ARTE publishes Annecy 2026 making-of films for Cartoon Physics and Please

ARTE's Annecy 2026 edition of Court-circuit pairs festival-selected shorts with production-focused companion pieces. The programme includes Cartoon Physics by Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter, followed by a making-of about the film's construction, and Please by Anna Mantzaris, also followed by footage and discussion from its production. The package preserves more than festival-result metadata: it gives viewers a direct route into how contemporary tactile animation is planned and executed.\n\nCartoon Physics is presented as a 2026 France-Netherlands-Switzerland short in which a mother's perception of reality shifts toward cartoon logic after her four-year-old daughter discovers a dead bird. ARTE separately identifies Kuwahata and Porter through their Oscar-nominated stop-motion film Negative Space. Please is presented as a 2026 Swedish-French-Czech-Norwegian-Finnish production. Taken together, the two making-of segments document the international co-production and craft networks surrounding current European stop-motion and mixed physical-animation shorts.