CARTOONS UNDERGROUND 2023
Cartoons Underground is back with another edition on November 25, 2023! The team behind South East Asia's largest animation festival have prepared an exciting programme, specially curating 15 amazing films selected from over 1500 submissions from over 100 different countries.
Join us for exciting Masterclasses with seasoned animation professionals and Partner screenings showcasing even more Asian animated stories.
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Out of this world
Wild Times
In 2022, a total of 16 works were selected from an incredible 1,681 entries submitted from 96 different countries - the highest number of submissions received in the history of the festival. The final selection of films is made of of many high quality films telling unique stories, evoking powerful emotions, tackling mature themes and challenging the animation medium.
2021
Super Humans
Impossible Dreams
Young Ones
Retrospective
Celebrating a decade of animation at Cartoons Underground, we had an exciting line up of 13 carefully chosen films from over 1,000 submissions from 83 countries, and 5 student films from Singapore. Exclusively for our 10th year, we looked back with five films that our audience loved from past editions.
2020
I love you too
asian focus
oh memories...
Pandemic year brought Cartoons Underground international online! 5 day festival featured panel discussions, 360 world to explore, and jaw dropping films carefully selected out of 1,321 entries submitted from 88 different countries.
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Cartoons Underground 2012
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibgVeoaqfuM&w=560&h=315] Cartoons Underground 2012 was a major hit. With a large crowd of over 250 people, the festival was entertaining, raunchy and great fun. It was one of those magical moments when there were triple the amount of attendees than Facebook RSVPs. A rare moment of greatness and true reflection of this country’s hunger for…
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C.U. featured in IS magazine
“Not for the kids. Singapore’s first underground animation festival Cartoons Underground showcased some of the best independent animations from around the world, with a majority of films in the screening list previously restricted in Asia. But if you’ve missed the “mind-blowing” and “raunchy” (as described by organisers Vicky Chen and Patrick Smith)shorts, here are a…
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRBCraOA-Xk&w=560&h=315] We have reached our crowd-funding goal after only 4 days! Thank you for the immense support! — If you would like to help us, please place a donation here. We have some awesome gifts for you! Gifts range from posters, postcards, popcorn to a unique portrait of you or your loved ones by a…
Kachang Puteh VS Popcorn
What goes well with beer and alcohol? Bar snacks, duh! So should we go nostalgic by serving Kachang puteh, a famous snack from the 80s, at Cartoons Underground? Or Should we serve the classic and well-loved movie going snack, Popcorn ? Or How about both? After the afternoon downpour, Shalini and I made a visit…