Even the lone U.K. entry reflects the slickly commercialized, Hollywood-calling-card vibe that dominates this largely squirm-inducing program of international shorts, most concentrating on stylishly feisty kids.

At least the Ukrainian “Without You”, about tough siblings on the road, is the opposite of slick, happily. Elsewhere, formulas are avoided when greyhound racing is seen from a dog’s-eye POV in Argentina’s “Champion”, and Jim Morrison’s own words, recorded near the end of his life, elucidate a trip to his famous grave in “Paris, 1971”.