Best of Fantoche on Tour

Lea sets off to find a subject for her documentary film. She goes on the hunt armed with her camera and finally meets someone who is not like others. Lea thinks she has finally found her prey, but then the situation changes. She’s the one being hunted.

During her stay in hospital, the filmmaker repeatedly experiences absurd, funny moments between pain, homesickness and disgust with her own body. Meanwhile, she tries to come to terms with the hospital’s own procedures and hierarchies. An emotional trip through the underground corridors of the hospital.

Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.

An animator discusses a scene from the TV series “The Sopranos” while meticulously crafting stop-motion recreations of his family’s home movies. He tries to fill the gaps in his leaking memories through the shared Italian-American idiosyncrasies of the show and his past.

Real estate shark Akio Kashiwagi has built an empire on stolen money. Blinded by greed and unaware that he is being hunted by an American, he accepts a dangerous gamble that might cost him his life. Inspired by booming 1980s Tokyo, told in stop-motion puppet animation.

Helpless in the face of a repressive state, a young couple leaves their home, but their escape turns into a surreal nightmare.