The short films:

Just Jools

  • Year: 2025
  • Country: Belgium
  • Duration: 15min

Jools dreams of dancing without shame. But how do you do that? Everything changes when she meets Yorrith, a choreographer who challenges her to push her limits. Portrait of a girl who no longer wants to be watched, but to be seen.

Autokar

  • Year: 2025
  • Country: Belgium, France
  • Director: Sylwia SZKIŁĄDŹ
  • Duration: 17min

In the 1990s, eight-year-old Agata leaves Poland on a bus to Belgium, all by herself. When writing a letter to her father, her pencil drops and rolls away. Agata weaves her way between the seats and plunges into a fantastical world inhabited by strange half-human, half-animal passengers. 

The Wiels Marsh

  • Year: 2025
  • Country: Belgium
  • Director: Martine Janssens, Aurore Woller, Catherine Le Goff, Charlotte Pion, Christine Flasschoen, Claire Poinas, Marie Fontaine
  • Duration: 5min

A natural haven for urban wildlife. For a hundred years, this “Garden of Fairies” was owned by a brewery, and today real estate projects are lying in wait. Volunteers who cherish the place, have their say in this animated documentary.

Underneath my Shell

  • Year: 2024
  • Country: Belgium
  • Director: Morena Schwarzwälder
  • Duration: 12min

After her parents' divorce, Rosa goes on a camping trip with her father. They speak little; each keeps to himself in his own shell. Until a dramatic event forces them to break the silence. Will they find their way back to each other, or will the forest hide their secret forever?

I'd love to see you

  • Year: 2025
  • Country: Belgium
  • Director: Petronella Van Der Hallen, Sébastien Segers, Zaïde Bil
  • Duration: 11min

 Four children accompany us to the visiting room in a prison. Here they come twice a week to pay a visit to their father or mother. In Belgium, there are 16,000 children with a parent behind bars. This film gives them a voice.

Extra info

Short films by young Brussels film talent! They tell stories of strength and hope, and of a search for unspoilt places of nature. All genres are included: documentary, fiction and animation.

With Q&A