International Competition 1
Out of 3714 short films submissions, 59 films will compete for the prizes in the International Competition.
Winners of the Grand Prix in the International Competition and National Competitions are considered for pre-selection for the Oscars® in the Best Fiction/Animation Short Film category provided that the film complies with the Academy’s rules.
August sky (Jasmin Tenucci)
Brazil - Fiction - 2021 - 15'00" - Couleur
As the Amazon burns for the seventeenth day, a nurse in Sao Paulo finds herself drawn to a neo-Pentecostal church..
Bracha (Aaron Geva, Mickey Triest)
Israel - Fiction- 2020 - 12'45" - Couleur
During the Covid-19 lockdown, Bracha is wandering in the middle of the night, holding a mattress over her head. Her anxious mother, Nitzi, has a hard time welcoming her into her home. On a delusional night, they are dragged into an argument that brings up old baggage and wakes up the neighbors.
Fanfare (Léo Grandperret)
France - Fiction - 2021 - 17'00" - Couleur
Jules, a 20-year-old 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, oppressed between a family that does not understand him and a budding love for the beautiful Mona. Will he assume his difference?
Four pills at night (Leart Rama)
Kosovo, Switzerland - Fiction - 2021 - 25'00" - Black & White
With a film to shoot in the near future, a director develops more than a professional bond with his actor. When they go together on a rave, things take an unexpected turn. Delusion or truth, the two end up with no answers.
Странное исчезновение товарища Кулякова (The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Kuliakov) (Lucas Abrahão)
Estonia - Fiction - 2022 - 20'45" - Couleur
Two low-ranking USSR officers are sent to occupied Estonia on a mission to track down a Captain who apparently went insane after discovering a mysterious radio signal coming from the middle of nowhere.
Flagey, Brussels Short Film Festival