Shortscreen 2024
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.
Programme
Programma
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.