Festival
Kaboom 2025
27 — 30 March 2025
This year, we’re diving headfirst into the bold, the rebellious, and the unapologetic. Through the theme “Provocation,” we celebrate animation as a powerful medium for defiance, resilience, and transformation. At the heart of the program are daring animations featuring provocative women, who represent animation as a medium for rebellion and change. Through various animations that push the boundaries and depict personal and political resistance, we invite audiences to reflect and exchange critical conversations.
Let’s be real—conformity is boring, outdated and even dangerous. Resistance is what changes history, sparks creativity, and fuels innovation. Some of the most powerful animated stories ever told were born from resistance. Sixty years ago, the Provo movement shook Amsterdam with its anarchist creativity, by challenging authority and reimagining the public space. As the city itself marks 750 years, what better way to celebrate than by amplifying voices that refuse to be tamed?
Let’s dive into the stories of Kaboom 2025, from radical, disruptive, DIY-styled works to stories about defiance, rage or the aimlessness of it all. These films offer hyperbolic middle fingers to normative systems and aesthetics.
poster Kaboom Animation Festival 2025
Festival programme
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