Room at the Farm (Jasmine Kaur Roy, Avinash Roy) India

Room at the Farm
Jasmine Kaur Roy, Avinash Roy
India. 2025. 22 min

Just like his deceased father, Nihal is desperately trying to break the vicious cycle of debt and hang on to his small parcel of farmland. Nihal’s refusal to accept the futility of the fight is putting a strain on his recent marriage and testing the patience of his wife, Reet.
Room at the Farm is the story of a young couple as they struggle to express love in the face of hardship and uncertainty of the future. The film is also about the last stand of a community against the tide of rampant development and inevitable change.

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Tres puentes (Inés Quijano) Spain

Tres Puentes
Inés Quijano
Spain. 2026. 17 min

Alex, a 21-year-old girl, discovers that she is pregnant while on vacation with her mother and her best friend’s family. She doesn’t want anyone to find out who the father of her baby is. Little by little one of the characters discovers who the father is and decides to make a drastic decision.

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Nina Roza (Genevieve Dulude) Canada, Italy

Nina Roza
Genevieve Dulude de Celles
Canada, Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium. 2026. 103 min

Mihail left Bulgaria in the 1990s after the death of his wife and raised his young daughter, Roza, alone in Montreal. Far from his homeland, he established himself as a specialist in French and contemporary art. Now, he is commissioned by a collector to authenticate the work of an eight-year-old girl, Nina, who is living in a Bulgarian village and whose paintings have gone viral online. Mihail hesitates but eventually agrees to undertake the journey. Meeting Nina shakes him deeply. The disarmingly mature child reminds him of Roza at the same age. During his stay in Bulgaria, he gradually makes his peace with the ghosts of his past while trying to unravel the mystery behind Nina: is she truly the author of her work? Has someone helped her? What gives him the right to disrupt her happy life? Somewhere between the past and the present, the tangible and the symbolic, Mihail’s journey becomes a cathartic one which highlights the intricate relationships between life, art and human beings. Sometimes, the journey matters more than the destination.

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Ever Rooted (Yang Yuzhuo) China

Ever Rooted
Yang Yuzhuo
China. 2025. 27 min

When an estranged father falls ill his son returns home with his own daughter revealing a lifetime of shame and a fathers desperate plea for belonging Through rediscovered diaries riverbank rituals and a lone tree three generations find that roots arent forged in names on pages but in the quiet soil of forgiveness and home.

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The Village in the Jungle (Lester James Peries) Sri Lanka

The Village in the Jungle
Lester James Peries
Sri Lanka. 1980. 120min

Adapted from Leonard Woolf’s first novel, The Village in the Jungle brings to life the harsh realities of a remote village in British-colonial Ceylon. Deep within the jungle, Silindu, an outcast, knows only two things: hunting and caring for his daughters. He struggles to provide for them amid poverty, disease, superstition and exploitation. When a cunning debt collector and corrupt village officials entrap him in a false murder case, he is dragged before a legal system that neither understands his world nor speaks his language. With striking realism and emotional depth, the film paints a devastating portrait of survival on the margins. The film also features a rare on-screen appearance by science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke in a cameo role.

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