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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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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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Descent (Ashkan Saedpanah) Iran

Descent
Ashkan Saedpanah
Iran. 2025. 15 min

Youssef, a religious man, along with his son Mostafa, accidentally commit the murder of a young girl during an incident at their workplace. They decide to secretly carry out the religious ceremonies of shrouding and burying the girl’s body. But Youssef and Mostafa undergo a transformation as a result of this decision.

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Fuck Them All (Polina Biliaieva) Poland

Fuck Them All
Polina Biliaieva
Poland. 2025. 15 min

Kira, a 30-year-old Ukrainian, flees to Poland at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, after losing her husband. Her thoughts remain with her war-torn home, but here a new challenge awaits her: Kira finds out that she is pregnant. Already traumatized, she doesn’t want to bring a new life into this world, but it is impossible for her to terminate the pregnancy in Poland. Kira decides to return to Ukraine, which is still in the middle of war, to have an abortion.

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