SHORTS WITH LEGS

You are cordially invited to our meticulously curated WTF block. Your discerning eyes and ears shall be graced by unorthodox birthings, forbidden desires, anthropomorphized bodily fluids, and dark cosmic dystopias. These artistic emissaries from six nations bring the best of strange cinema, now and forever imprinted upon your malleable psyche.

*Please note: films listed in alphabetical order, not in order of appearance in the block.

BLESSING - Dir. Francisco Lacerda

The demented mind behind last year’s YAZZA returns with a much more somber — dare we say it — hopeful take on self-destruction.

DOG MOM - Dir. Diogo Hausen

A shower goes to the dogs when a woman claims to have given actual live birth to her fur baby. Pets are literally family in this delightfully absurd ode to dog parents everywhere.

EE - Heather Landsman

How far would you go for a collectible anime figurine? This seductively crafted erotic thriller answers that, and more, in gloriously nostalgic MiniDV.

A LOBSTER NAMED DESIRE - Dir. Sol Moreno & Risseth Yanguez

Welcome to Cevicheria Afrodita, a seafood eatery for “sad, would-be lovers.” When her date rejects her favorite meal, Conchita takes her decapodic dish to go and winds up in a surreal situation involving humanoid crustaceans and intravaginal punk rock musical numbers.

THE OLD LADY AND THE ETERNITY - Marc Martínez Jordán

Spunky 86-year-old Josefa refuses to have her consciousness uploaded to a digital afterlife in this futuristic comedy. The filmmaker marries archival footage of his own late grandmother with generative AI to investigate the tensions and contradictions between image and self.

ORLA - Dir. Marie Lukáčová

A young maiden is banished by a tyrannical ruler to a mysterious faraway land from which no one has ever returned. On her journey home, she finds an unlikely ally in Eagle, the guardian of the forest, in this musical fairytale of justice, rebellion, and magic.

A PINT OF BITTER - Dir. Conor Kehelly

A quiet pint in the pub turns into a surreal galactic nightmare, all witnessed through the bottom of an empty pint glass.

SINKPISSER - Dir. Connor Wiles

What makes one white porcelain bowl with a drain different from the other? Yet still, no one can know his terrible secret. This dark, confessional documentary will have you seeing yellow with deeply uncomfortable laughter.

STAIN - Dir. Autumn Palen

After what seemed like a glorious one-night stand, a conspicuous bed stain counsels our lovestruck, charmingly unhinged heroine with exactly what she wants to hear.