Once upon a time there was a rough-and-ready ice-climber who wouldn’t go home.
Together with her two precocious dachshunds, the Wunder Dachsies, the courageous Axie goes off in search of her long-lost knight in armour. High up in the mountains, she finds herself in an ice blizzard. Who knows what happens next…
During the DMFF Awards ceremony in 2023, we challenged puppet-maker and Fröbelfrau Lisette Wansink to make a stop-motion film using her puppets of famous mountaineers. Without further ado, she took up the challenge and knew straightaway who the main protagonist would be in her film: the dachshunds of Dutch ice-climbing champions, Marianne van der Steen and Dennis van Hoek. For months on end, Lisette has worked with great ingenuity on the sets and props in her cellar in Teuven in Belgium. With help from the DMFF Academy (Jeroen Daemen), on a steep learning curve, she has mastered the art of stop-motion film. The music has been composed and performed by Rick Huijts.
Now we are all curious to find out what happens in her first ever film!
