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.
The year is 2200. Aline Ruby, a stubborn private detective, and Carlos Rivera, an android replica of her partner who has been dead for five years, set off on a race against time through the streets of Noctis, the Martian capital. Their mission: to find Jun Chow, a missing cybernetics student. A captivating film noir with a futuristic plot.
Discover the creative process of the feature film on Monday, February 26th at 5:00 PM, during the Making of Mars Express, as part of Futuranima.
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 a powerful storm, 11-year-old Michael is shipwrecked on a desert island and must learn to survive on his own, just like Robinson Crusoe. Slowly, he starts to feel another presence on the island. He learns that the world is home to unimaginable danger but also immense beauty. An adaptation of the much-loved English novel of the same title.
Rosa is a little fairy who has always lived alone in her rosebush. Adventure is clearly not for her. But when Silk, 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!
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
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.
When the butcher Tuitjes takes on his Italian rival Smakkerelli in the sausage competition of the The Society for Meat Products from Fresh Pigs, the whole village is in a panic: the loser will have to leave the village forever … But before finding out who becomes the sausage king, mind the puffer fish and geese and set off on a family adventure!
NL sub EN | 6+
Discover more about the creative process of the short film 'King Sausage' on Thursday, February 29 at 2:30 PM, during the Making of Koning Worst & Knor 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.
Following in the footsteps of his older brother, who was a famous local basketball player from an early age, Ryota gets hooked on basketball and plays for his high-school team, Shohoku. In the second round of the inter-high championship, Ryota, inspired by his late brother’s dream, takes on the defending champions, Sannoh High School, with his team.
More than just a compilation of superb LGBTQIA+ films, this programme is a true celebration of queer pride! Let yourself be enthralled by all these stories, animated by live performances from the Cabaret Mademoiselle artists, with guest stars Daisy Superbitch, Chéri·e Chapstick and our magnificent MC, La Veuve.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Anima and the Spirou comics are a match made in heaven! Join us for informal live shows with the comic’s artists who, through graphic tutorials and playful challenges, will reveal their secrets and whip out their pencils to illustrate topics chosen by the audience.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Somewhere on the internet there’s a 250 km² space in which individuals form a community and take part in a simulated survival game. Posing as avatars, a film crew penetrate the site and come into contact with the players. Who are these inhabitants? Are they really playing?
Screenings in the presence of Quentin L’helgoualc’h.
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.
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.
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 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.
Marcel le Père Noël (et Titi la petite perruche) – 2 – 14:51
International short films for a young audience
Flagey - Studio 4
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.
The year is 2200. Aline Ruby, a stubborn private detective, and Carlos Rivera, an android replica of her partner who has been dead for five years, set off on a race against time through the streets of Noctis, the Martian capital. Their mission: to find Jun Chow, a missing cybernetics student. A captivating film noir with a futuristic plot.
Discover the creative process of the feature film on Monday, February 26th at 5:00 PM, during the Making of Mars Express, as part of Futuranima.
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.
Following in the footsteps of his older brother, who was a famous local basketball player from an early age, Ryota gets hooked on basketball and plays for his high-school team, Shohoku. In the second round of the inter-high championship, Ryota, inspired by his late brother’s dream, takes on the defending champions, Sannoh High School, with his team.
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.
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.
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.
International student short films out of competition.
This brand-new category aims to foster and valorize young talent from all over Europe. With their different sensibilities, they offer us an array of singular visions this year. Topics such as affection within the family, stress at school, the obsession with thinness and the questioning of tradition are all on the agenda of this first edition.
OV sub EN | 12+
Screening on Monday, February 26th in the presence of Cheyenne Goudswaard.
Screening on Sunday, March 3rd in the presence of Nadja Tanno, Hajar Mehrani et Narjes Mohammadi.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Screening on Wednesday, February 28th in the presence of Mascha Halberstad.
After a powerful storm, 11-year-old Michael is shipwrecked on a desert island and must learn to survive on his own, just like Robinson Crusoe. Slowly, he starts to feel another presence on the island. He learns that the world is home to unimaginable danger but also immense beauty. An adaptation of the much-loved English novel of the same title.
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.
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.
Are you the kind of person who starts tapping their foot as soon as they hear a note of music? Then this programme is for you! Featuring the latest music videos and films that have captivated us, Watch & Dance will be presented by the incredible Raman Djafari, who directed the video clip of ‘Cold Heart’ by Dua Lipa and Elton John no less!
The year is 2200. Aline Ruby, a stubborn private detective, and Carlos Rivera, an android replica of her partner who has been dead for five years, set off on a race against time through the streets of Noctis, the Martian capital. Their mission: to find Jun Chow, a missing cybernetics student. A captivating film noir with a futuristic plot.
Discover the creative process of the feature film on Monday, February 26th at 5:00 PM, during the Making of Mars Express, as part of Futuranima.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Po is preparing to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but he needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. For this, he will have to train a new kung fu practitioner and will encounter a villain called the Chameleon, who conjures up villains from the past.
Po is preparing to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but he needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. For this, he will have to train a new kung fu practitioner and will encounter a villain called the Chameleon, who conjures up villains from the past.
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
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.
The long-awaited announcement of the big winners of this edition, chosen by the official juries, the public and the partners: best international short film, best Belgian short film, best feature film.
The awards ceremony will be held for the first time in Studio 1. Limited seating capacity.
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’
After attending his first live jazz concert, Dai decides to change his life overnight. Hypnotized by this music he knows nothing about, the young student throws himself heart and soul into learning the saxophone and jazz becomes his new passion. Will he succeed in becoming a great musician?
International student short films out of competition.
This brand-new category aims to foster and valorize young talent from all over Europe. With their different sensibilities, they offer us an array of singular visions this year. Topics such as affection within the family, stress at school, the obsession with thinness and the questioning of tradition are all on the agenda of this first edition.
OV sub EN | 12+
Screening on Monday, February 26th in the presence of Cheyenne Goudswaard.
Screening on Sunday, March 3rd in the presence of Nadja Tanno, Hajar Mehrani et Narjes Mohammadi.
After attending his first live jazz concert, Dai decides to change his life overnight. Hypnotized by this music he knows nothing about, the young student throws himself heart and soul into learning the saxophone and jazz becomes his new passion. Will he succeed in becoming a great musician?
