FFG Offroad - Flow & Les Misérables

Flow workshops (vzw Titannick)

From 14:30 you can enjoy the Oscar-winning family film Flow. After the film, children can participate in two workshops:

• Crafts (7+): With glue, paper and scissors we will create our own animated characters and let our imagination run wild.
• Stop-motion workshop (10+): We bring our self-made figures to life in a stop-motion workshop. Using photos, we create different scenes. The result is a short home-made animated film.

Workshop Filming and editing with your smartphone (14+)

Do you love making videos and vlogs? Are you looking for the right tools and inspiration to take your videos to the next level? Then join this workshop full of expert advice from Mediaraven at 16:30. With this workshop you can start making impressive films with your own smartphone.

Register by sending an email to hind.absa@formaat.be (places are limited!).

About the film: Flow (7+)

From meow to wow! Kids, parents and cat lovers: everyone will be enchanted by this epic adventure from Gints Zilbalodis. An exciting, wordless tale of friendship, diversity and nature in a unique animation style. When an adorable kitten wakes up, everything is covered in water. There is not a human in sight. On a small boat, he must not only conquer his fear of water, but also learn to get along with other animals that survived the tsunami. Together, they try to overcome their differences and adapt to this new, unknown world.

Flow premiered in Belgium at Film Fest Gent 2024 and won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Animated Film.

Workshop Start with act and castings (16+)

Do you love to act or would you like to discover if you have a talent for acting? Then you can participate at 18:30 in this workshop, where castingbureau Le Quartier and actor Saïd Boumazoughe (Patser, Grond,...) will give you many tips & tricks!

Register via email (places are limited!)

Filmtalk Les Misérables

Before we watch Les Misérables on the big screen in open air, actor Saïd Boumazoughe (Patser, Grond,...), VUB-professor Mattias De Backer (Crime & Society Research Group), Jeugdhuis Nieuw Gent and Film Fest Gent will engage in a conversation about the themes in the film and the film itself.

Food & drinks

Enjoy a drink at the bar and a delicious snack.

About the film: Les Misérables (12+)

Les Misérables, a protest film by Ladj Ly, follows three cops from Montfermeil's anti-crime brigade near Paris for one day as they have to keep young thugs in line in the Parisian suburbs. Stéphane, who only just moved from Cherbourg to Paris, ends up on a team with Chris and Gwada, two experienced cops. He soon discovers how hostile the local gangs are to each other and the police. When they threaten to lose control during an intervention, a drone films their smallest deeds and actions.

The story is inspired by the 2005 Paris riots and Ly's own memories of them. At the time, Paris was ablaze and expressed its grievances en masse on Ly's doorstep. According to IndieWire, you can clearly feel that lived experience in his feature debut thanks to a ‘tremendous sense of verisimilitude that can only be achieved through first-hand experience.’

Practical info

Address: Youth House Nieuw Gent - Diamantstraat, Gent
Free entrance for the whole program

Registration only necessary for the workshops Start with acting and castings and Filming en editing with your smartphone.