Solos | Yuang Zhong | CHN | 25’

In a choral competition, fifth-grader Sun Yue is faced with the decision of whether to accept the collective request to dress up as a girl for the performance, in order to achieve formal harmony and thus win the competition.

Dream House | Mads Toft Hansen & Alma‑Oline Weitling | NOR | 11’

In a double reconstruction process, the restoration of an old Norwegian sheriff’s house is intertwined with imagined chores of historical figures who once belonged to the household. Like a slow roller coaster ride through time and space, the film tracks the transition between the past and the future of a house worthy of preservation.

Pankaja | Anooya Swamy | IND | 14’

The story follows Pankaja, a woman who, along with her daughter Lalli, desperately navigates the city slums and bureaucracy of Bangalore in a quest to locate her missing husband.

O Peso da Pena | Gabriela Morais | PRT | 15’

Immersed in the apathy of old age, the character withdraws into solitude. The unexpected arrival of a pigeon stirs their melancholy, shedding light in the darkness and imbuing life with new meaning, even in the face of its inevitable end.

Bodyrave | Harri Connell, Felix Järvenpää & Leo Lindgren | FIN | 4’

A body wakes up in a mysterious room and begins experiencing processes that have always been present but never noticed – until now.

175 | Sepehr Nosrati | SWE | 11’

To stop the vote on a draconian law in Sweden, two revolutionaries kidnap the child of a member of parliament for extortion while the police make an unexpected visit to the restaurant where the child is being held captive.

The Swimsuit | Amina Krami | AUT | 10’

Through the gift of a swimsuit on a seemingly endless summer day, Noa is pushed into a binary gender order that Noa does not want to choose voluntarily.