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Kids DOK 2025
Filmstill Peninsula
Peninsula
Angèle Vergoni, Sarah Vanhoeck
A giant woman wakes up on a pastel-coloured island inhabited by small yellow creatures. She sets out to look for a world better fitted for her.
Filmstill Peninsula

Peninsula

Presqu’îles
Angèle Vergoni, Sarah Vanhoeck
Kids DOK 2025
Animated Film
Belgium
2025
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A giant woman wakes up on a pastel-coloured island where small yellow creatures harvest carrots. She seems too big for this world. Every step of her giant feet threatens to destroy a vegetable patch or hurt someone. Searching for a more suitable place to live she finally finds out where she belongs.

Tina Jany

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Angèle Vergoni, Sarah Vanhoeck
Script
Angèle Vergoni, Sarah Vanhoeck
Cinematographer
Angèle Vergoni, Sarah Vanhoeck
Editor
Angèle Vergoni
Producer
Christelle Coopman
Sound
Sarah Vanhoeck
Sound Design
Sarah Vanhoeck
Score
Sergei Chetvertnykh, Chimimin, Geoff Hervey
Animation
Angèle Vergoni
World Sales
Annabel Sebag
Filmstill Ping Pong

Ping Pong

Ping Pong
Tianji Yu
International Competition Animated Film 2025
Animated Film
Belgium,
Hungary,
Portugal,
China
2025
15 minutes
Chinese
Subtitles: 
English

The film opens with the obvious: The problem of the AI’s lack of physicality – it cannot play ping pong with director Tianji Yu. But would it be conceivable for Yu to arrange to play ping pong with a former friend and playmate who now votes for Trump? Do his political otherness and physical absence make this friend as immaterial as the AI? Is this absence insurmountable – both the AI’s and the friend’s?
A ping pong conversation evolves during which the director’s deep memories and honest reflections turn the superficial and banal AI into an actual surrogate partner. A partner that enables a slow rapprochement to the lost friendship and triggers reflections about humans as political beings. The artificiality of the AI is unpeeled layer by layer. Yu visually stimulates us to penetrate to the core of things through the poetically captivating layers of the visual design as we start with documentary footage alienated by a distorting mirror and transition to a moving painting of simple, semi-realistic 3D animations that unfold as if behind a brushstroke filter.

Irina Rubina

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Tianji Yu
Cinematographer
Yifan Wen
Editor
Tianji Yu
Producer
Tianji Yu
Sound
Tianji Yu
Sound Design
Tianji Yu
Animation
Tianji Yu
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award