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Wunderground
Film Festival
2025

Wunderground Film Festival 2025: A Celebration of Imagination and Experiment

May 5 – June 1, 2025 | Verbeke Foundation

The second edition of Wunderground Film Festival unfolded from May 5 to June 1, 2025, at the unique Verbeke Foundation—where art, nature, and experimentation meet in one extraordinary landscape.

 

This year, the festival presented 58 films across a wide range of genres and formats. From the absurd to the poetic, from raw movement to pure image, each film invited the audience into a world where cinema becomes a sensory, emotional, and immersive experience.

 

At Wunderground, stories don’t need to be explained—they are meant to be felt.

“Films are like dreams, only while awake. They have their own logic, their own rhythm. You don’t need to understand them with your head—you need to feel them.”
— Curator & filmmaker Mieke Daneels

 

What Makes Wunderground Unique?

Wunderground is not your typical film festival.
It’s a living dialogue between cinema, contemporary art, and the natural environment.

Films are screened in unconventional spaces—between sculptures, installations, and the wild beauty of the Verbeke Foundation. This setting transforms each screening into an experience that is intimate, surprising, and deeply resonant.

Here, new voices are heard.
New forms are explored.
And risk is embraced as a creative force.

 

2025 Award Winners

Out of an outstanding selection, the jury (including curators Tineke Schuurmans & Marie Verboven of Verbeke Foundation) selected

the following award-winning works:

  • 🎬 Video Installations – Move the Way You Want

  • 🎬 Narrative Short Films – A Mother Goes to the Beach

  • 🎬 Bio-Art Films – Spring of a Dancer

  • 🎬 Experimental Feature Films – The Sea

  • 🎬 Documentary Shorts – Georgie & Pappas Poppy (shared award)

  • 🎬 Experimental Shorts – Furrie

  • 🎬 Belgian Artists – The Currency of Time

  • 🎬 Music Videos – Aging Together & Suas (shared award)

  • 🎬 Off On Selection – Kissing Ralph

 

All selected filmmakers received an Official Selection Goodie Bag (valued at €500), including a Tarkovsky Grant, participation in Cannes Film Week, and additional distribution and networking opportunities.

 

Wunderground Lives On

While the 2025 edition has come to a close, the ideas, images, and voices continue to resonate.
They echo in the minds of audiences, inspire new creations, and deepen the relationship between film and art.

 

 See the atmosphere
Relive the experience through photos, filmmaker reactions, and behind-the-scenes glimpses via our channels:
Instagram | Facebook

 

Call for Submissions

Wunderground is always open to bold work.
We’re looking for films that experiment, explore, and imagine, films that dream.

Got something visionary?


Stay tuned for our 2026 Open Call.

We can’t wait to see what you’re working on.

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