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The End

2026 · 16 min

A wry, quietly mournful stop-motion vignette where waiting for the end feels like a deadpan airport limbo.

Directed by: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Alexander Skarsgård, Anna Mouglalis

Overview: A stop-motion doomsday comedy, in which airport-bound creatures wait out the impending apocalypse.

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Directed by: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Alexander Skarsgård, Anna Mouglalis

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Tone: absurdstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: death
isolation
fate
identity
survival
Places: workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: animated
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	2
Horror	3
Humour	6
Realism	4
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: animation, comedy, drama, mystery
Directed by: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Written by: Jen Silverman, Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Alexander Skarsgård, Anna Mouglalis, Arja Saijonmaa, Denis Lavant, Kevin Rowland, Carl Johan De Geer, Marianne Lindberg De Geer
Runtime: 16 min
Country: Sweden, France, Denmark
Languages: English, Swedish

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