Festival veteran and recent Oscar winner Victoria Warmerdam will be honored with an Artist in Focus program. And Douwe Dijkstra will make his big comeback to the festival, for an extensive Artist in Focus program, including a masterclass and an open-air installation.

The Dutch festival Go Short also presents two remarkable programs featuring promising Dutch talent. Go Short Docs explores documentary love that remained unintentionally online, the unspoken stories of a family album, and the impact of geopolitical injustice on ordinary people. Go Short Youth is a blend of animation and live-action fiction, about growing up and being young, about love in a juvenile detention center, and procrastination that leads to desserts. Go Short artistic coordinator Mathieu Janssen will also be part of the jury and will introduce the Go Short Docs program.

Throughout the festival program both in and out of competition recent Dutch shorts are also well represented. Class by Rumi Kaul (prod. Black Bee Productions) and Marleen by Jop Leuven (Prod. Beau Travail Film) are selected for the European competition. New City, a graduation film for KASK by Dutch director Sebald van der Waal, is competing in the Flemish competition.

Selected out of competition are:

Animation Nations
The Refusers

Shorts program – Kitchen Chaos
Sous Vide

Shorts for Kids
House Trap
Kukeleku

Best of European Film Awards
City of Poets
I Believe the Portrait Saved Me
looking she said I forget

Oscar Shorts
Wander to Wonder
I’m Not a Robot
Beautiful Men

For more information about the Leuven Short Film Festival click here.