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 - 2025 | Brussels, Belgium
Animayo - International Film Festival of Animation, Visual Effects and Video Games - 2025 | Gran Canaria, Spain
Le Court en dit long - 2025 | Paris, France
Freedom Film Festival - 2025 | Radom, Poland
Anibar Animation Festival - 2025 | Peć, Kosovo
Festival Cinema en Liberté - 2025 | Toulon, France
Lucania Film Festival - 2025 | Pisticci, Italy
OFF - Odense International Film Festival - 2025 | Odense, Denmark
WFAF - World Festival of Animated Film Varna - 2025 | Sofia, Bulgaria
Almaty Animation Festival - 2025 | Almaty, Kazakhstan
Animest - Bucharest International Animation Film Festival - 2025 | Bucharest, Romania
CINEMAFORUM Short Film Festival - 2025 | Warsaw, Poland
Festival international du film d’animation d’Espinho (Cinanima) - 2025 | Espinho, Portugal
Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne - 2025 | Villeurbanne, France
Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA) - 2025 | Moncton, Canada
Festival International de courts métrages d'Aix-en-Provence - Festival Tous Courts - 2025 | Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival International du Court Métrage d’Animation "Les Nuits Magiques" - 2025 | Bordeaux, France
Anima - Brussels International Animation Film Festival - 2026 | Brussels, Belgium
BUFF Filmfestival - International Children and Young People’s Film Festival - 2026 | Malmö, Sweden
Festival du Film Environnemental - 2026 | Poitiers, France
Festival International Music & Cinema Marseille - 2026 | Marseille, France
BIFFF - Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival - 2026 | Brussels, Belgium
Courts d'un soir - Montreal international short film festival - 2026 | Montréal, Canada
FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival - 2026 | Dresden, Germany
FICG - Guadalajara Film Festival - 2026 | Guadalajara, Mexico
Trento Film Festival - 2026 | Trento, Italy
ANIMAFILM - 2026 | Baku, Azerbaijan
Animotion Film Festival - 2026 | Florence, Italy
Adriatic Film Festival - 2026 | Francavilla al Mare, Italy
Anafi International Film Festival - 2026 | Anafi, Greece
Cortocircuiti Short Film Festival - 2026 | Bari, Italy
Cerdanya Film Festival - 2026 | Puigcerdà, Spain
Bueu International Film Festival - 2026 | Bueu, Spain
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.
