These
shorts will remind you that life is kind of like bouncing around
Dante’s nine circles of hell but with the added heavenly perks of cake,
doggos and love.

But that’s fine. I’m fine. We’re fine! At least we've got these awesome toons to keep us well and truly cathartic.

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018

Showing in this program

(OO)

• Seo-ro Oh
• South Korea, 2017
• 6 min.

The events that occur in somebody's nostrils.

1st Day & Next Minute

• Sara Koppel
• Denmark, 2017
• 2 min.

"1st DAY & NEXY MINUTE"
Is an explicit punkrush adventure
into a gender fluid-persons zone of desires
Where lust & responsibility
is constantly dividing & demanding needs.

A Double Life

• Job / Joris & Marieke
• The Netherlands, 2018
• 2 min.

A man ridicules his wife’s fascination for masculinity, but she’s dead serious…

Five minutes to sea

• Natalia Mirzoyan
• Russia, 2018
• 7 min.

Mom tells her daughter to have a five minute break before she’s allowed to swim again. Those five minutes seem like eternity to the little girl. She’s trying to entertain herself by watching other beach goers who spend their own five minutes in different ways. However, everyone is waiting for their own “swim”.

Hauschka: Constant Growth Fails

• Daniel Gray
• Hungary, 2017
• 4 min.

Synopsis: Animated experimental short with the music from the Golden Globe nominated Volker Bertelmann.

Hybrids

• Florian Brauch / Kim Tailhades / Matthieu Pujol / Romain Thirion / Yohan Thireau
• France, 2017
• 6 min.

When marine wildlife has to adapt to the pollution surrounding it, the rules of survival change…

Manimals

• Jihyeon Oh
• South Korea, 2017
• 4 min.

A woman remembers her former boyfriends as animals.

My Little Goat

• Tomoki Misato
• Japan, 2018
• 10 min.

The mother goat rescues her little goats from the wolf's belly. But, she can't find Toruku, her eldest son! Where is Toruku?!

Room 29

• Geertrui De Vijlder
• Belgium, 2018
• 3 min.

Between the four cement walls of his small room, the middle-aged man, Valère, muses about everything and nothing. He seems confused, and yet, very aware of life.

Sparky

• Dian Liang
• China / United States, 2018
• 4 min.

Sparky likes to gaze out of the window,
to see every possible or impossible thing.

The Fall

• Boris Labbé
• France, 2018
• 14 min.

As celestial beings descend to Earth vitiating its population, the world’s order unbalances. Initiated by these terms, a tragic fall leads to the parturition of crucial opposites: Hell and Heaven’s circles.

Wine Wenches

• Esther Heerikhuisen
• The Netherlands, 2018
• 3 min.

Three wine loving women go for a night out but through their behavior the night gets out of hand in a most hilarious way.