FESTIVAL 2011!
Each December, film fans flock to Leuven. For the 17th year straight, the International Short Film Festival offers a broad and very colorful selection of the best short film has to offer. Expect hundreds of new shorts, animation films, videos, documentaries and innovative crossovers, selected out of thousands of international entries. The festival is a round-up of a great year in cinema, but also looks at the future. Besides being a platform for the short film medium, it also acts as a major talent hunt, where tomorrow’s filmmakers are able to present their first professional productions.
The ISFFL catalogue (English / Dutch)
The ISFFL flyer (Dutch)
All the programs
EUROPE IN SHORTS
Sundance, Clermont Ferrand, Regensburg, Hamburg, Locarno… our festival team traveled all over the world in search of the very best European short films. Once home, we go through over 2000 entries and select only forty, the cream of the crop of European shorts. The European competition shows films from over 17 countries, including rather small film countries such as Portugal and Bulgaria.
MILESTONES IN SHORT FILM HISTORY
“Milestones in Short Film History” is a collection of the most influential short films made throughout a century of cinematic history. It entails thirty movies produced between 1900 en 2000 that are typical of certain movements and evolutions in movie history or that introduced new techniques, procedures, styles, genres or directors. Together with the programma, the ISFFL presents a publication with the same title (Dutch-English) in witch all films are discussed.
The publication “Milestones in Short Film History”
Go to the Milestones program
FESTIVAL CAFÉ
During the festival, the cosy STUK café is the meeting point for visitors, filmmakers and foreign professionals. Go there for a tasty pasta, a bowl of soup or a sandwich and share your thoughts on the festival. And while you are there, enjoy live bands, DJ sets or a music video compilation, all for free!
Go the the Festival Café program (in Dutch)
INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES
Each year, the International Short Film Festival welcomes countless young filmmakers and film professionals from all over the world. This edition boasts quite a few professional activities: an infosession about Crowdfunding (organised by MEDIA Desk Flanders), a 2-day seminar about the Short Film in Flanders, a lecture by the Danish-American short film professor Richard Raskin “Story Design in Short fiction Film” and more.
