Filem'On -
International Film Festival For Young Audiences
25.10 > 04.11 Brussels & Ghent
The international film festival for young audiences Filem’On is holding his 11th edition this year. During ten days, we’ll be showing unique films to schools, families and associations in various theatres and cultural houses of Brussels & Ghent More than 130 films, in all formats and of all genres, for children and teens between 2 and 16, will be programmed in our competition.
Filem’On has organized the 4th European Exchange in Brussels with 8 new and inspiring projects. This Exchange stimulates film and media literacy for kids and youngsters from different backgrounds who come fromall over the world.. The Exchange this year will especially focus on innovative projects which serve to buildbridges between the “old” and the “new”.
Bringing together young audiences is at the heart of the Filem’On festival. Therefore, Filem’On will also present projects that were created with strong European and cross border partnerships.
With the ECFA Doc Award, ECFA gives special attention to European quality documentaries produced for a young audience, promoting this specific genre towards audiences and festivals. http://www.ecfaweb.org/ The ECFA Doc Award was launched in 2016, in cooperation with doxs!, the young audience festival within the Duisburger Filmwoche (Germany The Filem'On festival in Brussels is participating for the first time this year !
The festival will take place from the 25th of October until the 64h of November 2017 and is supported by VAF, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Centre de cinéma, VGC, Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Brussels Region Imago, City of Brussels, COCOF, Polish IInstitute Brussels, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Brussels & German Embassy Brussels
