Introduction
After a week of screening 100 films at the Atomium, Cinema RITCS and Cinema Galeries and its underground exhibition hall, the closing awards ceremony will be the cherry on top for the Brussels Independent Film Festival.
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Saturday February 15 – 19:00 – 21:00
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After a week of screening 100 films at the Atomium, Cinema RITCS and Cinema Galeries and its underground exhibition hall, the closing awards ceremony will be the cherry on top for the Brussels Independent Film Festival. Chocolate Atomium Awards will be presented in eight different categories to films chosen by this year’s jury members.
The chocolate awards ceremony will be followed by more tasty treats, in the form of 10 short films hailing from all over the globe. All films are English spoken and/or English subtitled.
Location:
Cinéma GALERIES (Theatre 2)
Koninginnegalerij 26 Galerie de la Reine
1000 Brussels
Free entry and popcorn.
Free drink after the screening:
On our closing night, we organise a free drink at 9PM in the lovely cafe of Cinema GALERIES. Join us and enjoy a chat with fellow filmmakers, jury members and other film professionals.
by Jelena Sinik
In our age of attention scarcity, ‘On’ explores just where our gaze is falling. Take a curious and playful glimpse into both the connectedness and enduring loneliness of the modern condition, through this intimate and unexamined lens.
Benelux premiere
Category: animation, short
Duration: 00:02:05
Birth of a Poet (United States)
by James Franco, Pedro Gómez Millán, Zachary Kerschberg
Birth of a Poet is a dramatic short film that captures the moment Stephen Dobyns transitions from a disillusioned journalist to an emerging poet. It is adapted from autobiographical poems.
Category: short
Duration: 00:14:23
petty thing (China)
by Li zexi
The summer afternoon was no special, until the kids, also gun fight lovers, hung around in the village and found a replica pistol. As the trigger was pulled, the whole wood was awakened.
Category: animation, short
Duration: 00:03:46
Trailer
Short Calf Muscle (Netherlands)
by Victoria Warmerdam
Short Calf Muscle is an absurdist black comedy about Anders. And Anders is different. But he doesn’t know that. Yes, he’s also gay, but that’s not the point here. There is also this thing that others see but he doesn’t.
Category: short
Duration: 00:13:00
Rhizoma (Belgium)
by Santiago Pérez Rodríguez
Hounds and transmission towers. Frequencies of flesh and electric howls. A disturbing atmosphere where the animal, the organic and the industrial blend.
Category: animation, short
Duration: 00:03:00
Trailer
Tungrus (India)
by Rishi Chandna
Tungrus (pronounced: toongroos) is a short documentary that observes a week in the peculiar lives of a middle-class suburban Mumbai household. What was once a home like a million others in the city, turns topsy-turvy when the eccentric patriarch brings home a baby chick for his cats to play with, much to the exasperation of his family.
Category: documentary, short
Duration: 00:12:56
Trailer
Fifteen (Quince) (United Kingdom)
by Peiman Zekavat
Private video of Maria goes viral during a volleyball class in a school in Lima.
Category: short
Duration: 00:10:00
023_GRETA_S (Germany)
by Annika Birgel
A young actress’ audition quickly spirals out of control, turning into an intimate and manipulative interrogation. As she fights to stand her ground, one pressing question will remain: how far will she go to get the role? 023_GRETA_S is a disquieting drama about the abuse of power in the film industry.
Category: short
Duration: 00:11:59
Trailer
On the Other Shore (United States)
by Gus Reed
A young man on a visit to his lakeside childhood home wakes up to find his long-absent sister has returned.
Benelux premiere
Category: short
Duration: 00:09:10
Trailer
El Futuro (Mexico)
by Ernesto Martínez Bucio
Mother and son drive outside the city. The police has found some bodies and one of them could be Javier, her son, his brother.
Category: short
Duration: 00:13:00
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