38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Un petit homme

Aude David, Mikaël Gaudin

Image Un petit homme
France
2022 Animation 10 min
Complexed by his wife's body, a man sneakily administers a mysterious serum supposed to make her lose weight quickly. But following a prank by his wife, he ends up swallowing the drink and visibly starts to shrink.
Screenplay : Mikaël Gaudin, Aude David
Image : Aude David
Sound : Pierre Oberkampf
Editing : Sercan Sezgin, Aude David
Compositeur : Wissam Hojeij
Production : La Belle Affaire Productions
Born in 1990, in Nantes, Aude David studied at the School of Fine Arts in Nantes, before specialising in animated cinema at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, from which she graduated in 2016. She directed two films during her studies, including Le Bar du Théâtre, which was selected in Annecy in the Graduation Films Competition. Un petit homme is her first professional film.

Born in 1984 in Paris, Mikael Gaudin studied theatre, economics and cinema before entering the Paris Louis Lumière school in 2009 in the cinema department. He then worked as an assistant director on films by Jacques Audiard, Volker Schlöndorff and Pierre Salvadori, before moving on to direct three short fiction films between 2018 and 2020. Un petit homme is his first animated film.