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CARTOONS UNDERGROUND 2023

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Watch Cartoons Underground 2022 Highlights Reel below to get excited about what's coming up this year!

Check out previous EDITIONS!

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.

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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.

 

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  “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 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…