These short animated documentaries don't mess around: real stories, real subjects, real emotions.
Short Docs does not refer to small doctors (it would be cool, though!), but to short documentaries, an often-neglected genre in the film industry. Yet, animation can help bring real stories to life and to deal with traumas, memories, difficult themes and so on. These short animated documentaries don’t mess around: real stories, real subjects, real emotions.
"Beep Beep" is an animated journal based on phone conversations I had with my parents, without them knowing I was recording them. Documented in a light hearted way, it is a representation of the relationship I have with my parents while being far away from home for the first time.
What it is like to be a girl in a boys world. Six girls share their own experiences playing woman’s football in a male dominated sport. Their stories are translated by different animation techniques to explore various narrative possibilities.
An intoxicated man spontaneously hijacks a plane and in the process starts emptying the aircraft's entire supply of beer. Needless to say, nothing goes his way.
A reckless boy in an almost desperate and therefore troublesome way persistently seeks the attention of his father – a photographer. Being confronted with his father’s artistic chaos and his obsessive fascination with photography-life, on his path of growing up these elements eventually become essential for strengthening their father-son bond.
My grandmother was a T'ung-yang-hsi. She has lived up to her fate. T'ung-yang-hsi is the traditional practice of pre-arranged marriage, selling a young girl to another family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law in productive roles.
Focusing on female issues, the film aims to reflect upon women's oppression and struggle for freedom. Trying to be true to the historical context in Taiwan, the narration is based on interviews with the director’s grandmother’s children, and research in feminism in animated short films during the pre-production stage. From microscopic to macroscopic, from personal witness to general phenomenon in society, the audiences may glimpse the long past, imagine women's situation in our own times, and look forward to striving for real gender equality in the future. Egg is an important symbol in the film. As the metaphor of women in the film, the eggs are the symbolization of the productive roles in the male-dominated society. After labor and oppression experienced by a T'ung-yang-hsi, the film reaches its climax with Hakka 'Old Mountain Song' combined with turbulent waves. Behind the rail track, there is the sea. Across the sea, therein lies freedom.
Egg is life per se. Eggs are fragile, but at the same time tough. My grandmother is an egg.
A woman goes for a swim in the Icelandic sea and reflects on her experience of raising a child in a country that feels nothing like home. As she enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy and postnatal depression. Soon her swimming eases. Being in the wild and facing her fears is helping her heal. On The Surface is a film about being an immigrant, a Black woman and a mother.
Here you are SCUM, caged creature. Your gaze wavers inside the rage of our time. Your scream testifies to an individual and societal wound, a traumatic memory of our condition to overthrow. Your gesture, survival drive, questions our visceral link to violence. SCUM, in your silicon hands young germs are growing and mutating.
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The ever-vibrant Mr. P. N. K Panicker has several shockers up his sleeve. He takes the viewer along a moonlit stroll and paints a quirky picture of the supernatural encounters he has had.
Some humans are born with a set of variable characteristics, which they call Down syndrome. A flying saucer, dinosaurs and storks help us to try to understand what it is and what is the difference between having it or not.
Kaboom Animation Festival is the one-stop-shop for the latest and greatest in all things animated. Ranging from cutting-edge experimental arthouse to colorful stories for families and kids, Kaboom will cater to the animation needs of all. Yes, even yours, my amazing weirdo friend!
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