Flanders is getting 10,000 trees from the Avatar Home Tree initiative of movie studio 20th Century Fox and director James Cameron, named after their 2009 blockbuster film. The initiative calls for one million trees to be planted worldwide. Flanders’ will be planted in the areas of Waasmunster in East Flanders and Tongeren in Limburg, in cooperation with Flemish groups Association for Forests and Flanders and Agency for Nature and Forests. The trees will make up part of Flanders’ “One Million Trees” initiative, which has already seen more than 700,000 trees planted.

Design Flanders, which promotes the work of Flemish designers, is crossing the border to Wallonia for this year’s Design Triennial, Belgium is Design. Design for Mankind. This sixth edition of the triennial is being hosted by the industrial mining complex turned culture centre Grand Hornu, a site celebrating its 200th birthday this year. Belgium is Design explores how design affects the social lives and fundamental desires of communities and runs until 27 February.

Tonight begins a brand new television series on één about the influence of Flemings living abroad on food culture. Hosted by Flemish photographer Lieve Blancquaert, the first episode finds visiting the successful Thomas De Geest, who years ago gave up his job at IBM in Belgium to sell waffles from a wagon on the streets of New York City. Made in Belgium airs every Wednesday at 21.40.

Flanders is making an excellent show of it at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), the Cannes of documentary filmmaking, which draws to a close on 28 November. Eva Küpper spent seven years completing What’s in a Name, the portrait of New York performance artist Jon Cory, while Annabel Verbeke’s Children of the Sea takes a look at a special school for boys in Ostend. Other Flemish films include Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes’ Because We Are Visual, a poetic look at the world of video bloggers; Tim De Keersmaecker’s Aperture, which follows a psychotic man’s attempt to create order in his life; and Martijn Payens’ Mushrooms of Concrete, about the 750,000 bunkers built in Albania between 1975 and 1989. www.idfa.nl

Belgium has placed seventh at the eighth annual Junior Eurovision Song Festival, held on 20 November in Minsk. Jill & Lauren, a teen duo from Gent, went to Minsk with their song “Get Up”. The pair earned 61 points from a combination of traditional Eurovision voting and a professional jury. The winner, with 120 points, was Vladimir Urzumanyan from Armenia. www.junioreurovision.tv