Wednesday at Fantoche

Anyone who is interested in the latest animated film productions should take a seat in Sterk 1 at noon on Wednesday. After the studio presentation of “Schattenkabinett” at 11.15, two of our four Coming Soon presentations will take place there. At 13.00, producer Gert Van Goethem talks about “Nayola” the latest film by Portuguese director José Miguel Ribeiro about three generations of women in Angola struggling with the aftermath of civil war and violence in a story where magic and reality collide. At 14:45, Swiss director Claude Barras (“Ma vie de courgette”) and producer Nicolas Burlet offer a first glimpse of their forthcoming new film “Sauvages!”. 

The focus of this year’s edition is on the fragility of our world. On Wednesday, there will be various opportunities to discover these curated programmes. On the one hand, in the classic film “Anomalisa” by Duke Johnson, and Charlie Kaufmann (16:30; Sterk 1), or on the guided tour of the exhibition by Nobel Prize winner for Literature Herta Müller in the Museum Langmatt on “Fragile Sprache”. 140 collages are presented that relate to each other in terms of content and formulate a form of lyrical autobiography. Registration: https://www. langmatt.ch/agenda

Those who prefer to immerse themselves in short film worlds have the opportunity to see one of the two programmes put together for this focus by Doris Cleven, “Part II – Liens”, 19:00 at Sterk 1.

The evening programme holds great promise as well!

At 20:30 in Trafo 2 we will show the Japanese “Seven Days War” about a group of young people who, in order to escape the constraints of their parents, occupy an abandoned mine and create an autonomous zone. 

At 21:15 in Sterk 1 we show the Hungarian feature film “Bubble Bath” from 1979, a unique film, and the only animated film by the painter György Kovászani. 

On the other hand, those who would prefer to take it easy after a long and intense film marathon can head to the Royal for the Fantoche Late Night programme beginning at 21:00. It starts with the GIF programme curated by Fantoche, set to live music, followed by Jan Galega Brönnimann & Optickle with their “Climate Risk Index”.