written and directed by NICOLAS KEPPENS & MATTHIAS PHLIPS
voices by SAM LOUWYCK as Troyer & CHRIS BONI as Linda

produced by ANIMAL TANK

line producers BRECHT VAN ELSLANDE & BERT LESAFFER
animation by ENO SWINNEN, JEROEN CEULEBROUCK, PIETER VANLUFFELEN, PIETER SAMYN, DAVID DILS & NICOLAS KEPPENS
compositing ALICE SAADI & NICOLAS KEPPENS
sound design, editing & mixing GREG SCHEIRLINCKX (Kabaal for Studio THINKNTALK)
music by ARVO PÄRT, MARIO SPINDLER & FRANZ SCHUBERT

festival coordination & sales: ANIMAL TANK (brecht@animaltank.be)

distribution (BE) DALTON DISTRIBUTION

with the support of:

FLANDERS AUDIOVISUAL FUND
TAX SHELTER OF THE BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 

FESTIVALS

International Short Film Festival Leuven (Leuven, Belgium): December (2017) - world premiere at the opening night
Anima Festival (Brussels, Belgium): 9 January - 18 February 2018
Netwerk Aalst (Aalst, Belgium): 9 March 2018
Ciné Privé (Ghent, Belgium): 16-18 March 2018
Brussels Short Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium): 26 April - 6 May 2018
Anifilm (Praha, Czech Republic): 1 - 6 May 2018
Animafest - World Festival of Animated Film (Zagreb, Croatia): 4 - 9 June 2018
Fest - New Directors / New Film Festival (Espinho, Portugal): 18 - 25 June 2018
Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (Palm Springs, California): 19 - 25 June 2018
Fest Anca - International Animation Festival (Zilina, Slovakia): 28 June - 1 July 2018
Guanajuato International Film Festival (Guanajuato, México): 20 - 29 July 2018
Anima Mundi (Rio De Janeiro & São Paulo, Brazil): 24 July - 5 August 2018
La Guarimba Film Festival (Amantea, Italy): 7 - 11 August 2018
Anibar International Animation Festival (Peja, Kosovo): 13 - 19 August 2018 
Canal de Panama International Film Festival (Panama): 16 - 18 August 2018
Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (Seoul, South-Korea): 23 - 26 August 2018
Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal, Canada): 23 August -  3 September 2018
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival (Baden, Zwitzerland): 4 - 9 September 2018
Shorts México - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de México (Mexico City, Mexico): 5 - 12 September 2018
Linoleum Animation Festival (Kiev, Ukraine): 6 - 9 September 2018
Festival Off-Courts Trouville (Trouville, France): 7 - 15 September 2018
Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK): 25 - 30 September 2018
Anim'est International Animation Film Festival (Bucharest, Romania): 28 September - 7 October 2018
Animatou International Animation Festival (Geneva, Switzerland): 5 - 13 October 2018
KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands): 10 - 14 October 2018
Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival (Bern, Switzerland): 18 - 28 October 2018
Multivision - the International Festival of Animated Arts (Sint-Petersburg, Russia): 27 October - 19 November 2018
Dok Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany): 29 October - 4 November 2018
TIAF - Tbilisi International Animation Festival (Tbilisi, Georgia): 2 - 4 November 2018
Catacumba Film Festival (Godella, Spain): 31 October - 4 November 2018
Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest (Brest, France): 6 - 11 November 2018
Manchester Animation Festival (Manchester, UK): 13 - 15 November 2018
Exground Filmfest (Wiesbaden, Germany): 16 - 25 November 2018
Interfilm (Berlin, Germany): 20 - 25 November 2018
PÖFF Shorts (Talinn, Estonia): 20 - 28 November 2018
European Film Awards 2018 - Shorts Matters tour
Animax Skopje Fest ( Skopje, Macedonia): 29 November - 2 December 2018
Anchorage Film Festival (Anchorage, Alaska): 30 November - 9 December 2018 Flickerfest (Bondi, Australia): 11 - 20 January 2019
Premiers Plans Festival (Anger, France): 25 January - 3 February 2019 Animac (Lleida, Spain): 21 - 24 February 2019
Tampere Film Festival ( Tampere, Finland): 6 - 10 march 2019
Ciné Court Animé (Roanne, France): 18 - 24 March 2019.
Monstra Animation Festival (Lisbon, Portugal): 20 - 31 March 2019.
GLAS Animation Festival (Berkeley, California): 21 - 24 march 2019
Vilnius Short Film Festival (Vilnius, Lituania): 21 March - 4 April 2019
Mecal Pro International Short and Animation Festival (Barcelona, Spain): 28 march- 14 april 2019
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (Stuttgart, Germany): 30 April - 5 May 2019
Animakom Film Festival (Bilbao, Spain): 2 – 8 April 2019
Brussels Short Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium): 25 April - 5 May 2019
Screening “A wind of freedom” (Brussels, Belgium): 19 May 2019
Short Film Festival Cologne (Cologne, Germany): 5 July 2019
Aegean Film Festival (island of Patmos, Greece): 16 - 21 July 2019
ShortsUP, the The Great Picnic (Bucharest, Romania): 26 - 28 July 2019
Still Voices Short Film Festival (Ballymahon, Ireland): 15- 18 August 2019
LISFF Wiz-Art (Lviv, Ukraine): 19 - 25 August 2019
Cinéma Belge en Garrigue (Uzès, France): 19 - 25 August 2019
Viborg Animations festival (Viborg, Denmark): 23 - 29 September 2019
Best of Short Film Festival (La Ciotat, France): 2 - 6 October 2019
Animation Nights New York (New York, USA): 15 October 2019
Flying Film Festival ( Fribourg, Switzerland): November and December 2019
Fest Anca - International Animation Festival (Zilina, Slovakia): 27- 30 August 2020
PAF - Festival of Film Animation (CZ) 2023
Brussels International Film Festival - BRIFF (BE- 2024

AWARDS

International Short Film Festival Leuven 2017 (Leuven, Belgium)  // Audience Award for Best Flemish Animation Shortfilm
Anima Festival 2018 (Brussels, Belgium) // Award for Best Belgian Shortfilm + Authors prize SACD
Brussels Short Film Festival 2018 (Brussels, Belgium) // Award Le Prix Canal+ France
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2018 (Guanajuato, México) // Award Best Animated Short Film
La Guarimba Film Festival 2018 (Amantea, Italy) // Award Best Animation
Canal de Panama International Film Festival 2018 (Panama) // Award Best International Animation Short Film
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival 2018 (Baden, Zwitzerland) // Award Best Film
Encounters Film Festival 2018 (Bristol, UK) // Animated Encounters Grand Prix Award
KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) // Award Best Animated Short
EFA - European Film Awards 2018: nominated in the short film category
Multivision - the International Festival of Animated Arts 2018 (Sint-Petersburg, Russia) // Special Mention of The Jury
Premiers Plans Festival (Anger, France) 2019 // Grand Prix of the jury and Prix du Public Award