Short Sweets (6+)

70 minutes

O sweet summer childs! A supercool selection of both sweet shorts and short sweets for kids of ages 6 and up.

Short Sweets (6+)

Name something better than melting away at the sight of sweet animated short films. We'll wait (BUT THERE IS NOTHING BETTER)! Take the whole family with you and enjoy this programme of shorts for kids of ages 6 and up.

In the cinema these films will be live dubbed in Dutch.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2025

Showing in this program

A Walk Into the Afterlife

A Walk Into the Afterlife

  • Jiyun Jeong
  • Luxembourg, 2024
  • 4 min.

A little cat takes a trip to the afterlife garden in search of a magical flower.

Baking With Boris

Baking With Boris

  • Maša Avramović
  • France / Switzerland / Croatia, 2023
  • 8 min.

Every morning, Boris the village baker makes a fresh batch of crusty bread and pastries for all his neighbours until… Achoo! He can’t stop sneezing. He has become allergic to flour. How will he manage to keep baking for everyone in the village?

Just Little Imps

Just Little Imps

  • Students from Highschool of Escola Básica Maria Pais Ribeiro - A Ribeirinha / Leonor Pacheco / Dimitri Mihajlovic
  • Portugal, 2023
  • 3 min.

A little girl struggles to fall asleep, but every time she closes her eyes, small impish creatures appear from the darkness.

Lola and the Sound Piano

Lola and the Sound Piano

  • Augusto Zanovello
  • France / Poland / Switzerland, 2024
  • 27 min.

Lola is the older sister of Simon, aged 5, who lives in a world of his own. By observing him, she notices how sensitive he is to small, hidden sounds. With her friend Rolih, she decides to build a noise machine to communicate with him.

The Genie in the Bottle

The Genie in the Bottle

  • Thomas Leclercq
  • Belgium / France, 2024
  • 8 min.

Alaia, a 6-year-old girl, is bored on the beach. She'd like an ice cream but her daddy wants to finish his nap first, so he suggests she make a sandcastle. She walks away with a shovel and starts digging a hole. She grumbled and dug deeper and deeper. Suddenly, she hits a hard, hollow object...
(Very) freely adapted from a tale from the Arabian Nights

The Night Boots

The Night Boots

  • Pierre-Luc Granjon
  • France, 2024
  • 12 min.

A kid explores the mystery of the forest despite his parents’ warnings in this 2D and Pinscreen animation.

The Refusers

The Refusers

  • Wiep Teeuwisse
  • The Netherlands, 2024
  • 2 min.

Dumped waste lies around two garbage containers. An old mattress laments, 'They say I’m dirty...' The objects share their stories. Then, an old paper dances beautifully, setting in motion a powerful change in how the waste perceives itself.