Autokar
Belgium, France
2025／17min
Schedule/Ticket
Adult ¥1,500
Student ¥1,000
Under 19 ¥500
Introduction
In the 1990s, 8 years-old Agata leaves Poland for Belgium. Anxious about her journey, the little girl writes a letter to her father back home, but her pencil falls out and gets lost on the bus. Forced to overcome her shyness, she crawls between the seats in search of the pencil, plunging into a fantastic world populated by strange half-human, half-animal passengers. At the tender age of 8, her eyes transform the reality of migration into an initiatory experience.
Director
Sylwia Szkiłądź
A director of short animated films. She was born in 1987 in Podlaskie (in Poland), which she left at the age of 8 with her parents to live in Brussels. However, Podlaskie was and remains one of her most important artistic inspirations. Her film productions include: ‘Limaçon et caricoles’ (2012) co-directed with Nim Gamboa, ‘La Soupe aux fraises’ (2014) and ‘Le Renard minuscule’ (2015) co-directed with Aline Quertain. She works freelance on various forms of animation: video clips co-directed with Jessica Poon ‘The Skeleton band’, ‘The Midnight Secret socks party’, animations created with Marion Sellenet for the series ‘Les Chroniques végétales’. She shares her knowledge and experience of animation with children and adults by organising workshops in centres and schools. She currently lives and works in Belgium, France and Poland.
Schedule/Ticket
Adult ¥1,500
Student ¥1,000
Under 19 ¥500