Opening Ceremony

For its 25th 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.

Stille Pa Sett (Petter Holmsen)
Norway - Fiction - 2016 - 12' - Color
We're in a war zone, probably in 1940: World War 2. Soldiers are scattered in the snow: freezing, bleeding and dead. Suddenly we cut out: we're on a Norwegian film set in 2015.

Loop (Pablo Polledri)
Spain - Animation - 2021 - 08'30'' - Color
In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again…

Avec Thelma (Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni)
Belgium - Fiction - 2017 - 14' - Color
An Icelandic volcano has blocked air traffic and Thelma’s parents are stuck overseas. Until planes start flying across the sky again, Jean Vincent and Thelma share the same roof.

Frieri (The Proposal) (Det Sporadiske Filmkollektivet)
Norway - Fiction - 2018 - 06' - Color
In a boat in the middle of the ocean, Joachim gets down on one knee to propose to Toril, the woman of his dreams. Toril on the other hand, has an entirely different view of their relationship.

Instead of Abracadabra (Patrik Eklund)
Sweden - Fiction - 2008 - 22' - Color
Tomas is a little bit too old to still be living with his parents, but his dream of becoming a magician leaves him with no other option. His father just wants him to grow up and get a proper job.

Flagey, Brussels Short Film Festival