Once upon a time … Films from all over the world came together on a glorious battlefield. Victory would be for one of them. But there would be no losers because talent and art are there to be celebrated, to be loved, remembered and to be devoured by you … the audience. The battle would forever be known as Kaboom’s International Short Film Competition. And we are honoured to organise that competition year in year out. In 2023, a large number of short films battle it out for our coveted awards!
Shorts 1: What We Tell Ourselves
ALDO
Sara Priorelli, Maria Zilli
Italy
AU CAS OÙ LE CORPS EXULTE
Florian Genthial
France
FMK
Chris Ullens
United Kingdom
IT’S NICE IN HERE
Robert-Jonathan Koeyers
The Netherlands
NO LULLABY
Ezequiel Torres
Argentina
PERSONA
Sujin Moon
South Korea
SHALL WE TALK?
Katya Mikheeva
Russia
SUNSET SINGERS
Jessica Poon
Germany, Hong Kong
THE INVENTION OF LESS
Noah Erni
Switzerland
THE RECORD
Jonathan Laskar
Switzerland
ZOON
Jonatan Schwenk
Germany
Shorts 2: Through Our and Other Eyes
A STORY FOR 2 TRUMPETS
Amandine Meyer
France
ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Vivien Hárshegyi
Hungary
FUNERAL AT NINE
Mamadou Barry, Rodrigo Veras, Ziyu Wang, Junhao Xiang, Wang Yu, Linfeng Zhou
France
GOODBYE JÉRÔME!
Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet, Chloé Farr
France
HAIRY SITUATIONS
Dal Park
Germany
HOME OF THE HEART
Sarah Saidan
France
RIM
Hagar Faibish
Germany
SKINNED
Joachim Herisse
France
YET AGAIN
Michelangelo Ciminale
Italy
Shorts 3: Moody Salvation
A DOG UNDER A BRIDGE
Rehoo Tang
China
BIRD IN THE PENINSULA
Atsushi Wada
France, Japan
EMPTY LITTLE PEOPLE
Mikai Geronimo, Josh O’Caoimh
Ireland
GARRANO
David Doutel, Vasco Sá
Portugal, Lithuania
HOW MANY
Bianca Scali
Germany
I GOTTA CRY
Francesca Colombara
Italy
PLEASE LET ME IN
Peter Millard
United Kingdom
SALVATION HAS NO NAME
Joseph Wallace
United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic
THE DEVIL IS DANCING
Marion Letot
France
Shorts 4: Flee(ting)
DEALING WITH WAR
Andreas Hykade
Germany
ICE MERCHANTS
João Gonzalez
Portugal, United Kingdom, France
IIZUNA FAIR
Sumito Sakakibara
Japan
MOM IS ALWAYS RIGHT
Marie Urbánková
Czech Republic
PEDESTRIAN CROSSING
Janek Koza
The Netherlands
SHUFFLE
Quita Felix
The Netherlands
THE DEBUTANTE
Elizabeth Hobbs
United Kingdom
THE DOG’S LEASH
Piret Nicolas
Belgium
THE FLYING SAILOR
Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby
Canada
THINK SOMETHING NICE
Claudius Gentinetta
Switzerland
UNDER THE ENDLESS SKY
Alexandra Dzhiganskaya
Austria, Ukraine
Shorts 5: (In)glorious
AMOK
Balázs Turai
Hungary, Romania
BACKFLIP
Nikita Diakur
Germany France
DIES IRAE
Maru Collective
Australia
FUR
Zhen Li
United States
INGLORIOUS LIAISONS
Chloé Alliez, Violette Delvoye
France
MUKBANG!
Cheng-Hsu Chung
United States
PIPES
Jessica Meier, Kilian Feusi, Sujanth Ravichandran
Switzerland
PLSTC
Laen Sanches
France
THE GARBAGE MAN
Laura Gonçalves
Portugal