Animated Shorts for Kids (9-12)

70 minutes
Animated Shorts for Kids (9-12)

We’ve collected the greatest, funniest, and most exciting animated shorts for kids from 9 to 12 (as well as their proud parents). Films that are in English have Dutch subtitles. 

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2014

Showing in this program

Anniestudents

Annie

  • Chloé Nicolay / Laura Pannetier / Taylor Price / Xavier Sailliol
  • France, 2013
  • 2 min.

Annie leaves Robin because he can't express his feelings for her. With the help of his dog, Robin will do anything to get her back.

Bear Story

Bear Story

  • Gabriel Osorio
  • Chile, 2014
  • 10 min.

Once upon a time, there was an old bear with a tin marionette theater standing on the corner of a busy street. The theatre tells the cruel story of his life.

Children of the Holocaust: Suzanne’s Story

Children of the Holocaust: Suzanne’s Story

  • Zane Whittingham
  • United Kingdom, 2014
  • 5 min.

A young girl is violently separated from her parents during Nazi's occupation of Paris and is kept in hiding throughout the war in an isolated rural farm.

Dalivincasso

Dalivincasso

  • Marlon Tenório / Marcelo Castro
  • Brazil, 2013
  • 11 min.

Water drops bring to life the characters of a painting freshly arrived at an art museum. They begin to mess up the other paintings.

Dreams & Tearsstudents

Dreams & Tears

  • Yuval Barbash
  • Israel, 2013
  • 5 min.

An eight-year-old child has to find very unique ways to escape his parents' arguments and his painful reality.

Mac n Cheese – Supermarket

Mac n Cheese – Supermarket

  • Colorbleed Animation Studios
  • The Netherlands, 2013
  • 2 min.

Skinny and Big apply for a job at the local supermarket hoping to make money for a vacation. They quickly lose track of their initial goal and things start speeding to disaster.

My New Homestudents

My New Home

  • Daisy Bryant
  • United Kingdom, 2014
  • 4 min.

If you could build your perfect home, what would put in it? How many rooms would it have? How big would you make it? But more importantly, how would those things be made? What resources would be used and abused to create your house?

The Life-Giversstudents

The Life-Givers

  • Angela De Vito
  • United States, 2014
  • 6 min.

Caves below the earth houses thousands of candles, each representing a human life. For each new birth, Life-Givers light a candle, while Death snuffs out a flame when a person’s time on earth has ended.

The Orphan and the Polar Bear

The Orphan and the Polar Bear

  • Neil Christopher
  • Canada, 2013
  • 8 min.

Long ago, animals had the power of speech and could shift their appearances, even to human form... An Inuit orphan is adopted by a polar bear who teaches him how to survive in the wild.

The Presentstudents

The Present

  • Jacob Frey
  • Germany, 2014
  • 4 min.

Jake spends most of his time playing videogames indoors until his mum decides to give him a present.

We Bare Bears

We Bare Bears

  • Daniel Chong
  • United States, 2014
  • 7 min.

Three bear brothers Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear, attempt to assimilate into human society. Against all odds, people don't freak at the sight of 600 lb beasts roaming around the streets, but simply think they are an overweight nuisance.