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This Magnificent Cake!
2018 Belgian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This Magnificent Cake! is a stop motion animated short film released in 2018, directed by Marc James Roels and Emma de Swaef.[1] A coproduction of companies from Belgium, France and the Netherlands, the film centres on the history of Belgian colonialism in Africa.[2]
The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight program at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
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Cast
- Wim Willaert: Van Molle
- Paul Huvenne:
- Goua Grovogui: the lost carrier
- Sébastien Dewaele: Pierre
- Jan Decleir: 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
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Awards
It won the André-Martin Prize for a French short film at the 2018 edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival,[4] the Grand Prix at the 2018 Animafest Zagreb,[5] the Grand Prize at the 2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival,[6] and the National Grand Prix at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.[7]
At the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, it received an honorable mention for the Best International Short Film award.[8]
It received a César Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 45th César Awards in 2020.[9]
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