This year KLIK! received over 1800 animated short films from more than 80 countries! For this special program, we selected the most interesting shorts from nations without a big animation tradition, such as Zimbabwe, Moldova, Taiwan, and Egypt. Expand your horizons and sink your teeth in this intriguing selection of animated shorts.

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

Showing in this program

A Chicken…But

• Ahmad Thabit / Mahmoud Hemeda / Islam Mazhar
• Egypt, 2014
• 8 min.

A three parts short movie talking about sexual harassment in Egypt. and what women in Egypt faces in their life about this social issue.

Again&Over

• Ana Gabriela Gutiérrez / Martha De Zamacona / Pedro Barrera / Nancy Hernández
• Mexico, 2014
• 3 min.

Stanley is excited for his date with Jess, he wants it to be unique and lovely. Everything changes when he finds his cat, Gardo, has destroyed the gift he made for her. Soon, he realizes things in his life are not what they seem.

An Ordinary Blue Monday

• Naomi van Niekerk
• South Africa, 2014
• 3 min.

This film is part of a series of short films of classic and contemporary Afrikaans poems.
On Monday morning a girl gets ready to go to school but in the ghetto neighbourhoord where she lives violence and tragedy are part of every day life…

Determination

• Rodney Masanga
• Zimbabwe, 2015

A simple tale of a determined squirrel on his journey home

Dji. Death Sails

• Dmitri Voloshin
• Moldova, 2014
• 5 min.

Dji is a terribly unlucky death who doesn't seem good at his job. This time he has to take the soul of a pirate stuck in the middle of the ocean, but that is easier said than done!

Horn Ok Scream

• Aashay Meshram
• India, 2014
• 5 min.

The film is about the journey of a truck driver on a highway on a particular night. After sometime, his tyre gets punctured and he gets stranded on a lonely bridge. The rest of the film is about the things that happen on the bridge.

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.

Like a Parrot

• Rohit Asokan
• India, 2015
• 2 min.

The story is about the emotional trauma a butcher's boy undergoes during his first kill and the consequence.

Magical Mexico

• Javier Romero
• Mexico, 2015
• 2 min.

The music video for Magical Mexico, a song from the late and unknown rapper El Tigre. The song depicts a strong critique of the violent situation that Mexico has being crossing in the last 10 years.

Melody Night

• Kayhan Anwar
• Iraq, 2014
• 2 min.

The story is a bout war and the bad face of war.

Noon

• Tzu-Hsin Yang
• Taiwan, 2015
• 3 min.

Street vendors are ready to open for business, students are eating lunch at school, and commuters are trying to squeeze onto the crowded MRT. Everyone is busy, except one person…

Princess

• Andre Quek
• Singapore, 2014
• 7 min.

A heartwarming tale of Lucas, a Singaporean boy who faces up to his fears in the neighbourhood playground, and reunites his neighbour Angie with her lost doll.

Ratiocination of Privilege

• Metin Vatansever
• Turkey, 2014
• 7 min.

Mümtaz,a young man who is almost thirty is looking for privilege that should have been given to him by now as promised in life.

Tales Of Nazir

• Louis Appiah
• Ghana, 2014
• 2 min.

Nazir in a dream meets the deadly virus Ebola. They have a little chat. Nazir makes Ebola happy and he ends up telling how people can avoid him.

The Wall In My Home

• Petre Tomadze
• Georgia, 2015

two sockets are making fun of each other