Located in Angoûleme on the shores of the Charente river, Le Château Dampierre used to be a Maternity Ward long before it became a school. During this first screening, eleven short animated movies will be shown, and return the uniqueness and maturity of the different poetic views conceived inside of those walls. 

Introduced by Ahmed Ben Nessib, Magnolia Dubois, Isis Leterrier, Elisa Lèvy and Flornet Morin. 

Elisa Lévy, Isis Leterrier, Madolia Dubois, Florent Morin and Ahmed Ben Nessib: these professional animators - famous on an international level - will tell the story of their experience at the Angoulême École des Métiers du Cinéma d’Animation, describing and listing the school’s innovative and revolutionary approaches to pedagogy.

Remotely joining from Angoulême: Christian Arnau, EMCA founder and former Pedagogical Director.

A selection of animated shorts developed by the Angoulême School of Animation. Whether they wield a brush, a pastel, or a mouse, the directors of the EMCA never forget the body, both as a tool for storytelling and as a physical approach to their work. Their stories, their pictures and their movements cannot but come from memories deep within themselves, beneath their skins. The selection of shorts here presented aims to reflect upon the main theme of the Festival by showcasing a freedom of expression that stems from the peculiar approach of a school that rebuked any official form of evaluation. Perhaps it’s this “impunity” that gave its students the courage to let themselves go and dance into the void, à corps perdu.