Animated Shorts for Kids (10-12)

70 minutes
Animated Shorts for Kids (10-12)

Especially for kids aged 10 to 12, we've rounded up a special collection of animated adventures, slapstick, and unforgettable stories you won’t see on TV! Most of the films are without dialogue.

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2017

Showing in this program

Father

Father

  • Dara Griffin
  • Ireland, 2016
  • 5 min.

A forest guardian wakes up after hundreds of years to discover that the Machines have taken over and destroyed all living things, save for his forest. Without hope of fighting them off, the guardian makes a unthinkable choice in order to save the last forest of the planet.

Flutter

Flutter

  • Vladimir Todorov
  • Bulgaria / United States, 2016
  • 10 min.

In a world, where everyone can defy gravity and fly at will, being stuck on the ground is no fun. If all you can do is shuffle on your own two feet, then loneliness, depression and despair will come knocking on your door. Letting them come in is an option. Finding the courage to soar is priceless.

Polska Warrior

Polska Warrior

  • Camiel Schouwenaar
  • The Netherlands, 2017
  • 25 min.

Eryk, alias Polska Warrior, is the undisputed hero in the online game Goldhunter, but in real life he is invisible. His game buddy Laura shows him to use his game-skills in real life, in order to confront his dominant father. 


Polska Warrior is an animated adventure film about fear, love and heroism. 

Roadside Assistance

Roadside Assistance

  • Kathy McNeal
  • United States, 2017
  • 4 min.

This is the story of a girl in a car accident who is rescued by the unlikeliest of heroes, her dashboard bobble head.

Scrambled

Scrambled

  • Bastiaan Schravendeel
  • The Netherlands, 2017
  • 6 min.

When 19-year old Esra misses her train and kills time playing a fast-paced, flashy game on her smartphone,
a vintage Rubik’s Cube challenges her attention.

Seasons

Seasons

  • Narae Yang / Nakyung Kim
  • South Korea, 2016
  • 8 min.

The flower, Sara, that did not bloom in Spring falls in love with Spring.
As the seasons change, the Spring and Sara can no longer stay together. The Spring leaves and gives a butterfly to Sara as a symbol of love. While waiting for the Spring, even though, Sara tries to persevere though out the season changes, she disappears after all.

Short but sweet

Short but sweet

  • Junaid Chundrigar
  • The Netherlands, 2017
  • 2 min.

A young hero has to save a princess from an evil bad guy within an absurd short amount of time.

Verge

Verge

  • ChingTien Chu
  • United States, 2017
  • 3 min.

Ching Tien Chu’s “VERGE” is an animated short about a small, gawky, newly born green sea turtle, who falls behind his siblings on his voyage to the sea. As he arduously tries to scramble to the ocean, a massive waves and trash smack him back to the shore, stimulating a series of challenges. The short explores how navigating a very short distance can be the hardest part of a newborn turtle’s life.

Vicious Cycle

Vicious Cycle

  • Michael Marczewski
  • United Kingdom, 2017
  • 3 min.

Vicious Cycle features a group of little autonomous robots performing a range of repetitive functions, driven by mechanical devices. But as the mechanisms mercilessly start getting faster and faster, things take a turn for the worse for the helpless robots.