Kaboom Animation Shorts

The best of Kaboom Animation Festival is coming to Rotterdam! From cerebral conversations on one’s identity, to crazy fun motions, this screening is for all animation lovers: those who didn’t get a chance to catch these great shorts in Utrecht and those who just can’t get enough of them: the festival’s winners will be screening at Worm on September 17th . The program and Q&A will be hosted in English by Riccardo Canciello and Robert-Jonathan Koeyers.
Program:
The Miracle
by Nienke Deutz
2023, Belgium/France/The Netherlands, 15 min.
The Miracle is a place where the sun always shines, with endless opportunities to relax and food in abundance. Still something is missing.
Our Love Is Immortal
by Ender Yildizhan
2023, Turkey, 4 min.
Duration: 4’
A little boy worries about his parents’ relationship in a dystopian future. His father eases his worries through a song.
Fox Tossing
by Zénó Mira
2023, Hungary, 8 min.
A grim but fascinating portrayal of a now-forgotten aristrocatic pastime in 17th-century Europe, Fox Tossing zooms in on a cruel phenomenon that is emblematic of the hedonistic life of people in palaces. Expressionist in style, this Hungarian film explores the complex relationship between power and powerlessness.
Melk
by Niek de Leeuw
2023, The Netherlands, 4 min.
Melk is about the expectations of and realities of being gay.
Ardent Other
by Alice Brygo
2022, France, 16 min.
A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. A portrayal of human kind observing symbolic fires, possibly the burning of Notre Dame in 2019.
All the Best
by Pablo Roldan
2023, Argentina, 4 min.
What is weird, is based on a norm. Weird can be anything, and it can be funny, maybe confusing, but most of all it can be authentic. This animation takes those notions to make something new.
Vivarium
by Daan Lucas
2023, The Netherlands, 9 min.
Two gnomes are chased away by a flood of tears caused by a childish king. When they meet, the king starts playing with them and is happy again, but only briefly.
Beautiful Men
Nicolas Keppens
2023, Belgium/France/The Netherlands, 19 min.
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
Cineville valid at the door!