10am-1pm
Tell your own animal story (8-12 years)
Workshop with Mostafa Benkerroum

Turn yourself into an animal.
Whether you are an elephant or an ant, together we put our animal heads together and invent our own animal story.
Exciting, funny, moving, dangerous?
Play along and tell us.

13:30-14:15
STRIKE (8+)
visual music theatre by and with Mirthe Dokter and Tim Hammer

At STRIKE musical theatre makers Tim Hammer and Mirthe Dokter take a closer look at the fighting spirit of animals.
Fighting deer, frolicking lions, biting dogs and scratching cats, we all know them.
But did you know that even giraffes can put up a crackling fight and that under the fluff of the cute koala
sits an aggressive screamer?

14h30-15h00
Mini Animation Short Film Festival (12+)
Welcome to the fascinating animation world of animator Roman Klochkov.
Free

ADMINISTRATORS (2006)
6:47 min
Rabbit Egor's house is on fire.
He asks for urgent help but is sent from pillar to post by the administration.
With this Kafkaesque debut film, animator Roman Klochkov managed to win several Belgian and international awards.

CHER AMI - JENNY (2017)
5:13 min
A harrowing, true story of the elephant Jenny who is deployed in a war she herself never chose.
With music by Ghent band Yuko.

FIDELIO (2020)
15:48 min
Gripping short film based on Ludwig von Beethoven's opera.

In a nightmare, Leonore relives the violent moment in which her friend Florestan,
beaten up by Pizarro's soldiers and imprisoned.
If she ever wants to see him alive again, she will have to find a way to free him...

Viewing guide: these films contain scenes of violence and discrimination.

3pm-6pm
Make your own animation film
Workshop facilitator: animator Roman Klochkov

Picture by picture, shot by shot, you create your own universe in the form of a short animated film.
An emotional story or a bold experiment? An expression of frustration or a poetic expression?
Or still prefer a punishing music video?
Make the viewer laugh, think or shed a tear? The choice is yours.

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