Program 2023

Synopsis
Thoughts ripple over the pages of a personal notebook, kept during a stay at different science labs in Zürich.

Director’s bio
Soetkin Verstegen is an independent film maker and animator from Brussels. 

Flying Anidoc Award Winner 

For the first time this year we awarded a special prize at the Fantoche Animation FIlm Festival in Baden. “Beautiful Figures” received  the Flying Anidoc Award and entered this year’s selection.

Synopsis
A girl, poised between child and adolescent, dreams of making a name for herself in the world of breakdancing.

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Charlotte De Cort is a Brussels-based storyteller active as creative writer and film director.

Synopsis
Esma, a young kickboxing talent, dreams of greatness while battling the fear of losing her ill mother.

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Documentary maker Cassandra Offenberg explores the relation between reality and the sensory world.

Synopsis
Instead of schizophrenia, they prefer voice hearer. Twice a month they gather around Virginia in a self-help group.

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Tristan Thil studied history, music and filmmaking, he always includes animation in his documentaries.

Synopsis
A filmmaker seeks climate therapy, resulting in a portrait of the intersection between climate change and mental health.

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Sindha Agha is an Emmy-nominated director, writer and visual artist known for her viral vibrant work.

Synopsis
Martina is organizing her funeral in advance. By following her, the director is able to say what she couldn’t have said.

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Beatrice Perego (Italy, ’95) is a documentary filmmaker. IDFA selected her first short Till the End.

Synopsis
Inuk Elder Naulaq LeDrew speaks about her home in Nunavut, Canada. Altered Super 8mm film illustrates her stories.

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Ella Morton is a Canadian experimental documentary filmmaker whose work centres around landscape.

Synopsis
The author finds love letters her dad used to write her from prison. She decides to write back to find a new connection.

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Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Czech-Vietnamese director, focuses on personal topics through animated docs.

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Cristobal returns home after a migration attempt. While fishing, he and the sea are connected by a progressing disease.

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Prizewinning Mexican director, selected for Documentary Summer School at Locarno Film Festival 2023.

Synopsis
Capture, document, record, share, restart. What if we lost something along the way?

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Cinema graduate at UQAM, Amélie Hardy works both in documentary filmmaking and advertising.

Synopsis
Teenage twins see their attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from disability, remains a prisoner of childhood. 

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Justine Martin is a screenwriter and director based in Montreal, Cinema Graduate from Concordia Uni. 

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A portrait of textile artist Deborah Dumka, whose daughter captures her artistic process and traumas borne in silence. 

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Claire Sanford is a Canadian filmmaker exploring the natural world, human identity and how they overlap.

Synopsis
As a young Chinese filmmaker returns home, a conversation with his mother turns into a quest for acceptance and love.

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Shuli Huang is a writer-director and cinematographer born in Wenzhou, China.

Synopsis
In a two-dimensional space, out of time, a person seeks their belonging to the world through a journey to infinity.

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Hanna Hovitie (born in 1991) is a film director and media artist from Helsinki, Finland.