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  • The Miracle

    2023 Adults 15 min

    by Nienke Deutz

    Animated video for "Fly" by Djo. New album "The Crux".

    • Drama
  • Wild Frontier

    2015 Adults 4 min

    by Mascha Halberstad

    While camping in the woods Nelson discovers the true meaning of dualism.

    • Music video
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • Where is Anne Frank?

    2022 Adults 99 min

    by Ari Folman

    In her diary, Anne Frank addressed her imaginary friend Kitty. In his new animated film Where Is Anne Frank, Israeli director Ari Folman brings Kitty to life for the first time, telling her own story. In search of her best friend Anne Frank, Kitty becomes a witness to the Frank family’s last months in the Holocaust, and to Europe after the Second World War.

  • This Magnificent Cake!

    2018 Adults 43 min

    by Emma De Swaef, Marc Roels

    “Ce Magnifique Gâteau !” is a mid-length animated anthology film set in colonial Africa in the late 19th century. It tells the stories of 5 different characters: a troubled king, a middle-aged Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a failed businessman on an expedition, a lost porter, and a young army deserter.

  • by Conform Cox

    For a long time, humanity has separated itself from animality. But the more scientists know about non-human animals, the more they see similarities with humans. We need animal emancipation to go forward. This short movie makes a start in breaking down human’s hierarchical ideas about other animals, using real-life examples.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Monster of Nix

    2011 16+ 30 min

    by Rosto

    Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix… until an all-devouring monster appears. Young Willy has to fight it. Alone.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Midwinter Bonfire

    1990 4+ 22 min

    by Seitarô Hara, Masayuki Kojima

    Moomintroll wakes early from hibernation and, finding winter enchanting, wakes Snorkmaiden; they discover their firewood is gone, only to find Too-Ticky using it to build a massive bonfire on a cliff, a traditional ritual to welcome the sun’s return, which culminates in the chilling appearance of the Groke, adding a touch of winter’s danger to the celebration.

    • Fantasy
    • Adventure
    • Family
  • The Lost Mariner

    2014 16+ 6 min

    by Tess Martin

    An animated interpretation of Dr. Oliver Sacks’ case study found in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It uses photographs to visualize the rare memory condition of the patient Jimmie G.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Tess Martin

    A photograph is a window into the past, but sometimes, the border between past and present is not entirely clear. This stop-motion animation invites us to think about our relationship to time, by portraying one woman caught in the middle.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Splintertime

    2014 Adults 11 min

    by Rosto

    “Zip up and let’s dance to the sound of breaking glass.” A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Scrambled

    2018 7+ 6 min

    by Bastiaan Schravendeel

    When 19-year-old Esra misses her train and kills time playing a fast-paced, flashy game on her smartphone, a vintage Rubik’s Cube challenges her attention.

    • Comedy
    • Drama
  • Sad Beauty

    2020 16+ 10 min

    by Arjan Brentjes

    In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. We see her go against the stream of the indifferent masses, and make daily visits to the museum of natural history to make drawings of the ever increasing number of extinct animal species. Her considerate character doesn’t protect her from a bacterial infection when a global pandemic strikes. When her health deteriorates, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
  • Reruns

    2018 Adults 14 min

    by Rosto

    Everything’s different but nothing has changed. A trip through a sunken maze of memories and dreams.

  • Poisson vert

    2009 16+ 3 min

    by Nobody Beats the Drum, Rogier Can Der Zwaag

    Journey through a lightened forrest.

    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Pig

    2022 16+ 8 min

    by Jorn Leeuwerink

    A group of animals hooks up a power grid to the socket-shaped snout of one big, sleeping pig. The animals use the pig’s energy for simple things at first, but soon they render themselves dependent on a city where every single thing – the useful and the useless – is automated..

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Creative Europe Desks NL and Luxembourg, together with Kaboom Animation Festival, organized an interactive online session to learn all about the ins and outs of highly acclaimed European training initiatives The Animation Workshop, CEE Animation & La Poudrière. This recording of the Masterclass gives insights into how these programs tailored to the animation industry promote expertise and help you build and nurture a professional network across Europe.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
  • Oh Willy…

    2012 Adults 17 min

    by Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels

    Fifty-something Willy, plump and ill-at-ease, returns to the naturist community where he grew up to visit his dying mother. This brings back memories, not all of them pleasant, which build into an emotional crisis when his mother finally passes away.

  • No Place Like Home

    2008 Adults 6 min

    by Rosto

    A one-eyed has-been TV presenter hides away in a hotel room with his dead sidekick to watch reruns from their better days. “Let’s revive some of our moments now” he says to the corpse in his arms. “It’s OK, I’m just glad you are here.”

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • by Hiroshi Saito

    Moominfamily has already started hibernating when they are woken up by a busy Hemulen, who tells them they can’t possibly go on sleeping when Christmas is coming!