⁠We are thrilled to announce the theme for the 2026 edition of Kaboom Festival: ‘Human Touch’ ⁠

When machines can imitate the craft of animation, what remains? Theme program Human Touch explores the future of handcrafted arts. Will craft evolve? Disappear? Will animators somehow absorb this existential threat, or become curators of AI-generated images? Maybe they’ll simply persist, like the spiders who inspired Kaboom’s poster, handcrafted by Bea Lema.

Follow the thread of animations shaped by hands, hearts, and human imagination. ⁠