Anaïs Mauzat
2025
Belgium
No dialogues
animation
fantastic | science-fiction | drama | ecology
13 minutes
Camera-etc | co-produced by Artemis
In a huge city where everyone is active in transforming the few resources available into an industrial quantity of intoxicating drink, Mackenzie, a sensitive being, comes out of the ranks while a hungry bear approaches.
Anaïs Mauzat dabbles in illustration, animation, sculpture, and puppetry. At the Academy of Visual Arts in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, she trained in stop-motion animation. Her first short film, RACINES, was initially just an exercise created during the pandemic. However, it caught attention at international festivals.
- RACINES, short film (2020)
- THE BEARS' RIVER (La Rivière des ourses), short film (2025)
THE BEARS’ RIVER carries a subtle, enchanting sense of unease, the kind that quietly takes hold of you. Even without understanding everything, you’re drawn into the density of its world and the quiet discomfort of a life shaped by the exploitation of the living.
We love how fragility becomes a form of resistance, a small deviation from the imposed rhythm. A political and ecological fable told without words, yet with a sensory force that lingers long after the film ends.
