Taxis, scooters, and cars dominate this unusually high-quality package of shorts ostensibly about the ties that bind.

There are some duds from Spain and Brazil, and the French-made “Friday Night”, about an entitled American mom looking for her daughter in Paris during last fall’s terror attack, is marred by bad writing and acting. But there’s a beautifully realized family diary (“When Day Is Done”) and two fully realized comic dramas from England (“As One”) and France, with the light-touch “Après Suzanne” featuring rising star Vincent Lacoste as a young man learning to enjoy life after a bad breakup. Most arresting of all is “The Sparrow’s Flight”, in which American experimentalist Tom Schroeder finishes the blazingly original animated work he started years ago with Dave Herr, his now-deceased partner in cinematic invention. Awesome stuff.