KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival Full Program Published

28 October 2013 // Hot off the Press

Skwigly

Animation Magazine

The full program of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival has been published online at klikamsterdam.nl/festival/program. With the program announcement, the ticket sale is in full swing. From November the 12^th until the 17^th KLIK! presents the competitions: Animated Shorts, Animated Student Shorts, Animation For Hire, Political Animated Shorts and 3-D Stereoscopic Animated Shorts. Another highlight is the delightful theme program ‘The Fabulous Fifties’. There is also the choice of a rich array of feature films, talks, workshops and games and time to do a little dance during KLIK! KLIK! BOOM!.

Besides short animations, KLIK! also screens magnificently animated feature films and documentaries. At Saturday there is a special preview of The Congress, the long-awaited successor of Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir. This is the chance to see the film before it’s screened in Dutch theaters at the beginning of January.

The Dutch premier of the documentary Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony will astonish the audience with the intriguing phenomenon of ‘Bronies’, the male fans of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series.

The documentary Presistence of Vision is all about the best animation film never made; a fascinating life project of animation director Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?). As a fan of the unfinished work, director Garrett Gilchrist decided to make a finished version like Williams intended named The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut. Both films can be seen at KLIK!.

As a part of the theme The Fabulous Fifties, the feature film from 1962 Gay Purr-ee will be screened. This mix of Van Gogh and Disney style with the voice of Judy Garland (The Wizzard of Oz) is a real must-see.

On the Friday and Saturdaynight, KLIK! stirs EYE and Toren with some dance moves. On Friday the live jazz music from The Ob6sions will move the audience in a fifties-stylized party. And last but not least, there is time to do a little dance during KLIK! KLIK! BOOM! on the Saturdaynight of KLIK!. This night, the French duo Gangpol & Mit will treat the audience on a visual spectacle.