“Among the live-action shorts, the most anomalous is Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont’s abrasively funny “Ave Maria,” which portrays a quarrelsome family of Israeli settlers whose car breaks down in front of a convent on the West Bank, where the nuns have sworn a vow of silence. Communication is next to impossible. The comedy, which suggests a Middle Eastern answer to “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is a lacerating farcical satire of religious extremism.”

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