Festival selection

Internationale Selection #1 (Competition)

Kinokarenina

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Andrii Makarchenko | UA | 2024 | 1' | vo
Internationale Selection #1 (Competition)

She really wanted their wedding day to last forever...

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Shadow of the Forest

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Dmytro Koturanov | UA | 2024 | 15' | vo sub en
Internationale Selection #1 (Competition)

On their way home, friends Emmy and Lisa take a shortcut through the forest, ignoring radio warnings. When their car breaks down, they find themselves stranded. As Lisa leaves to seek help, Emmy's wait turns into a terrifying experience. With darkness closing in, the friends face the unseen horrors lurking in the woods, their survival hanging by a thread.

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HellHound

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Lincoln Barela | BR | 2024 | 24' | vo sub en
Internationale Selection #1 (Competition)

The arrival of a strange package reunites two friends who have taken different paths in life, putting their friendship at stake over something that may be more than just a prank.

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Dreams

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Chioma Paul-Dike | NG | 2024 | vo sub en
Internationale Selection #1 (Competition)

When seven months pregnant Nelo Dike moves into her husband's ancestral home, her dreams are of an angry woman yelling at her to leave; but Nelo’s worst nightmare is when her dreams become her reality.

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The Man Without a Face

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Sergio Siruela | MX | 12' | 2024 | vo sub en
Internationale Selection #1 (Competition)

Nobody believed seven-year-old Laura when she spoke of "The Man Without a Face" hiding within the shadows of her bedroom until the day she disappeared. Several months later, a grieving father tells his story while reliving terrifying moments one could only envision as part of their worst nightmares.

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Let's Eat Grandma

Let's Eat Grandma
Ross Ozarka | NZ | 9' | vo
Internationale Selection #1 (Competition)

Water, water, everywhere, and only your grandma to drink. One grandson, one grandma, cast
away in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, forced to make an unthinkable decision in order to
survive...

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The Image Seller

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Donavan Richard | CA | 13' | vo
Internationale Selection #1 (Competition)

Larry goes door-to-door, convinced he's selling happiness through the images broadcast by a revolutionary retro portable TV.

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European Selection #1 (Competition)

Siluro, La Bestia del Ebro

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Jordi Romero Oya | ES | 2023 | 13’ | vo sub en
European Selection #1 (Competition)

A strange disappearance alerts the emergency services. Once they arrive, they discover that a creature has emerged from the waters of the Ebro River.

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We said on the 13th

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Cédrick Spinassou | FR | 2023 | 2’ | vo
European Selection #1 (Competition)

Jeff must recover something important for Alex but this one is petrified at the thought of it...

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Pet's For Life

Pet's For Life
Jamie Bourne | UK | 2020 | 4’17 seconds | vo en
European Selection #1 (Competition)

Meet Paul and his pet zombie Chris for this mockumentary spectacular. Do you agree with the neighbours?

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In half

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Jorge Morais Valle | ES | 2023 | 24’ | vo sub fr
European Selection #1 (Competition)

Through a child's imagination it tells the journey of a man who after falling prey to his fears, he must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be confronted with his own fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions for the future to discover his self-identity.

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I'm not a Robot

I'm not a Robot
Victoria Warmerdam | NL | 2024 | 20' | vo sub en
European Selection #1 (Competition)

 After repeatedly failing Captcha tests, music producer Lara becomes obsessed with a disturbing question: could she be a robot?

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Fomo / Armageddon

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Michael Niels Køppen Kunov | DA | 2023| 12’ | vo sub en
European Selection #1 (Competition)

The world is coming to an end and teenager William is convinced that it is his fault. He has promised his crush to spend the last moments with her, but he hasn't told his parents, who have decided to use the last day on earth celebrating his disabled sister's birthday. William has always put his sister first, but today he wants to free himself. Still, guilt is holding him back.

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Another Alice

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Matteo La Capria | FR | 2024 | 15' | vo
European Selection #1 (Competition)

 Alice leaves a party with her best friend who tries to kiss her. She pushes him away, he becomes violent... Alice then flees into a dreamlike universe, revisiting a wonderland that looks like a nightmare.

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Belgian Selection #1 (Competition)

It Burns

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Kate Maveau | BE | 2024 | 11’ | vostfr
Belgian Selection #1 (Competition)

As the boundaries between the living and the dead blur, Irène’s denial navigates through the five stages of grief, ultimately confronting her profound anguish and sorrow.

In collaboration with Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival

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Midnight Frights

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Clotilde Colson, Alan Santi | 2024 | 9' | vo
Belgian Selection #1 (Competition)

1970. Every evening, Anne and Jean-Luc host the mysterious television program "Midnight Frights". The program features disturbing, frightening and bloody stories... but all with a touch of humor and light-heartedness. This evening, they tell us the story of Nicole, a groupie of the famous rock star Curtis Wilde.

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The Investment

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Frédéric Plasman | BE | 2024 | 25' | vostfr
Belgian Selection #1 (Competition)

n a dystopia where everything must be profitable, Rachel Boyer got a negative rating and must retrain to work in a slaughterhouse for unproductive people.

In collaboration with Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival.

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Fagnes 1986

Fagnes 1986
Nicolas Monfort | 2024 | 16' | vo
Belgian Selection #1 (Competition)

Winter 1986. Due to heavy snowfalls Mum and Dad won't be back to the chalet until morning. Simon and Eva, the children, are on their own. At night, they hear strange noises...

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Poppy's Saturn

Poppy's Saturn
Nicole Tegelaar | 2024 | 15' | vo sub en
Belgian Selection #1 (Competition)

When nightclub singer Poppy is confronted by a black-eyed man she is overcome by fear. The event triggers a buried sexual trauma that she has to overcome in a kaleidoscopic world of glitter, music and blood.

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Belgian Selection #2 (Competition)

The Leak

The Leak
Paola Cubillos | 2024 | 8' | no dialog
Belgian Selection #2 (Competition)

In the quietness of an apartment the irruption of a water leak leads to the encounter of the protagonist with her younger self and their blurry memories of an early loss.

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The Child

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Bekim Vanbosche | 2024 | 23' | vo
Belgian Selection #2 (Competition)

During her pregnancy, a woman experiences terrifying symptoms that necessitate an urgent intervention, plunging her into one of the darkest situations.

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Muscle Masqué

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Nicolas Gemoets | 2023 | 8’| vo
Belgian Selection #2 (Competition)

Muscle Man, the world's cleanest superhero, embarks on a breathless battle against a giant robot hell-bent on reducing the city to rubble, but his obsession with order may well be his undoing.

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Olga's eyes

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Sarah Carlot Jaber | BE | 2024 | 22’ | vostfr
Belgian Selection #2 (Competition)

Vampire Olga, a music-loving octogenarian, is tired of killing. Her daughter Simone calls it pickiness and puts her in a care home full of people ‘with one foot in the grave’.

In collaboration with Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival

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Signal

Signal
Jérôme Pierrat | 2024 | 9' | vo
Belgian Selection #2 (Competition)

Deborah is trapped in a hospital room after a car accident. As she desperately tries to reach her partner by phone, a presence seems to be watching her in the darkness of the room...

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Recall

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Jelle Bleyenbergh | BE | 2024 | 10’ | vostfr
Belgian Selection #2 (Competition)

The dangerous RECALL program allows people to change their past. Natan uses it to save Hannah from death and create a timeline where they’re together.

In collaboration with Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival

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