Shorts 6: We’re All in This Together

75 minutes

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

Shorts 6: We’re All in This Together

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

B Planet

B Planet

  • Jan Moravec
  • Spain, 2021
  • 4 min.

A Journey into a psychedelic abstraction, pulling the viewer into the now. Reality peppered with acidic distortions that transforms space into a super-vitaminated universe.
It's official music video for Red Snapper's new single 'B planet'

Bami

Bami

  • Eline Vanderbemden
  • Belgium, 2021
  • 4 min.

A loving grandmother gets everything ready for dinner with her big family, but this is so much work that she literally has to grow extra limbs. As everything goes wrong in the kitchen, the grandmother gets more and more stressed. She turns into a monster, but with the help of her family, she can turn back into herself.

Do Not Feed The Pigeons

Do Not Feed The Pigeons

  • Antonin Niclass
  • United Kingdom, 2021
  • 8 min.

Even in a lonely, revolting and boring place such as a coach station, a little bit of harmony can always be found...

Firefighter

Firefighter

  • Yulia Aronova
  • France, 2020
  • 9 min.

Climbed on his watchtower, a firefighter scans the city, ready to brave all dangers. However, the streets are calm and peaceful, there is never a fire here. Desperate, the firefighter is ready to give up his job. But one day, he meets a woman who burns with love for him.
So he finds meaning in his life!

Navozande, the Musician

Navozande, the Musician

  • Reza Riahi
  • France, 2020
  • 14 min.

During a vicious attack, a young musician and the love of his life are brutally separated from one another. Fifty years later, the musician is summoned to play at the Mongol castle where his beloved has been held.

Poum Poum!

Poum Poum!

  • Damien Tran
  • France, 2021
  • 5 min.

Poum Poum! is a musical animated film which celebrates the simple and childish joy of hitting drums, scribbling on paper using marker pens, splashing paint or making cracked cymbals screech. Poum Poum! finds chaos, mishaps amusing and aims at spreading a spontaneous and joyful creative energy.

Summer Nights

Summer Nights

  • Ezequiel Torres / Pablo Roldan
  • Argentina, 2020
  • 3 min.

Three old friends have a ritual to welcome a new member of the "cool kid" gang. A get-together with past summers, that brings back childhood memories.

Terra Incognita

Terra Incognita

  • Adrian Dexter / Pernille Kjaer
  • France / Denmark, 2021
  • 21 min.

Terra Incognita follows life on a mysterious island, inhabited by immortal beings. These beings lead a pre-civilized life forgotten by time, spending their endless days in hedonistic lethargy. Through anecdotal vignettes, the film tells the story of what happens when these beings are visited by the outside world, and whether or not there is a greater meaning to it all.