Ghent International Short Film Festival

Ghent International Short Film Festival

Ghent International Short Film Festival recognizes the important role short films have in cinema, storytelling, and culture. The festival discovers, supports and develops new talent in filmmaking, providing a platform for emerging and established filmmakers from around the world.

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  • Voyager (Spain) by Pablo Pagán

    When a shy, socially anxious night janitor, cleaning up after Barcelona's affluent party crowd, discovers a mysterious drug that lets her shed the boundaries of her physical self, she breaks out of her isolation and opens herself up to the people she desires... but her newfound freedom comes at a...

  • The Dissipation of Poetry (China) by Tsewang Tashi

    This is an unknown story from distant mountains. Lone person of Sengge is a weirdo of the township, and his profession is a pickpocket. He lives a life of silence, regularity, poetry, and even dumbness. Nobody in the town cares about him, and people call him “the poet” without even remembering hi...

  • Hairy Dreams (Canada) by Lina Cruz

    ***FIFA42 - Festival International de Films d'art
    Hairy Dreams is inspired by Lina Cruz's fascination for dreams, altered states, homelessness and what she finds they paradoxically have in common: access to an immense sense of freedom. Hairy Dreams evokes the interior world of a lonesome yet non...

  • Hands (Portugal) by Filipe Piteira

    Hands are the connection and the path between the body and soul. The mode of search and self-knowledge, which is intuitive and sensorial, with them, discovering and transcending themselves. It is the receptive and restless mind that transforms hands into instruments of grace.
    Running time: 00:07:00

  • Higher Grounds (United States) by Joe Kramer

    On the fateful day intelligent life arrives to destroy Earth, one slacker alien gets sidetracked when he’s smitten with a bitter barista. Suddenly, our survival depends on whether this space-schmuck can get her number, before his plucky partner blows us sky high.
    Running time: 00:16:59

  • Knife, Chocolate (Iran) by Hooshmand Varaei

    The son of the family is antisocial, psychotic, skeptic and sexist who judges women by the smell of their cosmetics! He believes that the smell of a decent woman’s cosmetics is different from an indecent one! He even classifies bees.
    Running time: 00:15:00

  • Quadratura (Italy) by Sara Bonaventura

    Inspired by dark ecology and the Mandel'štam's poem of the voice over, the 16mm film evokes the loop of systemic predator-prey models, starting from microscopic beings - didinium and paramecium - passing through plankton, jellyfish, insects, fish, crustaceans and human apex predators.
    Running tim...

  • Mind Control Attempt No. 1 (Canada) by Erin Audley

    Mind Control Attempt No. 1 is an experimental short film challenging bodily control, layering images and sounds to evoke urgency and tedium, ultimately immersing viewers in the visceral experience of needing to use the bathroom.
    Running time: 00:02:48

  • Arachnia (Canada) by Erin Audley

    "Arachnia" navigates the fragile boundary between disgust and fascination. By reimagining the traditionally unsettling imagery of arachnids, I aim to shed a mesmerizing light on the creatures that many deem repulsive. This two-minute experimental journey compels viewers to confront and perhaps ev...