Frameline49: Saturday Morning Cartoons

Don’t let the name fool you. From stories about queer erotic encounters to lusting over carrots, these animated shorts are strictly for adults.

Short films showing in this program:

27
11 mins
Flóra Anna Buda

Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?

Carrotica
13 mins
Daniel Sterlin-Altman

A mother and son navigate their lust and loneliness in the queerest of ways.

Chimera
11 mins
Gael Jara and Martín André

A nonbinary person watches the handover of the first nonbinary ID in the history of Chile. A poetic exploration of transition and fluidity in the face of rigid bureaucracy.

The Eating of an Orange
7 mins
May Kindred-Boothby

Unconventional rituals and explorations of sexuality involve slugs and the symbolic consumption of an orange.

Hey Dad
6 mins
Wang Wei-fan

“I’ve practiced these words for 20 years now, but maybe being candid isn’t the best idea. I’m starting my countdown again, another 20 years. Maybe it might be the right time by then.”

Homunculus
17 mins
Bonheur Suprême

Homunculus displays the wandering of a man in quest for other men. He will realize along his travels that people see him as an Arab, some ambiguous, virile, and powerful entity both celebrated by white gay males and hated by French police forces.

Tiger Lily Mountain Pass
5 mins
Nate King

Tiger Lily Mountain Pass is a hand-drawn animation inspired by director Nate King’s time spent in the forests of Appalachia. In a region where queerness is often hidden or disguised, the work explores nature as a space of queer erotic encounter.

Two Black Boys in Paradise
9 mins
Baz Sells

A movingly tender animation, based on Dean Atta’s eponymous poem, sees two boys – Edan, 19, and Dula, 18 – on a journey of self-acceptance and love – for each other and themselves.

What It Takes
2 mins
Fabien Corre and Kelsi Phụng

The vibrant plea of a generation of trans and nonbinary people for recognition of their rights.

Expected Guests

Bonheur Suprême
Director (Homunculus)

This program is intended for adults.