Want to get to know Steven, Koen, Bart and the other characters in the animated short Beautiful Men by Nicolas Keppens? In this exhibition you can discover the handmade stop-motion characters in their settings, designed and created by Nicolas and the Pedri Animation team.
Exhibition in Foyer 3 – 1st floor Open daily, half an hour before the first screening of the day until 22:30 Free admission
This exhibition presents some of the robots that Jan De Coster has built over the past decade. They have already travelled to museums and festivals from Peru to Beijing by way of Moscow. This is the first time they are being shown in the same room. They look forward to meeting you and charming you with their pretty little faces!
Free and open throughout the festival. For the whole family.
Rosa is a little fairy who has always lived alone in her rosebush. Adventure is clearly not for her. But when Satin, her new best friend, is kidnapped by an evil stone troll, Rose has no choice but to overcome her fear and embark on a dangerous journey to the Black Mountains to save her!
Inés, a Spanish artist living in India, stumbles across Sultana’s Dream, a sci-fi short story written in 1905 by Rokeya Hossain. It describes Ladyland, a utopian land ruled by women. Fascinated by this story, Inés embarks on a journey across India in search of the only place where women can live in peace.
Juliette and Carmen, two sisters aged 4 and 8, discover a secret passage to the world of The Kingdom of the Winds, their favourite book. Transformed into cats and separated, they will have to show audacity and daring to find each other and return to the real world. With the help of the singer Selma, they will take on Sirocco, ruler of the winds and storms.
Screening on Thursday, February 29th at 9 PM in the presence of Pablo Pico.
Discover more about the film's music with composer Pablo Pico on Saturday, March 2nd at 1:30 PM during the Masterclass Music in Animation, as part of Futuranima.
Paulette feels bad for punishing her daughter Linda and will do anything to make it up to her – even prepare chicken with peppers, despite being a terrible cook! But where can you get chicken during a general strike? Mother and daughter go on a quest for chicken that takes them from a henhouse to a watermelon truck by way of an overzealous policeman and an allergic truck driver.
Screening on Sunday, February 25th at 2:00 PM in the presence of Sébastien Laudenbach and Chiara Malta.
Discover the creative process of the film on Monday, February 26th at 2:30 PM, during the Making of Linda veut du poulet !, as part of Futuranima.
First, there’s a slide. Broken. Blocked. Prohibited. Then, an encounter between a child and a musician. As the child cries about his broken slide, the musician takes him on a journey and the exploration begins! A show for the whole family, told in song with a giant pop-up book.
A rhinoceros on a date, a big box full of surprises, a buffalo celebrating his birthday, little girls taking flight, a dreamy monkey, a mother working hard for her children – what stories! This dialogue-free programme is specially designed for younger cinemagoers.
No dial | 3+
Screening on Wednesday, February 28th in presence of Sonja Rohleder.
Mack is the overprotective father of a family of ducks living in a small New England pond. But his wife Pam is keen to shake things up and introduce their two children, Dax and Gwen, to the world. A successful cross between the world of Benjamin Renner (The Big Bad Fox) and Illumination (Minions).
Adam, a 15-year-old teenager, has a strange quirk: whenever someone mocks or makes a negative comment about his body, his body changes to match that comment. The accumulation of physical changes only makes his already difficult life more complicated.
To be a woman, a mother, or to choose not to be one; to switch apartments or boyfriends; to dare to fall in love or run away; to be assertive, to survive, to thrive … These are important recurring themes in cinema today, and these female visions now have their own programme, balancing seriousness with levity, navigating between empathy and comfort, to offer us an enriching experience.
OV sub FR NL EN | 16+
Screening of Tuesday, February 27th in the presence of Margherita Giusti and Romain Blanc-Tailleur.
Screening of Saturday, March 2nd in the presence of Margherita Giusti.
In a nineteenth-century Polish village, Jagna, a young woman who is promised to a wealthy landowner, rebels. As she takes her destiny into her own hands, rejecting tradition and upsetting the established order, a barrage of anger is unleashed … A film that combines live action with more than 40,000 handmade oil paintings.
Screening on Tuesday, February 27th at 7:00 PM in the presence of Hugh Welchman.
Discover the creative process of the film on Wednesday, February 28th at 5:00 PM, during the Making of The Peasants, as part of Futuranima.
Kokoro is a shy schoolgirl. One day, the mirror in her bedroom begins to sparkle. The moment the young girl touches it, she is transported to a formidable fairytale castle, with six other teenagers. There, a mysterious little girl in a wolf mask sets them a challenge. Keiichi Hara’s latest film.
Juanjo and Miquel are teenagers living in Barcelona in 1991. Juanjo is asthmatic and his parents are overprotective to the point of being stifling. Miquel grew up without a father and his mother tries to cope, not always succeeding. The two youngsters find refuge in their friendship and love of heavy metal. A journey into the heart of teenage headbanging, Catalan-style.
In the age of space exploration, Romi and her lover George flee a devastated Earth in search of a new world to call their home, settling on the planet Eden17. However, it turns out to be a desolate planet, unsuitable for human habitation. A successful adaptation of the world of the cult manga Phoenix by the great Osamu Tezuka.
