This Magnificent Cake! is a stop motion animated short film released in 2018, directed by Marc James Roels and Emma de Swaef. A coproduction of companies from Belgium, France and the Netherlands, the film centres on the history of Belgian colonialism in Africa.
The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight program at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
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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
Awards
It won the André-Martin Prize for a French short film at the 2018 edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the Grand Prix at the 2018 Animafest Zagreb, the Grand Prize at the 2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival, and the National Grand Prix at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
At the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, it received an honorable mention for the Best International Short Film award.
It received a César Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 45th César Awards in 2020.