Courts Mais Trash

We are an annual independent and underground short film festival based in Brussels, Belgium, January 24 till February 2, 2025 ). The festival has been running since 2005, increasing its success every year ! Around 7000 visitors come to attend our events during this week. We select over 100 short films and invite more than 40 filmmakers from all around the world.

The idea for Courts Mais Trash originated from a lack of a proper platform for alternative short films to be screened. Films that fail to meet conservative cinematographic standards are mostly snubbed by festival programmers and legitimate audio-visual venues. We love originality and creativity, cheapness and Beauty ! Trash is often perceived in the provocative sense of the word, we also use it in the alternative, political, cheap and offbeat way.

Since 2019 Courts Mais Trash declines as Queer Mais Trash, its non binary version focusing on LGBTQIA+ communities, in 2025 Queer Mais Trash will take place on Wednesday 24, 25, 26 of January at the same venue.

We also have "The Female Trouble" Section : a feminist program by female directors focusing on the inequalities women face in various professional fields, from entrepreneurship to the academic world, sports and culture.

Every category of film will be projected, from experimental to animation, through video clips and documentaries. No genre is left unexploited.To avoid any possible confusion: the screenings are adults only, except for screenings that are specially targeted for scolar audience +15 years old.

Do you wish to participate in the biggest blowout alternative, underground and independent cinema has to offer, then act now !

The audience will vote and give out the following awards:

• the best national movie award (500 euros offered by he Belgian national lottery );
• the best international movie award (500 euros offered by the festival);
• the best movie on a budget award (500 euros offered by the festival);
• the best Belgian student movie award (500 euros offered by SABAM )
• the best queer movie award (500 euros offered by the festival)

A grand total of 2500€ !

2025 LGBT films...

Les Reines du Drame

Gender Reveal

Mo Matton
CA 2024 12’32
VOFR+EN–STFR

You can’t get what you want
but you can get me

Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh
NL 2024 13’00
VOEN–STFR

5 BALLES

Anöuk Tikoudane-Trégan
FR 2024 25’00
VOFR–STEN

Trailer

Pigeons are dying, when the city is on fire

Stavros Markoulakis
GR 2023 21’00
VOGR–STEN