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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!
An old Cosmonaut lives the same kind of life now in his flat in a concrete panel apartment building as he did in his youth in a space station. As before, he still carries out heroic missions and misses his close relatives, who he left behind on his home planet. His close relatives see the situation altogether differently. Is this old man capable of coming to grips with the norms that apply in soci
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In a madcap musical, a catstronaut travels the galaxy looking for the meaning of life, when she encounters a space pup eager to help but only gets them into trouble at every turn.
While his wife believes him at a coroporate seminar in Paris, Jean-Luc is sitting un a boat moving in the bayou somewhere in Louisiana. He has an appointment with the voodoo wizard Richardson. This wizard is know for solving all the problems.
Young Pilar and her friend Baldr have barricaded themselves from whatever it is that threatens them. One day, their safe haven is once more disturbed and they catch and kill the dangerous intruder: a wild and huge chamois-like beast. Pilar connects with it and this releases her inner animal that has been yearning to break free.
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We are all immigrants. Some leave cities or countries, all of us leave our childhood. Like the Minotaur of mythology, we roam through personal labyrinths, carrying nothing but a suitcase of memories, a portable time capsule filled with assorted mementoes from a past we can no longer reach.
The first fully animated film made using the encaustic-painting technique, The Physics of Sorrow, inspired by the novel by Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov, tracks the outlines of an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of circuses, bubble-gum wrappers, first crushes, army service from his youth in communist Bulgaria, and an increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada—all the while struggling to find home, family and self.
Superbly drawn and animated by Academy Award® nominee Theodore Ushev (Blind Vaysha, Lipsett Diaries), each image in The Physics of Sorrow is a work of art, aptly evoking the mesmerizing existence of its nostalgic protagonist.
Kaboom Animation Festival is the one-stop-shop for the latest and greatest in all things animated. Ranging from cutting-edge experimental arthouse to colorful stories for families and kids, Kaboom will cater to the animation needs of all. Yes, even yours, my amazing weirdo friend!
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