Into the Forest

In a quiet stop-motion studio, a small monkey opens its eyes. Everything around it feels frozen. On a computer screen, a luminous jungle appears, distant, almost alive. With two companions, it begins to build one of its own, using whatever they can find. A forest shaped by imagination, their only way out.

Antonin Niclass is a Swiss-French animation director. He began his career as a camera assistant in Switzerland before studying filmmaking at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Belgium, and later specialising in animation at the National Film & Television School in the UK. There, he directed his postgraduate film Do Not Feed the Pigeons, which won the BAFTA for Best Short Animation in 2022.