This year, the International Children’s Film Festival FILEM’ON will be blowing out ten candles on its birthday cake. This festive edition will play host to a Focus on Poland. On the programme: Peter and the Wolf, the Oscar-winning animated film, and the now-famous Magic Piano – both released by Studio BreakThru – which will be shown with live accompaniment. Also, don’t miss the charming film Zud, from Marta MINOROWICZ.

+++ Find out more about the cine-concerts Peter en de wolf and The Magic piano 
+++ Find out more about the movie Zud 
+++ About the Filem’on Festival

Cine-concerts 
The two screenings of superb productions from the BreakThru studios, accompanied by live music, will provide a veritable ode to Polish cinema. Setting the whole thing to music will be Ensemble Houthandel BE, a company of 5 musicians whose music will provide a perfect finishing touch to the screening of Peter and the Wolf, as Polish pianist Pola LAZAR will breathe life into the delicate music of Magic Piano. 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION 
>>> Cinema Galeries (Galerie de la Reine 26, 1000 Brussels) – see map 
>>> Tuesday 1 November – first screening at 11:00 / second screening at 14:00 
>>> €8 (book a seat via contact@galeries.be) 

Peter and the Wolf 
(Suzie Templeton, UK & PL, 2006, silent film, 32’)
This stop motion film is based on the story Peter and the Wolf, whose music was composed by Sergei Prokofiev. You know the story: Peter lives with his grandfather and his friend the duck. He is destined to discover a fantastical world beyond his garden gate. The film was garlanded with prizes, including one Oscar in 2008 for Best Animated Short Film! Peter and the Wolf has been produced by Se-Ma-For Studios from the Polish city of Łódź. Famous animator Marek Skrobecki was responsable for the scenography.


The Magic Piano
(Martin Clapp, CH, NO & PL, 2011, silent film, 30’)
This 3D silent film depicts puppets performing to the music of Chopin. As for how the story starts, Anna and her cousin ChipChip find an old piano in a pile of rubbish in the streets of Warsaw.
Marek Skrobecki is the creative director of the film.

ZUD
(Marta Minorowicz, DE, MN, 2016, in Mongolian with NL-FR subtitles, 82′)
As his father’s debts pile up, Sukbath, an eleven year old boy, tries to help him. He starts training for a dangerous horse race on a half-wild horse from the Steppes, the prize for which would lift them out of poverty. Strong ties develop between father and son, which are as strong as the links that unite them with horses. This is a story which teaches us about the struggle to hang on to nomadic traditions.
Film will be screened in the presence of the director.


PRACTICAL INFORMATION
>>> Cinema Galeries (Galerie de la Reine 26, 1000 Brussels) – see map
>>> Tuesday 1 November – 16h
>>> €8 | €6 (book a seat via contact@galeries.be)

The International Children’s Film Festival FILEM’ON
The festival traditionally takes place during the autumn holidays. This year, it will be held from 30 October until 6 November in various locations in the capital. The target audience for the festival is chiefly young people, aged 2 years and above. To the approximately one hundred films to be screened, we can add creative workshops and cine-concerts, competitions and audiences with directors. This year, the festival has a musical theme: from the symphony orchestra to the experiemental group, via the sound workshop. 

+++ Find out more ont the site of the festival