Rain falls without warning. People scatter, umbrellas snap open, the sky darkens everything for a moment. Between Showers watches this ordinary chaos with the kind of attention most animation reserves for explosions, finding something true in how strangers move through the same weather at the same time. There is no plot demanding your investment, no character arc to follow. What it offers instead is the permission to notice what you've been walking past your whole life, the small geometry of people trying to stay dry together. A film that costs nothing to watch and asks only that you look.
Sudden showers have been frequent this year, and each time one hits, people react in familiar ways. Some glance up at the sky, some pick up their pace, and umbrellas open all around. Between Showers is an animated film that takes this everyday scenery as its motif, recreating the look of a crowd caught in the rain and the kind of moment that brings such scenes to mind.