Shorts 1: Family is a Dream

65 minutes
Shorts 1: Family is a Dream

The Premiere League, De Eredivisie, La Liga or Die Bundesliga of the Kaboom Animation Festival. Expect top-notch assortments of the latest and greatest shorts from planet Earth. These animated pieces of art compete for our Kaboom Awards!

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2020-2021

Showing in this program

And Yet We Are Not Super Heroes

And Yet We Are Not Super Heroes

  • Lia Bertels
  • Belgium / Portugal / France, 2019
  • 12 min.

When you’re a child, there’s this fragile moment where the boundary between fantasy and reality is shattered. This is the testimony of these children between two worlds, to whom the word was given freely.

Cherry on the Cake

Cherry on the Cake

  • Chloé Farr
  • Belgium, 2020
  • 5 min.

Dani, a young babysitter, has just arrived to babysit the twins.
Before the parents leave, they show Dani a sumptuous cake in the fridge which he must not touch.
Once the twins are in bed, Dani, mesmerised by the gorgeous cake, returns to the kitchen. He opens the door of the refrigerator, and can’t believe his eyes: the cake has disappeared.
He begins an obsessive and surrealist search all over t

Dayfly

Dayfly

  • Baoxingchen Yi
  • China, 2020
  • 14 min.

A dayfly is born at 0 o'clock and dies at 0 o'clock the next day. It in a short day, inadvertently passed many people's lives.

Invade

Invade

  • Man Sze Wong
  • Hong Kong, 2020
  • 5 min.

Music video for the track “入侵” (Invade) by more reverb - mostly made with powdered charcoal and compressed charcoal.

KKUM

KKUM

  • Kangmin Kim
  • South Korea / United States, 2020
  • 8 min.

My mother’s dreams have always been strong premonitions for important moments in my life.
I rely on her dreams more than any religion.

Little Miss Fate

Little Miss Fate

  • Joder von Rotz
  • Switzerland, 2020
  • 8 min.

Little Miss Fate lives in a world driven by fate. When the opportunity arises, she slips into the role of the world leader. Unintentionally she creates a monster, which greedily wants to suck up all the love of the world. Overwhelmed by the rapid development, she loses control.

shapes.colours.people.  and floatingdown

shapes.colours.people. and floatingdown

  • Peter Millard
  • United Kingdom, 2020
  • 3 min.

no one can hear you when your floating and struggling through a midst of thick mash potato esque substance and colours in a constant state of unhappy happyness.

Ties

Ties

  • Dina Velikovskaya
  • Germany / Russia, 2019
  • 7 min.

There is a strong connection between parents and their child. A young woman leaves the parental home to see the world. But the world of her parents is so tightly connected with her that by leaving, she puts it at risk. It turns out that this connection can be also destructive.