National and International Competition

Amongst more than 1500 viewed films, fiction and animated movies, we selected the very best 40 films for the International Competition and 20 for the National Belgian Competition. We worked hard to provide the best of breed movies of the years.
Here are the selected movies for the International Competition (more info will be published soon):

• A hangya és a tucsok - Csaki Laszlo (Hungary)
• Alexandra - Radu Jude (Rumania)
• A piedi nudi sul paco - Andrea Rovetta (Italy)
• Auf der strecke - Reto Caffi (Germany, Switzerland)
• Balbezit - Willemiek Kluijfhout (Netherlands)
• Berni's Doll - Yann Jouette (France)
• Breath - Margien Roggar (Netherlands)
• Candido - José Pedro Cavalheiro (Portugal)
• Careful with that axe - Jason Stutter's (New-Zealand)
• C'est dimanche ! - Samir Guesmi (France)
• Como todo el mundo - Franco Lolli (France)
• Der Aufreisser - Steffen Weinert (Germany)
• Diente por ojo - Eivind Hilmboe (Spain)
• Dio Fores Tora - Michalis Konstantatos (Greece)
• Ela - Silvana Aguirre Zeguarra (UK)
• El silencio de los sapos - Claudia Pinto (Venezuela)
• Esconde-Esconde - Alvarro Furloni (Brasil)
• Herfra til manien - Katja Eyde Jacobsen (Norway)
• Kaveri - Teemu Nikki (Finland)
• La Drumul Mare - Gabriel Sirbu (Rumania)
• La Lilli à Gilles - David Uloth (Québec)
• La Saint-Festin - Anne-Laure Daffis and Leo Marchand (France)
• La Quela - Liz Lobato (Spain)
• Len's love story - Sonia Whiteman (Australia)
• Le secret de Salomon - David Charhon (France)
• Milan - Michaela Kezele (Germany)
• Moj brat - Yann Wagner (Poland)
• Pitstop - Melanie McGraw (USA)
• Pour de vrai - Blandine Lenoir (France)
• Raymond - François Roisin, Fabrice La Nezet and Jules Janaud (France)
• ReOrder - Sean Garrity (Canada)
• Rewind - Atul Taishete (India)
• Rosalie s'en va - Sonia Larue (France)
• Soft - Simon Ellis (UK)
• Son nom - Benjamin de Lajarte (France)
• Une leçon particulière - Raphaël Chevènement (France)
• What is that ? - Constantin Pilavios (Greece)
• Whats next - Claudia Rothlin and Andrian Fluckiger (Switzerland)
• Wrestling - Grimur Hakonarson (Iceland)
• Taxi ? - Telmo Esnal (Spain)
• Tiene la tarde ojos - Hari Carlos Sama (Mexico)

To be able to select and award (more than 20.000 € to be distributed) the very best of them:

The jury

An International Jury !
A Public Jury (You!) to attribute the Audience Award !
A Young Jury: 5 motivated guys and girls between 16 and 18 years-old. A good mix of French and Belgian people to tackle the difficult task to attribute a Young Award.
A Press Jury: They represent the written, TV, radio Press Journalists.

Out of Competition

Beside the Official Competition, we propose several programs: Trash Films, Very Short Films, experimentals… Everyone finds a suitable selection. You can already prepare your Festival by composing your own agenda now.

Major Directors

You know their Feature Films by heart. But they made some short films before becoming famous. Discover them here.

Best of the Best

Every Year the same story, we do want to show you the Best of the Best. And every year, we miss some best in class films for technical or logistical reason. No stress, we finally get there and present them in this unique selection.

Courts mais Trash

Open screen to our friends of Court mais Trash. The place to see independent and borderline movies (no children allowed!). Find out more at the Centre Culturel des Riches Claires (1000 Brussels) and on www.courtsmaistrash.be

Biarritz

Open screen to our friends of Latin America Film Festival of Biarritz. Since 1959, Ixelles and Biarritz are twined. It would be a shame to not open our Festival to their unique selection and point of view on Latin America Short Films. www.festivaldebiarritz.com

The Very Short

Brussels as well as 40 cities in France, New Caledonia, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Mali, Venezuela… host simultaneously the shortest of the International short films (3 minutes max). www.trescourt.com

Yu-films

The Yu-Films Association proposes a tour of ex-Yugoslavia. Founded in 2005, this film club is focused on the cinema of ex-Yugoslavia. Their 5 films selection will travel around Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia. www.yufilm.eu

Golden Rail

The Petit Rail d'or (small golden rail) is an award attributed during the prestigious Festival de Cannes. They employees of the SNCF (French public trains) award every year they preferred short film. Here is a selection of the films awarded since 1995.

From Short to Long

In 2005, we invited Marc Gibaja during the opening session to discover his short movies. We would not miss his move to long film this year with “Ma vie n’est pas une comédie romantique” with Gilles Lellouche and Marie Gillain.

Young Session

Specific program for 8-12 and 12-18: Films for family or schools during our morning sessions.

Nicolas Provost Retrospective

You don’t know him yet? This young talented Belgian film (and installations) maker has been awarded all over the world. To follow definitely…

UIP awards

For 7 years, 14 European Film Festivals (Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam, Angers, Vila Do Conde,…) host the UIP Awards. The Jury is an independent pool of professionals. By the end of each year, the prestigious Members of the European Film Academy select the best UIP awarded Film. This selection will show all the awarded films.