Shorts 3: Stranger Things

65 minutes
Shorts 3: Stranger Things

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

Black Sheep Boy

Black Sheep Boy

  • James Molle
  • France, 2019
  • 14 min.

The tribulations and adventures of a young man wearing a cap, moving through a strange world populated by anthropomorphic creatures. In search of happiness although he doesn't know where to find it, he embarks on a philosophical and personal quest.

Good

Good

  • Chun-Ting Ou
  • Taiwan, 2020
  • 4 min.

WEI-ROU is a girl in the elementary school, who is still naïve and innocent but has begun to think on her own. The conception of being good and behaved, particularly to ignorant children, becomes the criterion of the society, which will accompany their growth an d shackle them throughout their lives.

Jo Goes Hunting – Careful

Jo Goes Hunting – Careful

  • Alice Saey
  • France / The Netherlands, 2019
  • 3 min.

On the borderless map of a magical planet, little beings pick, brush, weave, fish and collect elements from
their natural environment to sustain their life as a group.
This essential balance turns to chaos once they misuse their findings to polish their individual appearance.

Seoulsori

Seoulsori

  • Kyoung-bae Kim
  • South Korea, 2020
  • 3 min.

The boy is swept up and gets lost in the parade pouring into the room.

Strange Occurrences: Bukit Bulabu

Strange Occurrences: Bukit Bulabu

  • Shi Teng Wong / Gloria Yeo / Hana Lee
  • Singapore, 2020
  • 7 min.

Strange Occurrences: Bukit Bulabu is a fictional ghost documentary done in stop motion. The story takes place in Singapore and involves a Singaporean influencer, a German Professor and a Singaporean Auntie who is a “superstitions expert”. With the interviewees recounting their haunted experience at the rediscovered colonial bathroom atop Bukit Bulabu, an underlying family history unfolds.

The Surrogate

The Surrogate

  • Stas Santimov
  • Ukraine, 2020
  • 6 min.

In this grim and menacing tale, a man destroys the nest of an unknown creepy creature. But it's not the most horrible creature he will meet tonight. 

Tie

Tie

  • Alexandra Ramires
  • France / Portugal, 2020
  • 11 min.

Under a gloomy sun, two characters look for adaptation.

Why Slugs Have No Legs

Why Slugs Have No Legs

  • Aline Höchli
  • Switzerland, 2019
  • 10 min.

Slugs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of life in the city of insects. When a financial crisis hits, the industrious bees only see one solution…