Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke don’t know how to quit each other.

The first trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s “Strange Way of Life,” the Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker’s neo-Western and second short film in the English language after 2020’s “The Human Voice,” is here. The queer Western stars “Last of Us” and “Mandalorian” favorite Pedro Pascal along with Oscar-nominee Ethan Hawke, working together with Almodóvar for the first time. Almodóvar wrote the film and produced along with his brother Augustin and Saint Laurent head designer Anthony Vaccarello, also working as costumer.

“Strange Way of Life” is set to make its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this coming May as part of the Official Selection.

In this 30-minute short, Pedro Pascal plays Silva, who rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend, Sheriff Jake (Ethan Hawke), after 25 years apart. However, while they at first celebrate the meeting,...