Animation is an extremely versatile medium that knows many different forms, shapes and sizes, one of them being the short animated film – the beating, blood squirting heart of the KLIK! festival. The best animated shorts have assembled in our International Competitions programs. After our KLIK! call for entries echoed throughout the world, more than 1100 short animated films from 71 countries flooded in. Following a survival of the fittest, the selection committee was left with the meanest, leanest, best animated bad MF’s of contemporary animation. Prepare to laugh out loud, be scared out of your skull and stifle a sob during our 65 to 80 minutes long batches of the most amazing short animated films recently made. Enjoy! All films are English, Dutch or Gibberish spoken and/or have English subtitles. | |
Animated Shorts 1 Thursday November 8, 14h15, EYE Cinema 4 // Get tickets The Animated Shorts programs collect the very best animation recently made on the planet. Animated Shorts 1 features lonely olives, jealous Chinese concubines and phone calls from Mars. | |
Animated Shorts 2 Thursday November 8, 16h00, EYE Cinema 4 // Get tickets The Animated Shorts programs collect the very best animation recently made on the planet. Animated Shorts 2 shows you Bill dealing with his illness, erotic fantasies of a tram conductress and ants thinking big. | |
Animated Shorts 3 Thursday November 8, 17h30, EYE Cinema 2 // Get tickets The Animated Shorts programs collect the very best animation recently made on the planet. Animated Shorts 3 is filled with bittersweet youth memories and tragic suicide attempts, but also happiness and vanishing cows. | |
Animated Shorts 4 Friday November 9, 16h30, EYE Cinema 4 // Get tickets The Animated Shorts programs collect the very best animation recently made on the planet. Animated Shorts 4 makes you identificate with a donkey, think about human nature and swim around in questionably colored food. | |
Animated Shorts 5 Friday November 9, 18h15, EYE Cinema 4 // Get tickets The Animated Shorts programs collect the very best animation recently made on the planet. Animated Shorts 5 tells stories about clumsy but adorably enthusiastic tourists, Dave and Emma’s wish for a child and a chicken on his daily morning stroll. | |
Animated Student Shorts 1 Thursday November 8, 17h45, EYE Cinema 4 // Get tickets Be the first to catch the rising stars of the animation world in this selection with the creamiest of the crop of animated student films! Animated Student Shorts 1 takes on subjects like children dealing with death, feeling all alone and abandoning cute monsters. | |
Animated Student Shorts 2 Thursday November 8, 19h45, EYE Cinema 4 // Get tickets Be the first to catch the rising stars of the animation world in this selection with the creamiest of the crop of animated student films! Animated Student Shorts 2 contains drunkards in the park, a retired circus performer and people in search for love and friendship. | |
Animated Student Shorts 3 Thursday November 8, 21h30, EYE Cinema 4 // Get tickets Be the first to catch the rising stars of the animation world in this selection with the creamiest of the crop of animated student films! Animated Student Shorts 3 presents you personal doubts, snails in wartime and unhealthy love between a farmer and his sheep. | |
Animation for Hire Friday November 9, 13h00, EYE Cinema 4 // Get tickets Animators don’t just live on dandelions and pencil shavings: they need some money to spend on booze and a strippers from time to time. Animation for Hire showcases the best commissioned films, including trailers, promo’s, bumpers, leaders, commercials, viral videos and music videos. Short and sweet, just the way we like ‘em. | |
Political Animated Shorts Friday November 9, 14h45, EYE Cinema 4 // Get tickets Animation can address political, religious and social issues with the bluntness of a warhammer, driving a point home through your spleen, or in a subtle way, like an acupuncture needle slowly working its way through your epidermis. Political Animated Shorts assembles the best shorts that make a point, be it blunt or subtle. | |
3-D Stereoscopic Animated Shorts Friday November 9, 14h30, EYE Cinema 3 // Get tickets Every feature flick seems to be 3-D nowadays, but not every film makes thoughtful use of the technique. The independent stereoscopic shorts included in this program show you how stereoscopy can be used in different ways other than just seemingly chucking random stuff in the general direction of your noggin. | |