Kortfilmfestival Leuven 2022 - Catalogue

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Short film? Short film!

For more than a quarter-century, Leuven has been the central stage for Belgium’s biggest short film festival at the beginning of December. A festival that focuses on a unique type of film - short filmswhich, in terms of genre-diversity and talent, doesn’t have to play second fiddle to feature films. On the contrary, there is no film world more vibrant than that of short films. Besides fiction, the festival is also showing animation, short documentaries, non-narrative and innovative visual pieces, short films for children, virtual reality shorts and so much more.

Rising talent and big names

Kortfilmfestival Leuven is, first and foremost, an exploratory journey along the talent of the future: plenty of Flemish creators who are now making waves in cinemas, started their career in Leuven. Lukas Dhont and Robin Pront are prime examples, with their newly released and wildly successful films Close and Zillion. And also internationally, many big names often took their first steps in filmmaking with a short film; you can discover them in the programme Big Names, Short Films. Other than that, many established professionals make short films because of the inimitable freedom this form has to offer.

And the award goes to…

At the heart of the festival are the competitions where short films contend for the prize of Best Short Film. Both jury and audience crown their favourites within the European and Flemish competitions. No unimportant feat, since some winners of the festival are automatically placed on the long list of estee med prizes like the Oscars, The European Film Award and the BAFTA’s.

Denmark and artificial intelligence

Traditionally, the festival also picks some thematic emphases. This year, there is a focus on Denmark, a spotlight on the work of actress and director Veerle Baetens and a programme filled with the wondrous world of artificial intelligence (AI). This theme was also the inspiration behind the poster image this year: which was designed by AI and references HAL9000 from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, possibly the most famous AI-character in film history. At the accompanying AI Expo, you can try your hand at an AI art generator yourself.

Furthermore, there are many other side-activities, like a continuous showing of the newest film by ar tist Rinus Van de Velde, conversations with film creators, professional activities and a cosy pop-up bar. Absorb yourself in the most creative melting pot of the film world.

Welcome to Leuven!

Langouche

Vincent

Festival Director Kortfilmfestival Leuven

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Competition & Award Ceremony

No festival without awards. All films in the Flemish and European Competitions are eligible for both an audience and a jury award for Best Short Film. For the winners of the jury award for live-action fiction, there’s an added plus: this award is Academy Award® Qualifying, ensuring a spot on the long list for the Oscars. Additionally, the festival jury nominates one film from the European Competitions for the European Film Awards, aka the European equivalent of the Oscars.

The Peer Award returns for a third time, fellow filmmakers view and judge each other’s films. The winner gets a seat on next year’s jury.

In addition to the jury and audience award for Best Short Film, the Flemish Competition offers many other awards, inlcuding Best Cinematography, Best Debut, Best Acting Performance, the Humo Award and the Press Prize awarded by the UBFP and UFK.

Last but not least, Kortfilmfestival Leuven is the place where the winner of the Pitch your Script contest is announced and where the sought-after VAF Wildcards are presented.

The award ceremony of the festival will take place December 10th at 20h. The award ceremony for the VAF Wildcards will be on December 4th at 17h.

Awards & Jury

FLEMISH COMPETITION JURY

Birgitte Weinberger - Festival Director, Odense Film Festival, Denmark

Veerle Baetens - Actor and Director, Belgium

Michiel Philippaerts - Programmer and short film Coordinator, Film Fest Gent / Editor, Kortfilm.be, Belgium

Jeffrey Bowers - Head Curator, Vimeo, VS Julie Rousson - Programmer and Coordinator Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France

FLEMISH COMPETITION: FICTION

JURY AWARD

Facilities donated by Camalot worth €12.500. The Flemish Jury Award is Academy Award® Qualifying.

AUDIENCE AWARD Canvas purchase prize of €2.000. Facilities donated by Sondr and A Sound worth €5.000.

AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT €1.500, donated by SABAM.

AWARD FOR BEST ACTING PERFORMANCE €1.000, donated by PlayRight+.

AWARD FOR THE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY €1.000, donated by Camalot.

FLEMISH COMPETITION: ANIMATION

AUDIENCE AWARD Canvas purchase prize of €2.000.

FLEMISH COMPETITION: DOCUMENTARY

JURY AWARD Facilities donated by Camalot worth €7.500.

AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT La Guarimba Award: a film residence of 10 days in Calabria, South-Italy.

JURY EUROPEAN COMPETITION

Martin Strange-hansen - Director, Denmark Lauma Kaudzite - Coordinator and Manager, European Short Pitch / SFC / RIGA IFF, Latvia Olha Zhurba - Director, Ukraine

EUROPEAN COMPETITION

JURY AWARD €1.000 donated by Kortfilmfestival Leuven. European Film Award nomination. Academy Award® Qualifying (only Live-Action Fiction).

PEER AWARD

The filmmakers from the European Competition choose their favourite. The winning filmmaker will have a seat on the jury of Kortfilmfestival Leuven 2023.

AUDIENCE AWARD Dalton purchase prize of €1.000.

PITCH YOUR SCRIPT AWARD 2 x €5.000 facilities donated by Camalot.

PRESS AWARD €500 donated by UBFP and UFK.

HUMO AWARD

Dalton purchase prize of €500.

VAF WILDCARDS

The winners will be chosen by the VAF jury.

- Wildcard Fiction: €60.000

- Wildcard Animation: €60.000

- Wildcard Documentary: €40.000

- Wildcard FilmLab: €40.000

- Wildcard Scenario: €6.000

European Competition 2022: members of the jury

Martin Strange-Hansen

Martin Strange-Hansen is a graduate from The National Danish Film school, a Danish director and scriptwriter. In 2003 he won an Oscar with his short film This Charming Man and this year, he was a nominee in the same catego ry with his new short film On my mind. Martin is former president and vice president of the Association of Danish Film Directors and Head of Programme at Odense Inter national Film Festival. Martin is involved in Denmark as Commisioning Editor at Filmworkshop Copenhagen.

Lauma Kaudzīte

Recently appointed as the managing director of Short Film Conference, Lauma is also coordinator of European Short Pitch, as well as the short film programme man ager at Riga International Film Festival. Additionally, she is a coordinator at Latvian Animation Association and manages industry events in Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS in Latvia.

Olha Zurba

Olha Zhurba is a Ukrainian filmmaker. She has more than ten years experience in the audiovisual sector. Her first short fiction film Dad's Sneakers (2021) premiered at Locarno FF and was later awarded at many internation al festivals, including Kortfilmfestival Leuven. Outside (2022) is her feature length documentary which pre miered at CPH:DOX and HOT DOCS and recently got the Willy Brandt Documentary Film Award for Freedom and Human Rights at Human Rights Berlin FF.

Flemish Competition 2022: members of the jury

Birgitte Weinberger

Birgitte Weinberger holds a Master of Arts and is a former singer. She is a member of several boards, has participat ed as a jury member at many short film festivals, serves as a censor at Southern University of Denmark and she is a much sought-after keynote speaker. Her current func tion is the administrative and artistic director at Odense International Film Festival, Denmark's sole Oscar- and EFA-qualifying short film festival.

Veerle Baetens

Veerle Baetens delivered her first awarded perfor mance in 2008 as the main character of television show Sara (the Flemish version of Ugly Betty). Her interna tional breakthrough came with The Broken Circle Break down by Felix Van Groeningen, for which she won sev eral awards at the European Film Awards. Since then, she has starred in several French features and series. In 2017, she co-wrote the Belgian series Tabula Rasa and also played the leading role in Duelles by Olivier Masset-Depasse. Currently, she is working on her first feature film When it Melts, due in theatres next year.

Michiel Philippaerts

Michiel Philippaerts is programmer and short film coor dinator for Film Fest Gent since 2019, having participated in two editions as a general programme assistant. He was involved in curating and organising several local film festi vals in Ghent and was a jury member of the Dutch-Belgian Visser-Neerlandia Prize for Scenario in 2018, 2019 and 2021. As a film critic, he writes for Kortfilm.be and Talking Shorts. In 2021, Michiel became a member of the short film committee of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF).

Jeffrey Bowers

Jeffrey Bowers is head of curation at Vimeo, where he leads the team selecting Staff Picks. In the past, he has programmed films for Tribeca Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival and Rooftop Films, as well as created and ran VICE media's short film column, ‘I'm Short, Not Stupid’. Bowers has served on juries around the world including Berlinale and SXSW, given presentations about short films at Cannes, Sundance, Toronto Inter national Film Festival and more.

Julie Rousson

Julie Rousson holds a master's degree in cultural project production, with a master’s thesis about the impact of internet and numeric revolution on the short film indus try. She is also a member of the international competi tion selection committee and coordinates the Pop-Up & #SHORT programme dedicated to new fiction models, the industry events at the Short Film Market (including co-production forum Euro Connection) and the relation with administrative institutions. Lastly, she is a board member of the Short Film Conference.

European Competition

Even outside the country's borders, Kortfilmfestival Leuven has been an important player for years. After all, the festival helps determine which short films end up on the longlist for the Oscars, the BAFTA's and the European Film Awards. Unsurprisingly, the number of submissions of films who want to enter this talent show, increases each year.

This year, the European Competition is expanded for the first time with animation films and documentaries. Because of this, the European Competition is even more varied than previous years. Come discover the films and cast your vote: because both the jury and the public hand out an Award for Best European Short film.

Programme 1

1h25 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (21h30), Thu. 8/12 (17h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Bevisbyrden (Burden of Proof)

An Encounter

Kelly Campbell • Ireland • 2021 • 20 min.

Two unlikely friends ditch school and wander freely through Dublin, until an encounter with a stranger leaves one of them utterly changed.

Production: Claire Mc Cabe • Cast: Gary Lydon, Moses Murphy, Robert Carney • Contact: anencountershortfilm@gmail.com

Ivar Aase • Norway • 2021 • 9 min. A young woman meets her ex-boyfriend in a public place, in the middle of a bridge. She wants to confront him and make him under stand what he has done to her. But it’s her words against his.

Production: Jan Inge Wiig • Script: Ivar Aase • Cast: Dan Skjæveland, Helene Bergsholm • Contact: ivaraase@ gmail.com

Koerkorter (Dog - Apartment)

Priit Tender • Estonia • 2022 • 14 min.

Once a famous ballet dancer, Sergei now lives in a strange, remote area in a hard-tomaintain doghouse. Every day, he will dan ce in front of the butcher's cows to earn his daily portion of sausages.

Production: Kerdi Oengo, Maret Reismann • Contact: nu kufilm@nukufilm.ee

Le variabili dipendenti (The Dependent Variables)

Lorenzo Tardella • Italy • 2022 • 15 min.

Pietro and Tommaso are young teenagers. They meet during a cultural outing in a theatre. As the music of Vivaldi resonates around them, new feelings seem to deve lop. That same afternoon, surrounded by the silence of the house, they try to under stand those feelings.

Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia • Script: Elisa Pulcini, Mara Fondacaro • Cast: Mattia Rega, Simone Evangelista • Contact: premierefilmdistribution@ gmail.com

Diep in de nacht (Oh My Night)

Isis Mihrimah Cabolet • Netherlands • 2022 • 25 min.

A young woman is stuck in her life. Challen ged by her alter ego Blue, she steps out the door and into the world. After a revamp at the vamps, she ends up in a club that throws her off balance, but also makes her shine.

Production: Janneke Doolaard, Matthijs van de Laar • DOP: Sam du Pon • Editing: Tobias Cornelissen • Music: Merel Baldé • Cast: Merel Baldé • Contact: info@doxy.nl

For certain screenings, the filmmakers will be present for Q&As, so these will last longer than the indicated time. Check the schedule for more information.

European Competition

Programme 2

L'appel (The Calling)

1h25 — Screenings: Sun. 4/12 (19h), Thu. 8/12 (19h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Joffrey Monteiro-Noël • France • 2022 • 19 min.

15-year-old Romane suffers from a respira tory disease and is at a wellness clinic for specialized treatment. One night, she hears a strange noise coming from the nearby fo rest. Romane tries to find the origin of the constant humming only she can hear.

Production: Cosme Bongrain • Cast: Cyrille Mairesse, Léon Durieux, Olivier Rabourdin • Contact: cosme@goodseed.fr

Presente (Prospect Park)

Francisco Valente • Portugal • 2022 • 13 min. A perfect summer day in the park. Birds are chirping, and two young people meet for the first time in real life. As they calmly take their time to get to know each other, the world outside trembles.

Production: Francisco Valente • Cast: Marco Mendonça, Maria Jorge • Contact: francisco.eca.valente@gmail.com

7 P.M. on a Sunday

Sevgi Eker • Finland • 2022 • 28 min.

14-year-old Ida spends an evening by the water with friends. The next day, a police car comes to pick her up at home. She has to come in to the station for questioning.

Production: Anna Nuuros, Sevgi Eker • Cast: Linda Zilliacus • Contact: sevgi.emel.eker@gmail.com

Martwe malzenstwo

(A Dead Marriage)

Michał Toczek • Poland • 2022 • 18 min.

Filip works as a professional film extra, mostly playing roles of dead bodies. On the set of a historical film, he meets Lucy, who plays a dead woman. During the long wait while filming, they get to know each other, which encourages Filip to try and experi ence life again.

Production: Agata Golańska • DOP: Tomasz Pawlik • Script: Michal Toczek • Editing: Aleksandra Kasprowicz • Cast: Marta Scislowicz, Sebastian Stankiewicz • Contact: maciej. regula@kff.com.pl

Zoon

Jonatan Schwenk • Germany • 2021 • 4 min.

A forest dweller comes across small, shimmering animals in heat. He and his companions snack on the little creatures, and soon a feast begins.

Contact: festival@miyu.fr

European Competition

Programme 3

Too Rough

1h25 — Screenings: Mon. 5/12 (21h), Fri. 9/12 (15h15) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Sean Lìonadh • United Kingdom • 2022 • 16 min.

After a night of intoxication, Nick wakes up at home hungover. In a panic, he notices his boyfriend Charlie is lying next to him. He has to hide him from his own homophobic and dysfunctional family.

Production: Alfredo Covelli, Ross McKenzie • Cast: Jane McCarrie, Joshua Griffin, Kevin O'Loughlin, Neshla Caplan, Oliver Wright, Ruaridh Mollica • Contact: covelli79@ya hoo.it

(On Xerxes' throne )

Evi Kalogiropoulou • Greece • 2022 • 15 min. In a large shipyard in a dystopian future, there is one rule: people are not allowed to have any kind of physical contact. This complete ban on human touch takes its toll. Any interaction seems strange, and the shipyard is steeped in alienation and repressed sensuality.

Production: Amanda Livanou • Cast: Angela Brousko, Myrto Kontoni, Yorgos Mazonakis • Contact: info@squareeyesfilm.com

Perpetua Felicidad

(Eternal Happiness)

Isa Luengo, Sofia Esteve • Spain • 2022 • 21 min.

Alma is fifteen, sings in the village choir, and is beginning to connect with her sexuality. Her father, director of the choir, has lost his voice due to a laryngectomy. As the concert approaches, tensions between father and daughter increase.

Production: Pedro Hernández • DOP: Diego Trenas • Script: Isa Luengo, Sofia Esteve • Editing: Alba Cid • Music: Marta Sancho Moliner • Cast: Garazi Urkola, Willy García • Con tact: fest@marvinwayne.com

Ice Merchants

João Gonzalez • Portugal • 2022 • 14 min.

A father and son live in a house against a steep, icy mountainside. Every day they descend to the village on the ground to sell the ice they've produced overnight. They are satisfied with their daily routine, until it is unexpectedly interrupted.

Production: Bruno Caetano, Michaël Proença • Script: João Gonzalez • Editing: João Gonzalez • Music: João Gonzalez • Contact: emanuel@curtas.pt

Fairplay

Zoel Aeschbacher • Switzerland • 2022 • 17 min.

For some people, winning is the only thing that matters. A teenager in search of recog nition, a worker who will do anything to hit the jackpot, and a senior executive at the end of his career who still wants to prove himself one more time. Three characters who lose themselves in overwrought com petitiveness.

Production: Nelson Ghrénassia, Elena Tati • Contact: festi val@salaudmorisset.com

Στον Θρονο Του Ξερξη

European

Competition

Programme 4

1h25 — Screenings: Tue. 6/12 (21h30), Fri. 9/12 (17h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Чорний Пес (Black Dog)

Nikita Zarkh • Ukraine • 2022 • 20 min.

Leva, a kind-hearted young poet, lives and works at a construction site on the outskirts of a city. He dreams of moving to the city, where he wants to enrol in the university. Leva develops feelings towards one of his workmates, but keeps them to himself. Un til he starts to believe the affection might be mutual.

Production: Eugene Rachkovsky, Tabor Production • Cast: Boris Ukrianskiy, Denys Shatskiy • Contact: tabor.produc tion@gmail.com

Green Space

Jamie Fraser • United Kingdom • 2022 • 20 min.

A park in South London. A younger and older colleague take a break after a stres sful moment. A young woman talks on the phone with her boyfriend, others come to exercise. The park as a public stage for a myriad of individual lives, where everyone experiences their own reality in the same, shared space.

Production: Alastair Hope-Morley • DOP: Theo Tennant • Script: Jamie Fraser • Editing: Jamie Fraser • Music: Jere my Warmsley • Cast: Charly Clive, Gilbert Kyem Jr., Jordan Brookes, Olivia Leandersen • Contact: jmalcolmfraser@ gmail.com

Snjeguljica (Snow White)

Lana Bari ć • Croatia • 2021 • 14 min. Željka is a 40-year-old woman, living a qui et life in an isolated village. An unexpected visit will take her back to the past, shaking up her daily routine.

Production: Vinko Brešan • Script: Lana Barić • Editing: Vladimir Gojun • Cast: Lana Barić, Nikša Butijer • Contact: lanabaric@gmail.com

Ovan Gruvan - Au-dessus de la mine (Ovan Gruvan - Above the Mine)

Lova Karlsson, Théo Audoire • France • 2022 • 13 min.

Lampposts lie on the ground in the snow, a soft crackling resounds, lights flicker and a huge shadow moves slowly. Brief exchanges on a walkie-talkie and snippets of an old song gradually reveal what is going on.

Production: Anne Luthaud, Joanna Sitkowska, Marcello Cavagna • Editing: Léa Chatauret, Lova Karlsson, Théo Audoire • Music: Lova Karlsson, Vassily Mitrecey • Contact: lova.josefina.karlsson@gmail.com

Le mobilier (The Furniture)

Mehdi Pierret • Belgium • 2021 • 15 min. An art gallery organizes an exhibition pre senting contemporary art and art perfor mances. The cleaning lady Ilidia has trouble understanding the purpose of these perfor mances and gets irritated by the visitors' behaviours.

Contact: mehdi.pierret@insas.be

European Competition

Programme 5

Lullaby

1h25 — Screenings: Wed. 7/12 (22h15), Fri. 9/12 (19h45) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Magdalena Chmielewska • Austria • 2021 • 21 min.

In her desperate search for sleep, Eva tries to spend the night at other people's homes as much as possible, so she can watch them while they sleep. Because of the many sleepless nights, she wanders through a world that seems familiar and safe by day, but is uncanny and eerie by night.

Production: Saskia Arth • Contact: mail@magda.vision

Kakukkfióka (Another Nest)

Márk Beleznai • Hungary • 2022 • 17 min. 24-year-old Ádám is a small-time weed dealer who lives in the flat of his recently deceased grandmother. His quiet, deadend life changes when his much younger half-brother suddenly appears, wanting to temporarily move in with him.

Production: Gábor Osváth • DOP: Máté Barna • Editing: Dániel Kőváry • Music: Máté Obbágy • Cast: Dávid Faze kas, Zsombor Kövesi • Contact: filmfabriqproductions@ gmail.com

CHRYSALIS

Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir • Iceland, Czech Republic • 2021 • 11 min

Icelandic Vanesska is a 13-year-old girl who has just been diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome. It once started with small tics in her feet. They went away, but came back, along with more tics. Vanesska tries her best to come to terms with her new reality.

Production: Ellyn Cernochova • Script: Eydís Eir Bryn ju-Björnsdóttir, Linda Barnett • Cast: Eva Urbanova, Tereza Hofava, Vanesska Kalvarova • Contact: eydisbjorns@ gmail.com

The Operator

Matt Riley • United Kingdom • 2022 • 19 min.

Bleary-eyed and coffee fuelled, Michael starts another dull day of business as usual; connecting long distance intergalactic calls from a remote satellite. Until he unexpect edly receives a distress call. No one ever re ceives a distress call.

Production: Becky Adams, Paul Mills • Cast: Alice Fraser, Amy De Bhrún, Celya AB, Graham Dickson, Hugh Dennis, Pierre Novellie, Stuart Laws • Contact: matthew_riley@ hotmail.co.uk

Opera Night

Hilke Rönnfeldt • Denmark • 2022 • 15 min. Cleaner Angeli is working at the Copenha gen Opera House, where everything is be ing prepped for the big show that evening. When she discovers a crack in the basement where water is pouring out, she wants to alert someone. But no one listens because "the show must go on".

Production: Laura Valentiner-Bohse, Sidsel Filipsen • Script: Andrea Winding, Hilke Roennfeldt • Cast: Afshin Firouzi, Danica Curcic, Ellaha Lack, Tammi Øst • Contact: hilkeroenn@gmail.com

European Competition

Programme 6

Onbewaakt ogenblik

(A Quiet Kind of Thunder)

1h24 — Screenings: Thu. 8/12 (21h45), Fri. 9/12 (13h15) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Janna Grosfeld • Netherlands • 2021 • 19 min.

After Willem's wife's failed suicide attempt, their relationship seems forever changed. Willem has to deal with her depression and suicidal feelings, while he himself struggles with the breach of trust this has caused. They try to give their life together meaning again, but the question remains whether this is possible.

Production: Bente van der Meer, Dagmar Nietsch • DOP: Jan Koks • Script: Douwe Nagelmaker • Editing: Lise Robbe • Music: Florian Jankowski • Cast: Margo Dames, Reinout Bussemaker • Contact: dagmar.nietsch.ahk@gmail.com

Pachyderme

Stéphanie Clément • France • 2021 • 10 min.

Like each summer, Louise goes to her grandparents for a few days' holiday in the country. Playing in the green grass in the garden, swimming in the lake, fishing with grandpa; everything seems as wonderful as grandma's strawberry tarts. But this year, it snows in the middle of summer and a mon ster dies.

Contact: festival@miyu.fr

Ruina

Frank Lucas • Spain • 2022 • 22 min.

Zoe arrives in Barcelona and wandersseemingly aimlessly - through the city. As the night slowly progresses, it becomes clear that she has a strange and desperate plan to finally get revenge.

Production: Ángeles Hernández, David Matamoros, Gerard Rodriguez • Cast: Hwidar Abdelatif, Najaa • Con tact: gerard@japonicafilms.com

Kierre (Spiral)

Eva-Maria Koskinen, Salla Sorri • Finland

• 2022 • 18 min.

Ballet teacher Anna recognizes in Jasmine, the mother of one of the new ballet stu dents, her school bully from back when they were kids. Both women try to behave in a civilized manner, but the underlying tensions inevitably grow.

Production: Paria Eskandari • Cast: Alma Pöysti, Linda Zilli acus, Vivian Taht • Contact: andy@rainafilms.com

Backflip

NIkita Diakur • Germany • 2022 • 12 min.

Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. None of that is nice, so the director's avatar does the trick. It practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.

Production: Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, NIkita Diakur, Pierre Baussaron • Contact: festival@miyu.fr

European Competition

Programme 7

1h24 — Screenings: Thu. 8/12 (14h15), Fri. 9/12 (22h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Nest

Hlynur Pálmason • Denmark • 2022 • 22 min.

Heart Fruit

Kim Allamand • Switzerland • 2022 • 19 min.

Late summer in the city. Everyone seems preoccupied with love. A woman in the library looks intrigued at someone across the hall, two men discuss the ideal kiss atop a rooftop terrace...

Production: ZHDK • Cast: Sofia Borsani • Contact: kim.allamand@gmail.com

BLUSH –

An Extraordinary Voyage

Iiti Yli-Harja • Finland • 2022 • 14 min.

For Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public.

Production: Mikko Heino, Valtteri Munkki • Contact: otto. suuronen@ses.fi

Le Buone Maniere (Good Manners)

Valerio Vestoso • Italy • 2021 • 19 min.

50-year-old Mimmo was once a leading sports commentator. But his career went downhill ever since, much to his frustration. Until he unexpectedly gets the opportunity to make a comeback through an unusual job offer that will allow him to take revenge for a childhood trauma.

Production: Camillo Esposito • Cast: CLAUDIO CRISAFULLI, FRANK MATANO, GINO RIVIECCIO, GIOVANNI ESPOSITO • Contact: info@capetownfilm.org

Three children have grand plans for the snapped electricity pole near their house: they are going to build a treehouse! Against the backdrop of an extraordinary coastal landscape that constantly changes through the seasons, two brothers and a sister build their dream hut.

Production: Anton Máni Svansson, Eva Jakobsen, Katrin Pors, Mikkel Jersin, Anne Dammegaard Søllested, Snow globe Film • Cast: Grímur Hlynsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdót tir, Þorgils Hlynsson • Contact: anna@snowglobefilm.com

Muss ja nicht sein, dass es heute ist (It Doesn't Have to Be Today)

Sophia Julia Groening • Germany • 2021 • 7 min.

Four friends sitting at a square in Finken berg, Cologne, trying to find the right words and punctuation marks in a WhatsApp mes sage that will never be sent.

Production: Bazon Silvester Rosengarth • Cast: Marcel De meler • Contact: sophiagroening@yahoo.de

Best of European Film Awards

The European Film Awards (EFA) - The European Oscars if you will - are gaining more and more prestige over the last few decades. Some leading film festivals, including Kortfilmfestival Leuven, decide which short films are eligible for an EFA. From that longlist, the organisation then chooses five nominees. Who eventually wins, will become clear on December 10th. A part of the candidates will be shown in two programmes: block 1 encompasses the five short films, who will have gained a final nomination, block 2 the personal favourites from the longlist selected for you by Kortfilmfestival Leuven.

Programme

Will

My Parents

Come to See Me

1

1h27 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (21h45), Sat. 10/12 (18h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Mo Harawe • Austria, Germany, Somalia • 2022 • 28 min.

What would he like for his last meal? “Meat and a Coke”, the young inmate replies. Fa miliar with all the procedures, the prison guard accompanies him through his final day, towards the inevitable. “Will my pa rents come to see me?” he asks quietly.

Contact: office@sixpackfilm.com

Love, Dad

Diana Cam Van Nguyen • Czech Republic, Slovakia • 2021 • 13 min.

A daughter finds the letters her father once wrote her from prison. Now, fifteen years later, they are estranged from each other.

Contact: laure.goasguen@miyu.fr

Techno, Mama

Saulius Baradinskas • Lithuania • 2021 • 18 min.

Nikita is crazy about techno music and dreams of going to a famous club in Berlin. His mother, however, is unaware of his big dream. Their mutual expectations will inev itably clash.

Production: Viktorija Seniut • DOP: Vytautas Katkus • Editing: Karolis Labutis • Music: Rob Meyer • Cast: Motie jus Aškelovičius, Neringa Varnelytė • Contact: flavio.ar mone@lightsonfilm.org

Babi č ino seksualno življenje (Granny's Sexual Life)

Émilie Pigeard, Urška Djuki ć • Slovenia, France • 2021 • 13 min.

Four old women reflect on memories of their youth and on how different the rela tionships between men and women were back then. Their voices merge into one sin gle voice, that of grandmother Vera, who tells her story in proper detail.

Production: Boštjan Virc, Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago, Ol ivier Cantherin • Script: Maria Bohr, Urška Djukić • Music: Tomaž Grom • Contact: lc@varicoloured.eu

Ice Merchants

João Gonzalez • Portugal • 2022 • 14 min. A father and son live in a house against a steep, icy mountainside. Every day they descend to the village on the ground to sell the ice they've produced overnight. They are satisfied with their daily routine, until it is unexpectedly interrupted.

Production: Bruno Caetano, Michaël Proença • Script: João Gonzalez • Editing: João Gonzalez • Music: João Gonzalez • Contact: emanuel@curtas.pt

Best of European Film Awards

Programme 2

1h33 — Screenings: Sun. 4/12 (11h), Sat. 10/12 (16h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Uogos (Cherries)

Vytautas Katkus • Lithuania • 2022 • 15 min. A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry-picking in the garden. Though the father is in no hurry to finish the task. He mostly wants to catch up with his son.

Production: Marija Razgutė • DOP: Simonas Glinskis • Script: Vytautas Katkus • Editing: Laurynas Bareisa • Cast: Viktoras Vytautas, Vytautas Katkus • Contact: flavio.ar mone@lightsonfilm.org

Buurman Abdi (Neighbour Abdi)

Douwe Dijkstra • The Netherlands • 2022 • 29 min.

How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is a furniture design er and social worker. With the help of his neighbour, filmmaker Douwe, he re-enacts his life through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio.

DOP: Douwe Dijkstra • Contact: info@squareeyesfilm.com

Affairs of the Art

Joanna Quin • United Kingdom, Canada • 2021 • 16 min.

Factory worker Beryl is obsessed with drawing, a fixation that dominates the en tire household. Except for her husband, the whole family is addicted to something: her son is a technical geek and her sister a fa natically narcissistic taxidermist. Obsession runs in the family’s DNA.

Script: Les Mills • Editing: Mia rose Goddard • Contact: e.seguin@nfb.ca

Memoir of a Veering Storm

Sofia Georgovassili • Greece • 2022 • 14 min. Α mother drives a girl to school in the morn ing and picks up a woman at the end of the school day. Fifteen-year-old Anna sneaks out of school and with the help of her boyfriend visits a hospital. There, she has to face an event that will jolt her into adulthood.

Production: Sofia Georgovassili, Stelios Cotionis • DOP: Tu dor Panduru • Editing: Giorgos Zafeiris • Music: Jay Glass Dubs • Cast: Daphne Peel, Konstantinos Sideris, Maria Kallimani • Contact: flavio.armone@lightsonfilm.org

Папині кросівки (Dad's Sneakers)

Olha Zhurba • Ukraine • 2021 • 19 min. 13-year-old Sasha's life is going to change completely. He is about to be adopted by an Ameri can family. Today he will move to another country forever, but something is holding him back.

Production: Maxym Asadchiy, Sashko Chubko • Cast: Bohdan ZENCHENKO, Corie ANN JASON, Dmytro BUCHEK, Ihor OLIYNYK, Olga LYUBAROVA • Contact: zhurbafilms@gamil.com

Flemish Competition: Fiction

With four films in Cannes and a multitude of releases this year in the cinema, there is no denying it: film in Belgium is doing very well. But this 'golden generation' doesn't appear out of thin air, as the regular visitors of Kortfilmfestival Leuven are well aware of. Lukas Dhont, Robin Pront, Adil El Arbi, Bilal Fallah, Jonas Govaerts, Hans Herbots and Felix Van Groeningen; they were all once at Kortfilmfestival Leuven with a film. And they managed to convince the jury of their talents there. Curious as to what the next generation has to offer? Come discover it in the Flemish Competition!

Programme 1 1h21 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (20h30) in Auditorium, Thu. 8/12 (14h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Motherwound

Bao Van Hoe • Belgium • 2022 • 12 min. May’s first pregnancy stirs up old patterns between mother and daughter, both unable to communicate their needs. A portrait of three generations stuck in their ways.

De zeer vermoeide man en de vrouw die hartstochtelijk van bonsai hield (The very tired man and the woman who adored bonsai)

Evelien Declercq, Nyk Dekeyser • Belgium • 2022 • 22 min.

A woman responds to a peculiar ad where a man is looking for a woman to die for. The man is tired, dead tired. He wants to die, but can't. While she tends her bonsai trees, she helps the man die. Slowly, he grows towards her, and she shapes and cuts their love.

Production: Maarten D'Hollander • Cast: Janne Desmet, Wim Willaert • Contact: maarten@kraterfilms.be

Cast: Marie Nguyen De Buck, Thao Huynh • Contact: baovanhoe@gmail.com

Altijd zomer (Always Summer)

Hans Dessers • Belgium • • 17 min. A father and daughter spend a snug week end together. The father tries to hide it, but dark thoughts are running through his head.

Production: Hans Dessers • Cast: Flo Martens, Tom Ver meir • Contact: hans.dessers@telenet.be

Arme jongen zo ver van huis (Poor Boy Long Way From Home)

Jonas Hollevoet • Belgium • 2022 • 16 min. After a fight with his ex, a cowboy ends up in a small bar. Gradually, he is immersed in a universe of alcohol, loneliness, and sadness.

Cast: Bram Verrecas, Dolores Bouckaert, Hannah Vanden bussche, Iben Stalpaert • Contact: jon.hollevoet@gmail.com

Oh My God!

Lars Smetsers • Belgium • 2022 • 12 min. A young priest is disappointed in the life lessness of his church, which becomes more desolate week after week. He longs for joy and a zest for life. Jesus himself comes to his aid.

Production: Willem Kagenaar • DOP: Cody Vandries • Script: Cody Vandries, Lars Smetsers, Willem Kagenaar • Editing: Jelle Vanlimburg • Music: Robin Wittouck • Cast: Bastiaan Maertens, Danny Bouman, Nicolas Bauwens, Puk Roskam • Contact: ls99@onsneteindhoven.nl

For certain screenings, the filmmakers will be present for Q&As, so these will last longer than the indicated time. Check the schedule for more information.

Flemish Competition: Fiction

Programme 2

1h24 — Screenings: Sun. 4/12 (20h30) in Auditorium, Fri. 9/12 (14h15) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Alleen ik

(Only me, me alone)

Jasper De Maeseneer • Belgium • 2022 • 16 min.

Big brother Jef has to babysit 11-year-old Flor while their parents are gone for the weekend. Flor wants nothing more than his big brother's friendship, but he keeps test ing the boundaries.

Production: Victor Longin • Script: Arthur Moelants, Chel sea Vennekens, Jasper De Maeseneer • Editing: Arthur Nelissen • Cast: An Miller, Chris Lomme, Jeroen Van der Ven, Kes Bakker, Lou Goossens, Omar Ouali • Contact: de maeseneerjasper@gmail.com

La chute

(On its way down)

Sebastian Schaevers • Belgium • 2022 • 22 min.

In a small village in the Swiss Alps, global warming is noticeable. The people see their village deteriorate, but can't be bothered. And then, a paraglider falls from the sky.

Production: Studio Ampel • DOP: Sebastian Schaevers • Script: Joren Peeters • Editing: Sebastian Schaevers • Mu sic: Michiel Renson • Cast: Kylian Laude, Lea Guillou, Loris Guilhaume, Luc Jotterand, Matteo Lochmatter • Contact: bas.schaevers@gmail.com

Society

Alex Verhaest • Belgium • 2022 • 14 min.

After a climate disaster, a group of five find themselves forming a little society. They live a peaceful life until a sixth tries to join.

Production: Jérôme Blesson, Melissa Dhondt • Contact: melissa@inhinterland.com

Pipeline

Ivo Neefjes • Belgium • 2022 • 14 min.

Dieter is an average teenager who struggles with insecurities and seeks help in online videos. However, the videos become in creasingly less nuanced and gradually begin to affect his view of the world.

Production: Ivo Neefjes, Eliza Moreels • DOP: Joni Schoonjans • Script: Faustine Cros, Ivo Neefjes, Mats Pylyser • Editing: Faustine Cros • Music: Ferdinand Cros • Cast: Mil Sinaeve, Robin Jonckheere, Ruth Becquart, Thomas Sevranckx, Tibbe Walckiers • Contact: ivo_ neef@hotmail.com

Jan en Kelly en alles daartussen (Jan and Kelly and everything in between)

Daphne Wellens • Belgium • 2022 • 16 min.

At an audition for his new film, director Jan is completely won over by actress Kelly. She is perfect. While waiting for the financing to be finalized, they continue working on the film and Kelly falls in love ... with Vincent.

Production: Hans Bruch • Cast: Anna Raadsveld, Bram Suijker, Ward Kerremans • Contact: hansbruchjr@gmail.com

Finns Hiel

(Finn's Heel)

Cato Kusters • Belgium • 2022 • 18 min. 15-year-old Arthur and Finn get to meet at the boxing school, where Finn's father is the coach. When Finn sprains his ankle, Arthur tries to help. They decide to keep the injury a secret from Finn's strict father.

Production: Charlotte Mattelin • DOP: Angela Otten • Script: Cato Kusters • Editing: Amber Van Acker • Music: Susobrino • Cast: Brecht Dael, Günther Lesage, Mo Bakker, Pascale Wouters • Contact: catokusters@hotmail.com

Merci pour votre patience! (Thank you for your patience!)

Simon van der Zande • Belgium • 2022 • 17 min. A bus ride in Brussels. Passengers are look ing out the window, on their cell phones or chatting with each other. Then Samuel gets on, a Congolese immigrant, who begins to voice his discontent with Europe.

Production: Gillis Cornelis • DOP: Matthee Van Holderbeke • Cast: Jovial Mbenga, Mariam Ahadouch, Peter Seynaeve, Rinaldi Nianga, Saber Benyaich • Contact: simonvdzande@ hotmail.com

Schemer (Dusk)

Fien Donckers • Belgium • 2022 • 14 min. In a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city, people live side by side. So do Sammy and Max. While Max tries to get used to his new neighbourhood, his mother keeps haunting his mind. Sammy too has been thinking about his mom.

Production: LUCA School of Arts • DOP: Sara Van Acoley en • Cast: Leon Josse Rooms, Milton Riche • Contact: fien. donckers@skynet.be

Groentejong

Max Blomaard • Belgium • 2022 • 11 min. 18-year-old Noah works at his father's vegetable stand at the market. But the re sponsibility of the job is starting to weigh on him.

Production: Joelik Severyns • Cast: Felix Maesschalck, Rob by Cleiren • Contact: max.1996@hotmail.nl

Portrait of a Disappearing Woman

Nelson Polfliet • Belgium • 2022 • 20 min.

Worn out by her daily routine, 59-year-old Sabine decides to leave her local shop for the un known. Her quickest escape, the village school bus, takes her to the Museum of Fine Arts, where an audio guide helps her find the elevation she was unknowingly looking for.

Production: Brecht Van Elslande, Patrick Hernandez, Véronique Siegel • Cast: Gunter Lamoot, Ilse De Koe, Lotte Diependaele, Marijke Pinoy, Tomas Pevenage • Contact: info@animaltank.be

Flemish Competition: Fiction

Programme 4

1h18 — Screenings: Thu. 8/12 (20h30) in Auditorium, Fri. 9/12 (12h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

L’amer au bord des lèvres

Sanae Khamlichi • Belgium • 2022 • 20 min.

On the day of her arranged marriage, 33-year-old Israe is confronted with the fine line between free will and social pres sure, but also between convictions, enthu siasm, and fear.

Production: Sanae Khamlichi • Contact: sanae.khamlichi@ student.luca-arts.be

inert

Tim Truyens • Belgium • 2022 • 18 min.

After the death of his father, Casper is ridden with feelings of self-blame and post-traumatic stress. These feelings stead ily drive him into a corner and force him to face himself.

DOP: Kobe Vangronsveld • Script: Bavo Verhaegen, Tim Truyens • Editing: Cato Kusters • Music: Stan Lee Cole • Cast: Frank Dingenen, Hilde Heijnen, Inge Paulussen, Johan Heldenbergh, Robby Cleiren, Willem Herbots • Contact: tim-truyens@hotmail.com

Gun

Charlotte Lybaert • Belgium • 2022 • 15 min.

Being in a new relationship is never easy, but when children are involved, everything changes radically. The budding love be tween Joris and Eva gets into higher gear when their familes meet each other for the first time.

Production: Michiel Dhont • Cast: Hamza Avci, Hazel Dhaenens, Lara Chedraoui, Valentijn Dhaenens • Contact: info@thereunion.be

Noisetrain

Pol De Plecker • Belgium • • 20 min. Three men wake up in a stopped train. All the other passengers are sound asleep. Once outside the train, they find them selves in an unusual snowy landscape.

Production: Aldís Dagmar Erlingsdóttir Svarkur, Dagmar Duportail • Cast: Arne Sierens, Oscar Van Rompay, Sakis Brönnimann • Contact: pdeplecker@gmail.com

Manbag

Pieter De Cnudde • Belgium • 2022 • 4 min. When his partner quickly runs back to the shop, a man has to hold her handbag. An odyssey of a man in search of his female side.

Production: Claudia Baumlin, Pieter De Cnudde, Thomas Cassiers, Yannick Verdonck • Cast: Geert Van Rampelberg, Violet Braeckman • Contact: pieter.decnudde@gmail.com

Flemish Competition: Fiction

Programme 5

Kreupelhout

(Undergrowth)

1h23 — Screenings: Thu. 8/12 (16h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius, Fri. 9/12 (20h30) in Auditorium

Tim Ewalts • Belgium • 2022 • 15 min. Two brothers and their father live in a se cluded forest. While their father tries to teach them how to become a lumberjack, the brothers are caught in an increasingly escalating struggle for power.

Production: Julia Voets, Tim Ewalts • Cast: Bert Luppes, Joes Brauers, Lukas Bulteel • Contact: julia.voets.1@gmail. com

Nocturnus

Harm Dens, Meltse Van Coillie • Belgium • 2022 • 20 min. In the darkness of the far north, a scientist tries to fathom an extraordinary phenomenon: an Arctic village in hibernation.

Production: Maarten D'Hollander • Cast: Bien De Moor, Emmanuelle Gilles-Rousseau, Jan Bijvoet • Contact: maarten@ kraterfilms.be

voorbij. (beyond.)

Lenny Somers • Belgium • 2021 • 15 min. Sylvie runs into an old friend. As children, they often played together. The two hit it off, but then he betrays her trust.

Production: Lenny Somers • Cast: Ada Callens, Jonathan Michiels, Ona-Lisa Van Haver • Contact: somerslenny@ gmail.com

Canned Talk

Anéline Plateau • Belgium • 2022 • 10 min. Sisters Cléo and Esmee find each other when things are difficult at home. At a time when consolation is hard to find, they grow closer together.

Production: Siebe Gebruers • Script: Veerle De Caesteck er, Yara Rymen • Cast: Alejandra Theus, Eden Scheijvens, Reindert Vermeire, Wanda Dickel • Contact: aneline.pla teau@hotmail.be

Klette

Michael Abay • Belgium • 2022 • 17 min. 26-year-old Morgane still lives with her mother, has not yet finished her studies, and her love life doesn't go beyond onenight stands. She apparently doesn't know how to get things done...

Production: Nina Payrhuber • Cast: Anne-Laure Vande putte, Jennifer Heylen, Stella Kitoga • Contact: abay.l.mi chael@gmail.com

B E L G I U M

B E L G I U M

Flemish Competition: Animation

Flemish Competition: Animation

Programme 1

1h18 — Screenings: Sun. 4/12 (14h30) in Auditorium, Wed. 7/12 (17h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Up-to-Date

Lenny Louis Pannekoucke • Belgium • 2022 • 7 min.

In the year 2100, the little robot XR7DPF, along with other robots, must move from their decaying city to a brand new one. This is done through a system update that erases their memories and personalities. Is XR7DPF prepared to pay this price?

Contact: lenny.pannekoucke@gmail.com

King of the Dumpster

Evi Stallinga • Belgium • 2022 • 6 min. Raccoon sits on his throne in charge of food. He doesn't want to share with the hungry mice. When a brave little mouse still tries to snatch a snack, things go wrong.

Contact: ilse.s@finderskeepers.be

Drifter

Joost Jansen • Belgium • 2022 • 14 min. Astronaut Drifter becomes detached from his space station. While a mysterious green liquid keeps him alive, he’s taken into an infinite drift throughout the universe. Freed from time and space, Drifter is confronted with the void, forc ing him to face the futility of his existence.

Production: Marc Thelosen, Steven Dhoedt • Script: Joost Jansen, Steven Dhoedt • Music: Frédéric Soete, Wannes Kolf • Contact: ursula@kaboomfestival.nl

Icarus Project

Lauren Rolly • Belgium • 2022 • 5 min. Scientists walk around in protective suits. They are captivated by different species of birds that roam freely on the research grounds.

Music: Neil Haesenbrouck • Contact: laurenrolly@icloud. com

Humbug

Koen Malliet • Belgium • 2022 • 12 min.

When Philip is faced with doubts about his self-worth, a fever dream ensues that plunges him into an existential crisis. Will he emerge from this nightmare as himself, or as someone else?

Cast: William Mulhern • Contact: koen.malliet@gmail.com

Sem

Joke Duwaerts • Belgium • 2022 • 5 min. In a world where water has special powers, a couple picks flowers throughout the for est to put them in a very precious place.

Cast: Ine Hendrickx, Thomas Cordie • Contact: joke. duwaerts@gmail.com

Der Lange Kerl (The Tall Guy)

Rudy Pinceel, Raoul Servais • Belgium, France • 2021 • 14 min.

November 1914, the Flemish front. A wound ed French soldier is the only one left in an abandoned aid post. Suddenly, the silhou ette of a tall German soldier is looming over him. Will the enemies try to kill each other?

Production: Creative Conspiracy, Tchack • Script: Raoul Servais • Editing: Erwin Van der Stappen • Music: Dirk Brossé • Cast: Gilles De Schryver, Matthieu Sys • Contact: info@raoulservaiscollection.com

Inertia

Julie Verstraten • Belgium • 2022 • 10 min.

A young woman refuses to accept change in her life and chooses to look the other way, instead of facing facts. However, the change itself won't let her.

Production: Julie Verstraten • Music: Greta Lucchini Gile ra • Cast: Ine Hendrickx • Contact: julie_verstratenck@ outlook.com

Lunch Break

Bram Van Rompaey, Reinout Jan Swinnen • Belgium • 2022 • 1 min.

Joe is a crane operator, stuck in a daily rou tine, in a confined space high up in the sky. Lunch-break is the one thing Joe looks for ward to every day, the dim light on his oth erwise dull existence. It helps Joe to retain a slither of sanity, until disaster strikes...

Production: Bram Van Rompaey, Reinout Jan Swinnen • Contact: reinout@rabbithole.be

Flemish Competition: Animation

Programme 2

1h19 — Screenings: Sun. 4/12 (18h) in Auditorium, Thu. 8/12 (11h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Andersland (Oddland)

An Vrombaut • Belgium • 2022 • 7 min. On the savannah, a group of strange ani mals play a game of hide-and-seek. They look like giraffes, but without necks. When Gerda suddenly grows a long neck, she has a hard time hiding.

Production: Brecht Van Elslande • Script: Bert Lesaffer • Contact: info@animaltank.be

Bits and Pieces

Mira Halsberghe • Belgium • 2022 • 4 min.

The characters try to enjoy the lovely weather in their collage-like environment. Yet, one of them decides it is time to get some cleaning done.

Production: Mira Halsberghe • Contact: mirahalsberghe@ hotmail.com

Heksenfee (Witchfairy)

Cedric Igodt, David Van de Weyer • Bel gium, Bulgaria • 2022 • 15 min.

Rosemary is a young fairy, who has grown weary of the fairy life. Therefore, she wants to become a witch, something her mother is strongly opposed to. Rosemary decides to pack her bags and leave for the witch forest.

Production: Cedric Igodt, Lachezar Velinov • Script: Brigitte Minne • Music: Hans Mullens • Cast: Kato Haes, Maja Van Honsté, Pixie De Winter • Contact: cedric@cineventure.media

Afterlife

Ilja Vanroy • Belgium • 2022 • 6 min. A little old lady polishes the pictures hang ing on the wall. She is left alone with her memories. And her little black cat...

Contact: ilseschooneknaep@hotmail.com

The Leak

Paola Cubillos • Belgium • 2022 • 7 min.

A woman lives in a quiet flat, constantly oc cupied with domestic chores that she per forms consciously and meticulously. The sound of a leak disrupts the quietness. As the drops fall, unspoken memories emerge.

Contact: paola.cumar@outlook.com

Het Klinken van de Dief (The Tone of the Thief)

Isabelle Hoens • Belgium • 2022 • 8 min. A magpie flies high in the sky, proudly clasping her shiny treasure between her legs. A wo man reads a book while stirring her cup with a spoon. Their little world is turned upside down when a thief runs off with their spoons.

Production: Isabelle Hoens • Cast: Isabelle Hoens • Con tact: isabelle.hoens@gmail.com

Dream in Color

Marijn Raeven • Belgium • 2022 • 6 min.

Two brothers struggle to deal with the loss of their mother. The elder brother tries to cheer up his younger brother by taking him on a journey to an imaginary world. In the process, they find more than just a distrac tion from their grief.

Production: Marijn Raeven • Contact: m.raeven@gmail. com

DRUK (PRESS(ED))

Senne Driesen • Belgium • 2022 • 9 min.

An industrial city. People are at work. Day in day out following the same monotonous pattern, a never-ending story.

Production: Toon Loenders • Contact: sennedriesen@ gmail.com

Luce en de rots (Luce and The Rock)

Britt Raes • Belgium • 2022 • 12 min.

One day, out of nowhere, a giant Rock lays in the middle of the peaceful little village where Luce lives. The villagers can’t even open the door to their houses anymore!

Luce is angry: "Go away Rock, you don’t be long here! And why are you here anyway?"

Contact: festival@miyu.fr

No selection is as colourful and varied as the Flemish Animation Competition. With boundless imagination and a ton of artistic and technical talent, Flemish makers battle for the Award for Best Animation Film. Both young, driven students and established names, such as the pioneer of Flemish animation: Raoul Servais.

Flemish Competition: Documentary

The short documentary is on the rise. The short format is ideal for small, but often gripping stories or short, but striking portraits. This year there are a remarkable number of intimate films with a very personal touch. That is probably not a coincidence, after a long period of self-isolation and reflection. And yet, there are also many films, that venture into the world, from diverse neighbourhoods in Brussels, to Marrakesh and California.

Flemish Competition: Documentary

Programme 1

Voorbij de sterren

(Beyond our Stars)

1h18 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (15h) in Auditorium, Wed. 7/12 (21h45) in Cinema

Sara Van Oostrum • Belgium • 2022 • 16 min. Death, and everything related to it, remains a subject often shunned around children. But what do children think and feel when think ing about death? In a safe space, they can ask questions freely and enter the conversation with an older generation, for whom death no longer seems so very distant.

Production: Barbara Dyck, Maarten Bernaerts • Contact: maarten@diplodokus.be

Et si pas maintenant, quand? (And if not now, when?)

Guy De Troyer • Belgium • 2021 • 27 min. In 1940, 25,000 Jews lived in Marrakesh; today only about 100 remain. An intimate journey into the world of Paulette, one of the last remaining Jews who decided to stay. A reflection on a universal question: where do you feel at home?

Production: ESAV, RITCS • Contact: guy.detroyer@ outlook.be

Les murs qui crient (Walls That Scream)

Evi Cats • Belgium • 2022 • 12 min.

On April 10th 2020, a 19-year-old boy is killed in a car accident with the police. His name, Adil, appears on almost every wall in Brussels. As time passes, the city changes and residents pass by, while his name re mains static, waiting for justice.

Production: Lew Maes • DOP: Lukas Gevaert • Script: Evi Cats • Editing: Cato Kusters • Music: Jacob Krüger • Con tact: evi.cats@xs4all.nl

The Fruit Tree

Isabelle Tollenaere • Belgium • 2022 • 14 min.

Sharleece, wanders through a house that is available to rent in the sleepy desert town of California City. The view out of the window evokes unexpected memories of her childhood home in Los Angeles.

Production: Bo De Group, Hans Everaert • Script: Isabelle Tollenaere • Editing: Isabelle Tollenaere • Music: Hendrik Lasure • Contact: info@squareeyesfilm.com

The Lost Sail

Justine Cappelle • Belgium • 2022 • 8 min. What if it is impossible to show what you actually want to show? Because of your own incompetences, or because of external factors. The story of Zao Wang, a director who could not make the film he wanted to make in China. Told in a way that highlights the impossibility of showing.

Editing: Jasper Flikschuh • Contact: justine.cappelle@ hotmail.com

ZED Vesalius

Flemish Competition: Documentary

Programme 2

I Filmed Spring From Inside

1h15 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (17h30) in Auditorium, Thu. 8/12 (18h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Simon Cools Fierlafijn • Belgium • 2022 • 14 min.

The world went into quarantine and everything seemed to fall silent. A few stu dents share a house together. Life mostly takes place indoors, yet spring sneaks into their world.

Editing: Rik Chaubet • Cast: Naomi Süssholz • Contact: coolssimon@hotmail.com

Licht (Light)

Sarah Lederman • Belgium • 2022 • 15 min. Julie is 13. She lost both her parents at a young age. She has had to cope with this loss and find the strength to carry on. A befriended Jewish couple help her and become her guardians.

Production: Sofie Van Noten • Cast: Julie Verkinderen • Contact: sarahlederman@hotmail.com

Bij elkaar

Jasmine Issa • Belgium • 2022 • 14 min.

A brother and sister go on a trip to a time in their childhood, when they had to flee from their alcoholic dad.

Contact: jasmineissa@icloud.com

Lendemain

Glenn Dumortier • Belgium • 2022 • 16 min.

A filmmaker at a crossroads in his life, trav els to the campsite where he fell in love for the first time.

Contact: glenn.dumortier@gmail.com

La Marelle

Laura De Baudringhien • Belgium • 2022 • 13 min.

What happens when you physically bring all the residents from a building together in a studio to work out a common project. Put ting them in a radically different context en courages them to engage with each other.

Production: Zurian • Contact: eva.zurian@gmail.com

Artist in Focus: Veerle Baetens

Veerle Baetens is best known - in Belgium and far beyond - as the extraordinary actress in award-winning films such as The Broken Circle Breakdown and D'Ardennen. She has also been active for years as a singer and - more recently - as a screenwriter and director. She co-wrote the screenplay of the series Tabula Rasa and the feature-length film When It Melts, her feature-length directorial debut that will hit theatres next year. All these aspects of this versatile artist are represented in this varied short-film compilation.

An extensive conversation with Veerle Baetens follows the screening on Sun. 4/12.

Programme

1h00 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (13h45), Sun. 4/12 (19h30), Mon. 5/12 (19h45), Sat. 10/12 (15h15) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

La dépendance

Veerle Baetens • France, Belgium • 2001 A beautifully dressed young woman is waiting for something or someone in a fancy bar. She's waiting and waiting... and drinking.

Romance

Douglas Boswell • Belgium • 2004 • 14 min. At the hospital, the somewhat haughty Dé siree shares a room with Agnes and Wiske, who both love to observe a young couple outside in the park. Slowly, Désiree too be comes invested in this little love story.

Production: Dries Phlypo • DOP: Walther Vanden Ende • Script: Annelies Verbeke • Editing: Ludo Troch • Music: Dirk Brossé • Cast: Blanka Heirman, Mieke Verheyden • Contact: dries@aprivateview.be

Dallas - Take It All

Veerle Baetens • Belgium • 2012 • 3 min. A remarkable stop-motion music video to the song Take It all by Dallas, the band cen tered around Veerle Baetens. Baetens not only directed the video, but also made the plush animals by hand.

Une sœur

(A Sister)

Delphine Girard • Belgium • 2018 • 16 min. An emergency services dispatcher must tap into all her professional skills when she re ceives a call from a woman in a desperate situation.

Contact: info@daltondistribution.be

Zuur (Acid)

Robin Pront • Belgium • 2021 • 11 min.

In prison, Kasper is visited by Kim for the first time, his ex-girlfriend whom he muti lated with acid. Kasper expresses regret, but for Kim it comes too late. Forgiveness is out of the question, revenge is the only option left.

Production: Bram Versteyhe • DOP: Robrecht Heyvaert • Script: Kevin Meul, Robin Pront • Editing: Mathieu Depuydt • Music: Bert Libeert • Cast: Greet Verstraete, Matthias Schoenaerts, Veerle Baetens • Contact: bram@dewereld vrede.be

Het smelt (trailer)

(When It Melts (trailer))

Veerle Baetens • Belgium • 2022 • min. Years after a burning hot summer that spi raled completely out of control, Eva returns to her home town to face her past and leave behind a haunting message.

VAF Wildcards

The Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF) is the beating heart of the Flemish film industry and actively supports young, emerging film talent. To this end, the VAF annually awards VAF Wildcards to the most promising final works by bachelor and master students from the Flemish film schools. The highly desirable VAF Wildcards are awarded by a jury per category and - in line with tradition - presented and screened at Kortfilmfestival Leuven.

JURY WILDCARDS

FICTION

Leonardo Van Dijl

Jennifer Heylen

Febe Simoens

Anja Daelemans

Michiel Dhondt

DOCUMENTARY

Annabel Verbeke

Steven Dhoedt

Pegah Moemen

ANIMATION

Remy Ndow

Johanna Keppens

Peter Lindhout

Sylvia Meert

FILMLAB

Sofia Dati

Meltse Van Coillie

Kurt D'Haeseleer

Mirna Everhard

Grimm Vandekerckhove

VAF Wildcard Award Ceremony

Sun. 4/12 (17h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

That a VAF Wildcard can mean a solid push in the right direction is proven by the long list of former winners who ended up building successful careers in the film world. But they also bring a lot of good things in the short term: after all, the prizes are used to make a new short film. At the award ceremony, a new addition will be shown: Gun, the short film Charlotte Lybaert made with the VAF Wildcard she won in 2019.

VAF Wildcard Winners

Screenings: Sun. 4/12 (21h), Wed. 7/12 (19h), Sun. 11/12 (11h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius Who oh who will be the lucky winners of this year's VAF Wildcards with their short film? The winners of Flanders' most desired film awards will be announced on Sunday 4 December at Kortfilmfestival Leuven. You can come and discover the winning films yourself at the screen ings of the VAF Wildcard Winners.

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Artist in Focus: Marc James Roels

Fifteen years ago, director Marc James Roels first attended the festival with Mumbler, for which he received a Special Jury Mention. Two years later he came back with the harsh film A Gentle Creature, which received the Jury Award. A somewhat unexpected switch to animation followed, when he started working with his partner Emma De Swaef. The ensuing track record is nothing short of impressive: Oh Willy became the most awarded Flemish short film ever, Ce magnifique gâteau won the Grand Prix in Clermont-Ferrand, and they are currently conquering Netflix with the masterpiece The House. Marc James Roels will also give a master talk on Tue. 6/12.

Programme

1h40 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (15h), Tue. 6/12 (20h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Mompelaar (Mumbler)

Marc James Roels, Wim Reygaert • Belgium • 2007 • 20 min. Mumbler is a reclusive young man who lives somewhere in Flanders with his overbearing mother. One of his daily walks through the fields is interrupted by a peculiar encounter with some locals.

Contact: marcroels@gmail.com

A Gentle Creature

Marc James Roels • Belgium • 2009 • 19 min.

A couple spends its evening ritually burning all their daughter's possessions. Earlier that day, contracts were signed and tax benefits discussed. The final formality takes them deep into the forest, where an absurd but rigidly organized ritual will take place.

Production: Derycke • Contact: dries@czar.be

Oh Willy...

Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef • Belgium • 2012 • 17 min.

A gentle, middle-aged man returns to the nudist colony where he grew up to visit his elderly mother. Her sudden death leaves him in a confused state of sadness. He soon finds himself lost in the midst of a savage wilderness, trying to find comfort.

Ce magnifique gâteau!

(This Magnificent Cake!)

Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef • Belgium, France, The Netherlands • 2018 • 44 min. Colonial Africa in the late 19th century. Five different characters each have their own story: a troubled king, a middle-aged Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a failed businessman on an expedition, a lost porter and a young army deserter.

Contact: pieter@lumiere.be

Oscar Shorts

The world's biggest film fest also awards an annual Oscar for Best Short Film. Five nominees were retained from the longlist, in which Kortfilmfestival Leuven also had a say. The Oscar Shorts programme showcases all the nominees, including the winner The Long Goodbye . Enjoy the crème de la crème of the past year and check whether the right film brought home the desired statuette.

Programme 1h57 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (11h), Sun. 4/12 (16h30), Tue. 6/12 (15h), Sat. 10/12 (19h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Ala Kachuu (Take and Run)

Maria Brendle • Switzerland • 2020 • 38 min. Sezim dreams of studying in the capital of Kirghizia, but is kidnapped to the remote country side, where she must submit to a forced marriage.

Contact: n.scurfield@shorts.tv

Please Hold

Kd Davila • United States • 2020 • 19 min.

In the not-so-distant future, 20-year-old Mateo is suddenly arrested by a police drone. Without knowing why, he ends up in a fully automated prison.

Contact: n.scurfield@shorts.tv

The Dress

Tadeusz Lysiak • Poland • 2020 • 30 min.

Julia works as a cleaning lady in a simple motel. She has zero experience when it comes to intimacy and thinks it is not for her anyway. Until she meets a handsome truck driver.

Contact: n.scurfield@shorts.tv

On My Mind

Martin Strange-Hansen • Denmark • 2021 • 18 min.

Henrik is determined to sing a song for his wife. He has to do it today, here and now. It's a matter of life and death... and of karaoke.

Contact: martin.strange@me.com

The Long Goodbye

Aneil Karia • United Kingdom • 2020 • 12 min.

A nice day of family fun for Riz and his fam ily takes an unexpected turn when a farright protest passes by their house.

Contact: n.scurfield@shorts.tv

Best of Peer Awards 2021

Kortfilmfestival Leuven is not only a festival for a film loving audience, but also a meeting point for directors. And they are particularly interested in each other's work. This is why, two years ago, the Peer Award was introduced, an award participating directors give to their peers. This programme includes the six films that were nominated last year, closing with the film that eventually won the award.

Programme 1h57 — Screenings:

Sat. 3/12 (17h15), Thu. 8/12 (11h) in Cinema

T'es morte Hélène (You’re Dead Helen)

Michiel Blanchart • France • 2021 • 24 min. Hélène, Maxime's girlfriend, recently passed away. But that doesn't mean she is letting him go. As a ghost and invisible to everyone but Maxime, she continues to interfere in his life. Until he decides to end the relationship.

Production: Lucile de Calan, Michaël Goldberg • Cast: Lu cile Vignoles, Mailys Dumon, Théophile Mou • Contact: adv@golemandlinea.com

L'homme silencieux (A Quiet Man)

Nyima Cartier • France • 2021 • 14 min.

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out the window. Down be low, a colleague, who was dismissed that morning, has been sitting on a bench for hours, alone in the cold. Why won't he go home?

Production: Mabel Films • DOP: Balthazar Lab • Script: Nyi ma Cartier • Editing: Esther Lowe, Nyima Cartier • Contact: andrea@manifest.pictures

Sestre (Sisters)

Katarina Rešek - Kukla • Slovenia • 2020 • 23 min.

Three best friends refuse to take on the traditional roles imposed on women in the Balkans. As a result, they often get caught up in conflicts. When things get out of hand, they receive help from an unexpected ally.

Production: Barbara Daljavec • Cast: Mia Skrbinac, Mina Milovanović, Sarah Al Saleh • Contact: barbara@ aatalanta.si

Stikk (Stroke)

Tobias Klemeyer Smith • Norway • 2021 • 18 min.

Ida and Kaja meet at a café to share their trivial frustrations about relationships, tat toos and life itself. Every now and then, the conversation is interrupted by their strange waiter.

Production: Marte Bru Follesø, Thea Marion Aasen • Cast: Arturo Scotti, Brita Gram Økland, Hanna Heider Hov, Kasper Antonsen • Contact: tobias.klemeyer.smith@ gmail.com

Techno, Mama

Saulius Baradinskas • Lithuania • 2021 • 18 min.

Nikita is crazy about techno music and dreams of going to a famous club in Berlin. His mother, however, is unaware of his big dream. Their mutual expectations will inev itably clash.

Production: Viktorija Seniut • DOP: Vytautas Katkus • Editing: Karolis Labutis • Music: Rob Meyer • Cast: Motiejus Aškelovičius, Neringa Varnelytė • Contact: flavio.armone@lightsonfilm.org

Le Voisin de Lou (Lou's Neighbour)

Hector Albouker, Victoria Lafaurie • France • 2021 • 18 min.

17-year-old Vladimir is secretly in love with his neighbour Lou. But there's a slight prob lem, as Lou is moving in with her boyfriend, who is ten years older. Can Vladimir put his jealousy aside to help her?

Production: Igor Auzepy, Stéphane Demoustier, Année Zéro • Cast: Lou Lampros, Mathieu Capella • Contact: elise@shortcuts.pro

ZED Vesalius

The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling

Professor Richard Raskin, born in the US but affiliated with the Danish University of Arhus since 1983, has been researching the uniqueness of short film for more than 50 years. His latest book, The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling, confirms him as the leading contemporary researcher in short film theory, technique and strategies. In his book, he applies his paradigm to ten short films, five of which are shown in full in this programme, each time accompanied by a pre-recorded commentary by Prof Raskin. A wildly fascinating exploration of short film theory.

The book The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling can be purchased at the festival desk.

Programme

1h04 — Screenings: Screenings: Sun. 4/12 (13h), Sat. 10/12 (17h) in Auditorium

Urząd (The Office)

Krzysztof Kieślowski • Poland • 1966 • 6 min. People queue in front of a counter to ar range their pensions applications. There seems to be something wrong with al most every application. The counter clerks stamp, deny, give instructions, file and take a break. The annoyance is tangible.

DOP: Lechoslaw Trzesowski • Script: Krzysztof Kieślowski • Editing: Janina Grosicka • Contact: michal@studioindeks.pl

Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger

Jorgen Leth • Denmark • 1982 • 4 min. 1981. Andy Warhol, the biggest name in the American art world of the 1960s and 1970s, eats a hamburger. One of 66 visual postcards from the film, 66 Scenes from America.

DOP: Dan Holmberg • Script: Ole John • Contact: ole@olejohn.dk

Avsporing (Derailment)

Unni Straume • Norway, France • 1993 • 7 min.

A woman enters the subway. She takes a seat in the train opposite a sleeping man and closes her eyes. In a dreamlike se quence, the woman and the man meet. As the train stops, they both wake up…

Production: Unni Straume Filmproduksjon as • DOP: Har ald Gunnar Paalgard • Script: Unni Straume • Editing: Unni Straume • Music: Rolf Wallin • Cast: Anne-Lise Berntsen, Tom Remlov • Contact: toril.simonsen@nfi.no

Under bæltestedet (Below the Belt)

Alexander Kolpin • Denmark • 2006 • 10 min.

Two men meet at a restaurant. One is as sertive and confident, the other quickly intimidated, especially when he learns that his friend has met an incredible woman. Coincidentally, that very woman steps into the restaurant.

Production: Fridthjof Film • DOP: Mads Thomsen • Script: Alexander Kolpin • Editing: My Thordal • Music: Jesper Mechlenburg • Cast: Lars Brygmann, Trine Dyrholm, Troels Lyby • Contact: mail@f-film.com

On Suffocation

Jenifer Malmqvist • Sweden • 2013 • 7 min. In a prison, a convict will be executed. A conviction that came about because the system became more important than hu man life.

Production: China Åhlander • DOP: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt • Con tact: china@chinema.se

Big Names, Short Films

Last year some very special feature films hit the cinemas: the black satire Triangle of Sadness, the virtuoso thriller Decision to Leave, the unparalleled rollercoaster Everything, Everywhere All at Once and the intensely moving portrait Cow. All films with a very distinctive director's signature. And that characteristic signature can already be found in their previous short films. Discover the distinctive voice in earlier work by two-time Golden Palm winner Ruben Östlund, Cannes' Best Director Park Chan-wook, Oscar winner Andrea Arnold and unique creative duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.

Programme

1h24 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (19h45), Sun. 4/12 (10h15), Wed. 7/12 (17h15), Sat. 10/12 (10h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Händelse vid bank (Incident by a Bank)

Ruben Östlund • Sweden • 2010 • 12 min.

Stockholm, June 2006. Two friends have a chat on the street in front of a bank. They are not quite sure what is happening when two masked men drive up on a moped.

Production: Plattform Produktion • Contact: erik@ plattformproduktion.se

Simpan (Judgement)

Chan-wook Park • South Korea • 1999 • 26 min.

Victims of various recent natural disasters receive financial compensation. A husband and wife are at a morgue to identify their daughter. But is it really their daughter?

Wasp

Andrea Arnold • United Kingdom • 2003 • 24 min.

Life is not easy for Zoe, a young single moth er. When she meets an old flame, she is de termined that her four children should not be an obstacle to her new happiness.

Production: Natasha Marsh • DOP: Robbie Ryan • Editing: Nicholas Chaudeurge • Cast: Danny Dyer, Natalie Press • Contact: verleih@shortfilm.com

Ruben Östlund • Sweden • 2005 • 8 min. A group of friends on holiday walk past a high bridge. One of them wants to take on the challenge of jumping into the water from that height.

Production: Plattform Produktion, Plattform Produktion • Contact: erik@plattformproduktion.se

Interesting Ball

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert • United States • 2015 • 12 min. A big red ball bounces past a café, some houses and the beach. Each time, the ball passes a bizarre situation that gets increasingly out of control. Because in the universe, even the stran gest thing can actually happen.

Production: Daniel Scheinert • Editing: Daniel Kwan, Paul Rogers • Music: Alessandro Tabora

Focus on Artificial Intelligence

The short film world often plays a pioneering role in the application of new technological developments. Kortfilmfestival Leuven curated a unique programme of films made at the intersection between cinema and Artificial Intelligence (AI): films about the impact of AI or, to take it even further: films that are shaped, written, or created by AI. Take a look at the amazing crossovers between Artificial Intelligence and human artistry.

Programme

1h13 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (19h30), Tue. 6/12 (15h15), Fri. 9/12 (10h30), Sat. 10/12 (20h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Jésus 2020 (Jesus 2020)

Aude Thuries • France • 2020 • 24 min.

With little enthusiasm, Claire takes on a new project for the advertising agency she works for. She has to modernise the com munications of a small parish. The campaign she launches on social media becomes an unexpected success. None other than Jesus Christ responds via a Twitter account.

Production: Arthur Goisset, Bastien Daret, Robin Robles • Cast: Alice de Lencquesaing, Bastien Bouillon, Franc Bruneau, Frédéric Radepont, Victoria Erulin • Contact: audrey@eroin.fr

Sunspring

Oscar Sharp • United States • 2016 • 9 min. A distant future with mass unemployment, a man pulling a book from a shelf and the title Sunspring. These three prompts lead to a particularly strange yet engaging story, written entirely by AI.

Production: Allison Friedman, Andrew Kortschak, Andrew Swett, End Cue Productions • Cast: Elisabeth Gray, Hum phrey Ker, Thomas Middleditch

Hysteresis

Robert Seidel • Germany • 2021 • 5 min.

AI blends drawings with the movements of a dancer to create a stream of pulsating images, baroque textures and patterns, which are then deliberately interrupted by the director. An artistic ode to breaking pat tern recognition and the results of machine learning.

Production: Robert Seidel • Contact: info@robertseidel.com

Rachels Don't Run

Joanny Causse • France, United States • 2021 • 14 min.

Lonely Leah works in customer support at an AI-companionship service, where she has to monitor calls. One night, she imper sonates an artificial dream girl to chat with the regular caller, for whom she has devel oped feelings.

DOP: Jacob Rosen • Script: Steph Kwiatkowski • Cast: Sera Barbieri • Contact: prod@nosignalfound.com

It's No Game

Oscar Sharp • United States • 2017 • 7 min. Two representatives of the screenwriters' guild are told by their film studio that they are no longer needed, because AI is now perfectly capable of writing film scripts. Proof? This short film, of which the script actually was entirely written by AI.

Production: Allison Friedman • Cast: David Hasselhoff • Contact: allison.a.friedman@gmail.com

Backflip

NIkita Diakur • Germany • 2022 • 12 min. Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. None of that is nice, so the director's avatar does the trick. It practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.

Production: Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, NIkita Diakur, Pierre Baussaron • Contact: festival@miyu.fr

Labo

Labo is the place to be for short films that dare to deviate from the norm. Surprising films that are sometimes non-narrative, experiment with new techniques or make crossovers to other disciplines. A nice variety of challenging films that go beyond visual playfulness and that fascinate without getting lost in pure conceptual art.

Programme 1h24

— Screenings: Sun. 4/12 (21h15), Tue. 6/12 (22h), Sat. 10/12 (22h15) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Eine Sekunde in Fränkli

(One Second in Small Francs)

Douwe Dijkstra • The Netherlands, Switzerland • 2022 • 10 min.

While staying in Switzerland, a Dutch director becomes fascinated by the one-franc coin. This coin, which has hardly changed over decades, bears national symbols. He starts an investiga tion into the meaning of these obscure symbols.

Contact: info@douwedijkstra.nl

Shnei anasim yagiu, im balonim

(Two People Will Come, With Balloons)

Hadas Neuman • The Netherlands, Israel • 2021 • 11 min.

While her mother is undergoing surgery, the director documents the waiting process and whimsically examines whether she could control reality through the act of filming.

Production: Hadas Neuman • DOP: Hadas Neuman • Script: Hadas Neuman • Editing: Hadas Neuman • Contact: hadasneuman@gmail.com

Preludi Op. 28 No. 2

Jenni Toikka • Finland • 2022 • 8 min.

During a single long shot, we see two people taking turns playing the piano and listening alternately. Chopin's piece proceeds with out a single falter as the roles of player and listener merge into one temporal moment with multiple layers.

Production: Jenni Toikka • Editing: Jenni Toikka, Sampo Siren • Cast: Meri Nenonen, Seidi Haarla • Contact: pro gramme@av-arkki.fi

Cyclepaths

Anton Cla • Belgium • 2022 • 12 min. An older woman walks somewhat wearily with her full shopping bags, a youngster rides his scooter with a rifle on his back. Birds fly high in swirls. An uncanny sensa tion shrouds the city.

Contact: antoncla.contact@gmail.com

Ghosts

Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel • France, United States • 2022 • 8 min. Visitors leave the Museum of Fine Arts in Mar seille around closing time. When everyone has left, there is still movement. Figures dance through the empty halls, gazing at each other, embracing and jostling each other.

Production: CCN Ballet national de Marseille, David Zander (MJZ) • DOP: Zack Spieger • Script: Spike Jonze • Editing: Edouard Mailaender, Jeff Buchanan • Music: Rone • Cast: An gel Martinez Hernandez, Aya Sato, Dancers of Ballet national de Marseille, Et al. • Contact: film@ballet-de-marseille.com

Hungry Ghost

Guido Devadder • Belgium • 2022 • 6 min. A poetic journey through the hazy, organic underworld of human desire that is eternal and insatiable, visualized in an extraordi nary zoetrope animation.

Music: Kaitlin McSweeney • Contact: guidodevadder@ hotmail.com

Swallow The Universe

Nieto • France • 2021 • 12 min.

The saga of a child who ends up deep in the jungle of Manchuria. Unintentionally, he stirs up human traits such as jealousy and greed in the animals that were living their natural lives untouched before his arrival.

Production: Nicolas Schmerkin • Contact: marine@au tourdeminuit.com

Where are the Files?

Philip Davies • United Kingdom • 2022 • 5 min. There is a new message. The message reads: "Where are the files?" A mouse icon tries to find them. But where are the files? That seems to be the ultimate question… Contact: master@battlecatstudios.com

Happy New Year, Jim

Andrea Gatopoulos • Greece • 2022 • 9 min. It's New Year's Eve. Like any other night, Jim is playing video games. Morten is also on line, like every other evening. But tonight Morten is feeling a little uncomfortable.

Contact: administration@gargantuafilm.it

Virtual Reality

Gone are the days when virtual reality (VR) was merely a fun gadget. VR short films have become fullfledged films that put VR possibilities fully at the service of the story and the cinematic experience. Like no other, these films transport you into another physical space, be it extraordinary landscapes in nature, a mysterious universe or a small city apartment.

Programme

0h42 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (14h), Sat. 3/12 (17h), Sat. 3/12 (19h30), Sat. 3/12 (22h), Sun. 4/12 (14h), Sun. 4/12 (17h), Sun. 4/12 (19h30), Sun. 4/12 (22h), Mon. 5/12 (19h), Mon. 5/12 (21h30), Tue. 6/12 (19h), Tue. 6/12 (21h30), Wed. 7/12 (19h), Wed. 7/12 (21h30), Thu. 8/12 (19h), Thu. 8/12 (21h30), Fri. 9/12 (19h), Fri. 9/12 (21h30), Sat. 10/12 (14h), Sat. 10/12 (16h30), Sat. 10/12 (19h) in Foyer Cinema ZED Vesalius

Montegelato

Davide Rapp • Italy • 2021 • 15 min.

The magnificent Monte Gelato Falls have been filmed many times and feature in more than 180 productions, from thrillers, comedies and westerns, to sci-fi and erotic films, to documen taries and commercials. A panoramic journey through an extraordinary film archive.

Production: Davide Rapp • Editing: Andrea Dal Martello, Davide Rapp, Giorgio De Marco • Contact: agata@diversioncinema.com

Castle of Unknowing

Damian Thorn-Hauswirth • United States

• 2022 • 5 min.

Enter an atmospheric surreal world. Mys terious and fascinating, with underground passages that lead you to a universe where everything is in transformation.

Music: Damian Thorn-Hauswirth • Contact: damians wann@gmail.com

SWARM

Maarten Isaäk de Heer • Germany • 2022 • 14 min.

Fly along with a flock of birds from Germa ny, across the Alps, to the Mediterranean, across an exhausted and exploited earth. Robins, tits and sparrows do not normally migrate this far, but in post-climate change Europe, they might.

Production: Evelyn Brancard • Contact: maarten@ maartenisaakdeheer.com

Lockdown Dreamscape

Nicolas Gebbe • Germany • 2021 • 7 min.

When spending a lot of time at home in isolation, the walls begin to move. Perception of time fades, the days pass quietly, everything seems to repeat itself endlessly. Spaces, conversa tions, visual impressions and sounds all merge and make everything seem like a long dream.

Contact: nicolas.gebbe@gmail.com

Animation Nations

Animation Nations

Programme 1

A Film About a Pudding

1h28 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (17h), Fri. 9/12 (16h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Roel van Beek • The Netherlands, United Kingdom • 2021 • 9 min.

When Ronin accidentally drops her grocer ies, she doesn't clean up the mess. They start to mix into a small pudding. Somewhat sur prised, Ronin leaves everything as it is. But gradually the pudding gets bigger and bigger.

Production: Fancy a Jam Pictures • Contact: jack@fancya jampictures.com

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Vuk Jevremovic • Croatia • 2022 • 5 min.

Three masters of football. They can perform wonders during the match and score impos sible goals... But what goes on in their heads, when they are about to take their penalty kicks?

Production: Vuk Jevremovic • Editing: Iva Kraljevic • Music: Luka Sulic • Contact: vanja@bonobostudio.hr

It's Nice in Here

Robert-Jonathan Koeyers • The Netherlands • 2022 • 15 min.

A young girl talks about her best friend Crim son, a sensitive and introspective boy who was recently involved in an incident. A young police officer also tells his side of the story.

Contact: hiddewdevries@gmail.com

Mon Tigre

Jean-Jean Arnoux • France • 2022 • 14 min.

Mister K works hard for a big company, ped dling a miraculous product to keep your hair perfect all day long. He tries his best to look clean and sharp, just like his colleagues, but infuriatingly his curly hair just doesn’t stay in place…

Contact: mikhal.bak@gmail.com

The Windshield Wiper

Mielgo Alberto • United States • 2021 • 15 min.

A man sits in a café, he smokes, listens to the conversations around him and asks himself the question "what is love?". A series of short events and vignettes, some familiar and some not, attempt to answer this ambitious question.

Contact: alberto.mielgo@gmail.com

Ronde de nuit

(The Night Watch)

Julien Regnard • France, Belgium • 2021 • 12 min.

A couple rushes out of a glamorous party. On their way home, an argument leads to a brutal car accident. When George regains consciousness, Christina has disappeared. The start of a true descent into hell.

Contact: marine@autourdeminuit.com

Sunbelly

Jordan Speer • United States • 2021 • 16 min.

In the distant future, a group of interplan etary explorers are searching for a home. When a scout investigates the surface of a dead planet, she uncovers a lost civilization, while a dangerous encounter reveals her own kind’s tragic, forgotten history.

Contact: alex@nicetry.co

Red Fried District

Flip van der Kuil, Stephan Miras • The Netherlands • 2021 • 2 min.

In the vending machine of a snack bar, a young, naive croquette has to compete with an experienced, bitchy cheese soufflé to persuade a hungry customer that she’s the tastiest snack, with the ultimate goal of be ing eaten.

Contact: ursula@kaboomfestival.nl

An out-of-control drug addiction, murderous forest creatures, fake news, police brutality, but also an untamable head of curly hair or a sexy croquette. The topics covered in Animation Nations are as varied as the animation styles that are featured. Two high-profile programmes of the very best of recent animation. Welcome to the Valhalla of animated shorts!

Animation Nations

Programme 2

1h33 — Screenings: Tue. 6/12 (19h30), Thu. 8/12 (20h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Laika & Nemo

Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Gadow (Co-Director) • Germany • 2022 • 15 min. Nemo is an oddity in the small fishing village where he lives. After all, no one else wears a diving suit and such a huge helmet. As a re sult, he is often laughed at. Until he meets Laika, an astronaut.

Production: Johannes Schubert, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf • Contact: cristina.marx@filmuniversitaet.de

夜車 (Night Bus)

Joe Hsieh • Taiwan • 2020 • 20 min. All seems calm as some passengers board the last evening bus, until suddenly a panicked scream shatters the night's calm. A necklace is stolen, followed by a tragic and fatal road accident.

Contact: joehsieh1112@gmail.com

Sprite Fright

Matthew Luhn, Hjalti Hjalmarsson • The Netherlands • 2021 • 10 min.

When a group of rowdy teenagers trek into an isolated forest, they discover peaceful mushroom creatures that turn out to be an unexpected force of nature.

Production: Francesco Siddi • Contact: francesco@ blender.org

Scale

Joseph Pierce • France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Czech Republic • 2022 • 14 min. Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to un pick the sequence of events that led to his predicament, before he’s lost forever.

Production: Chris Hees, Christophe Beaujean, Hélène Mitjavile, Jérémie Mazurek, Jiří Konečný • Script: Nicolas Pleskof • Cast: Evelyn Neghabian Pierce, Minou Neghabian Pierce, Et al. • Contact: festival@salaudmorisset.com

Loop

Pablo Polledri • Spain • 2021 • 8 min. In this society, every person repeats the same action over and over again, in this so ciety, every person repeats the same action over and over again, in this society, every person repeats the same action over and over again.

Contact: info@selectedfilms.com

Histoire pour 2 trompettes (A Story for 2 Trumpets)

Amandine Meyer • France • 2022 • 5 min. A particularly beautiful, associative and inti mate account of the key stages that shaped the maker as a woman and as an artist.

Production: Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron • Contact: festival@miyu.fr

Night of the Living Dread

Ida Melum • United Kingdom • 2021 • 11 min.

When a power cut ruins Ruby's bedtime routine, she finds herself haunted by some unwanted guests. The only way for Ruby to get a peaceful night of sleep, is to confront her visitors.

Contact: Ida.melumheino@gmail.com

Regular Rabbit

Eoin Duffy • Ireland • 2022 • 7 min.

With his name sullied beyond repair, a banished rabbit runs from home. Failing to evade the unstoppable tide of lies, the rab bit falls deeper and deeper into the darkest recesses of society.

Production: Jamie Hogan • Music: Leo Pearson • Cast: Rory McCann • Contact: screening@eoinduffy.me

Short Films for Children

Short Films for Children

Cinemini 2+

0h34 — Screening: Sun. 4/12 (10h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Un Lynx Dans La Ville (A Lynx in the Town)

Nina Bisiarina • France • 2019 • 7 min.

A curious lynx wonders what those lights are in the distance. It leaves the forest and has a crazy night in the city. But then the sun comes up again…

Editing: Antoine Rodet • Music: Nathanaël Bergèse • Con tact: j.mourlam@folimage.fr

Itchy the Camel: Tennis Ball

Anders Beer • Canada • 2021 • 1 min.

When cheerful camel Itchy wanders through the desert in a daze, he is suddenly hit by a tennis ball.

Production: Marie-Cecile Dahan • Editing: Guillaume Poulin • Music: Iohann Miller • Contact: mariececile@rodeofx.com

Der kleine Vogel und die Bienen (The Little Bird and the Bees)

Lena von Döhren • Germany • 2019 • 4 min. Up high in a tree, a little bird takes care of its flowers. He follows the buzzing of the bees and sets out on an adventure through the magical landscape. But a hungry fox secretly follows him.

Editing: Fee Liechti • Music: Martin Waespe • Contact: mail@lenalena.org

Crocodiles

Camille Authouart • France • 2020 • 2 min.

A few baby crocodiles squirm, dive, bathe and waddle until they are ready to go to sleep next to their mommy.

Editing: Fabien Drouet • Music: Miguel Fernandez • Con tact: a.cheron@dandelooo.com

Inkt (Ink)

Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch • The Netherlands • 2020 • 2 min.

A squid with germaphobia tries to get the attention of a cleaner after a child smears ice cream on the window of his aquarium. If only he hadn't done that!

Production: Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch • Script: Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch • Editing: Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch • Contact: ursula@kaboomfestival.nl

Bobaski i Mi ś : Baloniki (Babies and the Bear: Balloons)

Marek Skrobecki • Poland • 2021 • 3 min. A baby brother and sister see a string hang ing from the sky. When they pull it, a balloon pops up and a great adventure begins.

Contact: studio@trefl.com

Sheep

Julia Ocker • Germany • 2019 • 3 min.

An

Production: Studio FILM BILDER GmbH, Studio Film Bilder

• Contact: studio@filmbilder.de

Musicanimals

Stella Raith • Germany • 2019 • 1 min. Five animals each get their own jazz instru ment with a particular sound. They can play their own solos, or play in harmony with the group. They are the unique Musicanimals!

Production: Filmakademie B-W Filmakademie B-W • Mu sic: Patrick Schäfer • Contact: festivals@filmakademie.de

La soupe de Franzy (Franzy's Soup-Kitchen)

Ana Chubinidze • France • 2021 • 8 min.

When Franzy shares her special pink soup with starving creatures living on a strange planet, she discovers that her soup is not just delicious, but also magical.

Contact: j.mourlam@folimage.fr

adventurous little lamb gets a kick out of dangerous situations, which is a great con cern for the other worried sheep.

Short Films for Children

Search and you shall find! 3+

0h45 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (11h15), Sun. 4/12 (15h15), Wed. 7/12 (15h30), Sat. 10/12 (13h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Bristles

Quentin Haberham • The Netherlands • 2021 • 2 min.

Ursa - Song of Northern Lights

Natalia Malykhina • Norway • 2021 • 10 min. Little polar bear Ursa is looking for his mummy. On his journey across the North Pole, he faces many challenges, but he also makes new friends. The northern lights show him the way.

Contact: georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de

La soupe de Franzy (Franzy's Soup-Kitchen)

Ana Chubinidze • France • 2021 • 8 min.

When Franzy shares her special pink soup with starving creatures living on a strange planet, she discovers that her soup is not just delicious, but also magical.

Contact: j.mourlam@folimage.fr

Step by Step

Théodore Janvier, Fanny Paoli, Emma Gach, Annabelle David, Julie Valentin, Claire Robert • France • 2021 • 7 min.

A little red rain boot wakes up all alone on the banks of a river. She sets off on an adven ture through the forest to find her home and the other boot.

Contact: laure.goasguen@miyu.fr

When the most beautiful paintbrush in the jar wakes up with hard, unwashed bristles, she must do anything it takes to soften them so she will able to paint again.

Production: Chris Stenger, Floor Onrust • Script: Quentin Haberham • Music: Bram Meindersma • Contact: ursula@ kaboomfestival.nl

Aeronaut

Leon Golterman • The Netherlands • 2021 • 2 min.

Kevin dreams of becoming a pilot so he and his little sister Jaimy can escape from their angry father. But when Jaimy gets her hands on Kevin's brand new toy plane, their friendship is put to the test.

Production: Leon Golterman, Paul Mathot, Thijme Grol • Script: Leon Golterman • Music: Arend Bruijn • Cast: Leon Golterman • Contact: ursula@kaboomfestival.nl

건전지 아빠 (Battery Daddy)

Jeon Seung-Bae • South Korea • 2021 • 6 min.

Battery dad always makes sure everything keeps running smoothly. Toys, the remote control or an appliance: he makes sure all is well-powered. But during an outdoor trip, the rain jeopardises everything.

Production: Toyville Animation Studio • Contact: kani seed@kiafa.org

Andersland (Oddland)

An Vrombaut • Belgium • 2022 • 7 min.

On the savannah, a group of strange animals play a game of hide-and-seek. They look like giraffes, but without necks. When Gerda suddenly grows a long neck, she has a hard time hiding.

Production: Brecht Van Elslande • Script: Bert Lesaffer • Contact: info@animaltank.be

The boundless creativity of the film world condensed in short productions: short films and children seem to be made for each other. Discover films in various styles and from all corners of the world, presented in several programmes tailored to different age groups.

Short Films for Children

Room on the Broom 5+

1h01 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (15h15), Sun. 4/12 (14h30), Wed. 7/12 (14h30), Sat. 10/12 (11h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Luce en de rots (Luce and The Rock)

Britt Raes • Belgium • 2022 • 12 min. One day, out of nowhere, a giant Rock lays in the middle of the peaceful little village where Luce lives. The villagers can’t even open the door to their houses anymore! Luce is angry: "Go away Rock, you don’t belong here! And why are you here anyway?"

Contact: festival@miyu.fr • info@daltondistribution.be

Sounds Between the Crowns

Filip Diviak • Czech Republic • 2020 • 14 min.

A homeless musician is expelled from the city. In the magical forest, surrounded by the animals, he finds the strength to make music again.

Contact: info@daltondistribution.be

Ich habe keine Angst! (I Am Not Afraid!)

Marita Mayer • Germany • 2022 • 7 min. While playing hide-and-seek, Vanja ends up in the courtyard of their flat block, where there are many dark corners, strange sha dows and eerie sounds. To overcome her fear, Vanja turns into a dangerous tiger!

Contact: info@daltondistribution.be

Inkt (Ink)

Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch • The Netherlands • 2020 • 2 min.

A squid with germaphobia tries to get the attention of a cleaner after a child smears ice cream on the window of his aquarium. If only he hadn't done that!

Production: Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch • Script: Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch • Editing: Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch • Contact: ursula@kaboomfestival.nl • info@daltondistribution.be

Room on the Broom

Max Lang, Jan Lachauer • United Kingdom • 2012 • 25 min.

A kind witch always tries to find a place on her broom for casual passengers, even though it is sometimes crowded. Her grumpy cat doesn't like that very much. And let's face it, five is way too much for one broomstick, isn't it?!

Contact: info@daltondistribution.be

The Great Vacation 7+ Short Films for Children

0h50 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (14h), Sun. 4/12 (14h), Sat. 10/12 (13h15) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Kayak

Tiphaine Klein, Solène Bosseboeuf • France • 2021 • 7 min.

A dad takes his baby son on a kayak trip. Between the challenges of an outdoor trip and the baby’s whims, the father does not have a relaxing day, especially when an eagle joins the adventure.

Contact: info@daltondistribution.be

Heatwave

Fokion Xenos • Greece, United Kingdom • 2019 • 7 min.

In the midst of a searing heatwave at the beach, two little children find a way to cool everyone off.

DOP: Brenden Freedman • Editing: Stella Heath Keir • Music: Andreas Gutuen Aaser • Contact: info@daltondis tribution.be

O28

Meyran Fabien • France • 2019 • 5 min. A German couple is about to board the leg endary yellow tramway in Lisbon, but when the brakes fail, things get out of hand.

Editing: Robin Merle • Contact: info@daltondistribution.be

Belly Flop

• 2018 • 4 min.

A young girl looks up at a talented diver and tries to imitate her. It's not easy, but the girl doesn't give up easily!

Contact: info@daltondistribution.be

De Grote Vakantie

(The Summer Holidays)

Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar • Belgium • 2022 • 26 min. School is out. Summer seems endless and Cowboy and Indian are bored to tears. Horse takes them to the cinema where they watch a pirate movie. Totally engrossed in the battle scene, they think only of sword fights and sailing off on adventures. Needless to say, things do not go as planned...

Contact: info@daltondistribution.be

Jeremy Collins, Kelly Dillon • South Africa

Denmark (Short) Film Country

Denmark has a vibrant film culture, and Danish short films have been a fixture at Kortfilmfestival Leuven from the very beginning. High time to dedicate a special to Danish short films, with four different programmes: one with Danish classics, one of the country's oldest short film festival Odense and two with films of two inspiring Danish directors. Velkommen til dansk film!

Denmark (Short) Film Country

Danish Classic Shorts

1h23 — Screenings: Sat. 3/12 (12h15), Thu. 8/12 (22h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Danish cinema has been doing great for several decades. From the first Oscar for Best Foreign Film for Babette's Feast in 1988 to the most recent one for Thomas Vinterberg's Drunk last year. Not surprisingly, their short films - which are, after all, a measure of a country's filmmaking achievements - have been a treasure trove of cinematic classics for years. A delicate mix of short films: moving, confrontational, dark or satirical.

Helium

Anders Walter • Denmark • 2015 • 23 min. Alfred is terminally ill and is staying at a children's hospital. He is scared because heaven doesn't seem like a nice place to go. Everything changes when Enzo, who works at the hospital, tells him about the magical place Helium.

Production: Kim Magnusson • DOP: Rasmus Heise • Script: Anders Walter, Christian Gamst Miller-Harris • Editing: Lars Wissing • Cast: Casper Crump, Marijana Jankovic, Pelle Falk Krusbaek • Contact: georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de

Daimi

Marie Grathø • Denmark • 2012 • 19 min. Daimi is 12 years old with a hard-ass survivor attitude. It seems she is spending Christmas on her own with her pet pig in a run-down apartment. A place where the fine line between reality and fantasy blurs. But somewhere in the apartment, under dark murky water, a painful truth is hidden.

Production: Emil Wergeland, Super 16 • Contact: hello@wergeland.pictures

Untamed

Juliette Viger • Denmark • 2016 • 16 min. In the streets at night, a slow saxophone plays. A howling wolf roams the city. Dad is on the loose. Sally, an introverted 15-yearold girl, tries to tame her wolf father, who has lost himself in the wilderness.

Production: The Animation Workshop • Contact: viger.juliette@orange.fr

Det perfekte menneske (The Perfect Human)

Jørgen Leth • Denmark • 1968 • 13 min.

An anthropological study of the perfect hu man. In a clinical environment without any distractions, a perfect man and a perfect woman are being observed and studied. What do they look like, and how do they function?

DOP: Henning Camre, Ole John • Script: Jørgen Leth, Ole John • Editing: Knud Hauge • Music: Henning Christiansen • Contact: mariannej@dfi.dk

Ernst og lyset (Ernst and the Light)

Anders Thomas Jensen, Tomas Villum Jensen • Denmark • 1996 • 12 min.

Businessman Ernst has just landed in the airport and is on his way home to his wife. It's raining heavily, and he decides to take a hitch-hiker with him. They engage in a con versation about the value of life.

Production: M&M Production • Contact: mail@mmpro ductions.dk

Denmark (Short) Film Country

Best OFF Odense

1h22 — Screenings: Sun. 4/12 (12h), Sat. 10/12 (17h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Enjoy four short films hand-picked by OFF – Odense International Film Festival. A selection filled to the brim with love and longing, hope and dreams; and sincere reflections on the fragility of the human mind. All films have previously won the Danish competition at OFF, Denmark's oldest film festival.

Amourteur

Sylvia Le Fanu • Denmark • 2021 • 20 min.

Luna is looking for love, but it seems al most impossible to find. She wants her ex-boyfriend back, but then she meets Jo han. When he gets tired of her, she wants him more.

Production: Jeppe Wowk • Script: Mads Lind Knudsen, Syl via Le Fanu • Editing: Emma Lagrelius • Cast: Alvin Bursøe, Marta Holm • Contact: jeppe@adomeitfilm.com

Mount Everest

Rasmus Nyholm Schmidt • Denmark • 2019 • 17 min.

Aria is an Iranian dreamer with grand gestures and kind eyes, living in Copenhagen with his wife and son. His true passion is his job as a piano teacher, even though it threatens to bank rupt him and his family.

Production: Laura Valentiner-Bohse • Contact: rasmusnyholmschmidt@gmail.com

Uden at blinke (In the Blink of an Eye)

Katrine Brocks • Denmark • 2020 • 23 min.

Recently discharged after a long admission to a psychiatric hospital, Johanne ventures to visit her daughter Lily, who has been living with her father and his new wife. Johanne wants to make the day extra special for Lily.

Production: Daniel Mühlendorph • Contact: daniel@hyaenefilm.dk

Maja

Marijana Jankovic • Denmark • 2018 • 22 min. Maja, a serbian girl, and her family have not been living in Denmark for long. Everything is still new, and it's not easy to make friends since she doesn't speak the language. Af ter a long, tiring day at school, her parents come to pick her up.

Production: Daniel Mühlendorph • Contact: daniel@ hyaenefilm.dk

Denmark (Short) Film Country

Focus on Kristian Håskjold

1h31 — Screenings: Tue. 6/12 (17h30), Sat. 10/12 (22h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Every year since 2018, Kristian Håskjold has presented a gem at Kortfilmfestival Leuven, where he also received the Jury Award for Best European Short Film for A Worthy Man and the subsequent nomination for the European Film Awards. His short films have won several awards internationally, and his miniseries Chemo Brain premiered at the renowned Sundance Film Festival. The strength of his films lies in an often deeply moving but unsentimental and unflinchingly honest portrayal of people at a crossroad in their lives. Each film is introduced by a pre-recorded interview with the director, who is currently working on his first feature film.

Forever Now

Kristian Håskjold • Denmark • 2017 • 19 min. After several years together, Cecilie and William decide to end their relationship. To ease the sorrow of the break-up, they take the drug MDMA together one last time. Isolated in their flat, the weekend becomes an emotional rollercoaster full of highs and lows.

Production: Siri Dynesen • DOP: Christian Houge Laursen • Editing: Kristian Håskjold • Music: Jesper Ankarfeldt • Cast: Ferdi nand Falsen Hiis, Frederikke Dahl Hansen • Contact: khaaskjold@hotmail.com

En Værdig Mand (A Worthy Man)

Kristian Håskjold • Denmark • 2018 • 19 min. Every night, Erik works alone in a bakery, with the radio in the background as his lone companion. He keeps trying to dial in during a comedy programme to tell a joke. Meanwhile, his loneliness continues to weigh him down.

Production: Caroline Steenberg Dam • DOP: Rasmus Hasle Jørgensen • Music: Jesper Ankarfeldt • Cast: Troels Lyby • Contact: khaaskjold@hotmail.com

Kemohjerne (Chemo Brain)

Kristian Håskjold • Denmark • 2019 • 15 min Twenty-eight-year-old Oliver spends his time studying, hanging out with friends, and charming his new girlfriend, when he finds out that his lower-back pain is actu ally testicular cancer. Rapidly shifting from mindless living to becoming a hospital reg ular, chemotherapy sets him on a path of introspection.

Production: Nadja Nørgaard Kristensen • DOP: Jesper Du elund • Cast: Adam Ild Rohweder • Contact: khaaskjold@ hotmail.com

Young

Kristian Håskjold • Denmark • 2021 • 23 min. Pernille discovers that people are gossiping behind her back. She decides to confront the girl responsible for the gossip at a party, but the situation soon spirals out of control.

Production: Andreas Bak • DOP: Jesper Duelund • Music: Jesper Ankarfeldt • Cast: Frieda Krøgholt • Contact: khaaskjold@hotmail.com

Denmark (Short) Film Country

Focus on Martin Strange-Hansen

1h16 — Screenings: Fri. 9/12 (22h30), Sat. 10/12 (10h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Martin Strange-Hansen immediately made a positive impression with his graduation film in 2001, winning not only the Best Short Film Award at Odense Filmfest, but also the Student Oscar. Two more Oscar nominations followed: in 2003 for This Charming Man , which brought home the prestigious statuette, and this year for On My Mind . Discover the award-winning short films of this Danish director, who is also presenting a master class at the festival.

Når lysterne tændes (Feeding Desire)

Martin Strange-Hansen • Denmark • 2001 • 28 min.

A married man longs for peace and quiet and begins to stay out late. When his wife finds out he's lying to her, she assumes too much.

Contact: martin.strange@me.com

Der er en yndig mand (This Charming Man)

Martin Strange-Hansen • Denmark • 2003 • 29 min. Lars Hansen is in a job training program. He finds a potential job at a print shop, but his paper work gets mixed up with that of a certain El Hassan...

Contact: martin.strange@me.com

On My Mind

Martin Strange-Hansen • Denmark • 2021 • 18 min. Henrik is determined to sing a song for his wife. He has to do it today, here and now. It's a matter of life and death... and of karaoke.

Contact: martin.strange@me.com

Film Concert: Music Therapy

Musicians from LUCA School of Arts' Music Therapy Department accompany live a custom-made compilation of three special short films that were in last year's Flemish Competition. All visually strong films, which are made even more powerful by the live music performance.

Programme 0h45

Little Ox

Patrick Vandebroeck, Raf Wathion • Belgium • 2021 • 10 min. A young musk ox moves across the icy tundra plain, with his herd. During their journey, the herd is followed by a pack of wolves who have their eye set on the little ox. He finds it hard to grasp the rules, much to his mother’s frustration.

Production: Marc Thelosen, Christophe Baggermans, Filip Vangeffelen, Koert Davidse • Contact: ursula@kaboomfestival.nl

Daydreamers

Ante Pask • Belgium • 2021 • 11 min. A father and his daughter are very passion ate about motorcycles. An eye condition jeopardizes their shared hobby.

Production: Ella Bal • DOP: Arne Fivez • Script: Ante Pask, Emiel van Wouwe • Editing: Janneke Maes • Mu sic: Peter Pask • Cast: Flo Martens, Jurgen Delnaet • Contact: ante.pask2@gmail.com

L'Homme Inconnu

Anthony Schatteman • Belgium • 2021 • 22 min.

Flemish writer Louis heads to the Côte d'Azur hoping to find inspiration for his new novel. When he meets the handsome Tommy, he doesn't know what to do with his desires.

Production: Christophe Baggerman, Mirjam De Vreese • Cast: Anna Sacuto, Geert Van Rampelberg, Samuel Suchod • Contact: mirjam.devreese@wenneker.be

— Screening: Mon. 5/12 (18h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

En cour(t)s de route: Korte klinkers

Korte klinkers is the second programme in the En cour(t)s de route series and brings together six films that, in a split second, transport you to a world where all your senses are on edge. Tunes that make you dream away or uplifting beats that make you dance. Exclusively for Kortfilmfestival Leuven, the programme ends with a film accompanied by live music!

Programme 1h38 — Screenings: Wed. 7/12 (20h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Simbiosis Carnal

Rocio Alvarez • Belgium • 2018 • 10 min. A poetic journey through the history of desire and sexuality, from the first unicel lular organism to the human being, which invents calculated pleasure: eroticism.

Make Aliens Dance

Sébastien Petretti • Belgium • 2018 • 24 min. Mike is a music producer in free-fall. His sound engineer is tired, his autistic brother won't take off his headphones, and Lilli, their mother, seems out of touch with reality.

Between Up and Down

Frédéric Hainaut, Simon Medard • Belgium • 2014 • 4 min. Groovy black & white from the 30s. A man stands in front of a burning house and runs away. Music video for Yew and Arno's, 'Between Up and Down'.

Raketkanon — I Live in a Society

Maximiliaan Dierickx • Belgium • 2019 • 26 min.

The band Raketkanon, a well-known name in the Belgian rock scene, is recording their lat est album. A glimpse into the peculiar dynam ics of a rock band, right before its swan song.

Two to Tango

Dimitri Sterkens • Belgium • 2021 • 18 min. Twelve world leaders gather in a ballroom for a life-and-death power game. As long as the music plays, the tango is danced. When the music stops, weapons are drawn. Who leads the dance, who survives?

Cast: Elien Hanselaer, Patrice Meisserei, Peter De Graef

Cleo's Boogie

Camera-etc • Belgium • 2010 • 6 min. Two old friends, living with their cat in a run-down flat, relive the percussive, boo gie-woogie atmosphere of their youth.

DRUK (PRESS(ED))

Senne Driesen • Belgium • 2022 • 9 min

An industrial city. People are at work. Day in day out following the same monotonous pattern, a never-ending story.

Production: Toon Loenders • Contact: sennedriesen@ gmail.com

Cast: Alastair Natkiel, Calvin Dean

Editing: Tom Denoyette

Bardak Film Fest Presents

Kiev, Mariupol, Donetsk, ... Since the invasion of Russia, the world learned many names of Ukrainian cities. One could almost forget that these cities had completely different connotations before the war and formed the background of a lot of Ukrainian short films. With the help of Bardak, the annual short film festival in the city of Kharkiv, the festival presents a programme of six short films that together tell the story of Ukraine. Stories of life before the invasion, but also of the conflict that started much earlier for a lot of Ukrainians, with annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas region in 2014.

The city of Kharkiv, home to the Bardak Short Film Festival and one of Ukraine's most important universities, was bombed at the start of the invasion in February. Prof Lien Verpoest (KU Leuven) has since hosted her Ukrainian colleague Prof Pshenychnykh and will provide an introduction to the programme.

Programme

1h04 — Screening: Mon. 5/12 (17h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Freelance

Anatolii Zavalishyn, Mykhailo Fischenko • Ukraine • 2017 • 2 min.

A film featuring Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. This story was awarded the prize for the brevity of narration.

2014

Myroslava Trofymchuk, Ganna Gladka • Ukraine • 2020 • 18 min.

A documentary narrating the story and tragedy of a family from Eastern Ukraine, Donetsk region, where life is forever split in a before and after the war that started in 2014.

Me and Mariupol

Piotr Armianovski • Ukraine • 2017 • 9 min. Mariopol, the industrial city on the north coast of the Azov Sea, lives in the director's memories. The image he created of the city as a child is like a fairy tale. 20 years later, he returns to Mariopol.

Cry, Wolf

Markosh Kryzhak • Ukraine • 2017 • 4 min.

A lone wolf wakes up in the forest. He ven tures deeper into the forest and meets someone. An animated film about loneli ness, inspired by distinctive Ukrainian folk lore drawings.

Meanwhile

Juliia Appen, Aleksandra Vasina, Nikita Lyskov, Natasha Tseliuba • Ukraine • 2016 • 25 min.

Three women, from Kiev and Sumy, recount their migration adventure: their experienc es, memories, motives and feelings.

Run to See Carpathian Mountains

Daria Shelest • Ukraine • 2019 • 3 min.

A short film featuring the spectacular Car pathian Mountains situated in Ukraine.

Lounge

Artist Rinus Van de Velde mostly made a name for himself with monumental drawings, but since recently, he also uses film as an artform to tell his stories. His drawings often encompass very elaborate settings, and film provides an ultimate opportunity to document it in three dimensions and in colour. His newest film, La ruta natural, will be shown in loop at the Lounge, the perfect place to get transported on a fictional journey.

No need to buy a ticket, the lounge is always open during the festival.

Programme 0h13

La ruta natural

Rinus Van de Velde • Belgium • 2022 • 13 min.

An alter ego of artist Rinus Van de Velde takes you on a surreal journey through a constructed universe. A cyclical film, like the title, which is a palindrome: even when you read it in reverse, you read the same thing.

DOP: Maarten Verminck • Music: Joachim Badenhorst

Guest Screenings

SABAM SELECTS

Mon 5/12 (20h00) at Cinema ZED Vesalius

For decades, Sabam for Culture has been working to promote, develop and protect their broad audiovisual repertoire. Sabam actively supports its authors at every step of the creation pro cess through various grants: from the writing process to concre te realisation, through development and promotion. A selection of sponsored short films will be screened on this evening.

Filmmakers who want to apply for the grant, will pitch their film to a Sabam jury that same day at 15h. The pitch is open to the public.

HUMO AWARD

Wed

7/12 (20h30)

at Auditorium Vesalius

Flanders' most self-willed magazine is handing out their own shortfilm award for the 17th time: the desired Humo Award. Humo selects their favourite Flemish short films, which will be shown in attendance of the film makers. Right after the final film, the audience will vote live for their favourite and the winner will be honoured.

CANVAS SELECTS

Tue 6/12 (20h30) at Auditorium Vesalius

Canvas has a heart for film, and that definitely holds true for short film as well. Traditionally, Canvas is the generous donator of the Audience Award, both for the best Flemish fiction film as well as the best Flemish animation film. But there is more. On the exclusive Canvas Selects evening, the culture-loving network presents their own selection of Flemish short films, interchan ged with interviews with the film makers.

KORTFILM.BE SELECTS

Fri

9/12

(20h) at Cinema ZED Vesalius

No Kortfilmfestival Leuven without a Kortfilm.be Selects. The online short film magazine has been putting short films in the spotlight for years, with reviews, festival reports, interviews and as of recently, with their own video on demand platform. During the festival, Kortfilm.be will be presenting a remar kable selection of films from the entire festival programme, complemented by interviews with the directors.

A global network uniting the short film industry.

The Short Film Conference has been in existence since 1970 as a non-profit association for the promotion of the short film. We are the only international organization in the world seeking to unite the global short film community.

SFC currently has over 70 official members, coming from over 40 different countries all over the world.

Professional activities

Kortfilmfestival Leuven is much more than just film screenings. A lot of filmmakers come down to the festival to have a conversation after their film, ánd there are a many activities for professionals and people with an exceptional interest in (short) film.

The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling Sun. 4/12 (13h), Sat. 10/12 (17h) in Auditorium

Professor Richard Raskin, born in the US but affiliated with the Danish University of Arhus since 1983, has been researching the uniqueness of short film for more than 50 years. His latest book, The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling, confirms him as the leading contemporary researcher in short film theory, technique and strategies. In his book, he applies his paradigm to 10 short films, five of which are shown in full in this programme, each time accompanied by a pre-recorded commentary by Prof Raskin. A wildly fascinating exploration of short-film theory.

The book The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling can be pur chased at the festival desk.

Artist in Focus: Veerle Baetens Sun. 4/12 (19h30) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Veerle Baetens is best known - in Belgium and far beyond - as the extraordinary actress in award-winning films such as The Broken Circle Breakdown and D'Ardennen. She has also been active for years as a singer, a screenwriter and a director. An extensive conversation with Veerle Baetens follows the screening on Sunday 4/12.

Sabam Pitch Mon. 5/12 (15h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Sabam for Culture has been committed to the promotion, de velopment and protection of a broad audiovisual repertoire, sponsoring directors and short films directly through a devel opment grant every year. Filmmakers who want to be consid ered for this grant, pitch their film to a Sabam Jury.

The pitch is open to the public and free to attend.

Mastertalk: Marc James Roels

Tue. 6/12 (18h) in Cinema ZED Vesalius

Fifteen years ago, director Marc James Roels first attended the festival with Mumbler, for which he received a Special Mention of Jury. Two years later he came back with the harsh film A Gentle Creature, which received the Jury Award. A somewhat unexpected switch to animation followed, when he started working with his partner Emma De Swaef. The ensuing track record is nothing short of impressive: Oh Willy became the most awarded Flemish short film ever, Ce mag nifique gâteau won the Grand Prix in Clermont-Ferrand, and the duo is currently conquering Netflix with the masterpiece The House. A conversation about the wonderful roads short film can lead to.

Festival Brunch

Sat. 10/12 (11h) in Festival Bar

A film festival is the perfect meeting place for filmmakers and the audience. On the last day, the festival organises a deli cious brunch where directors, the audience and the festival team can meet over a nice cup of coffee.

Master Class:

Road to the Oscars with Martin Strange-Hansen Screenings: Sat. 10/12 (13h) in Auditorium

Martin Strange-Hansen made immediately a great impres sion with his graduation film in 2001, winning not only the Best Short Film Award at Odense Filmfest, but also the Stu dent Oscar. Two more Oscar nominations and one Oscar would follow. A master class from an inspiring director who considers short films not so much as a stepping stone to a full-length feature, but as a fully-fledged and valuable film form.

Pitch Your Script Sat. 10/12 (15h) in Auditorium

Ten short film scenarios were selected for a class in pitching. Time to practice for real and pitch ideas to an audience and a professional jury. Afterwards, the selected screenwriters go on a speed date with ten producers.

Closing Party

Sat. 10/12 (22h) in Festival Bar

As usual, after the awards ceremony, the festival will end fes tively with a splashing closing party to the tones of the most danceable (film) music, served by DJs Robin Broos and samee (aka SWART).

Festival Bar

Fancy a cup of coffee, an aperitif or a snack? Want to have a chat before or after a screening? Have a conversation with the filmmakers or international guests? Visit our cosy pop-up bar during festival hours.

C ALL FOR ENTRIES OPEN

PRIZREN, KOSOVO

KINO GUARIMBA

Kino Guarimba is an international film training program in the form of a twelve-day artistic residency in Calabria, the wildest region of Italy.

The seventh edition will take place in Amantea (CS) from 10 to 21 June 2023 among cinema, meetings, music and social aggregation events.

We are on the lookout for filmmakers, technical crew and actors to make great films with a small team.

APPLY NOW: www.cinemambulante.com/en/kino/

DEADLINE: April 30th 2021

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Kakukkfióka (Another Nest) 14 Kayak 53

Kemohjerne (Chemo Brain) 56

Kierre (Spiral) 15

King of the Dumpster ................................ 28

Klette 26

Koerkorter (Dog - Apartment) 10

Kreupelhout (Undergrowth) 26

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L'appel (The Calling) 11

L'Homme Inconnu ..................................... 60

L'homme silencieux (A Quiet Man) 40

L’amer au bord des lèvres 25

La chute (On its way down) 23

La dépendance 32

La Marelle .................................................. 31

La ruta natural 63

La soupe de Franzy (Franzy's Soup-Kitchen) 50, 51

Laika & Nemo 49

Le Buone Maniere (Good Manners) 16

Le mobilier (The Furniture) 13

Le variabili dipendenti (The Dependent Variables) ....................... 10

Le Voisin de Lou (Lou's Neighbour) 40

Lendemain 31

Les murs qui crient (Walls That Scream) 30

Licht (Light ) 31

Little Ox 60

Lockdown Dreamscape 45 Loop 49 Love, Dad 18

Luce en de rots (Luce and The Rock) 29, 52

Lullaby 14

Lunch Break 28

M Maja 55

Make Aliens Dance 61 Manbag 25

Martwe malzenstwo (A Dead Marriage) 11 Me and Mariupol 62 Meanwhile................................................. 62

Memoir of a Veering Storm

Team & Partners

SELECTION

SUBSIDY PROVIDERS

PARTNERS & SPONSORS

Canvas, Humo, Sabam, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, KU Leuven, Playright+, Scenaristengilde, Unie van Regisseurs, Kortfilm.be, Unie van de Belgische Filmpers, Unie van de Filmkritiek, A Sound, Sondr., Camalot, Dalton Distribution, Odense International Film Festival, Short Film Conference, La Guarimba, Ibis, Combell, Alma, Al Verhuur, RITCS School of Arts, LUCA School of Arts, KASK School of Arts, Norwe gian Embassy Brussels, Oostenrijks Cultuurforum Brussel, Nederlandse Ambassade, Goethe-Institut, Finnish Cultural Institute Brussels, Swiss Films, Unifrance, British Council, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, European Film Academy

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD FONK VZW Maarten Le Roy, Gudrun Burie, Henk Cluytens, Roel Vande Winkel, Ruben Nollet, Sanne Clerinx, Hanne Phlypo

THANKS TO

The members of the juries: Martin Strange-hansen, Lauma Kaudzīte, Olha Zhurba, Birgitte Weinberger, Veerle Baetens, Michiel Philippaerts, Jeffrey Bowers, Julie Rousson

The team from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund and Flanders Image Koen Van Bockstal, An Feyfer, Erik Stockman, Bea Goedhuys, Matthias Vanderaspoilden, Simon Vrebos, Catherine Wilmes, Inne Van Boxel, Lisa Boons, Yousra Chahboune, Jana Martens, Niels Putman, Marc Bussens, Elli Mastorou, Gert Bauwens, Wim De Rick, Sophie Schyns, Thierry De Vries, Sébastien Bours, Alain Van Goethem, Michel Sabbe, Thomas Vanbrabant, Una Kreso, Amina Hatim, Nele Vandael, Paul Pauwels, Tom Oyer, Sandra Leege, Daniel Lips, Anna Lischka, Lise Leifsdatter Traeland, Maé lys Vaillant, Laure Decock, Ilse Somers, Laikin Chang, Partick Geeraerts, Nina Nijs, Tom Van Herzele, Alain Quateau, Brecht Van Elslande, Daphné Pascual, Greet Busselot, Hilde D’haeyere, Elke Van Damme, Kris Mergan, Imge Ozbilge, Jan Van Dyck, Anke Brouwers, Griet Vanhemel, Stijn Paredis, Tom Neerinckx, Dirk Franck, Michèle Deprez, Steven Uzar, Marc Leroy

Vincent Langouche Festival director, guest care

Reinhard Deman Head of production & technical operations Nele Delvaux Communication, press Maxime Vangompel Communication Evelien Cockx Reception desk & ticketing, volun teers, schools, children programme assistant

Jonas Cantoro Bookings and film transport

Frank Moens Assistant programmer Bie Geivers Editor, finances

An De Winter Editor Freya Veys Editor, Daltonshop

Kato Debeuckelaere Reception desk, office management

Bert Bertels Graphic design Ali Baharlou Technical Assistant, in-house director Lennert De Reze Steven De Winter Camera, editing Kian Aghyari (Schelfhout) Trainee production, guest care Simon De Coster Trainee communication Jasmine Cendrakasih Trainee communication, volunteers Wout Soentjens Lisa Foster Sitse Brems Jeff Christoffels David Dubois Anéline Plateau Operator Chris Vandebroek Celine Verhaest Hannes Copman

Evita Verbiest Evelyne Godts Cisse Wyn Reception desk Amber De Leener Valerie Hermans Bavo Nys Photographers

Johan Van Schaeren Coordinator Fonk vzw

ADVISORS Niels Putman, Karin Vandenrydt, Lotus Li, Dylan Fréson, Pieter Stevens, Freya Veys, Maya Retana, Martine Bouw, Tom Tim merman, Celine Verhaest, An De Winter, Sien Voets, Kato De beuckelaere, Kian Schelfhout, Gert Cuypers, Rebecca de Graef, Evelien Cockx, Jonas Cantoro, Caro Raedts, Wout Soentjens, Inia en Nomi Langouche

Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Stad Leuven, With the support of the Creative Europe MEDIA programme of the European Union