Best of KLIK! 2015

85 minutes
Best of KLIK! 2015

Short on time? Best of KLIK! 2015 compiles only the very best animated shorts of this year’s fest, as selected by both jury and audience. We don't know yet which films you're going to see, but rest assured you’ll be seeing the finest hand-selected animated shorts there are!

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2015

Showing in this program

A.A. – Doors

A.A. – Doors

  • Buck
  • United States, 2015
  • 2 min.

Buck was approached by A.A. World Services, Inc. with an open brief, tasked with telling its members’ stories, their struggles in the shadow of alcoholism, and how they’ve found their way back toward the light of recovery.
Alcoholics Anonymous(A.A.) is an international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical, and

Benjamin Scheuer – Cookie-Tin Banjo

Benjamin Scheuer – Cookie-Tin Banjo

  • Peter Baynton
  • United Kingdom / United States, 2014
  • 2 min.

A father makes a cookie-tin banjo to give to his son, and with it the gift of music.

Dinner For Few

Dinner For Few

  • Nassos Vakalis
  • Greece / United States, 2014
  • 10 min.

“Dinner For Few” is an allegorical depiction of our society. During dinner, "the system" feeds the few who foolishly consume all the resources while the rest survive on scraps. Inevitably the struggle for what remains leads to catastrophic change.

Jonas and the Sea

Jonas and the Sea

  • Marlies van der Wel
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 11 min.

Jonas and the Sea is an animated short film about a man who casts aside everything in pursuit of his dream. A dream we all share: the quest to find a place we can call home, even if it's underwater.

Light River

Light River

  • Sha Liu
  • China, 2014
  • 5 min.

"Light River" talks about a garbage man who lives by the river, one day he picks up a river lamp, and encountered a series of bizarre events in the process of looking for the person who lost this lamp. I designed some metaphor for these bizarre events, so as to reflect my thinking and struggling of love, time, dream, and other problems at this stage, which are the real map of my inner world.

Palm Rot

Palm Rot

  • Ryan Gillis
  • United States, 2014
  • 7 min.

Investigating a mysterious explosion in the Florida Everglades, a crop-duster named Bill discovers a lone crate that survived the wreckage. Curiosity gets the better of him and he pulls the crate on to his airboat. Thats just the first in a series of decision he learns to regret.

Panic!

Panic!

  • Joost Lieuwma / Daan Velsink
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 5 min.

In the car on her day off Marja has a sudden rush of panic: did she turn off the gas? And did she leave the water running? And lock the window? In her mind her imaginary mistakes grow to absurd proportions.

Sunday Lunch

Sunday Lunch

  • Céline Devaux
  • France, 2015
  • 13 min.

Sunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him questions and don't listen to his answers, they give advice but don't follow it, they stroke him and slap him, but it's ok, it is the Sunday lunch

The Tie

The Tie

  • An Vrombaut
  • Belgium, 2014
  • 8 min.

A small giraffe and a tall giraffe have a chance meeting. Despite their obvious difference in stature, they discover a kinship.

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

  • Konstantin Bronzit
  • Russia, 2014
  • 15 min.

Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.