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Ungrateful Beings (Olmo Omerzu) Chequia, Slovenia, Poland

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Ungrateful Beings
Olmo Omerzu
Chequia, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, France. 2025. 110 min

Family

David takes his two children on holiday to the Adriatic Sea, hoping to hold their fractured bilingual family together. His 17-year-old daughter, Klara, struggling with an eating disorder, falls in love with a local boy, Denis. When he is accused of murder, David rushes the children back home. Klára’s condition spirals, landing her in hospital. The only thing uniting her parents is their need to save her. And desperate times call for desperate measures.

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Short Films Section, Women,s voices

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

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

Family

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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Short Films Section, Women,s voices

Tres puentes (Inés Quijano) Spain

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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

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

Art
Music

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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Short Films Section

Ever Rooted (Yang Yuzhuo) China

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Ever Rooted
Yang Yuzhuo
China. 2025. 27 min

Family

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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