The Catcher + International Shorts 4
Friday 20 March 2025
20:00
This screening features 7 short films, and will be followed by a free drink. All films are in English OR have English subtitles.​
@ Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Gent
Tickets are FREE (incl. a free drink).

Toast (Belgium) by Bram Van Rompaey, Reinout Swinnen
Hairry likes toast, but sometimes it comes at a high price
Running time: 00:00:34

Kiesler's Body (Austria) by Ganaël Dumreicher
In Kiesler’s Body, the Film Guild Cinema, built by Frederic Kiesler in 1929 in New York, comes to life. Kiesler’s concept of a boundless cinematic space is revived, expanded, and viscerally transformed. The screen itself becomes both the observer and the gateway for the muses of his Magic Architecture theory. Crawling through the space, they explore the early work of their future companion, heralding the architectural revolution that is yet to come in Kiesler’s evolving vision.
Running time: 00:03:00

A Face (Mexico) by Natalia Plascencia
Marietta, dissatisfied with her face, goes to a clinic that promises a perfect nose without surgery. The strange staff will make her doubt.
Running time: 00:15:00

Bubble Bath (Italy) by Giulia Magno
In Bubble Bath, a simple bathtub becomes the stage for an unusual journey through the history of cinema. From noir and western to horror and slapstick comedy, a century of moving images unfolds in a visual meditation on the hidden poetry of everyday life.
Running time: 00:03:00

The Bull (United Kingdom) by Victor Nauwynck
Cyriel and Marie, a childless married couple, live on an isolated farm. Their laborious, monotonous lives are turned upside down when a highly virile bull is brought onto their farm. While Cyriel is determined to impregnate their cows, Marie develops an unlikely attraction to the bull.
Running time: 00:19:59

Wayno baba? (Where is daddy?) (France, Lebanon) by Laura Ghazal
The alert has just been issued. Imminent airstrikes. Nour is desperately trying to reach her husband. She’s waiting for him to leave the apartment and move away from the area with her 9-year-old son. But when the first explosion echoes, she decides to take shelter in the basement.
Running time: 00:02:20

The Catcher (Belgium) by Luka Galle
A lonely young man works for the government as a catcher of invisible birds. Robin, a lonely young man, works for the government as a catcher of invisible birds. They catch the birds preemptively because they assume the birds might be harmful to humans. One day, Robin decides to bring a bird home with him.
Running time: 00:29:57


