existential universe of desert landscapes, in which a tree serves as a metaphor for human conflict.
THE BLESSING OF HENRY MULLIN
The trenches of WO I. Henry Mullin has been caught in barbed wire for days now and doesn’t seem to die. Is he immortal ?
CA SONNE
Eric rings at Lea’s door and makes himself comfortable in her home. Then the doorbell rings again and the plot thickens. And the bell keeps on ringing.
DEUX SOEURS
Two sisters looking for their parents, get lost in the woods at night. Fear strikes and their sibling rivalry starts to mount.
DIGITAL BREAKDOWN
In a city without a name, a man is pursued by a giant wire.
QUIETUS
The end of the world is upon us ! A young woman struggles with her faith and her sexuality.
URBAN RHAPSODY
A strange character is catching sounds in search of the ultimate composition.
VOGELVRIJ
A man rows his canoe peacefully down the river until he enters the territory of Bird.
DE ONBAATZUCHTIGEN
A world in which people have become the object of financial transactions, where a man can sell his brother to obtain a girlfriend. Or vice versa !
VIRTUAL DATING
A young and lonely woman buys a “Prince Charming” robot. It manages to satisfy all her wishes and desires, until one day…
LEGENDE DE JEAN L’INVERSE
Jean is born with reversed feet. His parents spend all their money on 20 years of operations to turn him into a “normal” member of society. A tragicomic absurd tale !
TOUCHDOWN OF THE DEAD
A gambler tries to inn his winnings in the midst of a zombie invasion.
STRATES
A farmer ploughs his land with violence and passion. Then the earth replies.
INCELLAR
The cellar as source of all our fears and desires.
A VITA NOUVA
The poet is at his writing desk when a coach driver knocks on his window and invites the artist to follow him. The poet reminiscences about his life in the coach and begins to compose his final poem.
L’ABRI
A danger is threatening the city. A man and a woman have barricaded themselves in a hotel room.
ABUSED
Belgian torture porn in world première, based on a story by Richard Matheson. A woman receives an anonymous phone call and hears how her husband is being tortured.
AL/CE
Michael never got over the fact that Alice left him for Eric. Then she disappears and shows up in Michael’s flat. Alice seems to hide something. Eric is desperately searching her and calls Michael, who doesn’t tell him anything. But Eric insists and he finally knocks on Michael’s door.
ANTROPOPHOBIA
The film tells the story of a creature who returns home and is confronted with her fear for other creatures in densely populated spaces. In world première.
ARTIFICIAL PARADISE INC.
A company has developed an organic virtual reality program, in which all lost memories of humankind are united.
AWAKING BLUE
An evil creature replaces the drummer in a band and puts a spell on the singer and the audience, dragging them all into a demonic trance dance.
LA CHASSE EST OUVERTE
Spring is in the air and happy couples are hopping around in the woods. But the hunting season has also started !
ECHO
Two creatures, separated from one another in two gigantic cylinders, loose every sense of reason as they try to reach each other.
UNE LONGUEUR D’AVANCE
There are 20 years between the young woman and her elder friend. She decides to sell her youth, so that they can share their wrinkles.
PAIX SUR LA TERRE
The world is sleeping. Oval objects are dropping down from the skies in the countryside and in the cities. Slowly, but surely, everything becomes eerily quiet.
LA TERRIBLE MALEDICTION
Lea’s car breaks down in the middle of the woods. Alone and clearly lost, she decides to look for help. But a terrible curse will find her first.
POST MORTEM by Mathieu Harford
9-year old Eddy has to stay at home while his parents go to the funeral of his grandfather. In the attic, he discovers an old man who is frantically looking for something.
L’OEIL DU PAON
She’s the ultimate hunter. Her wall is decorated with everything that walks on this Earth. There’s just one more trophy that is needed to complete her collection, the ultimate pearl to her crown…
LOVE OF THE DEAD
No need to dump your girlfriend just because she’s a zombie. You just have to provide her with fresh human meat from time to time. For the rest, life goes on !
CONDAMNE A VIE
Charles wants to kill himself, but discovers he’s immortal. How hard he tries, he doesn’t even get a scratch on him. But those around him on the other hand…
UNE DERNIERE FOIS
Hugo discovers with horror that a strange affliction is affecting everybody around him : their faces are fading away ! Desperately he tries to find his girlfriend before it’s too late.
ROUTE 66
Dad just got out of prison. That doesn’t stop him from dragging his son into another of his lucrative schemes.
LE CONCILE LUNATIQUE
A man opens his chamber window and discovers a lunar landscape that engulfs him and threatens to imprison him in eternal ice.
LA FEMME A CORDES
A young man wanders around aimlessly at a fancy fair. He’s approached by a tout who guides him to a unique spectacle : the rope woman !
LA FIN DU MONDE
A grotesque, pathetic, distressing and desperate story. A fable about our indifference to the destruction of our ecosystem.
POINT DE FUITE
A man, who cannot distinguish reality from fantasy, investigates the disappearance of a woman.
THE HOUSE THAT ATE SOULS
After the mysterious disappearance of Gitane Mayfair, her cousin Pallas inherits the family estate. She’ll find out there’s no escape from the curse of the Mayfairs.
THE TRAP by Alberto Lopez
A man walks by a wall, sees a hole, looks through it and finds himself trapped.
THE COLOCATEUR
Spanish Erasmus student Maria has to share her room in Brussels with the bizarre Frenchman Vincent. They don’t get along from the start and little by little uneasiness gives way to fear and panic.
A FOOL IN HELL
An attractive young woman participates in a casting session for a movie. The director thinks she’s perfect for the part… or should we say body parts !
HINTERLAND
While Astrid is playing with her father, her mother is making the preparations for her husband’s funeral. Little by little, Astrid realizes she’ll have to let him go.
DO YOU HAVE YOUR TICKET ?!
A robot takes the train, but doesn’t have a ticket because the distributor was broken. How to explain that to the trigger-happy train chief?
REZO
Who are all those so-called friend, all dressed the same, with their pale skin color and frozen postures. Members of a social network? How to get rid of them if you can’t do it with a mouse click?
HAMMERTIME
Freddy wants to blow a hole in his brains. But the noisy neighbors are disturbing his final moments. Sometimes it’s not easy to kill yourself.
THAT
A world première ! Beautiful chemistry student Esther comes home and is brutally attacked by a clown. That brings a youth trauma back to the surface… with fatal consequences !
L’HARMONIE DES SPHERES
A world premiere ! A woman is waiting for the end of a world devastated by solar flares. All hope seems lost. And then an object crashes on the planet.
MOTORHOME
Summertime and it’s swelteringly hot. Yann and Marie drive by the seaside in their motorhome. They stop to rest for a while. Suddenly time starts to play tricks on them !
STAKA
Manual laborers work like animals, driven by the promise of ending their days in a workers paradise.
KARKAS
A world premiere. Separated from its partner, a carcass takes vengeance on the butcher in a way befitting its nature.
LE CREPUSCULE DORE
Yvonne, a charming old lady in a home for the elderly, discovers that her only friend, the young nurse who takes good care of her, has disappeared. She starts looking for her.
WORKING GIRL HERO
Amelie is applying for a job that doesn’t seem to suit her… unless you have special powers.
REBIRD
A sick prisoner suffers in a cold cell. Then, one day, a mysterious visitor gives him a present.
DELIVRE-MOI
Sometimes your personal demons might push you towards the edge of the cliff.
PERFECT DRUG
Three clubbers pull off a raid on a laboratory and get away with an experimental drug. They were told not to sample the merchandise. And when they do, they’re in for the mother of all trips !
BONA VOX
After the accident that killed mummy and left me in a wheelchair, daddy can’t stop crying. But my time machine will make everything better !
THIS IS LOVE
While zombies roam the streets, one geek is gaming like mad. But there’s a special someone that will make him leave his room.
POUR VOUS SERVIR
This poor guy will experience the worst day of his life.
TEMPO
Tempo lives high in the clouds, in a magical place, where he practices his unique profession : he invents stories !
CHAMBRE DOUBLE
A world première! Doctor Gilles is questioned by the police about what happened in a hotel a few hours ago, when the receptionist asked him to treat an abused woman.
VERTIGE
What if… gravity started playing with itself : an entire new look on a city and its inhabitants.
PILATE 53
A world première! Notary Wilquet is brutally murdered. Commissioner Veys and his assistant are faced with the most unusual case in their career.
HIGHWAY FEVER
The American Dream isn’t for everybody, especially not on a desert highway.
BABY SITTING STORY
World Premiere : Sarah and Julie go to the aunt of a friend to baby-sit. There is a storm raging and one of them tells a scary story…
LILITH
The movie takes us to the nightly backstreets of Brussels, where a young lady wanders in search for hemoglobin to quench her thirst.
TITRE INDETERMINE
Three characters in search of a story are faced with a writer without inspiration. They have decided not to be pushed around, but he thinks differently.
PRRREÜTE
On an unknown planet far away, a courtship between two timeless characters.
OUT OF FRAME
Every morning and every evening, Michel leaves and comes back from work with a suitcase in his hand… One day, he’ll not return.
INTERFERENCE
Erin has lived her entire life alone and cut off from the outside world. Her house is like a fortress where she controls everything. Until one day…