Tickets $10/$9
Friday, November 20, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. in the Eppes Auditorium, and Saturday, November 21, at 6:30 p.m. in the King 4K Screening Room. Runtime: 96 minutes. Not Rated.
Discover a world of imagination in the 23rd Annual Animation Show of Shows, a collection of 14 international animated shorts selected by founder and curator Ron Diamond. Originally created to introduce exceptional independent animation to animation studios and schools, the series expanded to public theatrical screenings in 2015. This edition combines 11 outstanding selections from its early years with three newer films, bringing together hand-drawn animation, stop-motion, computer imagery and images painted directly onto film. By turns funny, surprising and deeply moving, the program explores love, loss, memory and the wonderfully strange possibilities of the animated imagination.
Highlights include Michaël Dudok de Wit’s Academy Award-winning Father and Daughter; Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis’s Oscar-nominated When the Day Breaks; Bill Plympton’s mischievous Santa, the Fascist Years; and John Musker’s I’m Hip. Newly restored presentations of Anthony Hodgson’s Hilary and René Castillo’s Day of the Dead fantasy Hasta los huesos (Down to the Bone) offer a rare opportunity to experience these distinctive films on the big screen. Presented as part of The Park Theatre’s New England Animation Festival, screenings take place Friday, November 20, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. in the Eppes Auditorium, and Saturday, November 21, at 6:30 p.m. in the King 4K Screening Room. Runtime: 96 minutes. Not Rated.