Films/Events
Animation/Documentary/Fiction: 15 nominees and 3 special screenings & Film Competition Awards Ceremony
- 1PET
- 2Treasure
- 3Song of Shell
- 4A Recipe for Cat Ghosts
- 5The Third Child
- 6 Dissonance
- 7Hong
- 8because time is life
- 9Pollock
- 10 Narmook
- 11Chicken Broth Soup
- 12Second Place
- 13Blue Land
- 14The Monkey King Is A Girl
- 15The Quirky Residents
- Special ScreeningSimply Divine
- Special ScreeningKOI
- Special ScreeningResettlement: Chicago Story
PET
- Animation
- Japan/2025/7 min.
- Director: Risa Hibasami
Story
One day, a little mouse comes to the home of a girl who has a cat. The mouse is clever and seems to have magical powers. It makes food and games appear and plays fun music. The cat watches as the girl becomes captivated by the mouse and begins to find its presence annoying.
Treasure
- Animation
- Spain/2024/6 min.
- Director: Carmen Álvarez Muñoz
- Voice: Lola Flor Macián
Story
Trapped in her routine, Mari Pili spends her days bored in the park feeding the birds. One day, a group of crows starts returning the favour by bringing her little presents. Surprised, Mari Pili decides to give them better food, making the crows improve their gifts too.
Song of Shell
©2025 Tomoko TAKAYA
- Animation
- Japan/2025/10 min.
- Director: Tomoko Takaya
Story
The protagonist, who has lost his wife, is lured out into the streets at night by a cat. There, he has various encounters and partings.
A Recipe for Cat Ghosts
©2025 Saki HARUO/Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media
- Animation
- Japan/2025/8 min.
- Director: Saki Haruo
- Voice: Hibiki Nakagawa
Story
This recipe will help you find the ghosts of your cats. But cats are capricious so they may or may not appear. It's a formula for those grieving the loss of something dear.
The Third Child
- Documentary
- Iran/2024/25 min.
- Director: Serna Amini
- Cast: Mahdi Kalateh, Mohammad Yazdan Fakhri
Story
Mehdi is the only hearing child in a completely deaf family. His mother, father, sisters, and brother are all deaf. Since childhood, Mehdi has struggled with pronunciation and speech due to his family’s circumstances. Now, he is striving to become a professional voice actor and dubbing artist on his new path.
Dissonance
- Documentary
- Spain/2025/25 min.
- Director: Raquel Larrosa
Story
Fatimetu Bucharaya is a Sahrawi woman who in 2019 founded SMAWT, a voluntary women's association dedicated to the detection of antipersonnel mines in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria).
Hong
- Documentary
- China/2024/29 min.
- Director: Hu Yingying
- Cast: Wang Yuhong
Story
Set in the cold-temperate forests of northern China along the 48th parallel, this documentary follows Hong, a resilient woman who faces one of the world’s most dangerous professions. She is nearly the only woman in China performing high-altitude forestry work. Her work is both demanding and perilous, yet her life in the small courtyard she calls home remains simple and tranquil.
because time is life
- Documentary
- Japan/2025/30 min.
- Director: Sumiko Amano
- Cast: Sayuri Kobayashi, Maki Yoshimura
Story
Maki provides intensive home care for Sayuri, who has ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Despite their concerns about life's meaning and how individuals should relate to society, these resilient women find joy and laughter in the little things each day.
Pollock
- Drama
- South Korea/2024/29 min.
- Director: You Isu
- Cast: Kang Aesim, Byun Junghee,
Story
It’s a cold winter in the construction site of an apartment complex nearing completion and the pollock drying grounds heralding the fishing season are bustling with activity. When Yeong Hwa learns that her colleague's son, Jinchul, has gone missing, she tries to help her.
Narmook
- Drama
- Iran/2025/19 min.
- Director: Ghazal Zoghiniya
- Cast: Ruqiya Sarshar, Mahbubeh Soltani
Story
"Narmook," which means "half-male, half-female," tells the story of an adolescent girl's identity crisis as she becomes a victim of the ancient tradition of "Bacha Posh." In this tradition, families without sons force one of their daughters to live as a boy.
Chicken Broth Soup
- Drama
- Türkiye/2024/18 min.
- Director: Deniz Büyükkırlı
- Cast: Name Önal, Erol Babaoğlu
Story
The doctor comes across unusual symptoms at the man said to have died of a heart attack when he examined the corpse. He decides to refer the body to forensic medicine. Thereupon, the mans wife confesses; she said poisoned her husband, who constantly beat her.
Second Place
- Drama
- China, USA/2024/17 min.
- Director: Gao Kexin Kaia
- Cast: Cheng Yue, Su Xiaoshen
Story
Returning to her hometown, a young woman finds her childhood room gone. Her grandfather offers to buy her a new space, leading them on a quiet summer journey. As they search for a place to call home, the trip becomes an unexpected confrontation with memory, loss, and belonging.
Blue Land
- Drama
- Spain/2024/19 min.
- Director: Marine Auclair March
- Cast: Alexia Álvarez, Lina Mira
Story
Elionor discovers the intricacies of adulthood in 1940's Mallorca. She lives in a remote farmhouse, from which the inhabitants have never ventured out. Everything will change with the arrival of a movie.
The Monkey King Is A Girl
- Drama
- China, USA/2024/17 min.
- Director: Yue Zhang
- Cast: Yue Zhang, Lin Chen
Story
Unwilling to keep playing stereotypical roles, female actress Sun Guo finagles her way into an audition for the male role of the Monkey King and, unexpectedly, is given the part by the female director. Under constant pressure from the producer, she is constantly being molded and sinking deeper and deeper to the role.
The Quirky Residents
- Drama
- Japan/2025/22 min.
- Director: Natsuko Aratama
- Cast: Moe Tanaka, Yu Tanaka (Stunt double)
Story
Hailed once as a promising newcomer, Suzuki is now a struggling woman manga artist whose works are consistently rejected. After moving into a cheap apartment, she finds herself surrounded by eccentric residents who appear to be yakuza, hit men, or ninjas. The day before her deadline, unable to tolerate the noise from her neighbors, Suzuki snaps and starts beating them up, one by one.
Simply Divine
©Novanima Productions
- Documentary/Animation
- France, Romania/2024/15 min.
- Director: Mélody Boulissière, Bogdan Stamatin
Story
1939. A soldier follows a woman. Their love story begins. Two years later, the woman becomes a refugee, the soldier is called to the battlefield and their love story dissolves in the War. 2014. During a long interview, the woman remembers her past. The secrets from a forgotten time are revealed for the last time. What remains from a love story after three quarters of a century and a World War?
KOI
- Drama
- USA/2023/9 min.
- Director: Justine Kaneda
Story
Together, they're whole. A pair of koi pins reflects the unbreakable bond between two sisters and how they are connected even when one is gone.
Resettlement: Chicago Story
- Drama
- USA/2024/17 min.
- Director: Reina Higashitani
Story
The story depicts a Japanese American family that "resettled" in Chicago a few years after being forcibly interned by the U.S. government, as they run a dry cleaning business and navigate their lives.
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