Shorts 3: Moody Salvation

75 minutes

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

Shorts 3: Moody Salvation

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 Dog Under a Bridge

A Dog Under a Bridge

  • Rehoo Tang
  • China, 2022
  • 12 min.

A Dog Under a Bridge shows how I view the society, in which I took the shape of a dog to observe people, trying to eliminate the loneliness of living in the city. It ended up that things which seemed normal to human could be much ridiculous in the eyes of a dog.

Bird in the Peninsula

Bird in the Peninsula

  • Atsushi Wada
  • France / Japan, 2022
  • 16 min.

Children dance to music under the supervision of their teacher. A young girl attends the scene and comes to disturb their ritual.

Empty Little People

Empty Little People

  • Mikai Geronimo / Josh O'Caoimh
  • Ireland, 2021
  • 2 min.

Empty little people, with an insatiable thirst for tea... begin running out of tea, on All Hallows' Eve.

Garrano

Garrano

  • David Doutel / Vasco Sá
  • Portugal / Lithuania, 2022
  • 14 min.

A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under a blazing sun; young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.

How Many

How Many

  • Bianca Scali
  • Germany, 2021
  • 2 min.

Mathieu is weighed down by many questions which put him in a heavy state. But as he
gives in to his sadness, the rain becomes tears and his tears become rain. He becomes
one with his sadness. It's his time to dance, and the tears accompany him.

I Gotta Cry

I Gotta Cry

  • Francesca Colombara
  • Italy, 2022
  • 2 min.

I Gotta Cry tells the story of two thieves who steal the Flying Mushrooms and escape across the desert riding a giant camel.
The two want to sell the mushrooms for money. A psychedelic trip will show them that those mushrooms have the power to connect you with the universe, experiencing deep emotions. After the trip, the two thieves decided to free the mushrooms, who fly across the starry sky.

Please Let Me In

Please Let Me In

  • Peter Millard
  • United Kingdom, 2022
  • 2 min.

please let me in. i want more! i need more! let me in!

Salvation Has No Name

Salvation Has No Name

  • Joseph Wallace
  • United Kingdom / France / Czech Republic, 2022
  • 16 min.

A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a Priest and a refugee but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.

The Devil is Dancing

The Devil is Dancing

  • Marion Letot
  • France, 2022
  • 4 min.

Two young sisters see their harmony disturbed when a relic appears in their daily life, revealing a vice in the heart of one of them.