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Princess Warrior: Florentina Olar-Spânu (final)

Director: Ioana Țurcan

Country: Romania

Year: 2026

Duration: 27m 39s

Florentina is playing her last match with the Romanian National Football Team at home in Constanța, where she will be honored as the player with over 200 matches for the team. Her husband and two sons will accompany her on the field. „Princess Warrior: Florentina Olar Spânu” is part of a four-part documentary series that chronicles the athletic journeys of four female athletes from Romania.

EX UTERO

Director: Ileana Bîrsan

Country: Romania

Year: 2025

Duration: 13m

Instagram: ileanabirsana

For a middle-aged woman the confession of a past trauma opens the path to healing.

A TIME BEFORE

Director: Leo Metcalf

Country: UK

Year: 2024

Duration: 12m 43s

Instagram: leometcalf

Caught between waking life and dreams, Olly delves into his childhood memories, navigating the fantastical dream worlds his sister created to shield them from family strife. A journey into the buried past that shapes who we are.

PIRSAS

Director: Angelica M Torres Tamayo

Country: Colombia

Year: 2023

Duration: 19m 30s

Instagram: @bogoshorts · @donmrblack · @mar_i_at · @docupirsas

Sixteen years ago my brother was one of the 11 scout boys of the PIRSAS group who died in an avalanche while climbing the Ruiz snow-capped mountain, my family was broken, no one knew how to cope with the grief. 16 years later, the reconstruction of the ascent to the snowy mountain and the inquiry into the pain of my family is the way to build a personal and intimate story about death, grief and emotional adaptation.

My Dying Place

Director: Loren Jalyn Kett

Country: Aotearoa, New Zealand

Year: 2024

Duration: 19m 59s

Instagram: lorenjalynkett

After a long and full life, Patrick has found where he wants to see out the rest of his days. In an odd and isolated town, Birdlings Flat, even there his home defies societal norms. Patrick has learnt to make do with what he has, living in his second-hand sanctuary, nurturing and caring for the flock of animals he saved. Grateful to be alive, he embraces life completely on his own terms among his feathered friends. My Dying Place explores the journey to self acceptance, and the intertwining threads of life and death that binds us all. It asks the question, what happens to us after we die?