So you’ve finally finished your animated short. What’s next? Kaboom Distribution is a festival submission service who can help you with that next step after completing your precious project. We’ll take care of the festival distribution of your film, sending it to a broad variety of film festivals and institutes both in The Netherlands and worldwide.
All to make sure your film gets the audience it deserves while you can focus on your actual work: creating more amazing shorts!
1. First, we set up a festival strategy (based on your available distribution budget): What would be a good place to premiere? Where can you meet the right people? What countries would welcome your film (it can be the entire world!), How many festivals do you want us to submit your film to? How do you feel about submission fees? Etc.
2. We work with a transparent system where you pay per submission and per selection. Whether you have a generous budget or are on a shoestring, we will find a strategy that suits you.
3. We will help you to collect the items needed to carry out the submissions including Film versions, EPKs, bios, headshots, film stills, synopses, dialogue lists and more.
4. We will manage all deadlines, festival correspondence, filling out forms and file transfers so that you can focus on your next project and rest assured that all festival deadlines are taken care of.
5. When your film is selected at a festival, we first let you know about it! And of course, we take care of sending the master copy and the promotional materials.
Ursula van den Heuvel brings over two decades of festival distribution expertise to Kaboom. At the Netherlands Institutefor Animation Film (NIAf), she spent 12 years cultivating an exceptional global network, forging lasting relationships with leading festivals, institutes, and industry partners.
In 2013, Kaboom Distribution (f.k.a. KLIK Distribution) was launched in Amsterdam, transforming it into a vibrant, ever-growing catalogue that champions outstanding animation from around the world.
We constantly take in new short film productions. Contact [email protected] for further information.
Sit back, relax, and let us handle your short film’s distribution!
Journalist and activist Hoi Yi fights against the growing global rise of surveillance and censorship while suppressing his queer identity from his family. The personal repression he faces is reflected in his commitment to the freedom of others. Breaking Walls is a poignant documentary that throws you into the protagonist’s dilemmas from the first scene.
When Dolores misses a period, she anxiously heads to the drugstore for a pregnancy test. What begins as a simple errand becomes a transformative journey, as she unexpectedly overhears and engages in conversations with women about their unconventional stories of motherhood. Director Juliana Erazo Gómez interweaves fiction with personal anecdotes in this compelling animated documentary.
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In the serene Wadden Sea, where land and water meet, a unique roadside restaurant for birds operates along the migratory flyway. Here, guests eat and are eaten, until a single footstep throws everything off balance.
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After a party full of nauseatingly similar couples, Tina rushes home—only to find her boyfriend proudly wearing the same shirt as her. In desperation, she struggles to prevent them from becoming a fused couple as well.
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Ella works at the lost-and-found desk of a busy train station, collecting abandoned belongings and storing them in her booth. At first glance, they look like a random mix of books, wallets, and other trinkets. But what no one knows is that Ella is creating something extraordinary from these lost objects. In a world driven by hurry and efficiency, is anyone still willing to pause for a moment of wonder?
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During a stormy night, our familiar reality becomes entangled with another dimension. Two timelines collide, leading to a fatal outcome. This dark, unsettling stop-motion thriller by Patrick Raats will literally make you grind your teeth.
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Luna, the granddaughter, helps her grandmother bury her dog. But what happens when you’re dead and buried underground? Her grandmother evades the question, so Luna is tempted to see for herself what happens below. A colorful short film exploring the tension between childish innocence and death.
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A young woman filled with regret retraces her footprints in the sand. As she walks along the shore, she relives how a shocking confession to her friend Fryd changed the course of their friendship forever. Intriguing, mysterious and beautifully designed short by director Adelen Holt.
This minimalistic short film by director Daan Lucas follows the life cycle of the seemingly useless organoid. Its movements, character, dry lips—everything about it is a part of life. Ain’t it beautiful?
Jason has been secretly in love with his best friend Niels for ten years. He knows it will never work out, but Jason still can't give up on his dream. However, it is time for Jason to let go of his unrequited feelings when Niels has to confess something to him.
When every global citizen is required to have their CO2 emissions tracked through a mandatory mobile app, it seems to have little impact… that is, until they discover the consequences of reaching their designated quota! A hilarious and spot-on short film by Job, Joris & Marieke.
Humans and some kind of gnomes have posted videos on social media platforms in their dimension. Skroll is a short compilation of these clips—an animated, random flow of social media content that will truly surprise you and is worth watching until the end. A bizarre film by Marten Visser.
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Urban pigeons are seen as pests, like rats of the sky. They are rudely chased away, and their nests are removed. When a group of pigeons hears that the mayor promises housing for everyone, they decide to submit a petition at the town hall. But first, they have to get past the evil janitor. A coo-licious film by Alina Milkina.
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An Elephant in the Porcelain Cabinet is a stop-motion and 2D animated short film about damage and how we deal with it, visualized through a fragile space that receives a clumsy visitor. A pretty student exploration into material, technique, and learning to open up, by director Bonne Steinz.
A coot and a ferry skipper peacefully coexist on city river. When a new bridge emerges, it causes major problems for the skipper. The bird then helps the skipper.
When Greetje's father, butcher Tuitjes, takes on the Italian butcher Smakkerelli, the formerly rustic village of Moppel is turned upside down and Greetje is in danger of losing not only the annual sausage competition, but also her great love Nol.
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As a freelance illustrator and perfectionist, Maya’s life is a lot of fun, but also very hectic. She has a full personal and professional life and has a supportive inner voice "Little Motivator". After a severe panic attack she and her Little Motivator try to accept a new standard of good.
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At Kaboom, we have seen many a great weird sh*t. But a psychological stand-off between a young naïve croquette and a bitchy cheese soufflé ... that's something we never dared to dream of.
Golden Calf winner Patty Stenger returns with a quirky yet utterly meaningful short about a caring daughter who reluctantly sees her elderly mother reclaim control of her own life. The latter feels that if she will die anyway, she prefers to do so with love and fun. In a deliberately raw style, we follow the mother's path to renewed happiness.
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Multi-award winning studio Job, Joris & Marieke is back with another delightful short, with a very timely topic: social media influencing. Nobody is about obsessive Instagrammer Florian who takes too many selfies. He becomes transparent and has to struggle to keep his beloved followers.
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Diaphony is a hypnotising short animated documentary taking you on a sensory, auditory journey. The film follows three people who share their experiences of the pandemic. Each handles this difficult time in their own way, but it turns out that they share the same way of finding comfort through music. As their worlds begin to intertwine in the animation, the short shows how societal and political differences that have grown through the pandemic, vanish when we find consolation and meaning in music.
Prehistoric Drenthe, 4000 BC (ish). Four primitive little men are fighting the elements and hunger. One of them is clearly a bit more sophisticated and suggests building more complex structures, but all is sabotaged when a rabbit hops by ... Their clumsiness, however, leads to the building of the mysterious hunebed stones!
After Marjory switches heads with Wesley, she decides to jazz up Wesley’s boring vlog by recording a new episode without asking his permission. Wesley is mad at her when he finds out. When he’s at the hairdresser’s – with Marjory’s head – he takes revenge.
Sef finds it difficult to stand up for himself. And then by accident, he switches heads with a dog. While Wesley and Marjory go in search of the dog with Sef’s head, Sef has to spend a day with the dog’s owner. Reluctantly, Sef obeys all the owner’s commands, until he finally learns to talk back.
Sef doesn’t want to go to the dentist. He tricks Wesley into swapping heads with him. Wesley has no choice but to go through with Sef’s dental treatment. Fortunately, the pain is soothed by the present he gets from Sef’s parents as consolation. Wesley had never even received such an expensive present from his own father. Wesley decides not to tell Sef about the present.
Sef, Wesley and Marjory find an abandoned washing machine. They quickly discover that the washing machine possesses mysterious properties; it enables you to swap your head with someone else’s. Just after they have all swapped heads, they’re called in for dinner. This means that they are forced to spend an evening as each other.
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In the dark woods, we witness the dying hour of the Alpha male of a wolf pack. As he howls to the moon, he - and we with him - remember his sacrifice for the pack. Cry along!
Plug into the pig! A group of animals hook up a power grid to the socket-shaped snout of one big, sleeping pig. The animals use the pig's energy for simple things at first, but soon they render themselves dependent on a city where every single thing - the useful and the useless - is automated ... How long can that last? A humorous fable that leaves it up to the viewer to draw their own conclusions about our resources and the climate crisis.
When to most beautiful brush in the jar suddenly dries out, he does everything he can to save his beautiful bristles to be able to paint again. But uh-oh, what a mess!
How do you look at yourself? Are you in peace with your flaws? Sanna de Vries' award-winning short shows the power of taking some distance, of 'zooming out' and stepping out of that spiral of self-loathing. We follow protagonist Fiep who lives in a little house with mirrors. Fiep focuses on her physical imperfections so intensely that her distorted self-image grows out of proportion - literally...
Not every burglar is a handyman. This burglar ... well, he makes a mess trying to break into a museum to steal a piece of art. This Dutch short is a wonderful and creative piece of art itself. A joy to watch, even if its protagonist really sucks at his job. Maybe he can't steal art, but he can steal the show!
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Six years in the making, the philosophical genre film Camouflage is a dystopian thriller in which we follow four days in the life of office clerk Amouf, while he desperately tries to hold his life together while the world around him gets darker and darker, following the rise of De Jager. This flamboyant and highly intimidating creature is a hate-instigating vigilante, who has sworn to systematically prosecute certain groups. A hand-drawn animated film with over 800(!) character-animations.
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When Pia puts on a mysterious vinyl single, she's suddenly able to travel through her own life.
Kaboom Animation Festival is the one-stop-shop for the latest and greatest in all things animated. Ranging from cutting-edge experimental arthouse to colorful stories for families and kids, Kaboom will cater to the animation needs of all. Yes, even yours, my amazing weirdo friend!
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