Kabuki is a stop-motion animation short film that poetically follows the transgender character Kabuki’s search for self-
acceptance and identity. The film is dedicated to the transgender people killed every day and revisits this ancestral form of theatre from Japan to give full significance to the object of the mask.
Norwegian premiere
12 min 47 sBrazil, France2025
Kabuki
by Tiago Minamisawa
Pencil on paperPuppet animation
Tiago Minamisawa is the director, screenwriter and producer of the short film Sangro, winner of the Silver Hugo awards for Best Animated Film at the 2019 Chicago Festival, Best Brazilian Short Film and Best Documentary at Anima Mundi 2019, selected by Annecy International Animation Festival. They are a scriptwriter for the reality show Drag Race Brazil on Paramount+ and WOW. Minamisawa is a producer and screenwriter of the short film Guida, by Rosana Urbes, winner of the Jean-Luc Xiberras prize at the Annecy International Animation Festival 2015. They directed the stop-motion short film Kabuki, a Brazil/France co-production in partnership with Wag Films, Amopix and the France 3 channel.
- animation
- Thiago Minamisawa
- production
- Tiago Minamisawa, Gabriel De Azevedo, Bruno H Castro, Cesar Cabral, Mathieu Rolin, Jonas Brandão
- screenwriter
- Tiago MINAMISAWA, Valéria RODRIGUES, Beatriz PAGLIARINI