Palmipedarium
Animation for Adults
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10m
Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 10 mins | 2012
Clapin followed up his acclaimed short "Skhizein" (2008) with this wordless and unsettlingly ambiguous fable about a boy who encounters a scraggly avian creature while duck hunting with his father. It’s a short whose placid surfaces belie a latent, budding violence.
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The Wolf House
Directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña | 73 mins | 2018
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