Cycle
Naz Caybasi
Turkey. 2023. 11 min

One day, a girl living in a village sees blood on her panties. She’s having menstruation, but she doesn’t know what it is. She hesitates to ask someone and tries to discover on her own. She finally finds an answer, but that answer is only the part of the cycle she’s in.

A Walk
Varvara Aleshkevich
Russia. 2023. 11 min

Nikita walks Tanya home after their high school reunion. They talk about life on the way through the streets that they used to stroll along holding hands. Slowly they begin to understand what they want from each other.

Perfect Anna
Yana Klimova-Yusupova
Russia. 2024. 21 min

Dr Anna’s cosy evening is disrupted by a sudden visit from a female stranger. The stranger is her husband’s lover, who has come for a bracelet left in the family sheets. Anna’s life is changed not only by the instant destruction of her long-standing marriage, but also by the terrible choice between life and death that she has to make.

Sasha
Maria Viktorova
Russia. 2023. 24 min

Sasha was absolutely satisfied with his life. He left his city with the goal of never returning there again, but fate had other plans. Once in a compartment with a silent neighbor, Sasha tries to guess her name. Unexpectedly, the conductor invites him to “smoke” in her compartment. Having left the compartment for a short time, Sasha will never return there.

Without You
Feyrouz Serhal
Spain. 2023. 19 min

Once upon a night in Galicia where the vast ocean exchanged roles with the vast sky, a group of stars jumped down and took a dip in the Atlantic. And while the stars happily swam in the ocean, the black sky still had one star shining alone up there. That star had different plans for the night; she will wait till the very last end of the dark and sneak down to earth to meet her lover.