QTOONS
Screening: Saturday Nov 21, 11.00 AM | NGMA
Dirs: Carmen Meitín Moreno, Corona Alonso Rebaque | 7 MIN | 2025 | Spain | No Dialogues
April is a witch preparing a surprise birthday party for her girlfriend, Liz. Unfortunately, her girlfriend`s cat Limón, has other plans. Moved by jealousy, he will do anything to ruin it and mess with April, who will try to stop him with her magic, only to make things worse. It isn’t until chaos spreads through that he realizes he has gone too far.
Dir: Andrejs Brīvulis | 5 MIN | 2025 | Latvia | Latvian
A diary of an office worker’s day. A humorous look at his casual queer adventures turns bitter when it is revealed that he is already in a relationship with a deeply depressed, alcoholic man.
Dir: Bassem Ben Brahim | 12 MIN | 2026 | Tunisia | Arabic
Salima, accidentally discovers that she is intersex. A young ballerina, she escapes into an imaginary world where a magical unicorn becomes her guide. Together, they travel through a parallel universe in search of a buried truth: her identity, and the essence of who she is.
Dir: May Kindred-Boothby | 8 MIN | 2024 | UK | English
In a large manor house identical figures eat the same, move the same, look the same. But everything will change for one woman when she gets given an orange by an unknown figure. She has never seen an orange. In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm of lichens, slugs and sensuous fluidity. But how can she balance this with the world she knows? She must make a choice: abandon her discovery, or step forwards into a new way of being.
Dir: Daniel Neiden | 12 min | 2025 | USA | English
When a silently grieving 80-year-old school volunteer is assigned to work with Enam, a third-grader with selective mutism, the two embark on a poignant journey by means of a magical pen and journal that enable them to communicate until young Enam summons the courage to utter the one word that lifts the weight of the world off his tiny shoulders. Like a whale coming to the surface for air, Enam is finally able to breathe in the film’s emotional reveal.
Dirs: Anwesh Kumar Sahoo, Harsh Raj Gond | 2 MIN | 2023 | India | English
Bheetar (Within) is a poetic animated short that explores identity, love, and freedom through abstract visuals and verse. It portrays a journey from silence to self-acceptance, uncovering a truth that transcends fear, binaries, and expectations.