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!
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!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’
