This collection contains, as its title indicates, 16 short films from all around Europe and from various time periods. There's little logic to the selection, and little common ground between these directors -- everything from 60s art-house, to modern light comedies, and some oddball middle-ground in between. The weird anything-goes selection means not everything works, but there are also plenty of great films here. Roy Andersson's "World of Glory" is a clear warm-up for his full-length "Songs From the Second Floor," an offputting and straight-faced examination of a world gone mad with matter-of-fact bloodlust. Godard's early short "Charlotte & Veronique" is a charming example of the early French New Wave. Virgil Widrich contributes a formally inventive, darkly comic short about a man who accidentally populates the world with photocopies of himself. Javier Fesser's short is the most deliriously funny of the batch, a rollicking surrealist comedy that stops at nothing -- even recklessly breaking the fourth wall -- to get a laugh. There are also more sober, but equally successful, shorts from Lukas Moodysson, Nanni Moretti, and Anders Thomas Jensen, dealing with, respectively, the alienating loneliness of industrial society, the aesthetic poverty of modern culture, and the issues of politics and race. There are plenty more interesting shorts too, alongside only a few clunkers -- not a bad percentage at all for such an eclectic collection.