About the festival: Kaboom Animation Festival (Kaboom) is an annual animation festival organized by Stichting Kaboom Animation Festival (the Kaboom Animation Festival Foundation). 

Kaboom Animation Festival Call For Entries 

The 2026 edition will take place between 13 and 22 March. Screenings will take place both physically (in the cinema) and online (on our online platform). All screenings of online content will be geoblocked to the Netherlands only. Worldwide access to online screenings is granted to accredited Industry Guests only.

Eligibility criteria:

Festival submissions are open to films, immersive projects and games made in all animation techniques that
- were finished after January 1, 2024, and not previously submitted to the festival.
- contain a substantial amount of animation of any technique. Combinations of animation and live-action may be eligible, as long as the larger part of the film is animated. The Festival reserves the right to determine whether films qualify as animation.
- For shorts: are no longer than 30 minutes excluding credits.
No entry fee is charged for submitting an animation to Kaboom Festival’s competitions. Per filmmaker a maximum of 3 separate films/projects may be submitted

 

Categories

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 maximum length for animated shorts in all shorts categories is 30 mins., excluding credits. If your film exceeds this length, then you can submit it under “Other”. Please note the programmers reserve the right to move a submitted film to another category if they see a better fit.

• Regulations
• Submissions
• Deadline: 1 October 2025
  

 

NB: 2027 Festival Dates are tentative