Carta, Serenata

The Merry Circus

1951 · ★ 5.1

Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.

The Aeronauts

2016 · ★ 10

A tribe survives in the middle of the desert on the meager pickings of a barren landscape. Soo'goh, the weakest member of the clan, seeks to overcome all obstacles and to reach the green pastures of the paradise that they all yearn for.

The 1971 Kitchen Grand Brie

2023 · ★ 7.3

Your favorite food competes in the greatest auto race the kitchen has ever seen — until there’s a murder. ‘Mario Kart’ meets ‘True Crime’ mockumentary in this animated short dripping with ‘70s Formula 1 nostalgia.

Hammam

1991 · ★ 8

Story of a two woman who goes to the hammam for the first time.

Ask the Dust

2006 · ★ 5.5

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.

Staring Contest

2026

Two friends are having a staring contest when something enters and everything changes.

Mr. Deeds

2002 · ★ 5.9

When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

2007 · ★ 6.3

Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium—the strangest, most fantastic and most wonderful toy store in the world. After Mr. Magorium bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once-remarkable Emporium.

Las plantas también mueren

2022 · ★ 7

Inside a room full of plants, a woman finds shelter from the outside world. Submerged in delirium, Alba experiences her withering.

Willy McBean & His Magic Machine

1965 · ★ 5.5

Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof. von Rotten from changing history.

Paper Daughter

2026

A young Chinese woman grapples with the guilt of using the identity of a deceased girl to immigrate to the United States via Angel Island in 1926.

Fantastical Revelations of Art, Math, and Romance

A short mathematical romance about two flat beings who bond over their shared fascination of the hypothetical third-dimension.