JEF festival 2024 and JEF festival 2025

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In 2024 the 36th edition of the JEF festival in Belgium will take place. The festival is crucial for JEF, it’s the biggest public activity by which new audiences are reached, where experiments can happen and direct interaction between audience and professionals are accomplished. The festival presents films, workshops, medialabs, special events and an industry program mostly offline with small online side events. In this way we enhance the media literacy of our young audiences. The festival promotes audiovisual creations by screening above all European productions, with the presentation of a European competition and through national and international communication (the catalogue, online platforms, newsletters and international networks) and a lot of collaborations. The festival is the experimentation hub and innovator for JEF. JEF festival will welcome around 26.000 physical visitors who enjoy watching European films and experience surrounding activities. New visitors will be attracted and the frequency of the regular audience augmented. School screenings will be organised, the hospital project reaches children who are not physically able to attend the festival and we have VOD services with JEF titles. Next to audience development, professional activities are organised together with different partners, with a focus on youth film and new media evolutions. During the festival guests are invited and film professionals get accreditations. The support of MEDIA makes it possible to expand this and elevate our festival. Year round, JEF is active in distributing and promoting youth film and their creators, of which mostly European productions (film department), and offer a wide range of study material and activities (more than film department: workshops, installations, education for teachers).