Kaboom Animation Festival is an annual animation festival organized by the Kaboom Animation Festival Foundation. The Call for Entries is now open!

  
Kaboom Animation Festival is a versatile festival with many programmes. Films can be submitted in the following categories:

  
* Animated Short\* (films created outside of educational programmes)
* Animated Student Short\* (films finished while the maker was enrolled in an educational program)
* Commissioned Animation (films commissioned by a third party - this includes music videos!)
* Animated Documentary
* Animated Virtual Reality
* Animated Features (over 60 min.)
* Other (this includes films that are between 30 and 60 minutes, art installations and games)

The 2025 edition will take place between 21 and 30 March. **Screenings will take place both physically (in the cinema) and online (on our online platform).** All screenings of online content will be geo-blocked to the Netherlands only. Worldwide access to online screenings is granted to accredited Industry Guests only.

  
Per selected film one festival pass is granted which gives access to all screenings and special events, both online and offline. 

  
**Films will be eligible for the following awards:** \- Best Short - Best Student Short - Best Experimental Short (audience award) - Best VR - Best Dutch Student Short - Best Dutch Professional Short - Best Documentary - Best Commissioned Short (audience award) - Kids Audience Award (audience award) - Best Short (audience award) - Best Feature (audience award) - The Kaboom Nancy Award - The Kaboom Jamie Bolio Award

  
**Please note that any monetary prizes won will be paid out within six months after the festival ends.**

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