Courts Mais Trash

Friday, 31 January 2025 until Sunday, 09 February 2025

For its 20th edition, COURTS MAIS TRASH festival is once again joining forces with QUEER MAIS TRASH to kick off the film season in Brussels. From January 31 to February 9, 2025, this crucial event for independent, underground, political, and offbeat cinema will for the first time take place at Espace Magh, a couple of steps away from the iconic Manneken-Pis.

To mark this symbolic anniversary, the College of Mayor and City Councillors have approved the creation of a unique Manneken Mais Trash costume for the Manneken-Pis statue. A reception will celebrate this momentous occasion a few hours before the official launch of the festival. With over 7,500 festival-goers expected, screenings, school sessions, festive evenings, a cinema-concert and professional events, COURTS MAIS TRASH and QUEER MAIS TRASH are once again set to be major highlights of Brussels’ artistic scene. More than 150 films will be screened, and over 50 filmmakers will share their work with the audience.

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