Annecy selects Flanders best

Shoes on the Menu, an episode of animated kids series The Incredible Adventures of Kika & Bob has been selected for this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival (9-14 June). The Kika & Bob episode will be shown in the Animated Series Competition. Also competing, in the Student Film Competition, are Passe-vite by Bert Dombrecht, Korneel Detailleur and Ben Verschooris, Yves by Joost Jansen, and The Traveller by Johan Pollefoort.Kika & BobCreated and directed by Vincent Bal (Man of Steel, Minoes) and Colette Bothof, The Incredible Adventures of Kika & Bob is a 26-parter following smart seven-year-old Kika and 'brave' fireman Bob who are blown to the other side of the world by a typhoon during an attempt to rescue Kika’s kitten Tiger. During the series they travel back home, overcoming terrible obstacles, crossing strange territories and meeting even stranger people and animals.In Bert Dombrecht, Korneel Detailleur and Ben Verschooris' Passe-vite, an accident messes up the the production proces in a factory. Joost Jansen's Yves is an animated documentary that brings a poetic-metaphorical portrait of a person who differs from his environment. The interesting mix of reality and fiction creates confronting questions about 'being different'.Yves Johan Pollefoort's The Traveller is based on "Le voyage", a poem by Baudelaire. An animator and comic strip author, Pollefoort is currently active in Lille, France.