A couple of days after BUT Film Festival 2025 was held, new festival director Ryan Oomen made an appearance on De Budget Slagers Podcast. The conversation was held in Dutch/Flemish.

#38 BUTrospective met festivaldirecteur Ryan
"Ryan, festivaldirecteur van het BUT Film Festival in Breda kwam langs in Genk en het resultaat was een drie en een half uur durende conversatie over alles wat de 2025 editie van BUT weer een onvergetelijke ervaring heeft gemaakt."

Luister het hier terug:

Read a special interview (in Dutch and English available) here: https://fastforwardfilm.be/?p=48659

Photo by Diana Abreu

The films of Brazilian director Rodrigo Aragão have been a staple of BUTFF’s film program since the very beginning. His unmistakable style — a potent mix of raw horror, social critique, and magical realism — perfectly aligns with what the average BUTFF-goer craves. But who exactly is this cult filmmaker?

Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson

Step into the neon haze of fractured reality, where flesh meets circuit, and consciousness is just another program waiting to crash. Virtual Insanity is not just a theme—it’s a virus, a mindworm, crawling through the fiber-optic veins of a collapsing world. The lines between real and unreal blur like static on a dying screen. Are you awake, or are you trapped in the infinite loops of someone else's digital hallucination?

The volunteers are the heart and the soul of the festival.

Join us and make this year extra special. Help scan tickets or make sandwiches, decorate the square or run the bar. Every help is welcome!

To register just go to volunteers

Go to progam to see what’s on the screens this year.

OPEN CALL.

For a performance spectacle event on Thursday evening, August 28, as part of the BUTFF – B-movie, Underground & Trash Film Festival, in the theater hall of Nieuwe Veste, St. Janstraat, Breda.

We are looking for Performers with a passion for the GROTESQUE, and especially UNDERGROUND and experimental PERFORMANCE: SIGN UP NOW send an email to performance @ butff.nl

>>LEES HIER DE VLAAMSE VERSIE<<

"Trizombie: Heroically Navigating Zombieland with an Extra Chromosome!" by Davy Bielen.

On Saturday, August 31 at 11:30 AM, a new Flemish zombie film will be shown exclusively at the BUT Film Festival under the ‘Bloody Belgium’ segment.

>> ENGLISH VERSION READ HERE <<

Een Bloody Belgium BUT-Film Festival presentatie: "Het Potlood is blijkbaar dan ook Machtiger dan het Zwaard: De Vlaamse Thriller die je Hersens Binnen Dringt!", door Davy Bielen.

A popular part of the festival are the short films, which consist almost entirely of films we received via submissions. The short blocks are a high dose of BUT-worthy film productions in which anything from high art (video art & experimental films) to low art (banal sleaze & blood). 

There’s something for everyone: over-the-top gore, absurd humour, alienating trash, unrestrained creativity, and a large dose of films with a heightened BUT factor. In other words: all the news BUT has to offer in terms of shorts in one place!