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Hollyshorts 2026 Round 2: Featuring Spike Lee, Jane Goodall, and Philip K. Dick

For this second round of Hollyshorts coverage, I'm taking a look at the shorts playing in the Animation I block. So if you've bought access to the online library, you can follow along there. I've covered two of the shorts in this section previously, so click accordingly if you want to read my thoughts on Oscar-winner The Girl Who Cried Pearls or the wildly creative/cool Acid City .  I'll start this round of with Apart , which has garnered a Best Animation nomination at the festival, to my consternation. It's a movie that carries itself as being very capital-I Important, and it certainly has its heart in the right place. But it is so heavy-handed, embarrassingly so, and feels like an after-school special that is desperate to get its point across. It is literally impossible to watch it without getting the point, so at least it succeeds on that front. Written by Spike Lee alongside a slew of other writers, Apart takes place in South African during Arpartheid. It follo...

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