Bakermat – Bad Dreams
Matt and his girlfriend Lara are living a peaceful life on a planet far away when all of a sudden they are blinded by a bright light.
Dutch Shorts 1: Hopes, Dreams & Despair
60 minutes
Make Dutch great again! Oh wait, Dutch culture is great... Need proof? Watch these locally produced shorts that showcase the immense talent of Dutch producers, filmmakers and so on!
This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2020-2021
Showing in this program
Control
Experimental film about a strange town with strange people. The film is mostly constructed from drawings that children have made during a drawing workshop.
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Farewell Future
A woman grieves for a futuristic world she dreamed of but never will know. In transit from an era of high technology to another one of low technology, she’s left with nostalgia of a time that never happened.
The story is a metaphor of humanity, which must radically change its perspective, abandon its desire for high technology and unlimited growth, and invent new possible futures.
Hideous Henk, Episode 1: Henk’s Hell
A little ugly chihuahua thinks his life will get better when he gets adopted from the pound, but will his new life get better, or take a turn for the worst?
Hoanoe
A form of nature.
Lost Eye
Wanda is riding her horse, when suddenly the horses' eye gets stolen by a flock of birds! She travels through a strange world and meets amazing creatures. Will she find the missing eye and return safely back home? Lost Eye is an animated music video, the story is told in both animation and song.
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Paradise Lost
Deforestation, pollution, overpopulation. How long can man continue this before biodiversity has disappeared? The short film Paradise Lost visualizes in a unique and poetic way, how we destroy nature. In this film, “the light” is the main character confronting the viewers with their own reflection.
See Me
When nobody sees you, you seem to disappear. Only when you fall, you seem to belong, just for a little while.
Sirius
"Sirius" is the result of an improvisation exercise with the purpose of using the artist intuition as a starting point instead of a script or storyboard. The idea was to experiment with more a flexible intuitive process to do animation.
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Thanks, Goodbye
What will happen to the earth if there’s no solution to climate change and overpopulation? ‘Thanks, goodbye.’ is a short surreal 3D film that shows the fatefull future of the earth. The apocalytic image of the devastated planet and the sounds that show how vibrant it was on earth, create a surreal contrast in the film.
The Battle Within
The battle within gives a look into the head of someone with an anxiety attack and is about the power, struggles and courage it requires to fight your fears.
The Driver
In a desolate world a train is rushing to an unknown destination.
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Yin’ettet – Northern Lights
A young Chukchi girl travels with her dog through the Siberian tundra to visit her grandmother. Soon they find themselves in trouble, and will have to find a way to survive in the harsh wilderness. The reconnection of not only the modern and the traditional, but also of man and nature, lies at the heart of this homage to indigenous peoples of the North.
