Opening Ceremony
Brussels Short Film Festival 2023
For its 26th edition, the Brussels Short Film Festival invite you to start the festivities by revealing the best of the best short films which will be presenting during the festival.
Magnus is a Sexist (Magnus är sexist) (Hampus Hallberg, Emil Brulin)
SW - 2020 - fiction - color - 12'32'' - Swedish OV - FRE/ENG/DU SBT
with Emil Brulin, Niclas Fransson, Eva Fritjofson
After rehearsals, the well-meaning Johan gathers the equal opportunity group to a meeting on stage, but the dialog quickly takes on an unexpected and highly sensitive tone.
Exam (Emtehan) (Sonia K. Hadad)
IR - 2019 - fiction - color - 15'00'' - Iranian OV - FRE/ENG/DU SBT
with Sadaf Asgari, Hadis Miramini, Sadaf Asgari, Hadis Miramini, Masih Kazemi, Elaheh Afshari
A teenage girl involves in the process of delivering a pack of cocaine to its client, and she got stuck in a weird cycle of occurrences.
The Art of Authenticity (Carlo Oppermann)
GER - 2022 - fiction - color - 06'09" - German OV - FRE/ENG/DU SBT
with Randolph Herbst
Berlin is quite often pretty dirty. But what if there is one person who takes care of that every day? We tell the story of a one-man underground department that (by its own claim) makes Berlin the coolest big city in Germany. The Authority for Urban Authenticity.
맞담 (Family Toast) (Junhyung Kim)
KO - 2021 - fiction - color -13'45" - Korean OV - FRE/ENG/DU SBT
with Jiwon Kang, Euna You, Jungsik Jang
A mother finds a cigarette in her daughter’s bag. Even though her mother starts to bombard her with questions, the daughter keeps her mouth shut. Then the father returns home from work and begins to suspect the cigarette was not just a cigarette, after all.
Born to cry (Fanfare) (Léo Grandperret)
FR - 2021 - fiction- color - 17' - French OV - ENG/DU SBT
with Zacharie Chasseriaud, Mathilde Lamusse, Olivier Loustau
Jules, a stallholder, has experienced three strong emotions. He is therefore punished and must choose his "constraint": a mime or a fanfare, which will appear at each of his emotional excesses for one year. He chooses the fanfare. Then begins a real ordeal.
Flagey, Brussels Short Film Festival