The Evaluation
Directed by: Laura Kazbaraite
Genre: Drama / Satire
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 21 minutes
A young director, Ilona, joins the grading committee after a student exam-concert, flattered to sit among the five established members of the jury. But admiration soon turns to dismay as the meeting devolves into a showcase of arrogance and misconduct: high marks are handed out to preserve reputations, while tactless and vulgar remarks about students’ bodies, age, and race dominate the discussion.
Trapped between complicity and integrity, Ilona must decide whether to stand up against the cruelty of the "untouchables" or conform to their game in hopes of advancing her career.
Storm & Stress
Directed by: Wouter Wirth
Genre: Historical Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 30 minutes
In 1789, while the revolution in Paris promises freedom and liberation, young Cornelia remains confined within the suffocating walls of her patriarchal home in rural Germany. Determined to escape, she risks everything to pay a stranger to marry her and take her to Paris in search of a new life.
But upon meeting her future husband, Cornelia realizes that the revolution’s promises are not meant for everyone. Faced with betrayal and harsh reality, she must once again break free—this time at a cost far greater than before.
Blu’s
Stimuli
Directed by: Sophus Andersen
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Country: Denmark
Duration: 19 minutes
Jacob drifts through life without a sense of purpose, weighed down by aimlessness. While house-sitting in an old tavern, his isolation is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious woman. Her presence sparks the possibility of change, forcing Jacob to confront his stagnant existence and consider a different path forward.
Churchill Was No C*nt
Directed by: Erik Warolin
Genre: Comedy / Satire
Country: Sweden
Duration: 5 minutes
Liv, an outspoken mother, finds herself in a tense parent-teacher meeting with her daughter Bea and Jonas, the teacher. When Bea’s blunt language comes to light, the conversation spirals into a humorous clash of values and vocabulary.
With sharp satire, Churchill Was No Cnt* pokes fun at societal language norms, exposing the awkward, absurd, and often funny consequences of speaking too honestly.
Belinda
Directed by: Maureen Payne-Hahner
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark / Germany
Duration: 23 minutes
Linda, a woman who has chosen single motherhood, travels to remote Denmark to find Holger, the astrophysicist who once abandoned her. Living entirely off the grid, Holger has long distanced himself from human connection. Linda’s later-life pregnancy drives her to seek him out—not for reconciliation, but to learn whether her unborn child may inherit any health issues.
What begins as a quest for answers turns into a fragile exchange about the only subject they share: family. Their attempt at understanding collides with irreconcilable differences, leaving Linda to walk away while Holger is left to confront the choices that defined his solitude. Belinda is a quiet meditation on family, love, ego, and the search for self-actualization.
Directed by: Rajesh PK
Genre: Animation / Environmental
Country: India
Duration: 10 minutes
Blu grows up in harmony with nature, surrounded by rivers, meadows, wildlife, and trees. But as industrialization begins to swallow her once-beautiful world, she is forced to confront the destruction unfolding around her.
Determined to resist, Blu takes a stand to protect the fragile environment before it disappears completely. Blu’s is a visually poetic animated short about courage, resilience, and the urgent need to defend the natural world.