The 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…
Continue reading Eva Díaz Iglesias, Jury at ImagineindiaKetaki Narayan is an Indian actress and model. She appears in Malayalam, Marathi Cinema, Telugu and Hindi Cinema. She debuted with the Marathi film Youth. She has appeared in several short films and musical albums.
She hails from Akola, Maharashtra. She studied in Bharat Vidyalay, Akola. She completed her graduation in Computers from MIT, Pune. Ketaki worked as a Software Engineer in Cognizant before becoming full time model and actress, She won the Radio Mirchi Queen Bee Miss Talent – 2014. Ketaki appeared on the cover of various magazines including Femina, Vogue, FWD, Creme, Vanitha and New Woman.
Continue reading Ketaki Narayan incorporates to Imagineindia as Jury memberPainted Memories: Calcutta connects Raj Kapoor
Jaydip Mukherjee
India. 2025. 35 min
Many decades ago, there lived in Kolkata a boy called Shrishti Nath Kapoor, who studied in a school called Mitra Institution in Bhowanipore. When his family later moved to Bombay, he not only carried along the artistic influence that Calcutta left on him but also cherished his formative years in the city. The boy grew up to become the legendary Raj Kapoor.
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Miguel Garrido
Spain. 2024. 102 min
“Path to the Desert: The Desertification of Spain”, is a feature-length documentary that explores the relentless advance of desertification in Spain. Through stunning imagery and key testimonies, it examines the impact of climate change, intensive agriculture, water overexploitation and pollution, and the expansion of industrial pig farms across the country. The documentary shows how these factors are degrading the land and affecting local communities, accelerating a process that threatens ecological balance. This journey reveals the consequences of an unsustainable model and poses the question: Are we still in time to reverse it?
Continue reading Path to The Desert (Miguel Garrido) SpainSalvar la utopía
Joaquín T. Smenjaud
Spain. 2025. 35 min
Leading voices from science and ecology talk to us about how climate change and overexploitation of water surround this unique natural space and those who inhabit it.
Doñana National Park is perhaps Spain’s most iconic environmental jewel. A mosaic of ecosystems that hosts a unique biodiversity in Europe and that, however, in 2023 was excluded from the green list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. That is why Joaquín T. Smenjaud, who was born and lives in Seville and has been a lover of this place since he was a child, wanted to share with the spectators his passion and also his concern for a space he has visited for decades.
The Last Summer
Renfei Shi
China. 2025. 90 min
Days before China’s life-defining College Entrance Exams, top student Li Zhizhi’s world fractures when she sees her father with a pregnant woman. In shock, she accidentally knocks an ashtray off the balcony, striking a five-year-old girl playing downstairs.
Caught between the victim’s grieving family and her parents’ crushing expectations, Zhizhi buries her guilt—along with her anger at what she believes is her father’s betrayal. But the truth cuts deeper.
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