Welcome in advance to the BREEDBEELD short film festival, now still on the website, soon hopefully in the plush of seats at The Cinema. The BREEDBEELD short film festival is already in its 12th edition this year. You get to see more than 70 short films at our festival, whether fiction, animation, documentary or experimental film. The focus is on Belgian short films by emerging talents. In the selection you will of course find promising film students, whom we program alongside independent filmmakers and artists. All the competition films are largely made with our own funds, without VAF support or wildcard budget. In this way, we keep our program fresh for the viewer, as well as for the filmmakers themselves. For the short films in our competition program, there are prizes to be won in different categories. The winners will each receive €1000 in prize money, as a push for a future project. After each competition block, we will have a short discussion with the filmmakers present.

 

Besides watching films, during the festival we also want to inspire you to start your own next project. Thus, we will have some masterclasses, workshops and a feedback session cross our program. This year we are also inviting a renowned director. The creator of this year's Belgian Oscar entry - Leonardo van Dijl - will show his short films and come to talk about his feature debut 'Julie Zwijgt'.

 

Another new thing is our Super8 program. We gave fifteen filmmakers a blank analog roll of film and set them on their way to shoot an 8mm film shot by shot. They bring the soundtrack live or made it afterwards based on notes taken while filming. You can watch the result with them for the first time at our Super8 premieres on Saturday. 

 

Finally, BREEDBEELD is certainly not the only organization that wants to get you excited about short film. Therefore we invite three other organizations to fill in a block of short films from their own point of view. The curators of these guest programs are Kortfilm.be, Brussels Short Film Festival and CUT TO: GENT.

 

We wish you a lot of viewing pleasure!