Shorts 3: Mental Health, or Was It Mental Hell?

65 minutes

Forget the Super Bowl, this is the real deal: the Kaboom's Official Short Film Competition.

Shorts 3: Mental Health, or Was It Mental Hell?

The greatest competitions: the Olympics, the World Cup, De Eredivisie, the NBA, your local darts tournament, and of course … The Kaboom Short Film Competition. Forget the Super Bowl, the most exciting show on the planet is this competition filled with animated shorts from all corners of the galaxy.

Here, 59 films – including student shorts, films by seasoned directors and even music videos – battle it out for our coveted awards.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2022

Showing in this program

A Film About A Pudding

A Film About A Pudding

  • Roel van Beek
  • United Kingdom, 2021
  • 9 min.

After Ronin neglects to clear up her dropped groceries, they start to mix and bubble, transforming into a small pudding. Whilst this initially seems odd, for Ronin, it is easily ignorable. Over the next few days, the pudding grows bigger and bigger. As it threatens to engulf the entire city how far will she, and the other inhabitants of her city, go to continue ignoring it?

Chitchat

Chitchat

  • Elisa Baudy / Bradley Lejeune / Flore Pean / Gabin Ageorges / Jeanne Dalmas
  • France, 2021
  • 7 min.

Searching for social links, Oscar contacts strangers by phone, until he finds Arlette. During the conversation, he shares his insight about the world.

Keep Left

Keep Left

  • Maya Remenyi
  • United Kingdom, 2021
  • 3 min.

This meme inspired music video is essentially a cry from the everyday driver of Australia frustrated by the general incompetence on the roads
- in a ridiculous and hysterical way. Filled with annoying situations, funny characters, road rage vibes and funky visuals.

Manfredi Simonetti ft. Kimberly Mangano – Marte

Manfredi Simonetti ft. Kimberly Mangano – Marte

  • Francesca Colombara
  • Italy, 2021

"Marte" tells a love story and a break up between two caterpillars.

The Awakening of the Insects

The Awakening of the Insects

  • Stéphanie Lansaque / François Leroy
  • France, 2021
  • 14 min.

Hong Kong. Mr Lam is an old gentleman who loses his memory since the death of his wife. On March 5, the day of "the awakening of the hibernating insects", he receives the unexpected visit of old Ms. Meng. This Taoist exorcist is determined to chase the demons lodging in the head of the old man.

The Laugh

The Laugh

  • Capucine Gougelet
  • France, 2021
  • 3 min.

What if Laughter itself, laughingly, left mankind? Picture for a moment a world without color or spark… right before you burst into laughter!

The Night Watch

The Night Watch

  • Julien Regnard
  • France / Belgium, 2021
  • 12 min.

A couple rushes out of a glamorous party. On their way home, an argument leads to a brutal car accident. When George regains consciousness, Christina has disappeared. He will then experience a real descent into hell.

Thing

Thing

  • Malte Stein
  • Germany, 2021
  • 4 min.

Haunted by a little thing, a man gets driven to the edge.

What Dying Feels Like

What Dying Feels Like

  • Philip Ullman
  • The Netherlands, 2021
  • 9 min.

A mouse finds herself reciting childhood memories in a sterile living room. Shards of an alienating past paint the portrait of a human life. A sense of loss pervades the atmosphere as she's torn between being human and being mouse, between being alive and being in a simulation.