The main purpose of our festival is to contribute to the cultural, artistic and scientific development of the European children and youth film. The festival aims to promote European cinema by screening exclusively European children and youth film, by awarding a significant distribution price and through international communication and cooperation. During this festival we hope to welcome again thousands of children and their companions who enjoy seeing qualitative European feature films and short films. We will do everything possible to attract new visitors and augment the frequency of visits from our regular customers. Next to films we programme an extensive range of workshops and present a free medialab, all related to (new) audiovisual media. This way we try to enhance media literacy with our young audiences. In the run-up to the festival we organise school screenings. We will organise a media conference together with the organisation Vitamine C, we invite guests related to the festival films and we cover accreditations for film professionals.Last but not least we’ll continue with our film fun in bed project. This is an online project which started in 2011 in cooperation with several hospitals. With this platform on our website sick children can watch short films in competition during the festival period. The participants can also vote on their favourite film and are part of the film fun in bed jury.