We are thrilled to introduce our jury members 🎉

Warm-up for Kaboom Animation Festival 2023 with the monthly anime night in our Cinema with Harmony from Michael Arias and Takashi Nakamura

Watch Hiroyuki Okiura: A Letter to Momo on the 21st of January at Melkweg Amsterdam

Watch Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist & Tokyo Godfathers this weekend at Melkweg Amsterdam

Kaboom Animation Festival Kaboom Animation Festival presents the most daring, creative and innovative international animation  in a mind-blowing festival from 24th March to 2nd April 2023 in Utrecht, Amsterdam and online. Besides film, we offer an Expanded Animation program, in which

90 animators from Utrecht made magic together to celebrate their city! Come and join the opening night of the animation 900 seconds project in Tivoli Vredenburg.

A collaboration that seems meant to be! From this February we will organize every month an anime evening in the Melkweg Cinema Amsterdam.

3 Kaboom Internships:   (online) Marketing Department - Program Department - Production Department    Kaboom Animation Festival Kaboom Animation Festival is the biggest animation festival in the Netherlands and brings audiences and professionals the most daring, creative and innovative national and international animated films and expanded

During the last six months, several festivals and professionals teamed up to form a new collective called “Keep Festive”.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS In the beginning, there was the… World! The world-building VR Metaverse workshop (Kaboom Animation Festival & Imagine Film Festival) What? A 3-weekend workshop in VR Dates: 9-11, 23-25 September and 2-4 December 2022 (three weekends for the full workshop) Have you ever dreamed

Melkweg X Kaboom Anime 16-04 ADOLESCENCE OF UTENA (1999)

DAY 7 - Kaboom 2022

The Winners of the Kaboom Awards 2022 are!!!

DAY 6 Wow wow wow our hearts are full! Saturday of Kaboom was one in the books.

Oh, sweet Sunday!

DAY 5 - Kaboom 2022

The Saturday Afternoon of Kaboom is again filled with a lot of creativity and fun! 👇🏼

DAY 4 - Kaboom 2022

The Thursday night of Kaboom we will bring you amazing Kaboom Specials & films 🌋🔥

DAY 3 - Kaboom 2022 Opening day Amsterdam

ARCHIPEL / ARCHIPELAGO today at 15:00

DAY 2 - Kaboom 2022 Utrecht

Tonight is the big opening of Kaboom 2022 in Amsterdam. The opening film is ‘Where is Anne Frank’

DAY 1 - Kaboom 2022 Utrecht

Feature Films in Competition: Belle

Too Good to Ignore: A Sci-fi Double Bill 🌋 Showtimes: Saturday 2nd of April 2022 23:00 EYE 2

Stand-Up Comedy & Live Animation Showtimes: FRIDAY 01 APRIL 2022 Eye at 21:30

Panel: Is it our story to tell?

Meet the Doc and Dutch Competition Jury 2022..

Discover the Kaboom Animation Festival 2022 Poster with Leyla

Meet the International Jury 2022

In Pursuit of Pleasure

Dreaming of Electric Sheeps - Creating stories natively in Virtual Reality Kaboom 2022

Meet this years VR jury 2022! We are to present to you a very diverse team.

Short Movie Sunday at Volkshotel

Ukraine Benefit: Kaboom x Linoleum Festival

Join our Installations at Kaboom Animation 2022

Join our VR Exhibitions at Kaboom Animation 2022..

Melkweg Anime X Kaboom 12-03-2022 - Memories

THE PROGRAM FOR OUR INDUSTRY DAYS IS COMPLETE!

Ticket Sale Kaboom 2022 is on!

Feature: The Timekeepers of Eternity

Oscar Nomination for Flee screens at Kaboom '22

A collaboration that seems meant to be! From this February we will organize every month an anime evening in the Melkweg Cinema Amsterdam.

The complete program of Kaboom Animation Festival 2022 is now online!

Your favorite animation festival is back! To make this LEGENDARY edition happen, Kaboom relies on your support. Want to become our hero?

In the spring of 2022 our Kaboom Festival will be offline again in theatres in Amsterdam & Utrecht. 

In the spring of 2022 our Kaboom Festival will be offline again in theatres in Amsterdam & Utrecht.