Expect assortments of the latest and greatest shorts from around the globe. These animation tapas are fighting for one of our coveted awards.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019

Showing in this program

A Date

• Michaela Mihalyi
• Czech Republic, 2018

when menstrual tampon prepares a date.

ACID RAIN

• Tomek Popakul
• Poland, 2019
• 26 min.

Somewhere in the Eastern Europe. Young runs away from her depressing hometown. That’s how she meets Skinny – a kind of unstable weirdo who lives in a camper and runs his not-so-legal errands. Their journey gradually leads them towards more and more eerie settings.

Duerrenwaid 8

• Ines Christine Geißer / Kirsten Carina Geißer
• Germany, 2018
• 6 min.

A house, a garden, a stream. The behive on the hillside, the shack, the wooden hut
and the shed. Inbetween we find memories, stories and observations. The past, the
present and the future.

Farce

• Robin Jensen
• Norway, 2019
• 10 min.

A man, a woman and a meat grinder. Love is messy.

Francobollo – We’re Dead

• Samuel Lewis
• United Kingdom, 2018
• 4 min.

Music video for the rad dudes of wonky pop quartet Francobollo. All the plastic in the video was collected off the streets of East London, cleaned by hand, animated and then recycled afterwards.

Lea Porcelain – The Love

• Jakob Schmidt
• Germany, 2019
• 3 min.

"THE LOVE" is a dark and dystopic animated music video about a wasted couple that gets lost in a dreamy desert scene.

Mitya’s Love

• Svetlana Filippova
• Russia, 2018
• 14 min.

The film is based on "Mitya's Love", a short story by Boris Shergin. The story is about how Mitya was looking for his love.
The film uses images by masters of Russian avant-garde: Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, as well as masters of naïve art: Pavel Leonov and LyubovMajkova.

The Dawn of Ape

• Mirai Mizue
• Japan, 2019
• 4 min.

Here is the world’s first animation made to be watched by chimpanzees. Just for this once, we will show it to you humans.