COMPETITION PROGRAMME 1 - Briefly Human
ARTIS LARGE HALL
Wednesday, 20 August 2025
7:30 PM – 8:55 PM
85 minutes
What does death taste like when it shows up uninvited? Dress up. Settle things. Join the masked dance. And hope you don’t turn into a soul-eating demon. We’re only briefly human. What comes next is not our business. Not yet.
Tickets available HERE!
Films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles.
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MORE ABOUT THE FILMS:
A Dog
Director: Juan Camardella
Year: 2024
Length:7 min 55 sec
Country: Argentina
Production: Juan Camardella
On a night in Buenos Aires in the 1960s, a man conducts a job interview.
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A Round of Applause for Death
Director: Stephen Irwin
Year: 2024
Length: 4 min 42 sec
Country: United Kingdom
Production: small time inc.
Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.
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Her Dress for the Final
Director: Martina Meštrović
Year: 2023
Length:8 min 45 sec
Country: Croatia
Production: Kreativni sindikat
One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
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Impossible Maladies
Director: Stefano Tambellini and Alice Tambellini
Year: 2023
Length: 8 min
Country: Italy
Production: Senza Testa
Aboard their cart, Doctor Rabarbaro and his assistant Tosse travel from house to house to cure absurd illnesses with their ingenious remedies.
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Not Dead
Director: Alex Reis
Year: 2025
Length: 14 min 58 sec
Country: Brazil
Production: Ananse Filmes
The birth of a young black couple's first child brings happiness, but also agony. The father experiences and expresses his dilemmas regarding the arrival, coexistence and departure of his beloved firstborn.
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Red Meat
Director: Eleni Aerts
Year: 2024
Length: 5 min 50 sec
Country: Belgium
Production: KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
A poetic visualisation of pain, discomfort and vulnerability.
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Sisowath Quay
Director: Stéphanie Lansaque and François Leroy
Year: 2025
Length: 15 min 30 sec
Country: France
Production: Bobine B
Phnom Penh. Nakry and Sothear meet on the Sisowath quay for their first date. At nightfall, the romance turns into a nightmare when the young girl transforms into a strange creature…
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The Masque of the Red Death
Director: Rune Callewaert
Year: 2024
Length: 8 min 8 sec
Country: Belgium
Production: KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
When the eccentric owner of a bustling nightclub keeps an eye on his business, his gaze falls on a mysterious lady dressed in red whom he wants to make his own at all costs. While the other guests at the club loose themselves in decadence, the owner remains spellbound by the lady and his inner demons. Will he risk to loose it all? The Masque of the Red Death is a stop-motion allegory about lust, decadence and decay.
Based on the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) in which a bloody pestilence manages to invade a masked ball in a barricaded castle.