Baggage
Arseniy Seroka
France. 2025. 17 min
Arthur, a young man at a crossroads, unexpectedly reconnects with an old friend, Jean, and reveals his lingering feelings for Sofia, an ex-lover he believes he still loves. Through candid conversations and a chance encounter with a mysterious woman named Anna, Arthur begins to confront his past and embrace the possibility of new paths, leading to an unexpected journey of self-discovery and hope.
Continue reading Baggage (Arseniy Seroka) FranceThe Buoy
Ilya Sovetov
Russia. 2025. 23 min
Sanya, a surly water taxi driver, takes a strange order to transport the eccentric Lyokha with a kettlebell and rope. A day spent together on a forced river trip will change the lives of both.
Continue reading The Buoy (Ilya Sovetov) RussiaSomething like cinema: Exploring Ray
Jaydip Mukherjee
India. 2025. 35 min
A documentary film that explores various influences that had shaped the filmmaking craft of Satyajit Ray. The influences, borne out of his meeting with a number of gifted individuals and his experiences of an array of perception-altering incidents had molded his aesthetic sensibilities and had made him what he was. The film strives to capture how the auteur Satyajit Ray had straddled atop diverse avenues of artistic pursuits, most of which had coalesced to form the identity of an unmatched narrator of ideas, – both persuasive and profound. This film attempts to capture all these influences that had imparted alchemic touches to turn him into an auteur of impeccable standing. It explores the aesthetic psyche of Ray that relates his images with his cinematic experiences. This Documentary retraces the influences that had shaped his sensibilities, some of them inherited while the remaining imbibed from the ambiance and the people that he had come across. Several of these facets such as Illustrator, Calligrapher, Musician and Author are partly eclipsed by his phenomenal standing as a Filmmaker, yet all of them were collaborating strands of his composite aesthetic universe.
Continue reading Something like cinema: Exploring Ray (Jaydip Mukherjee) IndiaSyncopation
Maria Rival
Russia. 2025. 20 min
After eight years at ballet school, she has it all: the dream role, a chance at a career, a future.
But the more pressure builds, the louder her inner protest grows.
A stubborn spirit and fear of living someone else’s dream push her to the edge.
The choice she makes may be a first step — or a point of no return.
My Garage!
Vladimir Sukhov
Russia. 2025. 22 min
The film “My Garage!” is a mystical drama about an old man who refuses to leave his garage in an emergency area, hiding a mysterious light source in it. The resistance to demolition develops into an eschatological confrontation, where the fate of one garage becomes the fate of the whole world.
Continue reading My Garage! (Vladimir Sukhov) RussiaThe Bird Trap
Natalia Kazakova
Russia. 2025. 23 min
13-year-old Tanya restores her hearing after an illness by listening to recordings of birdsong and caring for a red Book thrush. On her birthday, her father arrives, who has his own plans for the bird. Will the father be able to solve his problems and not lose his daughter’s trust?
Continue reading The Bird Trap (Natalia Kazakova) RussiaPoetries from the Bookstores: Somewhere I belong
Hou Chi-Jan
Taiwan. 2025. 93 min
Testimonies from passionate proprietors reveal the diversity of Taiwan’s independent bookshops, all with a distinct style and flair. Centring on the most human aspects of each, Hou Chi-jan’s documentary reinvigorates a love for these charming establishments as a second home.
Continue reading Poetries from the Bookstores (Hou Chi-Jan) TaiwanThe Countess and The General
Gonzalo Escrig Molina
Spain. 2025. 22 min
The Countess and the General is a short film directed by Gonzalo Escrig that takes us in the year 1811 during the Napoleonic invasion of Valencia. The film focuses on the Countess of Faura, Doña Elena de Orbe, who is forced to house General Thérandier in her palace and against whom she will secretly conspire to support the Morvedre Urban Militia Battalions, led by Saguntine guerrilla and commander José Romeu.
Continue reading The Countess and The General (Gonzalo Escrig Molina) SpainNadie viene
Sergio Rozas
Spain. 2025. 17 min
A woman lives alone on an uninhabited island, waiting for the return of her husband, a soldier sent to the front. Hopeful, every day she goes to a beach from where she can watch the war unfold in the distance . Sometimes war planes try to flee the battle but are destroyed by enemy fighters. Days, weeks, months go by and the woman feels more and more alone and abandoned. A photo is the only memory she keeps of her man. Routine takes over her life and with it, sadness. No one comes to her island. The only solution is to overcome the loss and keep on living. And perhaps making this hard decision will be what allows her to find someone new to share her life with. She hides her husband’s photo and goes back to the beach. The war is at its peak but a war plane manages to escape. A paratrooper manages to reach land and the woman meets him face to face. She offers him food. Someone has come.
Continue reading Nadie viene (Sergio Rozas) SpainEva Díaz Iglesias is an outstanding DOP with a solid and extensive career in the audiovisual field since 1990. Her career covers film, television and documentaries, in projects of great artistic and industrial relevance, with some of the most recognized directors and directors of photography on the national and international scene.
Trained through solid technical experience, Eva Díaz has worked in 35 mm, Super 16, HD and digital, playing different roles – from assistant and camera assistant, to operator and director of photography – in productions directed by filmmakers such as Carlos Saura, Alejandro Amenábar, Vicente Aranda, Fernando Colomo…
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