Every year in Belgium and in several partner country Humundi organizes Alimenterre, a committed festival that encourages rethinking, reinventing, and mobilizing to build more sustainable, fairer, and more solidarity-based global food systems.
In collaboration with partners, the Alimenterre Festival offers film screenings followed by debates, meetings, sessions for young audiences, activities, exhibitions, mobilization actions, and festive moments.
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Through its programming, Alimenterre raises awareness about the issues of small-scale farming and the (agro-)ecological transition. It also encourages enthusiasm and urgency to act in the face of a global agri-food system that is unviable for farmers, populations, and the planet.
Alimenterre carries a strong message of hope by denouncing the disruptions in the agri-food system and highlighting alternatives. It offers avenues for action at both local and global levels, as well as positive stories focused on the future. The festival is a special place for inspiring encounters, collective motivation, and festive, joyful, and friendly moments!
Join us and let yourself be inspired by a festival that opens new perspectives, full of meaning and hope.
Awaken awareness of the food and agricultural challenges of our time.
Present inspiring solutions and initiatives that pave the way towards fairer and more sustainable food systems, offering new perspectives
Encourage engagement in building fairer, more sustainable, and more solidarity-based global food systems by motivating citizens to take part in concrete actions and contribute to change.
We are aware of the power of images and their ability to touch and mobilize citizens. Through its evocative power, cinema can be a true wake-up call and an excellent tool for raising awareness. The audience can better understand and engage with the complex issues of agriculture and food.
Through this festival, Humundi also supports engaged cinematic productions. This year again, the Alimenterre Film Festival Award will recognize a documentary from our selection for its ability to raise awareness and mobilize. This award will be given by a panel of professionals and will include financial support of €2,000 as well as distribution assistance to the Belgian association sector throughout the following year, through our “Alimenterre Screening Kits.”
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special Belgian edition on impactful cinema
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international editions in Burkina Faso, DRC, Central African Republic and Senegal
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of festival-goers at the international editions
The Alimenterre Festival is a collective story of commitment and solidarity. Thanks to this dynamic, it has expanded in Wallonia with events in Arlon, Charleroi, Mons, Namur, Liège, and Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve.
This expansion is the result of the collaboration of around fifty diverse and complementary partners: cultural centers, NGOs, cinemas, environmental and feminist associations, active citizen groups, and more. A big thank you to all of them!
AlimenTERRE is an international movement supported bynumerous civil society organisations. The festival now takesplace in 17 countries across Europe, Africa and Latin America,from France to Peru, via Benin, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Togo,Cameroon, Luxembourg, Italy, and the Czech Republic.
Since 2016, Humundi has been organising the international editions in four partner countries. In 2025, the results are clear.
In Burkina Faso, the 3rd edition brought together 1,500festival-goers in Ouagadougou and Koupéla, centred on the theme “Rethinking our food systems: building food sovereignty through agroecology.” In the DRC, the 9th edition began on 31 October in Kinshasa, with a new feature: the Alimenterre Village, a meeting place for producers and consumers to discuss agroecological products. In total, 1,800 people took part in this edition. In Senegal, the festival attracted 2,170 participants in Dakar and the provinces. The festival is also held in the Central AfricanRepublic, in Bangui.
In each country, the format remains the same: screenings,debates and the sharing of experiences among practitioners inthe field to question the way we produce and feed ourselves,and to build together a fairer and more sustainable agriculture.