Diversity is key to the future! In this program you will discover Dutch animations on diversity related topics, such as queer sensibility and discrimination towards minorities. You'll see characters as diverse as a queer football hooligan, a Surinamese transgender, immigrant bears, a bird-girl longing to be a real woman, a young gay Egyptian and a woman who finds out masculinity is power.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2020-2021

Showing in this program

A Double Life

• Job / Joris & Marieke
• The Netherlands, 2018
• 2 min.

A man ridicules his wife’s fascination for masculinity, but she’s dead serious…

Beak

• Lucette Braune
• The Netherlands, 2004
• 12 min.

Despite being born with wings instead of arms and with a beak where a mouth should be, a small girl embraces fantasy to escape the reality of her circus-bound world. A hand-drawn animated film about growing up as an outcast.

Bear With Me

• Daphna Awadish Golan
• The Netherlands, 2018
• 4 min.

A short animated documentary on immigrants who left their home and crossed borders for love.

Blindly

• Joanne van der Weg
• The Netherlands, 2014
• 2 min.

What does a blind person see what i don't see. The animation is a short trip as how a blind person would make it.

Cruise Patrol

• Bob de Groot / Arjan van Meerten
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 7 min.

On a long and dusty road a routine cruise patrol spirals totally out of control.

Half a Life

• Tamara Shogaolu
• Egypt / United States / The Netherlands, 2016
• 12 min.

After a traumatic encounter, a young, gay Egyptian joins the LGBT rights movement. When his safety is jeopardized, he must choose whether to stay in the country he loves or seek asylum elsewhere as a refugee. HALF A LIFE is a timely story of activism and hope, set in the increasingly dangerous, oppressive, and unstable social climate of Egypt today.

Hot Tea

• Marcel Tigchelaar
• The Netherlands, 2017
• 2 min.

Some beverages are refreshing in more ways than one. A cup of tea never tasted so good like as in this sensual short. 

I Love Hooligans

• Jan-Dirk Bouw
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 12 min.

A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him. A tale of love for the game and the loneliness of the soul. 

Mooi Missi

• Diego Nurse
• Belgium / The Netherlands, 2016
• 8 min.

A poetic portrait about how Petra, a 30-year-old transgender who was forced to suppress her true self growing up, gives in to her subconsciousness and starts her transformation to the beautiful woman she is today. This film was made as an apology to the director's nephew who was openly discriminated against by the family when he shared his sexual orientation.

The Elephant and the Snail

• Christa Moesker
• The Netherlands, 2002
• 5 min.

A snail invites a fat elephant to shelter from the rain. Unfortunately his shell is a bit too small. Based on a story by Toon Tellegen.