The latest and greatest animated shorts from all over the globe, especially curated for kids of ages 9 and up.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019

Showing in this program

Butterboo

• Émilie Pigeard
• France / Belgium, 2018
• 8 min.

After a "minor" operation at the vets, a young cat starts putting on more and more weight. Her owners start calling her "Butterball" instead of her usual name "Bamboo". She then gets the nickname "Butterboo"!

Goldie

• Emily Brundige
• United States, 2019
• 4 min.

A giant girl (Charlyne Yi) feels out of scale in her colorful little town, only to realize she takes up just the right amount of space.

Home Sweet Home

• Chaitane Conversat
• France / Switzerland, 2018
• 12 min.

An old lady accumulates at her home boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, with her friends the cockroaches, she invents wonderful stories for her granddaughter. But the little girl grows bigger and space starts running out in the house.

Hors Piste

• Léo Brunel / Loris Cavalier / Camille Jalabert / Oscar Malet
• France, 2018
• 6 min.

The two best rescue workers of the region are ready for their new mission. Despite their professionalism
and their determination, it will not go as planned...

Maraude and Murphy

• Helene Ducrocq
• France, 2018
• 8 min.

Maraude gets lost in the storm. Murphy gets out of his cave to help her find her home, and munch some mosquitoes... An ordinary night for two bats!

POLARBARRY – LET’S BREAK THE ICE!! – VLOG #207

• Wouter Dijkstra
• The Netherlands / United Kingdom, 2019
• 4 min.

Meet influencer, online personality and Internet sensation PolarBarry: The mischievous Polar Bear who knows how to make the North Pole rumble. PolarBarry introduces his followers to the Climate Change debate. The debate focuses on what should be done to help the climate. VLOG #207 sheds a light on the likeliness that humanity cannot act as a collective. The direct effects are imperceptible to us.

Showering turd

• Arno de Grijs
• The Netherlands, 2018

Een drol neemt een verfrissende duik in het toilet.

The Bird & the Whale

• Carol Freeman
• Ireland, 2018
• 7 min.

The Bird and the Whale is a story about a young whale struggling to find his voice. After straying too far from his family to explore a shipwreck, he discovers its sole survivor, a caged songbird. Together they struggle to survive lost at sea.

The Thrilling Tales of Dreadful Draco and His Frightful Friends

• Bálint Kelen
• Hungary, 2019
• 11 min.

The story is set in the Transylvanian Monster Training Insitution. Our hero, Draco, a happy but ham-handed vampire boy along with his four friends are students here. Draco has a handicap: he faints from the sight of blood. He sets up a laboratory with the hopes of creating a synthetic blood. The experiment is successful, but the fake blood brings out unexpected side effects.