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SHORTSCREEN 2023
23 March 2023 - 19h00
Cinema Nova
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The Newt Congress (Der Molchkongress) - Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser - CH - 2022 - 16’
 
For years now, giant talking newts have been used both for labour and as laboratory animals. The Newt Congress takes place at a conference building surrounded by nature where participants have come together to optimise the exploitation of the animals. An absurd parable, adapted from the novel War with the Newts by Karel Čapek.
 
La Passante - Hannah Letaïf - BE - 2022 - 18’
 
Closed in on all sides, The Passerby breaks free. By following a being who is completely opposite to herself, she embarks on a discovery of the improbable that will reshape her.
 
NOISETRAIN - Pol De Plecker - BE - 2022 - 22’
 
Three men, surrounded by sleeping passengers, wake up on a stationary train. When it leaves them behind in a desolate area, a journey through a graphic snowy landscape begins. 
 
E6-D7 - Eno Swinnen - BE - 2023 - 16’
 
A sci-fi drama about a lonely machine who finds a kind of love in his advanced android successor. Can he handle loving someone who makes him obsolete?
 
Hideous - Yann Gonzalez - UK - 2022 - 22’
 
Popstar Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame and blood. A three-part musical short.