Here, Queer and Totally Sincere
85 min.
Kaboom and Queer Film Festival Utrecht are back at it again - and this time, we're turning up the volume on queer animation. Get ready to laugh, cry, and everyting in between, as we showcase a dazzling collection of animated shorts that proudly wave the rainbow flag. These films don't just push boundaries - they obliterate them.
Join us in celebrating the fabulous, fierce, sincere, and fantastical ways queer identities come to life through animation. Let's create a space where we can freely share, laugh, and discuss what it means to be queer, to represent, and to exist - all while surrounded by Kaboom's non-judgmental, safe environment.
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Two Black Boys in Paradise
Two Black boys go on a journey of self-acceptance. Their love for each other and their refusal to hide it lands them in a paradise free of shame and judgement. Based on Dean Atta's poem, Baz Sells' stop-motion short is a reflection on human love, acceptance - and how racism and homophobia doesn't belong in paradise.
Carrotica
16-year-old Nadav is writing an explicit gay erotica in secret in his bedroom and his mother Shari, a middle-aged single woman, is busy working and falling in love with a sexy carrot. Winner of the Cristal for a Graduation Film at the 2024 Annecy Festival, Carrotica is a horny, queer tale about the longing for intimacy. By the end, who knows, you might find a carrot a pretty sexy thing.
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Hey Dad
How do you come out to your father? The protagonist has practiced the words for twenty years now, but maybe being candid isn't the best idea. At this moment, he decides to stop, starting the countdown again, another cycle of twenty years. Maybe it might be the right time by then. Hey Dad is a moving student film that understands how difficult it is to show your true self to those around you.
Dear Dating Diary
Who doesn't like a mystery? A sweet student film that takes the form of a poem about dating where love is a riddle to solve.
Airborne
Jason has been secretly in love with his best friend Niels for ten years. He knows it will never work out, but Jason still can't give up on his dream. However, it is time for Jason to let go of his unrequited feelings when Niels has to confess something to him.
Gardening
A cinematic journey ten years in the making, Gardening grew into a tale about director Sarah Beeby's personal quest for healing following an experience of sexual assault. In this surreal, fantastical animation, a woman who has been sexually assaulted retreats into the garden of her mind. Searching for answers and struggling to do 'the right thing', she realises that she must regain her voice and find new paths to healing, before she and her garden are destroyed completely.
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Luz Diabla
Martín, a flamboyant urban raver, is involved in a strange accident on his way to a party in the middle of the Argentine Pampas. Finding refuge in a mysterious country grocery store and sheltered by two strange locals, Martín's paranoia begins to take over him. As the hours progress, his perception begins to distort, unleashing disturbing visions that will lead him to confront the supernatural forces that hide in the night. A neon-coloured, stylized fever dream/nightmare that keeps your heart racing until the bitter end.
Dragfox
A singing drag-dressing fox voiced by Sir Ian McKellen and RuPaul's Drag Race UK star Divina De Campo?! Oh, how we love animation! Sam's search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox. Together they embark on a magical journey to the attic to discover the surprising things they might have in common, and how to celebrate the ways in which they differ. Dragfox is a joyful and musical expression of identity made in stop-motion.