This Magnificent Cake!
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. 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. References

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2018 films
2018 animated films
2018 short films
Belgian animated short films
Dutch animated short films
French animated short films
2010s French films