Saturday Morning Cartoons – 2025

Saturday, April 12, 10:00 AM

The Wyvern’s Nap
Director: Evan Warner Johnson, Animation, USA, 1 min
A knight wishes to face off with a dragon, but struggles to get it to wake up.

Kid President
Director: Yadid Hirschtritt Licht, Animation, USA, 6 min
No more lettuce, no more artichokes… no more broccoli! This is the future that Kid President envisions as he rolls out his most daring policy yet: a ban on all vegetables. In this 2D animated mockumentary, viewers get an inside look as Kid President attempts to strongarm his policy past his rag-tag administration and an alarmed White House press corps. Can Kid President make his vegetable-free dream a reality?

Rise Age
Director: Tatjana Theuer, Animation, Germany, 5 min
Fluorescent critter groove through a coastal world, led by a superior chorus. Their carefree crawl, however, is increasingly interrupted by the rising seas. As the water works its magic on the beaches, one by one they are swept away. But is an invisible danger worth slowing down the usual crawling routine? A rhythmic poem of cute creatures, peer pressure and the urge to move to higher ground in time.

Nocturnal
Director: Big Howl, Animation, USA, 3 min
An animated music video about a raccoon on a spiritual journey.

Pow!
Director: Joey Clift, Animation, USA9 min
A Native American kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow.

Oppy
Director: Rachel Malasig, Animation, USA, 4 min
The final hours of the Opportunity Mars rover before completing it’s incredible 5,111 sol long mission.

Everything We Missed
Director: Marta Prokopová, Animation, Slovakia, 12 min
The story of Eva Marty, an overworked toy maker, and her dog, Kubko, who rediscover each other thanks to unexpected katastrophy.

Amen
Director: Orphee Coutier, Bettina Demarty, Kimie MaingOnnat, Laurène Perego, Louise Poulain, Avril ZUundel, Animation, France, 7 min
A group of pigs are raised peacefully in a monastery when, one day, one of them finds out the truth behind their existence. Thus he decides to free his friends.

Haru-tsuge Fish and Fu-rai Boy
Director: Takeshi Yashiro, Animation, Japan 5 min
A little wandering dwarf hears a beautiful melody carried by the wind.

Éiru
Director: Giovanna Ferrari, Animation, Ireland, 13 min
The smallest child of an Iron-Age clan wants to be a mighty warrior who is taken seriously by her kinfolk. When the village’s well mysteriously dries up, only she is small enough to descend into the belly of the earth to investigate and bring the water of life back to her people.

Kaiju Kid
Director: Rusteen Honardoost, Narrative, USA, 8 min
A little boy plays kaiju to terrorize his sister but things get real when she exacts her revenge.

Forever
Directors: Theo Djekou, Pierre Ferrari, Cyrine Jouini, Pauline Philipart, Anissa Terrier, Animation, France, 7 min
While golfers play on the other side of the fence, peaceful garden gnomes find themselves attacked by stray golf balls.