Accelerator Shorts: MIFF 68½
Animation Shorts
The Beloved
Commune or cult? This epic documentary illuminates the Rajneesh sannyasin movement in 1980s Fremantle, as told by those who lived through it.
Biolum
Charlotte Rampling guides you through underwater caves filled with bioluminescent creatures in this SXSW Virtual Cinema Competition Audience Award winner.
The Echo
In a nondescript place, seemingly forgotten by time, a teenager tries to outrun his loneliness.
Experimental Shorts
Genus Pan
Slow-cinema master Lav Diaz returns with another mordantly meditative piece – one that nabbed him Venice’s Orizzonti Best Director gong.
O Black Hole!
Loneliness is operatic in the latest film by Renee Zhan.
The Painted Bird
This winner of multiple Czech Lion awards as well as Venice’s UNICEF Award is a stunning, utterly harrowing indictment of humanity at its worst.
Paper Birds
A short-sighted boy uncovers family secrets in an intricate, Tim Burton–esque world.
Train Again
Peter Tscherkassky pays homage to avant-garde filmmaker Kurt Kren, his own film L’arrivée and the cinema’s original muse in this Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection.