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.
Dog and Robot are the best of friends. One fine day, they decide to go to the beach. But by the end of the day, Robot is rusty and completely paralyzed! His friend, not knowing what to do, is forced to abandon him. The seasons go by and Dog tries to make new friends, while Robot has no choice but to dream of better things.
This selection of iconic shorts is a round-up of some of the best experiments by film geniuses, taking us on a journey through time and space, without ever losing sight of the fact that science fiction is the ideal genre for expressing the anxieties of one’s time, here spread over more than a century! A programme not to be missed!
One day, Fox and Hare suddenly realize that Owl has gone missing. While searching for him in the forest with their friends, they come across a large lake that wasn’t there before. Could this new lake have something to do with Owl’s disappearance? A world inspired by the ‘Vos en Haas’ series and the famous books by Sylvia Vanden Heede.
Campus of the China Academy of Art, 1994. As the country opens up to the West, a group of students slowly transition into adulthood, where love and friendships collide with lofty ideals and personal ambitions. Caught between tradition and modernity, they will have to choose who they want to become.
In the forest of Pretty-Wood lives Barnaby, a cheerful, bubbly bear cub. Every day, he likes to stroll and listen to the sweet melodies of the birds. Convinced he can sing like them, he wants to amaze his friends with his voice. Unfortunately, the little music-loving bear sings out of tune!
Un matin à Bois-Joli, Un ours qui vole, Chez le roi des oiseaux (A Morning In Pretty Wood Flying Teddy-Bear At The King Of Birds): three episodes by Tadeusz Wilkosz, Jadwiga Kudrzycka, Krystyna Dobrowolska, Janina Hartwig, Lucjan Dembinski and Teresa Badzian, based on the work of Olga Pushkin.
After years spent sheltered from the world of humans, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and acceptance as normal teenagers through heroic deeds. Their new friend, April O’Neil, helps them to accomplish their first mission: to take on a mysterious crime syndicate and its army of mutants.
Akino is a trainee concierge at a very special department store where all the customers are animals! Whether big or small, furry or feathered, polite or arrogant, Akino works hard to meet all her customers’ demands, even the most surprising, in order to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a real concierge.
The cult duo Rick and Morty require no introduction! For this special screening, Adult Swim invites you to discover (or rediscover) three key episodes of the series focusing on the theme of love in the world of Rick and Morty. But there’s more … You can show off your artistic skills in a brand-new drawing competition on the theme SCI-FI: LOVE & LOSS, with some super fun goodies to be won! Say cheese! Come and take your photo at the [adult swim] photo booth at Marni for the duration of the Festival and immerse yourself in the colourful world of Rick and Morty and other fan favourite Adult Swim shows.
Drink & Draw: Create Your Own Animated Gif! – 22:00
Foyer 1
The concept is simple: drawing together over a drink. For amateurs, enthusiasts or novices eager to discover new things, Drink & Draw celebrates artistic diversity in an informal setting. For this special edition, Grafik will guide you through the process of creating short analogue animations which are transformed into GIFs for you to share with family and friends.
During Anima, Grafik will also be publishing illustrations by animation professionals and film-makers taking part in this edition, available in the festival shop!
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.
Babeldom is a megacity growing at breakneck speed. How will two lovers – one inside the city, the other outside – communicate? This elegy of urban life in the future, a portrait assembled using extracts shot in modern cities, is the sole feature film by the late, talented Paul Bush.
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.
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.
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.
