Queer Animation Shorts

Director: Linda Krauss
Script: Linda Krauss
Producer: Linda Krauss
With: Lisanne-Marie Hadi Hadi
Germany, 4 minutes, 2023, English with Hebrew subtitles

Festivals:
Kaboom Animation Festival, Amsterdam 2023
Fantastic Film Festival, Brussels 2023
Seattle film festival, Seattle 2023

Cool Cat invites you! To join the world of Pussy Love. Enjoy a show of lust and laziness! Let’s have fun with tits and dicks. The claws are sharp, the soda is sparkling and the fur is getting wet. Romance is kitsch. But even the most jaded cat can still be lost for love.

Director: Iiti Yli-Harja
Script: Iiti Yli-Harja
Producer: Valtteri Munkki, Mikko Heino
Finland, 15 minutes, 2022, Finnish with English subtitles

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the autistic spectrum, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.

Director: David Chai
USA, 10 minutes, 2023, English without translation

Come swim with us through the limitless pools of trans and nonbinary spirits.

Director: Matea Kovac
Script: Matea Kovac
Producer: Vinko Bresan
Croatia, 6 minutes, 2023, Croatian with English translation

An empty paper depicts a struggle between artistic composition and decomposition as the voice of the narrator-protagonist reminisces about her tumultuous relationship with a former girlfriend.

Director: Iuri Moreno
Script: Iuri Moreno
Producer: Lara Morena, Debora Resendes
With: Pilar Paz
Brazil, 12 minutes, 2021, Portuguese with English subtitles

Festivals & Awards:
Encounters Film Festival, Bristol 2022 – Winner of Best Children Short film
Bogoshorts Bogota Short Film Festival 2022
São Paulo international short film Festival 2022
Atlanta LGBTQ Film Festival 2022

A transgender girl locks herself in her room for fear of the monsters that threaten her outside, until a new reality appears behind the mirror where these monsters do not exist and she is free to be who she is or who wants to be.

Director: Yung-Chien Lee
Script: Yung-Chien Lee
Producer: Chiao-Feng Lin
Taiwan, 3 minutes, 2023, No Dialogue

Festivals:
New York Asian film festival, New York, 2023
Oslo International film festival, Oslo, 2023
Seoul Short film festival, Seoul, 2023
Milano short film festival, Milano, 2023

In the boring afternoon after class, two boys are playing poker. The inadvertent physical touch and eye contact strikes one of the boys. Game after game, he has an indescribable feelings. However, it’s just that in this game where gays obsess over heterosexual men, he finally has to face the moment when the dance ends…

This film combines a variety of touch-related art mediums, trying to use the concepts of touch and gaze to describe the common experiences and memories of gay growth and memory.

Director: Daniel Sousa, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson
Script: Dean Hamer
Producer: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
USA, 15 minutes, 2023, No Dialogue

Festivals & Awards:
Provincetown international film festival 2023 – Best animated short film Award
deanCenter film festival, Oklahoma City 2023 – Best Pride short Award
Frameline Film Festival San Francisco 2023
Outfest Film Festival Los Angeles 2023

A valiant island warrior, wounded in battle against foreign invaders, falls into a mysterious underwater world. Everything changes when the octopus who rescues him transforms into a handsome young man.

Director: Tomer Prezman, Tzur Adir
Israel, 15 minutes, 2023, French with English translation

In the midst of WW2, on a train going nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first gay bars. She sees how it all comes together.