2026 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation
A place where dreams are real, wishes come true, and everything is always awful for everyone
Screening date & tickets — to be announced
- Director(s): Parker Croft
- Writer(s): Spike Milliken, Parker Croft
- Producer(s): Nolan Gould, Parker Croft, Erika Totoro
- Key Cast: Sean Marquette, Sharon Powers, Bill Welden
Language: English
Runtime: 5m
Country: United States
Synopsis: A place where dreams are real, wishes come true, and everything is always awful for everyone.
The first installment of the Hard Times anthology, Hell, follows the patriarch of a dying farm on the outskirts of Ash Harbor as he is methodically ground down by the machinery of despair. What begins as endurance curdles into something far more existential, a portrait of collapse told through dust, labor, and silence.
Hell made its world premiere in 2026 at Animation Dingle,
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