The 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.

Nadie 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.

Cosmic Connection
Su MingQing
China. 2025. 17 min

This film interweaves the tense emotional journey of the first performance of the Khoomei girl Brie and her experience of learning Khoomei, showcasing the inheritance dilemma of Khoomei as an intangible cultural heritage and the pure imagination of the Kazakh girl about the universe. The innocence of the little girl, like Khoomei, is a special gift to humanity, but few people can understand the significance of this gift from the universe.

A Little Bit of Glitter
Sid Menon
UK. 2024. 23 min

Vidya is a 62-year-old, recently widowed, Indian woman and everybody in her life has always taken decisions for her and has deemed things on her behalf. As she grapples with the solitude, she decides to sublet a room in her house to a gay and flamboyant 19-year-old Nick. As the friendship of this odd pair blossoms, Vidya starts to see herself in a new light and in the process, re-discovers her love for make-up. But when others start to question her decisions, she begins to falter and lose her newly found confidence.

Gorgo
Ven Gialouris
Australia. 2024. 19 min

In Gorgo—a short film inspired by Ovid’s Medusa myth—an arranged Greek bride undertakes a cross-continental journey for a marriage arranged by her best friend Athina. Arriving in Australia, she soon discovers a monstrous secret that threatens to tear apart the best friends’ promise of sisterhood.

Durga
Abhishek Parasher
Australia. 2024. 15 min

A young woman tries to fashion an escape from her volatile household, as her husband and sister in law demand more in dowry payments.

Alice
Kamil Hardin
Russia. 2024. 25 min

Sergey recently lost his family and faith in the future, but artificial intelligence does not allow him to make a fatal mistake. Once in the loop, a smart speaker starts a dialogue with him. After disconnecting her from the network to complete what she started, the speaker continues to conduct a dialogue, as if she not only hears, but also sees what Sergei is going to do.