A man recounts his capillary peregrinations through his adolescence - from the barber’s trauma to his first love to the loss of his hair and eventually his father. Through this, we see a construction of a masculinity in the making.

Sameh (Cairo, Egypt) finished his MA in filmmaking at EICAR Film School, Paris. His first short film FIFTEEN premiered at TIFF ‘17 and won several awards around the world. His recent film, I AM AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR FACE, is the first Egyptian film in 50 years to be selected for the Official Short Film Competition at Cannes Film Festival. Sameh is currently developing his debut feature film.

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Helpless in the face of a repressive state, a young couple leaves their home — an escape that turns into a surreal nightmare.

Natalia Mirzoyan is an animation director and artist based in Estonia, originally from Yerevan, Armenia. She holds a Master's degree in Animation from the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA). Her films, including My Childhood Mystery Tree (2009), Chinti (2012), Five Minutes to Sea (2018), and Merry Grandmass (2020), have been selected for numerous prestigious festivals, such as Berlinale, Annecy, Zagreb, Fantoche and Hiroshima, earning her multiple awards. Winter in March (2025) is her first puppet animation film. Natalia is working with a range of techniques, from hand-drawn to stop-motion. In addition to her work in animation, she is an artist, illustrator, and sketcher. Natalia has participated in several group exhibitions and held three solo exhibitions of her own.

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A community of garden creatures all contribute to the flow of life, using water from a fountain. When a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain, they’re faced with an unfamiliar situation.

Suncana Brkulj (1997) earned her MA in animation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Her student films have been selected for screenings at prestigious festivals in Annecy, Ottawa, Zagreb, Stuttgart, and elsewhere, winning several awards. After graduating, Suncana undertook a residency at Open Workshop in Viborg, where she made her first professional film, Butterfly. Filmography: Butterfly (2024), Stinky in the Dark Forest (2022, graduation film), The Tower (2020, student film), I'm Not Feeling Very Well (2019, student film), The Sensitive Prince (2018, student film)

The glasshouse is a metaphorical stage for the creator's inner world, in which three characters, two actresses and a director, embody different emotions. They meet here to make a film, but the process has an unexpected effect on all three.

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