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.
After his mother dies in a fire, Mahito, an 11-year-old boy, has to leave Tokyo and goes to live in the countryside, in the village where his mother grew up. He moves in with his aunt and father in an old manor house on a huge estate. There he meets a mysterious grey heron …. Hayao Miyazaki’s latest masterpiece.
A collection of thirteen 3-minute animated shorts that combine, in a poetic spirit and with the utmost artistic freedom, thirteen poems with the graphic worlds of young film-makers fresh out of animation school in France. The theme of this tenth and final season is friendship.
Tu es… ! (Pierrette Sartin), Mohammad Babakoohi, FR, 2023, 3’ Une amitié (Charles Vildrac), Arthur Catteau, FR, 2023, 3’ Abri (Esther Granek), Julie Daravan Chea, FR, 2023, 3’ Mon ami le chien (Jean-François Chabrun), Violeta Cortes, FR, 2023, 3’ C’est demain dimanche (Philippe Soupault), Alienor Doublet, FR, 2023, 3’ À Alfred Tattet (Alfred de Musset), Léa Dutter, FR, 2023, 3’ L’Ami choisi (Jacques Charpentrau), Florian Genthial, FR, 2023, 3’ Arbres de Noël (Bernard Lorraine), Thibault Llonch, FR, 2023, 3’ L’Amie Gamma (Andrée Chedid), Katya Mikheeva, FR, 3’ Le Monde (Frédéric Kiesel), Baptiste Ratajski, FR, 2023, 3’ Bouquet (Robert Desnos), Cécile Robineau, FR, 2023, 3’ C’était un bon copain (Robert Desnos), Charlotte Saunders, FR, 2023, 3’ L’Amitié (Andrée Chedid), Léon Verde, FR, 2023, 3’
Alfred is forced to flee and needs a new home. Alphonse has the soul of an artist and spends his days staring at the clouds. A family affected by the floods goes in search of a new home. A programme of three films set in a forest, with poetic colours and whose characters are birds, squirrels and shrews.
Va-t’en, Alfred ! (Go Away, Alfred!), Célia Tisserant and Arnaud Demuynck, FR/BE, 2023, 11’ Tête en l’air (Head in the Coulds), Rémi Durin, FR/BE, 2023, 10’ La Colline aux cailloux (Pebble Hill), Marjolaine Perreten, CH/FR/BE, 2022, 29’
Screening on Friday, March 1st in the presence of Arnaud Demuynck, Rémi Durin et Catherine Pineur.
Welcome to the Renaissance! A time in which artists, scientists, kings and queens are inventing a new world. Among them, an odd character who spends his days drawing strange machines and exploring the wildest ideas, fuelled by dreams of changing the world. Embark on a journey with the greatest genius of all time: Leonardo da Vinci!
Screening on Friday, March 1st in the presence of Marijke Van Kets.
Marcel le Père Noël (et Titi la petite perruche) – 2 – 16:51
International short films for a young audience
Marni
One Christmas Eve, Abdou, a young pizza delivery boy, meets an old man called Marcel who turns out to be … Father Christmas! Worn out and tired, Marcel is worried that he won’t be able to distribute the presents on time, but Abdou and his friends will make it happen! This film is preceded by the fantastic voyage of Jean and Titi, his little budgie.
FR sub EN | 8+
Screening on Monday, February 26th in the presence of Julie Rembauville.
Screening on Friday, March 1st in the presence of Emily Worms.
Janet and Bill, a Smoo and a Smed, live on a distant planet. One fine morning, they fall in love. Unfortunately for them, Smeds and Smoos don’t mix, and what’s worse, they hate each other! A new film by the creators of The Gruffalo and Superworm, based on the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
Abadan, Iran. 1980. The inhabitants are resisting an Iraqi siege. Among them is 14-year-old Omid, who chooses to stay in the city with his grandfather until his elder brother returns from the frontline. Omid finds an abandoned boat in the port of Abadan. Could this be the key to saving his family and friends?
Screening on Friday, March 1st, in the presence of Sepideh Farsi, David Grumbach et Jean Louis Thill.
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.
After a screening of some of his films, Barry will talk candidly about various aspects of his exceptional career in stop-motion animation, spanning forty-five very colourful years. His films have won more than sixty international awards. Barry also worked on Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! and Peter Jackson’s King Kong.
3’ Showreel Screen Play, 1992, 11’ Extrait de Rigoletto, 1993, 7’ Achille, 1995, 11’ Tchaikovsky – An Elegy, 2011, 13’ Making of Tchaikovsky, 4’
A selection of the best international documentary short films. Immerse yourself in the often touching, sometimes cruel, but always courageous everyday lives of these heroes and heroines in the shadows, through animated testimonials inspired by true stories.
OV sub FR NL EN | 16+
Screening of Monday, February 26th in the presence of Olivier Catherin and Ander Iriarte Alvarez.
Shenxiu, a 10-year-old girl, is sucked into the depths of the sea during a family cruise. She discovers the fantastic world of the abyss, an unknown realm populated by amazing creatures. This mysterious place is home to the Deep Sea restaurant run by the iconic Captain Nanhe.
