Obskuur Ghent Film Festival

Obskuur Ghent Film Festival

The Obskuur Ghent Film Festival is often referred to as Europe's most obscure film festival. An island oasis for art amidst a sea of commercialism. Sure, it's modest in form, as we mainly focus on screening films and less on the glitter and glamour. The festival focuses on contemporary cinema and video art and places its films where they belong – within the vibrant context of other art forms.

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Obskuur Ghent Film Festival
  • The melody of ashes (Switzerland) by Jonathan Moratal

    Being haunted by the past can lead to an inferno.
    Running Time: 00:02:20

  • The Loop (Poland) by Antoni Ferency

    A young man takes a night bus to meet a girl. He falls asleep. He wakes up in the company of a strange man who turns out to be somewhat similar to him. The sequence of events makes the young man miss his stop and return to the same place from which he set out. He fails to meet the girl, but it's ...

  • New Voices in the City (Belgium) by Ekaterina Gardener

    The city of Ghent serves as the stage for the stories of 15 newcomers from various parts of the world, where they share their integration stories. Love, family, education, or drama served as reasons for coming here. The film reveals their deep-seated hopes and dreams, talents, and daily lives. Th...

  • The "Madman" and His Ruins (China) by Xiaolong Zhu

    A middle-aged man lives in ruins, and his home has been burned down twice. After suffering from a stroke, he even refused government relief, and his neighbors called him a madman and did not want to interact with him. He lives alone, cultivates alone, eats alone, walks around alone... everything ...

  • Kissing Ralph (United States) by Daniel Lewinstein

    Kissing Ralph explores the anxiety of intimacy, from the point-of-view of an alien struggling to participate in human rituals of love, sex, and family life.
    Running time: 00:40:00

  • Six (United States) by Diana Cignoni

    Mental Health. Depression. Grief.
    Running time: 00:13:00

  • Sign Action Space (Austria) by Mersolis Schöne

    "Sign Action Space" is a short experimental film about the musical actions of the hands of the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra. Led by Michael Fischer, who conducts the orchestra on an ad hoc basis using a vocabulary of hand signs, the orchestra creates unique compositions in the moment. The film ex...