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Cereal & Cartoons

September 22 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Recapture that feeling of waking up early on a weekend morning to watch some funky cartoons. Bring your favourite sugary cereal and cozy in to watch this showcase of animation from queer and trans artists, inclusive and family-friendly.

Program:

Heads Full of Life (dir. Teo Nalani, 2024, USA), 2 mins

Some shells hold entire oceans. What can we do to break out of our shells? A mixed media animated short film about getting out of your head and accepting help from your friends.

Bike Film (dir. Haley Stemmons, 2024, USA), 5 mins

A group of kids decide to take a shortcut on their way home from school.

Accompanied (dir. Franc Planas, 2023, France), 3 mins

Confrontation between a transgender teenager and his mother during and accompanied driving trip.

Someone Who Treats Me Better (dir. Carlos Alberto Patterson Fadanelli, 2024, Canada), 2 mins

PomBe, the lonely pumpkin kid, yearns to join the fun and treats of Halloween festivities and befriend three children in the neighbourhood. He imitates their actions in hopes of being included, unaware that genuine friendship awaits him elsewhere.

Hair to Stay (dir. Pree Rehal, 2023, Canada), 1 min

A heartwarming, clay stop motion short about the experience of a young, trans, brown kid getting bullied by their crush.

Bay Creek Tennis Camp (dir. Michele Meek, USA, 2023), 9 mins

Bay Creek Tennis Camp gently poses a provocative question—what if gender is not the ideal way to divide youth?

I Would Like to Live on the Moon (dir. Emily Burke, 2023, UK), 2 mins

A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape – literally, to the moon.

The Little Piratemaid (dir. Luke Beatrice, 2024, USA), 6 mins

The Little Piratemaid is an animated short about what it takes to discover yourself as a trans person in a cis-normative world—even if that world is one of pirates and mermaids! This short film focuses on the initial stages of transition, the moments of realisation, and the courage it takes for a little pirate girl to simply be herself.

Jamie’s Pond (dir. Reid Sandlund, 2023, USA), 4 mins

A lonely naiad discovers a crying human child at the edge of their pond and tries to cheer him up. They soon discover they have more in common than meets the eye.

The Butterflies (Mariana Posada, Colombia/Argentina, 2024), 6 mins

A transgender girl discovers the butterflies world and goes through a metamorphosis process

AND MORE 🙂


Runtime: 70 mins

DATE & TIME
September 22 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
EVENT CATEGORY
Venue

Espace Transmission

5435 Av. des Érables
Montréal, Quebec H2H 2E8 Canada

Montréal’s first trans film festival.

EXPOSURES exists on the territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, who are the custodians of the land and waters of Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). Alongside this necessary but inadequate territorial recognition, we demand restitution and reparation for Indigenous peoples across all of “Canada”.

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