Shorts 2: Through Our and Other Eyes

70 minutes

The World Cup is over. Messi finally won. But this is the real deal: Kaboom's International Short Film Competition.

Shorts 2: Through Our and Other Eyes

Once upon a time ... Films from all over the world came together on a glorious battlefield. Victory would be for one of them. But there would be no losers, because talent and art are there to be celebrated, to be loved, to be remembered and to be devoured by you ... the audience. The battle would forever be known as Kaboom's International Short Film Competition. And we are honoured to organise that competition year in year out. In 2023, a large number of short films battle it out for our coveted awards!

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2023

Showing in this program

A Story for 2 Trumpets

A Story for 2 Trumpets

  • Amandine Meyer
  • France, 2021
  • 5 min.

Initiatory and intimate story in which the author tells, in the form of a tale, the key stages of her construction as a woman and artist.

Above the Clouds

Above the Clouds

  • Vivien Hárshegyi
  • Hungary, 2022
  • 13 min.

A girl falls in love again, which fills her with dread. She runs away and is caught in a whirlpool of old memories. In her imagination, she relives the highs and lows of her first love experience, then comes to a crossroads - will she be able to free her soul to face the future with an open heart?

Funeral at Nine

Funeral at Nine

  • Mamadou Barry / Rodrigo Veras / Ziyu Wang / Junhao Xiang / Wang Yu / Linfeng Zhou
  • France, 2022
  • 5 min.

In a small town, a funeral is held after the death of a gardener. Three brothers find themselves lost in their imaginations on the day of the burial.

Goodbye Jérôme!

Goodbye Jérôme!

  • Adam Sillard / Gabrielle Selnet / Chloé Farr
  • France, 2021
  • 7 min.

Having just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colourful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.

Hairy Situations

Hairy Situations

  • Dal Park
  • Germany, 2022

A hairdresser struggles to keep up with her demanding clients.

Home of the Heart

Home of the Heart

  • Sarah Saidan
  • France, 2021
  • 14 min.

Omid is an Iranian immigrant who came to France with his family. One evening, in the street, he is attacked and stabbed in the heart. But Omid gets back up! At the hospital, the diagnosis is formal: he has no heart. Has he left it behind in Iran?

RIM

RIM

  • Hagar Faibish
  • Germany, 2022
  • 6 min.

The isolation of a character from his dystopian world and a fusion with a virtual world of television. The character begins to zap through the television channels and as the film progresses, climbs further and further into the virtual world of the television. Through purchasable keys, he is able to immerse himself in the programs that promise various emotional states and escape from his dreary outside world. In the course of the film, the character loses touch with his outer world bit by bit.

Skinned

Skinned

  • Joachim Herisse
  • France, 2022
  • 14 min.

In an old building, lost in the middle of the swamp, live two strange women, Siamese twins by one leg. At night, the Flayed has terrifying nightmares in which she sees her sister's flesh covering her own body...

Yet Again

Yet Again

  • Michelangelo Ciminale
  • Italy, 2022
  • 2 min.

Animated music video in which abstract and figurative images interact. Made with the stop motion technique, using plasticine.