Little White Queen

short film – 15′ – 2025

SYNOPSIS

Plunged into the warm darkness of a summer night, the streetlights of Ottignies illuminate cars floating in the air. The next morning, a crop circle in the shape of an hourglass appears on the Place du Centre, now a parking lot. Two teams of pelota ball, a local sport driven out by the car more than 30 years ago, confront each other, causing the traffic to stop.

DIRECTION

Mathieu Georis & Théo Hanosset

SCRIPT

Mathieu Georis & Théo Hanosset

PRODUCTION

Ozù Productions & Xbo films

TECHNIQUE

digital 2D and painted animation

Mathieu Georis and Théo Hanosset are two Belgian authors and directors. In 2015, they both joined ENSAV la Cambre in Brussels, in the Animated Cinema and Urban Space sections respectively. In 2017, Mathieu Georis directed an adaptation ofDie Bremer Stadtmusikanten, a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, to be followed in 2018 byAlfred Fauchet, à droite, à gauche. For this film, he received two awards for best student film at Primanima in Hungary and at the OIAF in Canada. After Hangendin 2019, he produced Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty Miles a Day in 2020, for which he received the New Talent award at the Festival Fantoche in Switzerland and the VimeoStaff Pick award at the OIAF in Canada.Théo Hanosset comes from a multi-disciplinary artistic background and is interested in the links between art, sport and territory. In 2022, he co-created L’Heure des citrons, a residency and group art exhibition on the theme of the pelota ball at the cultural centre in Ath (Belgium).Graduating in 2020, they began writing and investigating for The Little White Queen that same year. After the Résidence de l’Enclume (Brussels), the Pitch MIFA 2022 (Annecy) and the NEF residency at the Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud (France), they began production of their film at the end of 2023.

 

Anima 2026 (Belgium)

With the support of Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles, CNC, Pictanovo - Région Haut-de-France, Région Occitanie, Toulouse Metropole and Procirep-Angoa. With the participation of RTBF