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CARTOONS UNDERGROUND 2022

WE'RE BACK IN PERSON!

We're back for our 11th edition of Cartoons Underground and are excited to announce that Southeast Asia's largest animation festival is back to our regular programming: an in-person screening at Projector X: Picturehouse!

Join us on 22 October 2022, and prepare yourselves for a rollercoaster ride of emotions with this year's 16 carefully selected films from around the world.

Check out our full programme and stay tuned for tickets, workshops, masterclasses and a kick-ass afterparty!

Check out previous EDITIONS!

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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.

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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.

 

Look at us
Focus on Women
Adventure Time

in 2019, we had 1,416 entries from 80 different countries. There were many great entries this year and it was tough to pick the final 19 films. Many of these were hand-drawn animations which conjured up evocative and  believable worlds.

 

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Join us at Cartoons Underground Facebook Group! Watch us as we build Cartoons Underground from the ground on our Facebook Group page. Feel free to post anything related to obscure art to quirky short animation clips. Our Facebook Group is the place to be to view exclusive trailers and artwork. Cheers, V

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By cartoonsunderground | December 17, 2012

  “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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By cartoonsunderground | November 23, 2012

[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

By cartoonsunderground | November 6, 2012

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…