SATURGAY MORNING CARTOONS

Suggested watch time: 10/24 @ 12:00 PM PDT

Live Q&A with filmmakers: 10/24 @ 1:40 PM PDT

Grab your favorite sugary cereal and cozy up with these innovative animated shorts.

CO-PRESENTED BY QUEER SCOUTS SEATTLE AND BOISE PRIDE

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Varad Bhamburdekar; 2020; USA; 2 min.

Two male peacocks have trouble finding mates—until they find each other.

No dialogue

SIREN’S TALE (Cua de sirena)

Alba Barbé i Serra; 2020; Spain; 8 min.

A young child explores their identity and place in the world through the magic of the sea.

No dialogue

KEEP IN TOUCH

Memie Osuga; 2020; USA; 6 min.

Min and Lillian are best friends...but they’ve only ever met in the online world of the fantasy novel they’re writing together.

No dialogue

TOOMAS BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE WILD WOLVES

Chintis Lundgren; 2019; Estonia; 18 min.

After losing his job, Toomas the hung wolf finds sex work to support his family. Meanwhile, his pregnant wife explores her own sexuality after joining a “female empowerment” group.

IN ORBIT

Soham Chakraborty, Hanxu Chen, Meton Joffily, Justin Polley & Julia Trouvé; 2019; France; 5 min.

In the far future, Sonia is about to be transferred from her space station, but her mind is elsewhere.

GOODBYE REBECCA & EILEEN

Sarah Hill; 2020; USA; 13 min.

Director and star Sarah Hill’s dreamlike vision of their top surgery is part queer horror, part queer fantasy, and all experimental.

Fully subtitled

REVIVING THE ROOST

Vivek Shraya; 2019; Canada; 6 min.

Pulsating neon-light animation provides an elegy for a gay bar lost, in this short that questions the complexity of being in community.

SHANNON AMEN

Chris Dainty; 2019; Canada; 15 min.

Shannon Amen is a loving elegy to a friend lost to suicide and the passionate and pained artwork she left behind.

LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN (Sayidaati, saadati, wakull man baynahum)

Jad Wadi; 2019; Lebanon; 10 min.; in Arabic with English subtitles

This experimental animation challenges the gender binary as the director navigates their city as male, female, and neither.

Fully subtitled

KAPAEMAHU

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson; 2019; USA; 8 min.; in Olelo Niihau with English subtitles

Kapaemahu reveals the healing power of four mysterious stones on Waikiki Beach—and the legendary transgender spirits within them.

Fully subtitled

CONTENT WARNINGS: DEPICTION OR DISCUSSION OF SUICIDE, DEPICTION OR DISCUSSION OF SELF-HARM, NUDITY, VULGAR LANGUAGE, EXPLICIT SEXUAL SITUATIONS.