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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Ghent International Short Film Festival
  • Hold the Dream (China) by Xiaoyue Zhang

    "Hold the Dream" tells the story of Yuan Mengjie, a high school student passionate about filmmaking, who struggles to balance his academic responsibilities with his dreams. Through Yuan Mengjie's journey of growth, the film portrays the hardships and beauty of pursuing dreams in youth, conveying ...

  • Home (Belgium) by Hanne Schillemans, Ralph Timmermans

    Home is a short film about the fragility of life and the virtue of solitude. A faceless figure attempting not to resist the endless waves of pointlessness. Home explores the tension between presence and absence within the strange choreography of existing. The protagonist’s nudity, devoid of eroti...

  • Benny (Belgium) by Aron Quadu

    When a child from his theater group disappears without a trace, passionate but eccentric teacher Benny unexpectedly finds himself in the sights of the police - and must prove that his life is not an act.
    Running time: 00:09:00

  • Hu Li Jing : The Fox Spirit (United States) by Alena Saveleva

    In a distant wild forest in China, there dwelt Hu Li Jing, the Fox Spirit. Once bored with her own immortality, she decided to challenge her liminal, partly demonic and partly human, essence. Through the ritual of abstinence from hunting for men's hearts for one thousand days, she rediscovers her...

  • 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 ...

  • 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

  • Release (Hungary) by Zoltan Gergely Szabo

    A young man is in prison instead of his brother because he took the punishment on his behalf. A mysterious visitor arrives to persuade him to make a new confession. However, the tempter fails to achieve his goal.
    Running time: 00:10:09