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.
Capelito, the little forest mushroom, has the all makings of a genius: absent-minded, creative and full of mischief, he finds a solution to every problem. In these new episodes, his little magic nose is put to work in the arts, making him a film-maker, dancer, singer – in short, an all-round artist.
Capelito Joins the Dance, Rodolfo Pastor, ES, 5’ Capelito with His Head in the Clouds, Rodolfo Pastor, ES, 5’ Capelito, the Watery Tenor!, Rodolfo Pastor, ES, 5’ Capelito, the Painter in Full Flight, Rodolfo Pastor, ES, 5’ Capelito Fishes for a Sculpture, Rodolfo Pastor, ES, 5’ Capelito, the Troubadour, Rodolfo Pastor, ES, 5’ Capelito, the Chef-Writer, Rodolfo Pastor, ES, 5’ Capelito Makes a Film, Rodolfo Pastor, ES, 5’
Saddle up! The Anima festival will be the meeting point for Pro Velo’s first guided tour of the season. Grab your bike and pedal alongside the talented Rocío Alvarez! Immerse yourself in her world as you follow a route lined with frescoes painted by the artist.
Saturday 2 March, from 14:00 to 16:00 Meeting point: Place Sainte-Croix Price: Free of charge Registration required on www.provelo.org
Nina is convinced there’s a treasure hidden in the factory where her dad used to work! But with a scary dog and his master guarding the premises, getting in won’t be easy. Fortunately, Nina is not alone. With her best friend Mehdi, she comes up with an incredible plan! And there’s a little hedgehog with a few ideas up its sleeve.
Cattle Hill farm is in crisis. Nothing grows any more. Fortunately, the inventor Albert Einswine has a revolutionary nano-seed that can solve the problem. But aboard his super train lab, his priceless invention is stolen. Klara, Gaute and detective Agatha Christensen set out to unmask the thief.
Sylvie Delplanque is an all-round artist, musician, make-up artist, animator and illustrator. She will be at the festival on weekends to put make-up on the faces (or arms) of both young and old, according to your whim and her inspiration!
Ages 3 and above.
Schedule: Saturday 24/02 from 15:00 to 21:30 Sunday 25/02 from 15:00 to 18:30
Saturday 2/03 from 15:00 to 21:30 Sunday 3/03 from 15:00 to 18:30
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.
If the idea of spending the holidays with your grandma makes your skin crawl; if you think children have the right to have cool parents, to act silly and to play all the time; if swim class at school isn’t your thing; or if you think that kisses are a bit yucky – then you’re going to love this programme and you’re in for a few laughs!
FR sub EN | 6+
Screening on Wednesday, February 28th in the presence of Dina Velikovskaya.
Screening on Saturday, March 2nd in the presence of Matteo Salanave Piazza.
Nina is convinced there’s a treasure hidden in the factory where her dad used to work! But with a scary dog and his master guarding the premises, getting in won’t be easy. Fortunately, Nina is not alone. With her best friend Mehdi, she comes up with an incredible plan! And there’s a little hedgehog with a few ideas up its sleeve.
The planet Ygam is home to giant androids called Traags. They keep tiny human beings they call Oms. But one day, the Om of the young girl Tiwa outsmarts her and triggers a revolt … An undisputed classic of science fiction, restored to mark its 50th anniversary.
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.
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.
In the tradition of this century-old genre, the 2024 edition will as always be offering a host of films on interplanetary travel, sentient robots and alien ecosystems, filled with artistic references and allusions, and the desire to blow our minds with a vision of the future.
OV sub FR NL EN | 16+
Screening on Sunday, February 25th in the presence of Yi Le.
Screening on Saturday, March 2nd in the presence of Franck Dion.
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.
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.
