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Film Country: France

September 17, 2026

Animation Shorts: Altered States

The End of the End’s striking style, reminiscent of paper cutouts and puppet shows, mythologizes the journey of a recently deceased woman through her final moments with the five senses she used in life. In two ice creams please, inky 2D animation bleeds into stop motion as two increasingly fever...

September 17, 2026

The End

The absurd, liminal space of the airport just might be the perfect place to await the apocalypse—especially if you’re too absorbed in reality television and souvenir shopping to notice the end is here. Alexander Skarsgård and Noomi Rapace lend their voices to oddly existential animals in this sto...

September 17, 2026

Comedy Shorts: Anxious/Attachments

In a beautiful town on the Italian coast, tourists and locals alike find themselves in subtle competitions of masculinity, exposing their fragility in Oh Boys. Two kids connect at a vibrant Nigerian wedding and break free from the adults to go on an adventure of their own in Spray Me. In 32B, a s...

September 17, 2026

Please

Insecurities abound in this depiction of people trying desperately to connect and love one another. Offbeat and absurd, this expertly animated stop-motion dark comedy is deeply human. This film screens as part of the Comedy Shorts: Anxious/Attachments shorts program.

September 17, 2026

The Bovine Comedy

In a near future in which cattle are almost extinct, a skilled farmhand is hired to extract semen from one of the last bulls in Asia. When the bull’s owner becomes obsessed with the worker’s hands and overturns professional boundaries, the worker must decide between his dignity and his paycheck. ...

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