Catalogue 2019

+6 Gain

Opening Scenes

Jorn Plucieniczak 26ʹ 2019 Belgium

An unsettling look at a group of young people that seem to linger in a kind of perpetual twilight, while playing and getting high. Like dancing on the brink of an abyss that stares defiantly at you. A...

Mars, Oman

Opening Scenes

Vanessa Del Campo Gatell 20ʹ 2019 Belgium

Astronauts set foot on the red earth of the Oman desert before the unbelieving eyes of the Bedouin. Two high school girls build castles in the air. A young boy trains to jump as far as possible....

À l'usage des vivants

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Pauline Fonsny 27ʹ 2019 Belgium

Semira Adamu arrived in Belgium in 1998 when she fled from Nigeria. Held in a closed detention centre next to Brussels Airport, she died smothered with a cushion during a sixth attempt at forced...

Under the Dress

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Aleksandr M. Vinogradov 23ʹ 2019 Belgium, Russia

As a child, Aleksandr Vinogradov had his grandmother as an accomplice. In her home, he could dress up as a woman, explore his desires and identities, seek out in himself what was absolutely forbidden...

Vaarheim

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Victor Ridley 29ʹ 2019 United Kingdom, Belgium

Out Skerries is a minuscule archipelago of the United Kingdom located in Scotland, to the east of the Shetland Islands, in the middle of the North Sea. A few years ago, the fish farm—the island's main...

Lost Three Make One Found

Opening Scenes

Sushi Kuwayama 26ʹ 2019 Portugal, Japan, Belgium, Hungary

A Japanese man called Sushi sets off travelling in a camper that is the same age as him, in southern Portugal. He is looking for a legendary spring that could cure his broken heart. On the road, the...

Pacific

Opening Scenes

Angie Obeid 23ʹ 2019 Myanmar, Belgium, Lebanon

Pacific is the name of the building where the director lives, on the 18th floor. Also known as “the suicide tower”, it is a typical example of collective housing. In a subtle interplay between the...