Crappy Birthday

To get into the mood, the BSFF offers you a selection of short films about celebrations: happy or completely messed up birthdays,don’t miss those gems!

Die Badewanne (Tim Elrich)
Austria, Germany - Fiction - 2015 - 12'55 - Color
Three brothers, Georg, Alexander and Niklas, are preparing an original present for their mother.

El cumple (Pablo Alen, Breixo Corral)
Spain - Fiction - 2019 - 16' - Color
Children's birthday parties are most parents' worst nightmare. While kids play frantically and raise their blood sugar levels, adults are condemned to a succession of dull conversations about the weather with people they barely know. Not on this birthday party though. Here there is a delightful way for them to break the ice.

Bear (Nash Edgerton)
Australia - Fiction - 2011 - 11' - Color
Follows the continuing adventures of Jack, who always takes things too far. This time he is organizing a surprise for his girlfriend, with unintended consequences.

Le grand moment de solitude (Wilfried Méance)
France - Fiction - 2010 - 8' - Color
Today it is the father's birthday. All the family are gathered around the cake. Between revelations, quiproquos and dressing-downs, a dinner in family which turns up numerous surprises.

Instead of Abracadabra (Patrik Eklund, Mathias Fjellström)
Sweden - Fiction - 2008 - 22'00'' - 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.

Love is Blind (Dan Hodgson)
United Kingdom - 2015 - 6'30'' - Color
Alice is in the passionate embrace of a young lover when her husband James returns home early to try and make amends for his recent infidelity. Alice is racked with guilt for being unfaithful, just as James offers an olive branch, while simultaneously negotiating her lover's escape!

Flagey, Brussels Short Film Festival