The Animation Blog

Synopsis: While the bear parents are away looking for berries and honey, the baby bears stay at home with the sheep.

The bear cubs have a good time playing merrily with a ball of yarn, but soon enough the cubs find themselves all tangled up and everything is turned upside down!

Luckily the sheep help them put everything in order again.

Original title: Cuci cuci.

Directed by Mara Linina.

Based on the traditional Latvian lullaby.

Sound Design by Girts Biss.

Music by Jekabs Nimanis.

Song performed by Kristine Zadovska and Andris Keiss.

Synopsis: On Halloween night, three disguised kids go on a wild trick-or-treating rampage through town, until a mysterious ghost train confronts them with a tragic memory.

Directed by:
Lola Leviez-Deblauwe
Quitterie Quipourt
Basile Galiegue
Anaïs Lecocq
Mathilde Maigre
Paul-Louis Couton

Original Music by Stéphane Mondino.

Sound Design by Mathilde Maigre.

Sound Editing by Pierre-Antoine Naline.

Sound Mixing by Christian Cartier.

Synopsis: A shaman tells the legend of the Meles, a terrifying creature roaming the forest, to three little badgers: Arthur, Paul, and Basile. Arthur and Paul play a trick on Basile, pushing him to search for the Meles, but things don’t go as they intended.

Directed by:
Samy Achard
Léonore Bialet
Agathe Casoliva
Léo Cubero
Nèfyse Delavier
Clémence Honorez
Medhi Simonnet
Célia Tempestini

Music by: Jordan Sintes

Sound by:
Guilhem Favard
José Vicente
Sofia Gutierrez-Restrepo
Antoine Smets
Yoann Poncet

Voice cast:
Véronique Augereau as La Chamane
Sarah Schumacher & Célia Tempestini as Basile
Donald Reignoux as Arthur
Léo Cubero as Paul

Synopsis: The Miracle; a place where the sun always shines, with endless opportunities to relax and food in abundance.

It’s late already when Irma checks in at the resort. As she explores the area the next morning, she quickly comes to realize that everything there is designed to facilitate families.

Irma fully immerses herself in the world of the all-inclusive resort. But how do you relate to a place that constantly confronts you with the things you don’t have?

Written and directed by Nienke Deutz.

Cinematography by Steven Frederickx.

Edited by Nienke Deutz.

Music by Mark Schilders.

Sound by Céline Bernard, Corinne Dubien and Aline Gavroy.

Director’s statement: “The Miracle is a portrait of a single woman in a world that is designed for couples and families with kids. I wanted to portray the confusing feelings and loneliness that can come from being in a place where you feel you don’t fit in.”

Synopsis: In a barren world TamLin of the Little People travels with his herd of splendid smortlybacks in search of greener pastures. They struggle with fear and find themselves stranded at the ocean shore.

With unlikely help from TamSin, a wonderful mermaid, and her disrespectful smortlysharks they cross the ocean and find a happy end.

The Smortlybacks Come Back! is a sequel to The Smortlybacks.

Written and directed by Ted Sieger.

Music by Christoph Utzinger.

Sound design by Thomas Gassmann and Aline Schoch.

Sound mix by Denis Séchaud

Synopsis: On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.

Directed by Ted Sieger and Wouter Dierickx.

Written by Alexandra Prosen and Wouter Dierickx.

Music by Christoph Utzinger.