Kinepolis Gent

© looking she said i forget (Naomi Pacifique, 2024)
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De/constructing Intimacies

Film Fest Gent Talkie

On October 13th, Film Fest Gent and Kortfilm.be invite Naomi Pacifique, Saleh Kashefi, and Camille Vigny to a conversation on intimacy. During this Film Fest Gent Talkie, the filmmakers will elaborate on their filmmaking practices and short films that are part of the festival’s  International Short Film Competition.

© And How Miserable Is The Home of Evil (Saleh Kashefi, 2023)
Screening
12.10.2024
And How Miserable Is The Home of Evil
Saleh Kashefi, Switzerland, Iran, 2023, 7’

Saleh Kashefi is an Iranian filmmaker who has taken refuge in Switzerland. He decides to attack Ali Khamanei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, out of a desire to “play a role” in the uprising in his native country because “he has affected every second of [his] life.”

© Note on Multitude (Ibro Hasanović, 2015)
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Launch Kortfilm.be 3.0

We celebrate the renewed Kortfilm.be hub and a new curated video on demand offer, by doing what we do best: watching shorts. The four shorts that mark the start of the VOD catalogue will be screened.

Cherries (Vytautas Katkus, 2022)
Screening
20.10.2022
Cherries
Vytautas Katkus, Lithuania, 2022, 15’

A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is in no hurry to finish the cherry job though, as he tries to catch up with his son. The cherries remain in the background.