As explained by @Polaapaan, “For people who are confused because they have not seen Alien: Earth, there is a guy Joe who watches Ice Age: Continental Drift. It’s a shared memory between him and his sister Mercy. So, in this universe, the Ice Age ...

A frequently stunning work of animation that’s also a haunting portrait of isolation, the destructive insidiousness of bullying and our own capacity for cruelty, Kohei Kadowaki’s formidable feature debut “We Are Aliens” is a film of fascinating layers.