Filmblik Festival: jeugd- & familiefilms + workshops
Filmblik Festival returns to Lumière this autumn! Come and enjoy the best youth and family films, and take part in a range of exciting workshops.
The autumn holidays are just around the corner, and that can only mean one thing: the Filmblik Festival is coming! From 15 to 19 October, we’ll take you on a journey through the history of cinema. From simple tricks with light and shadow to fascinating devices that bring still images to life: discover how the magic of film first began.
Looking for a bite to eat?
In our restaurant, you can decorate and enjoy your own pancake (€6,50) or choose from the items on our children's menu.
Programme
Workshop: Scope Or Trope? – Create Your Own Film Illusion (ages 7–12)
More infoIn this workshop you’ll create moving images without a camera and design your own phenakistiscope: a magical spinning disc that brings your drawings to life.
Even before cinema existed, people found ways to make drawings move. In this workshop, children will create a phenakistiscope: a disc on which separate images combine into an animation. By drawing and spinning their own disc, they experience how movement arises from still images – without a camera. This way, we discover the origins of film.
Practical information
- Date: Wednesday 15 October
- Time: 14:00 – 15:30
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Price: €7.00 per participant
- Location: Foyer
- Max. participants: 20
- Supervision: Parents and guardians are welcome to stay and watch, or enjoy a drink in our Grand Café during the workshop.
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Workshop: Set The Scene (ages 6 to 12)
More infoBuild your own film set and discover how colours can make a scene cheerful, exciting, or even a little tense.
This workshop is all about colour. Together we will build a small film set and explore how colours influence what you see and feel. We’ll discover how colour can evoke joy, tension or sadness. By experimenting with different colours in sets and props, we’ll playfully learn how filmmakers create atmosphere and meaning. Film is much more than moving images alone – colour also helps to tell the story.
Practical information
- Date: Thursday 16 October
- Time: 14:00 – 15:30
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Price: €7.00 per person
- Location: Foyer
- Max. participants: 20
- Supervision: Parents and guardians are welcome to stay and watch, or enjoy a drink in our Grand Café during the workshop.
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Workshop: That Sounds Like A Movie!
More infoHave you ever wondered how the strange sounds in animated films are made? In this workshop you’ll discover the world of film sound and learn the tricks of a unique craft: foley.
The rustle of crumpled paper, the growl of a capybara, the shot of a rifle – in films they sound real. But did you know many of these sounds are created in completely different ways? In this workshop you’ll discover the basics of foley: making film sounds with everyday objects. You’ll experiment yourself and learn how to layer surprising sounds onto existing images.
Practical information
- Date: Friday 17 October
- Time: 14:00 – 16:00
- Duration: 120 minutes
- Price: €7.00 per participant
- Location: The Lab
- Max. participants: 25
- Supervision: Parents and guardians are welcome to stay and watch, or enjoy a drink in our Grand Café during the workshop.
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Workshop: Make It Move! (7+)
More infoIn this workshop, hand-drawn illustrations come to life with 2D stop-motion, showing how individual images come together to form a film.
In this workshop, we will draw our own characters and bring them to life frame by frame in a short film. This way, we discover how separate images create a story and how patience and creativity can make something come alive. A playful finale to our film journey!
P.S. Those who previously attended the Set the Scene-workshop can choose 3D and work with their own toys or cuddly animals.
Practical information
- Date: Saturday 18 October
- Time: 14:00 – 15:30
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Price: €7.00 per participant
- Location: Foyer
- Max. participants: 12
- Supervision: Parents and guardians are welcome to stay and watch, or enjoy a drink in our Grand Café during the workshop.
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Grand Prix of Europe (5+)
More infoThe little mouse Edda has a big dream: she wants to race in the Grand Prix. When her hero drops out of the race, Edda gets a chance she never expected. Can she make her dream come true?
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Hopper 2: Het Geheim van de Marmot (6+) (NL)
More infoBelgian animated film about Hopper and his friends who set out on a quest to find a legendary marmot that can help save Hopper’s fellow kind.
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Het Lieve Spookje Elli (6+)
More infoAnimated film about a homeless little ghost looking for a family. She finds shelter with the eccentric inhabitants of a ghost train, but that turns out to be a spooky affair.
The little ghost Elli is in trouble: her uncle Chamberlain has been kidnapped by mysterious drones and the old haunted house where she used to live with him is no longer habitable. During her search for a new family, she comes across an old ghost train in an amusement park. It turns out that a group of peculiar monsters live there. She devises an adventurous plan to free her uncle with the help of the motley crew of monsters.
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Koning van de Zwervers (7+)
More infoFamily film about an eleven-year-old girl who thinks her wandering father has a vivid imagination, but discovers that he really does see strange things, and that they are not always pleasant.
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Dancing Queen in Hollywood
More infoA family film in which young Mina travels to Hollywood with her dance crew, only to discover that behind the glitter and glamour lie some tough choices.
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Dora Mermaid Special
More infoDive into adventure with Dora and her underwater friends!
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