Month: September 2026

Adapted from Nicholas Gurewitch’s wordless graphic novel, A Little Death transforms the Grim Reaper into the centre of an unexpectedly tender story about parenthood, mentorship, and learning to let another generation find its own way. Directed by Leto Meade and Jonathan Rockefeller, the hand-drawn animated short combines gothic imagery, dark comedy, intricate printmaking textures, and rare bursts of colour to create a world that feels both macabre and deeply human.

In Last Stand at Butte City, writer-director Natalie Schwan turns the familiar language of the Western inward. Set against the vast landscapes of 1880 Montana, the short follows Charlotte, an isolated rancher whose fight to save her homestead from the advancing railroad forces her to confront decades of buried grief.

Blending Aragónese folklore, dark fairy-tale storytelling, and playful surrealism, Mariana Ant transforms a tale of two wishes into a sharp reflection on labor, wealth, temptation, and authenticity.

In 2010, Iran banned a number of so-called “Western hairstyles,” including the mullet. Iranian-American filmmaker Hoj Jomehri turns that strange but very real chapter into The Last Mullet, a darkly comic short about Shervin (Bobby Naderi), an ordinary man whose beloved hairstyle suddenly makes him an outlaw.