Nicolas Provost's Stardust has been selected for the 57th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (5-10 May). The film will screen in the Award Winners of Other Festivals section, confirming its strong fest track record. Parallel Worlds, by Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter, is also scheduled for a market screening at Oberhausen.
After its world premiere in Venice last year, Stardust was selected for competition at both the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Fest and the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it won the Tiger Award for Best Short. The film is the second part of the Plot Point trilogy in which Provost investigates the boundaries of fiction and reality by filming everyday life with a hidden camera and turning this reality into a fiction film by using cinematic and narrative codes from Hollywood film language.
Parallel Worlds by Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter is to receive a market screening in Oberhausen. By way of some simple diagrams and a number of fragments from films and documentaries, Parallel Worlds not only demonstrates the existence of parallel worlds, but at the same time proves that it is possible to place oneself within them. Thys and de Gruyter live and work in Brussels and have been working together since the mid-1980s.
Stardust was made possible with support from the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), among other funders.