Best Belgian short movies

Those who returned from the Camps (1982)

Short documentary on people who survived the Nazi concentration camps.

Cadillac (2015)

How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal (2018)

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

O (2006)

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

Wolf's Skin (2015)

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

July 96 (2020)

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

Imaginal (2018)

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

Perfect Darkness (2016)

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

Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn (1967)

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

La vie en rose (1997)

Short film.

Les soeurs Van Hoof (1996)

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

It Does not Fly High (1999)

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

Beeldverhalen (1974)

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

Hee (Dag meneer) (1971)

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

De wijdgetakte boom (1957)

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

Borneo in de jungle van de Sarawak (1982)

Short documentary.

VVVVV! (1991)

Short animation film.

Improvisiations sur l'Escaut (1958)

Documentary short.

Chorus Angelorum (1985)

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

The Theft (1968)

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

Kiss the Moon (1992)

Short animation film

Les amis du plaisir (1961)

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

Oumpah-Pah the Red Skin (1965)

A short animation film about knights.

Roll-on Roll-off, lift-on lift off (1973)

Documentary short film about the Antwerp harbour.

Clara (1981)

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

Piet Bekaert (1984)

Short documentary on Belgian artist Piet Bekaert.

Bibi (1970)

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

Shogun (1968)

Short film.

Het water was bondgenoot - De overstromingen aan de Ijzer in 1914 (1958)

Short documentary

Bastaard halve prijs (1970)

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