Anaïs Mauzat
2025
Belgium
No dialogue
animation | fiction
ecology | drama | fantastic | science-fiction
13 minutes
Camera-etc
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.
Script | Anaïs MAUZAT
Animation | Louise-Marie COLON, Mathieu LABAYE, Anaïs MAUZAT, Elodie VERHEYDEN, Siona VIDAKOVIC, Emily WORMS
Compositing | Elodie VERHEYDEN
Music Score | Pierre JACQUES
Editing | Marika PIEDBOEUF, Aurélie REDOUTE
Sound design & sound editing | Charles DE VILLE
Foley artist | Olivier THYS
Sound mixing | Aline GAVROY
Production | Bastien MARTIN (Camera-etc)
Coproduction | Patrick QUINET, Julien MELEBECK (Artémis Productions) - RTBF (Belgian TV)
BSFF - Brussels Short Film Festival
Animayo - International Film Festival of Animation, Visual Effects and Video Games
Le Court en dit long
Freedom Film Festival
Lucania Film Festival
Festival Cinéma en Liberté
Anibar Animation Festival
OFF - Odense Film Festival
WFAF - World Festival of Animated Film Varna
Animest - Bucharest International Animation Film Festival
Animayo - Best Social Awareness Award
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 (2021, short)
- La rivière des ourses [The Bear's River] (2025, short)
THE BEARS’ RIVER (LA RIVIÈRE DES OURSES) organically builds a hypnotic dystopian world that feels both delicate and unsettling. There is something fascinating in its atmosphere and in the way the film unfolds through sensation and intuition, without dialogue.
Its open and metaphorical storytelling leaves room for mystery while remaining fully engaging for its audience. The film offers a deeply singular immersive experience, carried by a strong artistic identity.
