The performances show a region that is both cosmopolitan and local, a place that is modern but also has respect for tradition.
Futurspektiv will open with a performance of Handel's Brockes Passion by the Collegium Vocale Gent together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in Budapest's Music Academy.
A performance by the well known choreographer Arco Renz and is company Kobalt Works will explore femininity expressed in the language of 21st century dance.
The Trafó will host Wayn Traub's Maria Magdalene, the last of a trilogy of so-called cinema operas created over a decade.
The musical group Zita Swoon will show audiences at the Millenáris how to mix the French chanson with progressive rock, soul and electronic dance music.
The Ernst Museum will show an exhibition of four Flemish artists.
Vérité Exposée, an exhibition by Sven Augustijnen, David Claerbout, Ana Torfs and Els Vanden Meersch, will examine fundamental questions of individual and historical memory.
Ahoar will play a concert that mixes Flemish with Iraqi music.
Antwerp's most exciting artistic collective, BerlinBerlin, will bring its newest documentary video and performance about an American mining town to Budapest. On the literary front, Rachida Lamrabet, the Moroccan-born Flemish writer will present The Country of Women, a novel that explores the differences between traditions.
The Kopergietery theatre troupe will perform a piece called Run which speaks about a love of life using the language and gestures of techno culture.
Two Flemish electronic music acts will play at the A38: The Subs and Shameboy. The festival's closing act will be a concert by Vive La Fete.
