Organizers of the Kaboom Animation Festival have announced the Official Selection for the 2024, featuring a lineup of 178 films and VR works from around the globe. This edition offers visitors nine categories to explore, including International Shorts, Dutch Shorts, Commissioned Shorts, Shorts for Kids, Short Docs, VR Projects and the specially curated New Directions, Poetry in Motion and Bonkers Shorts sections.
Kaboom will run April 5-14 in Amsterdam, Utrecht and online. The Netherlands festival is an Oscar-qualifying competition, with the winners of the International Short and Dutch Professional Short categories eligible for consideration for the Academy Awards short film race.
In addition to the animated film contest, the event also offers visitors Kaboom Industry Days (April 9-10) at HKU in Utrecht, focusing on young talent on the first day, and dedicated to animation industry pros on the second. Tickets for Kaboom 2024 will go on sale March 8.
The films competing in the International Shorts program are listed below; find the full lineup on the Kaboom website here.
In alphabetical order:
- 27 — Flóra Anna Buda (France, Hungary)
- Aaaah! — Osman Cerfon (France)
- Architect A — Jonghoon Lee (South Korea)
- Beautiful Men — Nicolas Keppens (Belgium, The Netherlands, France)
- Box Cutters — Naomi van Niekerk (France, The Netherlands, South Africa)
- The Cactus — Ricardo Kump (Brazil)
- Compound Eyes of Tropical — Zhan Zhang-Xu (Taiwan)
- Cuddle — Margot Reumont (Belgium)
- Dessert Dachshund — Betina Bozek (Poland)
- Drijf — Levi Stoops (Belgium)
- Electra — Daria Kashcheeva (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia)
- Fox Tossing — Zénó Mira (Hungary)
- Frozen Frog — Yiyang Sun (China)
- The Garden of Heart — Oliver Hegyi (Hungary)
- I’m Perfectly Fine — Dario van Vree (The Netherlands, Belgium)
- Is Heaven Blue #2 — Menno de Nooijer, Paul de Nooijer (The Netherlands, Norway)
- It’s Just a Whole — Bianca Scali (Germany)
- A Kind of Testament — Stephen Vuillemin (France)
- The Lovers — Carolina Sandvik (Sweden)
- Martyr’s Guidebook — Maks Rzontkowski (Poland)
- The Master of the Swamps — Sasha Svirksy (Germany)
- Matta and Matto — Bianca Caderas, Kerstin Zemp (Switzerland)
- Maurice’s Bar — Tzor Edery, Tom Prezman (France, Israel)
- My Name Is Edgar and I Have a Cow — Filip Diviak (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
- Noodles au Naturel — Matteo Salanave Piazza (France)
- Nun or Never! — Heta Jäälinoja (Finland)
- Our Love Is Immortal — Ender Yildizhan (Turkey)
- Our Uniform — Yegane Moghaddam (Iran)
- Peeing in the Wild — Emma Vandevelde (Belgium)
- Peeping Mom — Francis Canitrot (France)
- The Purple Season — Clémence Bouchereau (France)
- Pushing Up Daisies — Chloé Farr (France)
- Red Shoes — Diyala Muir (United Kingdom)
- Republika — Antonia Begusic (Croatia)
- Return — Lindong Chen (Japan)
- Such Miracles Do Happen — Barbara Rupik (Poland)
- Tomoyai — Masataka Kihara (Japan)
- The Tree’s Home — Hyemi Kim (South Korea)
- Wow — Faiyaz Jafri (Canada)
- Yuck! — Loïc Espuche (France)
- Zima — Tomek Popukul, Kasumi Ozeki (Poland)
