Ghosts of Europe : For a fistful of Euros

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!

You Can’t Automate Me (Katarina Jazbec)
Netherlands - Documentary - 2021 - 21'00" - Color
Before container-ships leave port, lashers secure the containers using heavy metal bars. They are the last port workers to do such dangerous jobs. Each body tells its own story: from grieving for a colleague who died on the job to just keep going.

Minus One (Natassa Xydi)
Greece - Fiction - 2016 - 16'00" - Color
Summer in Athens, and Elsa's family isn't the only one renting their apartment to tourists. At their "spare apartment" there's little space for the young lady's dreams.

Oro Rojo (Carme Gomila)
Spain - Animation - 2021 - 12'04" - B&W
Red Gold is based on the protest of Moroccan women who pick strawberries in Huelva and builds a polyphonic account that appeals to the structural dimension of the conflict: migration policies, fight against north to south global extractivism, racial capitalism…

Bambirak (Zamarin Wahdat)
Germany - Fiction - 2020 - 14'00" - Color
When 8 year old Kati from Afghanistan stows away in her father’s truck, Faruk must juggle his responsibilities as a single dad while holding down his first job in a new country. A brush with racism tests the bond between father and daughter.

Apklausa (Urte Sabutyte)
Lithuania - Fiction - 2021 - 14'00" - Color
Aleksandra, a young prosecutor, is handling a human trafficking case.

La Costa Dorada (Noémi Gruner)
Belgium, France - Animation - 2016 - 10'31" - Color
In order to help her parents in Spain, Erika leaves for a job on the Costa Dorada, while in Madrid one of the most important demonstration of the “Indignados” social movement is about to take place. She finds herself confronted brutally with the crisis.

Flagey, Brussels Short Film Festival