Belmont World Film’s 23rd Annual Family Festival

Enchanting films from around the world for ages 3–12
—stories you won’t find anywhere else—
plus workshops with veteran Hollywood animators!

January 17 – 19 & 24 – 25, 2026

Parents with children ages 3–12 won’t want to miss Belmont World Film’s 23rd Family Festival. Guided by this year’s theme, “Lights, Camera, Magic,” the festival showcases a diverse selection of films from around the world—many making their North American or U.S. premieres—offering young audiences an immersive and culturally rich cinematic experience. It’s a wonderful way to “travel the world” during MLK Weekend and beyond without the cost or hassle of a trip.

This year’s lineup includes mostly North American premieres, with more than half of the films adapted from or inspired by classic and contemporary children’s books—a longstanding festival hallmark. For young readers and those who struggle with reading, a professional voice-over will read subtitles aloud for films in languages other than English, creating an experience much like story time.

Your children can also engage in hands-on workshops–including “Learn to the Draw the Minions and Hotel Transylvania Characters” and “Introduction to Storyboarding for Animated Films”–with this year’s Artists-in-Residence, story artist and director Dave Feiss and story artist and writer Paul McEvoy, both of whom have most recently worked on The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, as well as the Minions and Hotel Transylvania franchises and many others.