Furever

Humans love their pets SOOOO much. When the animals die, people want to memorialize them, anything from burying them in pet cemeteries to making jewelry from their cremains to freeze-drying them (“He’s not the same as he was, but it’s a hundred times better than not having him,” notes one such memorialist). More than just an absurdist gawkfest, this documentary boasts a real and gentle understanding of how much a pet can mean to someone. It looks at the lengths people will go to keep a special animal around forever, and the memorialization industry that’s willing to provide practically any service you can imagine. (GILLIAN ANDERSON)