After learning about her estranged mother's severe Alzheimer's, Sepideh, a single mother, chooses to visit her after ten years despite their troubled past to see if her mother still recognizes her and remembers their conflicts.

Soha Niasti, born in 1994 in Ramsar, Iran, studied architecture at the University of Tehran before turning to cinema. Her acting career began in 2019 with My Second Year in College, which earned her the Best Actress award at the Moscow International Film Festival. She later appeared in the acclaimed TV series Actor. Niasti’s passion for filmmaking led her to write and direct her short film The Two Lives of Sepideh (2024), which screened internationally and won several awards. She also collaborated with Saeed Roustaei, as both actress and script assistant on Woman and Child (Cannes 2025).

How hard is it to be a girl? How hard it is to be a sister? An intimate dialogue between two sisters in a hotel room gradually unveils the struggles and joys and nights and days of girlhood entwined with unspoken family secret.

Daniela Sláviková (*1999) comes from Bratislava, Slovakia and after graduating from highschool, she pursued her directing and screenwriting studies at TBU in Zlin, Czech Republic. Her bachelor's film, Ipanema, was short-listed for Czech lion award and premiered at Finále Plzeň. She has then earned her second bachelor's degree from Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava with her short film The Bus premiering at 65th Zlin Film Festival. She started her first year of master’s at one-semester stay in Lisbon. Her short Nights and days shot on 35mm earned a jury mention at BEAST. In her films, she mostly focuses on female protagonists and themes of loneliness, inter-generational relationships and girlhood.

At her birthday party, a Chinese woman who has recently moved to the United States to live with her daughter tries to keep her daughter's secrets from her new friends.

Amie Song is a New York-based filmmaker. Splitting her time between the US and China, she explores how people reconcile living between cultures, traditions, genders, sexualities, etc. Her passion lies in pushing the boundaries of narrative, reimagining how films can question our perception of reality. She is currently an MFA Film Directing/Screenwriting candidate at Columbia University. Her short film THREE will premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival as La Cinef Official Selection. Her previous short films screened at the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, New Filmmakers NY, New York Shorts International Film Festival, DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival, etc.

Two children get lost in the woods during a schooltrip. In the middle of the forest they find an abandoned medieval church, which serves as their only shelter for the night.

Hungarian filmmaker Maya Nogradi was born in Israel, grew up in Budapest, completed her BA in the UK, then worked as a Researcher and Editor in London for three years, and in Rome for five years, while directing documentaries in Ukraine, Russia, Croatia and Serbia. She will finish her MA degree in Film Directing in 2025, at the at the prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts in Hungary, in the class of Lajos Koltai. She is currently working on her diploma film and her first feature length film. Her background in Documentary and Photography had a strong influence in her filmmaking: a strong visual language is as important to her as the script.