After a searching bird’s-eye view of the Gascony woods, we are dropped onto the forest floor. The camera burrows through near-endless trenches as enigmatic figures engage in a mysterious, dying practice among the disappearing timber. They wander tunnels, construct pulleys, whisper to one another, and wait—director Marine de Contes never tells you more than you need to know. The Game is a gem of observational filmmaking, letting the audience pick up clues while subtly exploring the way cultures and rituals naturally vanish. Plays with “Crannog” (dir. Isa Rao, 13 min.), set in a storybook sanctuary, an animal hospice two hours south of Glasgow where Alexis Fleming tends to all creatures great and small. (KS)Supported by the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago