Best Belgian short movies

Elias and Nora discover that their daughter Léa is the fountain of life in human form. Through mutual contact with water, she can cure anyone of anything. But it's not without consequence.

Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.

A man and a boy are in the middle of a desert that used to be the bottom of the largest river in the world. Together, they start a search for the last drop of water.

School is out, and Indian and Cowboy are bored. Watching an old pirate film gets them out of their funk and they decide to build a ship and go off on an adventure. But their first try is a disaster. With the help of some animals, they finally manage to launch their proud vessel and everything is ready for their departure. But of course, nothing goes to plan... And the catastrophes come thick and fast.

After a long absence it is hard for Soo Min, a young mother and cello player to resume her place in the family. She feels she has to compete with her six-year-old daughter for her husband's love.

July 1996, the beach, the sea, the sun. Sophie, 10, spends her summer vacations with her mother and her cousin Laurence. But Laurence has grown up and her mother's thoughts are elsewhere. While the whole country is still looking for two missing little girls, Sophie discovers that this will be her last summer as a child.

The cinematic kiss is probably one of the most archetypical images to be found in film history. It is usually a reassuring and sometimes climactic element in a movie's storyline. Not in Nicolas Provost's 'Gravity' though: with stroboscopic effects, more than a dozen kissing scenes, most from stereotypical 1950s romantic dramas, are edited together and superimposed. Narrative is subverted as the kissing is isolated from its context entirely; the action slows down and flickers back and forth. Every now and then, shots from different films overlap and match; protagonists merge and diverge again a few seconds later. The sugary and dramatic soundtrack of romantic film music contrasts with the deconstructed images; together, they form a dazzling 6-minute vertigo where love becomes a passionate battle.

In the depth of winter, two rabbits discover that their store of carrots jam is empty. But nobody has ever said that carrots can only be found in gardens! Certainly not their uncle Robert who has left them a precious treasure map...

Gus and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are on holiday. During their nightly walk to a spot near the water, Anna makes a confession. Can the couple, amidst the wildness of nature and under a full moon, overcome the conflict? Will they reach their idyllic spot?

Five guys in a van are on their way to a perfectly planned heist job.

A 4th short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman with her friends in Brussels, shot in front of the former Hotel van Cleve-Ravenstein coincidentally the place where now CINEMATEK and the archives of the Chantel Akerman Fondation are residing.

A young motorist intending to do a good deed for a laryngectomy patient at a gas station winds up in a hell of a mess.

A delirious introspection of an aspiring traumatisme. Dixit Bouli Lanners.

A woman wants to help her husband get a job by contacting a former lover, now prime minister.

Short film in 2 parts: a pelican flies, ... and nothing seems to be working anymore.

Short musical documentary

A man digs a hole in the dunes.

A short documentary about witches.

A man finds a strange meteorite which contains a weird green slime that causes him to melt.

Short documentary that showcases the creation of a 'Suske en Wiske' comic book from the first drawing to the kids reading it.

Pepita a Flemish nun of Mexican descent decides to go to Mexico just as her godmother Clara did years before.

A lonely street musician meets a young soldier who has just deserted.

About the friendship between a Western tourist and a coachman from Morocco.

Short documentary on Belgian artist Piet Bekaert.

Bibi is Alex's little sister. She is always joyful and full of life and but today she is more excited than ever, for Alex has a date with his fiancée. And Alex having to take Bibi with him, his romantic rendez-vous is sure to be... eventful!

Short film.

Short documentary on the life of farming in Belgium in the mid fifties.

Short documentary.

Short animation film.

Short film based upon a ballet by Yves Bonnat & Françoise Adret

Absurd comedy about a windowcleaner.

Documentary short.

A man wants to invite an angel into his home and therefore steals some items from a church to make his task easier.

Everybody he encounters appears to be having the head of an animal, so the man starts to question his sanity.

An Algerian girl steals a pullover for her father. The father brings it back to the shop where she had stolen it.

Short animation film

Ethno-fiction: a sociological portrait of a small Belgian village, Moulbaix, through the passion for amateur theater.

A short animation film about knights.

Documentary short film about the Antwerp harbour.

Short film.

Short documentary

A woman is looking for a new man and settles for a bastard available for half the price.

Short documentary on people who survived the Nazi concentration camps.

A woman bumps into a man leaving a big stain on the man's coat. They both part ways but a spark has been ignited. They want to see each other again so they both decide to use their colleagues to perform some spywork.

Short documentary about diamond cutting in the Antwerp Diamond district.

Four sketches from the European nightlife: an acrobat is helping out his wife in the kitchen, a Spanish dance, a love story of two brushes, a women is looking for the right clothes.

Abel doesn't accept his step-father's presence and tries to persuade his mother to leave him, only she doesn't hear what he is trying to say. Abel gets caught up by his imagination to avoid having to deal a reality he will have to face.