A modern parable about two young men who made very different choices in life. Karim and Nassim live in the same neighborhood. One works with kids, the other deals drugs. One is pious, the other is decadent. Their paths will inevitably lead to conflict.
Info
| Title | Brothers |
|---|---|
| Original title | Broeders |
| Original version | Dutch, Arabic |
| Status | Completed |
| Category | Shorts |
| Year of production | 2011 |
Credits
| Cast | Nabil Mallat, Moraad El Kasmi, Werner De Smedt, Junior Mthombeni, Manou Kersting, Elisabeth Puglia |
|---|---|
| Screenplay | Adil El Arbi |
| Photography | Robrecht Heyvaert |
| Editing | Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah |
| Music | Jonas Meersmans |
Technical specs
| Running time film | 23' |
|---|---|
| Release format | RED HD |
| Aspect ratio | 2.35 |
| Sound format | Joeri Verspecht & The greenroom |
| Colour | Colour |
Partners
Awards
Flanders International Film Festival Ghent (Best Short); International Short Film Festival Leuven 2011 (Audiance Award); VAF Wildcard 2011
Short Cinema celebrated at Leuven Short Fest
The 17th edition of the Leuven International Short Film Festival (3-10 December) again highlights talented short cinema from Flanders. With a strong Flemish short film competition, the VAF Wildcards and a number of professional activities, Leuven is for a short time the epicenter of short cinema in Flanders.
2011 has been a strong year for Flemish shorts with the Cannes Jury Award for Wannes Destoop’s Swimsuit 46 and the Grand Prize in Valladolid for Kevin Meul’s The Extraordinary Life of Rocky. Now the IKL fest has selected 20 short films from promising directors who may give us a new wave of international Awards in the future.
VAF Wildcards 2011 announced
The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) has once again awarded five promising graduation filmmakers with a VAF Wildcard. This year’s winners are Kenneth Mercken’s The Letter and Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah’s Brothers in the fiction category, Kenneth Michiels’s Twenty-One + Seven and Jeremy De Ryckere’s The Heir for Documentary and Boris Sverlow’sShattered Past for Animation.
The VAF Wildcards are aimed at giving young filmmaking talent a chance to embark on a first professional project by providing a (starting) budget of €40,000 or €60,000, plus a professional coach. Now in its seventh edition, the VAF Wildcards have quickly become the most important awards in Flanders.
Last edited on 21 February 2012