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Animation Celebration

The Burden

14m

Directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr • 2017 • Sweden

A dark musical enacted in a modern marketplace, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues, portrayed as animals, deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

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