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. The film premiered in the

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program at the

2018 Cannes Film Festival The 71st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 19 May 2018. Australian actress Cate Blanchett acted as President of the Jury. The Japanese film ''Shoplifters'', directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, won the Palme d'Or. Asghar Farhadi's psycho ...

Cast

* Wim Willaert: Van Molle * Paul Huvenne: * Goua Grovogui: the lost carrier * Sébastien Dewaele: Pierre *

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: the king * Michel Kossi: Ota's brother * Bruno Levie: Georges * Gaston Motambo: Ota * Alexander Rolies: Little Philippe * Dirk Rypens: the soulful man on the boat * Anna Schoonbroodt: mother * Jamal Tahri: the angry neighbor * Angelo Tijssens: Louis * Aziz Azam, Sébastien Brodzic, Walter Canipel, Xavier Dumont, Michel Gallois, Michèle Hublau, Juan Maldonado and Céline Seutin : additional voices

Awards

It won the André-Martin Prize for a French short film at the 2018 edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the Grand Prix at the 2018 Animafest Zagreb, the Grand Prize at the 2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival, and the National Grand Prix at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. At the

2018 Toronto International Film Festival The 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure that at least 20 percent of all film critics and journalists given press accreditation to ...

, it received an honorable mention for the Best International Short Film award. It received a

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nomination for

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at the

45th César Awards The 45th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, took place on 28 February 2020, at the Salle Pleyel in Paris to honour the best French films of 2019. Sandrine Kiberlain presided, and Florence Forest ...

in 2020."'Ce magnifique gâteau!' en lice pour le César du 'Meilleur court-métrage d'animation'
.

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, 29 January 2020.

References

External links

*{{imdb title, 7925798 2018 films 2018 animated short films Belgian animated short films Dutch animated short films French animated short films 2010s French films