Emerging Animation Nations

75 minutes
Emerging Animation Nations

This year KLIK received over 1,900 animated short films from 80+ countries. For this special program, we selected the most interesting shorts from nations that don’t yet have a big animation tradition, such as Nigeria, Thailand, Iran and Panama. Expand your horizon and sink your teeth in this intriguing selection of animated shorts. 

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2017

Showing in this program

Bino & Fino – On To Timbuktu in Mali

Bino & Fino – On To Timbuktu in Mali

  • Adamu Waziri
  • Nigeria, 2016
  • 11 min.

You've heard about the Great Wall Of China but what about the Mighty Walls of Benin in Nigeria? These walls are one of the largest structures ever built by man.

In Exile

In Exile

  • Alexander Kurilov
  • Moldova, 2016
  • 11 min.

An abandoned young boy tackles solitude and desperation with his vivid imagination through the pursuit of an obsessive dream.

Mandi, The Little Cockroach

Mandi, The Little Cockroach

  • Martanoemí Noriega
  • Panama, 2017
  • 9 min.

Mandi, The Little Cockroach is a love story, music is its language and laughter is its fuel. One morning, while cleaning her house, our heroine finds a small treasure and fantasizes the best way to invest it. The social pressure that surrounds her around marriage leads her to imagine herself as a jury of a "reality show" that will help her discover what she really wants.

MÜSLÜM

MÜSLÜM

  • Gökhan Okur
  • Turkey, 2017
  • 4 min.

The film tells the story of Turkish arabesque singer superstar Müslüm Gürses.The subject of scientific curiosity and discussion,Papa Müslüm, as he was known, attracted a rabidly faithful audience that would descend into a state of euphoric melancholy and razor-inflicted self-harm.Seeped into a surreal narrative, film takes a trip into his life,beginning in an old village hut and ending in İstanbul

My Second Eyestudents

My Second Eye

  • Ahmad Saleh
  • Germany / Jordan / Palestine, 2016
  • 10 min.

A cruel war has taken two brothers’ home. Their mother fosters the seed of a new life and tries to shield them from danger. Despite her worries, the boys keep chasing their childhood dream to play music with an instrument they have fallen in love with - a beautiful oud.

The Basket

The Basket

  • Suresh Eriyat
  • India, 2016
  • 13 min.

Two insignificant lives lost and found in time.

The Cage

The Cage

  • Patr Tekittipong
  • Thailand, 2017
  • 5 min.

This is story about man who seeking friend. The man grew up believing that he is unsocialised and outsider. This belief make him try to find friend who are in same position like him. One day he finally decide to meet him and that change his life forever.

The Orangish Tree

The Orangish Tree

  • Amir Houshang Moein
  • Iran, 2016
  • 6 min.

A little girl who lives in an orange tree, begins a journey to save her city.