Ants
Yu Ai
China. 2025. 21 min

Nana, living under her oppressive father’s control, sympathizes with her mother, Li Jun, enduring the tyranny together. One day, she meets Lin, a captivating singer at a bar, whose voice and red dress remind her of a younger Li Jun. As Nana learns about Lin’s tragic past, she begins to admire her strength.
Encouraged by Lin, Nana starts standing up to her father, but Li Jun defends him. Despite her disappointment, Nana continues to protect both Li Jun and Lin. Eventually, a surprise encounter between Li Jun and Lin reveals an unexpected side of her mother, challenging Nana’s understanding.

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.

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.

Chasing Kites
Anna Niebert
Germany. 2025. 8 min

As their flat turns into a sea of paper kites, a young teenager faces the impossible challenge of being there for his younger brother without losing parts of himself.

Chispa
Vera Kayh
Germany. 2025. 11 min

To support her single dad, 8-year-old Marta has learned to manage her everyday life alone. But when she senses that he is making less and less time for her, she decides to win back his attention.

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.

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?

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.