Bifff Participatifff

education activities & Screenings
the guidance of three experienced filmmakers

Under the title BIFFF PARTICIPATIFFF, the festival is organizing several cultural participation and education activities. A first section consists of workshops in which three groups of youngsters from Brussels with no or little film experience make a fantastic short film under the guidance of three experienced filmmakers: Joanne Mitchell, Stéphanie Joalland and Anders Klarlund. They can also count on the help of Belgian special effects specialists such as Squidlab and the HELHa GC Academy. The results of the workshops will be screened at BIFFF on Thursday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. We’ll also screen two shorts made by young Uruguayans in the context of a workshop that the BIFFF and BIF Market co-organized with ACAU and Air Europa.

Then, secondly, we’re also putting together three special screenings aimed at audiences that are more difficult to reach. For example, during our Born After… Scary Movie Day, on Thursday, April 10, we will host a screening of 2073. This docu-fiction paints a bleak picture of the future in which the seeds of evil – given current events – are being planted today. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia, three associations – Rise for Climate, BRAL and 11.11.11 – and those with hopefully still the most future ahead of them: youngsters! A second screening will take place in collaboration with the festival Elles Tournent. On Friday, April 11, we will co-present Fury, followed by a panel discussion on the world seen through the eyes of women. And we don’t forget our senior audience with the screening of The Grandson on Tuesday, April 15, followed by a conference on cyber security, in collaboration with the Brussels Ouderenplatform, Samen Toujours and Digibeet.

2073

Conversation Future lab (with Asif Kapadia, BRAL, 11.11.11 and Rise for Climate) ENG

Location: The Village
Time: 17:00-19:00
Inscription via this email address: projects@bifff.net years 16-25

2073

2073 / Asif Kapadia

85’ / UK / 2024

English, Sub FR – NL

Furia

Panel (with actress Angela Cervantes) FR

Location: The Village
Time: 18:00-19:00
Free access no ticket needed

Fury

LA FURIA / Gemma Blasco

107’ / Spain / 2024

Spanish, Catalan, Sub EN – FR – NL

The Grandson

Conference about Cyber fraud (By Sara van Zandycke) NL-FR

Location: Screening + conference in Ciné 2
Time: 16:45-17:45
Free acces with ticket

Grandson (the)

AZ UNOKA / Kristóf Deák / 120’

Hungary / 2022

Hungarian, Sub EN – FR – NL

Joanne Mitchell

Joanne Mitchell has more than one string on her bow: producer, director, screenwriter, actress, stage actress and radio voice… She started her career on the little screen with British soap opera EMMERDALE FARM. In 2011, with her husband Dominic Brunt, she founded the Mitchell-Brunt film production company and wrote and directed many short films and feature movies (BAIT in 2014, ADULT BABIES in 2017, SYBIL in 2018). This year, she is coming to the BIFFF to present her movie BROKEN BIRD and will lend a helping hand to aspiring directors during the BIFFF PARTICIPATIFFF!

Stéphanie Joalland

Stéphanie Joalland is a director and screenwriter for long and short movies. Her movie ICE was screened at the BIF Market last year, and won the TENTOO award ! She has worked with Luc Besson on the animated series VALERIAN AND LAURELINE in 2006, and her film THE QUIET HOUR is on Netflix.
Stéphanie Joalland is also the co-founder of Frenzy Films, a film production company.

Anders Ronnow-Klarlund

Anders Ronnow-Klarlund is doing us the honour of returning to the BIFFF for its forty-third edition as a guest in the participative BIFFF program. Born on 28th May 1971 in Fodt (Denmark), he first worked for a radio station, before becoming a TV producer. He directed his first feature film THE EIGHTEENTH which netted him various awards and an international reputation. He directed four episodes of the Danish tv show TAXA and is also known for STRINGS (2004) and POSSESSED (1999). After he was out of the picture for a long time, in 2022 we had the pleasure to see screenplays by Anders Klarlund again, with LOVING ADULTS and LE DERNIER PATIENT.