Category Archives: Women,s voices

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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Nina Roza (Genevieve Dulude) Canada, Italy

Nina Roza
Genevieve Dulude de Celles
Canada, Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium. 2026. 103 min

Mihail left Bulgaria in the 1990s after the death of his wife and raised his young daughter, Roza, alone in Montreal. Far from his homeland, he established himself as a specialist in French and contemporary art. Now, he is commissioned by a collector to authenticate the work of an eight-year-old girl, Nina, who is living in a Bulgarian village and whose paintings have gone viral online. Mihail hesitates but eventually agrees to undertake the journey. Meeting Nina shakes him deeply. The disarmingly mature child reminds him of Roza at the same age. During his stay in Bulgaria, he gradually makes his peace with the ghosts of his past while trying to unravel the mystery behind Nina: is she truly the author of her work? Has someone helped her? What gives him the right to disrupt her happy life? Somewhere between the past and the present, the tangible and the symbolic, Mihail’s journey becomes a cathartic one which highlights the intricate relationships between life, art and human beings. Sometimes, the journey matters more than the destination.

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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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Neverlandex (Agata Kapuscinska) Poland

Neverlandex
Agata Kapuscinska
Poland. 2025. 23 min

Thirty-five-year-old Peter is convinced that everything in the outside world will sooner or later kill him due to his allergies. He is fed terrifying stories by his overprotective father, who still treats him like a child. The only thing that gives him hope are the postcards from his mother, who travels the world treating the same allergies. One day, Peter discovers an old crossword puzzle, sparking a journey to explore real life. Where is his mother? Is everything his father has told him true?

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Mercedes Cabral incorporates to Imagineindia as Jury

Mercedes Cabral was born on August 10, 1986 in Manila, Philippines. She graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, majoring in Sculpture.
Mercedes was introduced in Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s Serbis, which competed at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. A year later she appeared in Mendoza’s Kinatay and Park Chan-wook’s Thirst; both films competed in Cannes.

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Syncopation (Maria Rival) Russia

Syncopation
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.

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The Bird Trap (Natalia Kazakova) Russia

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?

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