Soft Animals

MIFF favourite Renee Zhan (O Black Hole!, MIFF 2021; Reneepoptosis, MIFF 2019) returns with a beautifully rendered oddity about a pair of ex-lovers.

At a train station, two ex-lovers meet by chance. Pretty soon, their stilted banter gives way to a visceral explosion of primal and sexual subtext, which unravels as a dazzlingly fluid sequence of strange creatures, altered states and emotional turbulence.