’8 Minutes’ in Brussels Short Film Fest selection

Award-winning short 8 Minutes by filmmaker Giorgi Gogichaishvili has been selected for the international competition at this year’s Brussels Short Film Festival, set to launch later this month.

Picked for a program of 62 productions, the apocalyptic science fiction work was selected with the rest of the films from almost 4,500 submissions.

Gogichaishvili’s Manhattan Short Film Festival award-winning film will bring to the Belgian event its story of featured characters over eight minutes — the time needed for the sun’s rays to cease reaching the planet — before a total blackout.

A behind-the-scenes photograph for the production. Photo: 8 Minutes film Facebook page.

Beside the American festival’s prize, 8 Minutes was named Short to the Point Festival’s Best Film for the month of July last year, after also winning a Georgian National Film Centre contest during its production phase.

Other selections for the short were made at the Sydney Indie Film Festival, GoDebut European Film Festival, Hastings Film Fringe and other cinema events.

With screenplay by Gogichaishvili, Zaza Koshkadze and Mari Bekauri, the work was produced by Gega Khmaladze and Magda Datuashvili.

The Brussels Short Film Festival will run between April 25-May 6, with selected films screened at four venues in the city.