Bruges International Film Festival

Bruges International Film Festival

The Bruges International Film Festival showcases innovative independent cinema by emerging artists from around the world. The festival provides a platform for films with a unique voice and message, regardless of how low the budget might be. Aiming to inspire, motivate and award new talent.

Focusing on the art of filmmaking rather than on the box office, the festival aims to introduce quality, non-mainstream films from global filmmakers as well as local talent. By recognizing the important role independent films have in the history of filmmaking, storytelling, and culture, the Bruges International Film Festival wants to help empower the next generation of artists.

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  • Marry, Fuck, Kill (United States) by Ian Berry

    Ivan’s life is a disaster. Between porn, target practice, and a hopeless crush, he's spiraling. Full of bitter humor and painful self-awareness, he might just be his own worst enemy.
    Running time: 01:21:35

  • Let it Dance (Australia) by Carolyn Corkindale

    Born of a poor family in Paris, Guy Detot transforms himself through passion and luck into an international ballet dancer, dancing with Pina Bausch in The Rite of Spring. Guy moves to Australia for love and originates work with Australian Dance Theatre, before being aged out of ballet and embarki...

  • Ice Breath (Romania) by Leonard Alecu

    Between 2015 and 2024, Leonard Alecu filmed the melting icebergs off Greenland's East coast. Sailing dangerously close to icebergs, Alecu handled his camera to record the ice masses yielding to the ruthless ocean. Filmed in black and white, Ice Breath is a cinematic poem whose only elusive actor ...

  • Tangle (Belgium) by Carla Hoogewijs, Frank Stevens

    Tangle is a multimedia film blending vivid imagery, haunting words, and evocative soundscapes to delve into the core questions of human existence. Structured as a monologue in five chapters, it begins with a single breath of steam and culminates in the miracle of cell division, symbolizing the cy...

  • Luz (Mexico) by Alfonso Otero Mireles

    In a secluded colonial convent, a sisterhood's faith fractures when celestial manifestations provoke a theological crisis, blurring the line between divine revelation and sinister omens.
    Running time: 00:19:48

  • Dragonfly (Shanghai) by Edward Liu

    Great-grandson Zhou Zihang has only two memories of his great-grandmother - her funeral and a contact. Unable to remember season and weather, he only remembers the persimmons that were handed to him and the unexplained crying
    Running time: 00:19:26

  • Iris (Canada) by Gabriela de Andrade

    Ever since Iris, a French-Congolese woman, left Montreal, she has nurtured her relationship with Gabriela through voice messages. In this film, her voice gives hints of a return that exists only through Gabriela's eyes. The film is a kind of affective cartography of their interposed exchanges, Ir...

  • Nook with a View (United Kingdom) by Eduarda Vieira

    While stuck at home, an architect decides to spend his time crafting intricate illustrations. In this short documentary, he reflects on his phase of unprecedented creativity against a backdrop of toilet roll shortages, social distancing, remote working, and other challenges caused by the COVID-19...

  • 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

  • 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...