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

Call for entries 2023 is now open!

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. 

Call for entries 2022 is now open!

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. 

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. 

Call for entries 2022 is now open!

It is a wrap! Kaboom 2021 is really over, and we are happy to say that animation in the Netherlands has more fans than ever!

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

Congratulations to all winners of the Kaboom 2021 Award!

The animated AR works of Willem de Kooning Academy students for Kaboom 2021

Check out the complete schedule of all our live shows during Kaboom 2021

Kaboom and Animated women teamed up to celebrate female excellence in animation: an augmented reality exhibition

The European Space Agency (ESA) invites screenwriters to submit proposals for short films about European space exploration.

On January 28th we will host an NFB shorts online filmmaker panel discussion and Q&A

Join us for a creative process talk and Q&A with the directors of Wolfwalkers

short film festival | weekly | online, free

We are looking for a business director

Breaking News: New dates for the upcoming Kaboom Animation Festival Edition

short film festival | weekly | online, free

We are looking for a head of marketing

Looking back on our first edition of Kaboom.

We're now accepting submissions

We're back from hibernation!

They had hard jobs, but they did them with style & class.

The votes have been counted, the mathematicians have cracked the numbers, and the results are in.

The winners of the very first edition of Kaboom Animation Festival are

Full program & tickets available today!

'Top 3' by Sofie Edvardsson won Best Nordic-Baltic Feature Film

Meet your Kaboom jury this year

Full program & tickets available today!

The program for our Industry Day is here.

Full program & tickets available today!

Animation Workshop | Ketelhuis, Amsterdam | 15 November

VR Workshop | 24 - 27 Oct. | Amsterdam

Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam | September, 26th | 21:00

We proudly present the super official, full, complete and entire selection of Kaboom Animation Festival. We ask your undivided attention for the selection for the competitions of the first edition of Kaboom Animation Festival.

Kaboom Animation Festival is looking for volunteers to help out during the very first edition of our festival! You'll make frenz for life, get all the free food, limited edition clothes and swag, and you can gorge on all the

Industry and Festival Accreditations are available now. And since you’re extra early we’re even offering you a 20% Early Bird discount. Chirrup chirrup! Don’t be shy and register now. NO LONGER AVAILABLE Industry Accreditation Whether you’re attending Kaboom for business or

After 11 years of coexisting within the Dutch cultural landscape, KLIK and HAFF have decided to join forces. HAFF is a festival with a great tradition and long-standing international reputation, a focus on auteur and experimental animation, and a well developed