This program is part of a larger tour of films from the Winnipeg Film Group’s Distribution Collection. The tour, "Found in Translation", presents an array of creative short films, telling uniquely Canadian stories. Animation can be a very effective medium for social criticism and satire, in which caricature serves as a weapon and parody is a tool for exposing the follies of social conventions and the corruption of authority. The films in this program are sometimes funny, sometimes irreverent, and sometimes dystopic in their rejection of normative ideologies. They are largely progressive and inventive, both artistically and formally, as well as politically and socially engaged.