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Autokar

Generation Kplus 2025
In the 1990s, eight-year-old Agata leaves her Polish homeland to take a bus to Belgium by herself. Anxious about the journey, she begins to write a letter to her father who has stayed behind in Poland. When she drops her pencil and it rolls away, Agata is forced to overcome her shyness. Searching for it, she weaves her way between the rows of seats and plunges into a fantastical world inhabited by strange half-human, half-animal passengers. Agata’s perceptions transform the reality of migration into an imaginative experience of initiation.
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by Sylwia Szkiłądź (Director, Screenplay)
with Natalia Wolska, Anna Seniuk, Henryk Niebudek, Elżbieta Gaertner, Marcin Pempuś, Lidia Sadowa, Barbara Jonak, Mariusz Ostrowski, Konrad Beta Belgium / France 2025 Polish, French 18' Colour World premiere | Animation | Short Film recommendation: 9 years and up

With

  • Natalia Wolska (Agata)
  • Anna Seniuk (Female Sparrow)
  • Henryk Niebudek (Grandfather)
  • Elżbieta Gaertner (Grandmother)
  • Marcin Pempuś (Bus Driver)
  • Lidia Sadowa (Bat)
  • Barbara Jonak (Mouse, She-wolf)
  • Mariusz Ostrowski (Bear)
  • Konrad Beta (Father)

Crew

Director Sylwia Szkiłądź
Screenplay Sylwia Szkiłądź
Editing Jérôme Erhart
Music Barbara Drazkov
Casting Ewa Borysewicz
Animation Gaspar Chabaud, Eve de Roek, Sylwia Szkiłądź, Pierre Lebrun, Ronni Shalev, Agathe Sollier, Anne Escot
Producers Jérémie Mazurek, Christophe Beaujean
Co-Producers Mathieu Rolin, Viviane Vanfleteren, Marc Faye

Produced by

OZÙ Productions

Vivi Film

Amopix

Novanima

World Sales

Miyu Distribution

Photos

Sylwia Szkiłądź

Born in Poland in 1987, she moved to Brussels in Belgium as a child and studied at La Cambre National School of Visual Arts in the city. She has participated in the artist-in-residence programme at Folimage Studio in France. Her work was first presented in Generation with the short film Le renard minuscule in 2016.

Filmography (short animated films)

2011 Limaçon et caricoles; animation 2012 Grain d’amour; animation 2013 La soupe aux fraises; animation 2015 Le renard minuscule; animation 2025 Autokar; animation

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025