International Competition 6

Out of 3714 short films submissions, 59 films will compete for the prizes in the International Competition.

Winners of the Grand Prix in the International Competition and National Competitions are considered for pre-selection for the Oscars® in the Best Fiction/Animation Short Film category provided that the film complies with the Academy’s rules.

Les huîtres (Maïa Descamps)
Belgium - Fiction - 2021 - 23'31" - Color
Mouths stay shut like the oysters these women are busy opening. But as shells shatter and hands are torn, truth rises to the surface.

Elizabet (Zifrut Nitzan)
Israel - Fiction - 2020 - 18'31" - Color
A soldier climbs up the metal stairs of a guard tower and takes his post. Around him, nothing but wilderness and endless silence echoed only by his thoughts.

Kadillak dhe Manaferra (Suela Bako)
Albania - Fiction - 2021 - 14'56" - Color
The “soft” but stubborn resistance of an oil technician who in Communist Albania in the 1975 dared to refuse giving away the american car that his father had gifted him and that the communists wanted to get at all the costs.

Vlekkeloos (Emma Branderhorst)
Netherlands - Fiction - 2021 - 15'41" - Clor
Vlekkeloos (Spotless) tells the story of 15 year old Ruby, who lives in a small flat with her mother and her younger sister. Her mother works overtime to make ends meet and Ruby feels responsible for her sister. When Ruby realizes she is having her period, she notices they are out of period products. She doesn’t want to bother her mother with asking for them, because she is aware of their money problems. To make sure she doesn’t trouble anyone with her problem, she tries to solve it herself.avec son problème, elle essaie de le résoudre par elle-même.

Haut les coeurs (Adrian Moyse Dullin)
France - Fiction - 2021 - 15'00" - Color
Kenza, 15, and her little brother Madhi, 13, regularly humiliate one another on social media. On the bus, Kenza puts her naive and romantic little brother to the test: to profess his love for Jada, the girl that Madhi loves, even though she does not know him.

Flagey, Brussels Short Film Festival