Best of Kaboom Animation Festival 2022

65 minutes

The award-winning shorts of Kaboom 2022!

Best of Kaboom Animation Festival 2022

If you’re pressed for time, you could find yourself a nice YouTube video about time management. But you could also just take advantage of Best Shorts of Kaboom: our compilation of the very best shorts of the festival, as chosen by both our honorable jury and distinguished audience. So no need to worry about not having the time to check out all the amazing shorts at our festival: we’ve got your back. 

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2022

Showing in this program

A Film About A Pudding

A Film About A Pudding

  • Roel van Beek
  • United Kingdom, 2021
  • 9 min.

After Ronin neglects to clear up her dropped groceries, they start to mix and bubble, transforming into a small pudding. Whilst this initially seems odd, for Ronin, it is easily ignorable. Over the next few days, the pudding grows bigger and bigger. As it threatens to engulf the entire city how far will she, and the other inhabitants of her city, go to continue ignoring it?

Abandoned Village

Abandoned Village

  • Mariam Kapanadez
  • Georgia, 2020
  • 14 min.

A village just like a human is a result of love and can be reducted to rubble, if left without love and care.

Bekeken

Bekeken

  • Kim de Ruyter
  • The Netherlands, 2021
  • 2 min.

A short film about the tension in watching and being watched, and the effects looks of rejection can have on one's self-image.

Camouflage

Camouflage

  • Jantiene de Kroon / Remco Polman
  • The Netherlands, 2021
  • 19 min.

Camouflage is a dystopian thriller in which we follow the story of office clerk Amouf. Amouf
desperately tries to hold his life together while the world around him gets darker and darker,
following the rise of De Jager. This flamboyant and highly intimidating creature is a hate-instigating
vigilante, who has sworn to systematically prosecute certain groups and Amouf is not a brave
character. Will he be strong enough to resist?

kai – A little too much

kai – A little too much

  • Martina Scarpelli
  • United States / United Kingdom, 2020
  • 3 min.

In an imaginary space a woman let go of herself and overcomes fearing her own greatness. She discovers her body, she embraces her emotions, and learns to own all the parts that make her HER.

Navozande, the Musician

Navozande, the Musician

  • Reza Riahi
  • France, 2020
  • 14 min.

During a vicious attack, a young musician and the love of his life are brutally separated from one another. Fifty years later, the musician is summoned to play at the Mongol castle where his beloved has been held.