A Weaver Bird’s Nest

Alvina Joshi, Rahul Rabha · India

When his village is marked for demolition, an unemployed artist must protect both his ancestral home and his family, or lose the very connections that define who he is.

Nepal Film Development Board Best Pitch Award

An Eventual Calamity of Time

Omkar Khandagale · India

Realizing all that is left of his great-grandfather are the tools of his caste trade – a pair of scissors, a comb and a mirror, a filmmaker sets out for his hometown hoping to make sense of his family and their inheritance.

KIMFF Foundation Best Pitch Award

Echoes Underneath

Sumair Shamsi · Pakistan

Riaz Masih, a Christian sanitation worker in Lahore, dreams of a better life for his children. But as he confronts caste stigma, religious discrimination, and daily danger in the sewers, he must choose between quiet survival and risking everything to break the cycle for the next generation.

Gard

Mahera Omar · Pakistan

A fisherwoman collects firewood from Karachi’s mangrove forests. A melancholy dog sits on a sea wall, just being. In the skies, a toxic haze hovers, shortening lifespans.

Nepal Film Initiative Best Pitch Award

Mannu Mon

Gia Singh Arora · India

In Mumbai, Suruj, a non-binary drag queen from Assam, mothers a chosen queer family. As drag fades, and her father’s voice returns, she questions if kinship alone can anchor belonging.

Sroter Gaan

Ahsabul Yamin · Bangladesh

A young mother who gave birth during a deadly flood dreams of a safer future for her child, but in a place where land disappears underwater every year, moving forward means leaving behind everything she’s ever known.

The Last Yak Herder

Sonam Yangzom · Bhutan

In the remote highlands of Bhutan, a teenage girl is torn between the allure of modern life and her grandmother’s desperate plea to preserve their dying tradition of yak herding.

Traces of Her

Bunu Dhungana · Nepal

Gaura Prasai attempts to reconnect with her friend Sita to revisit their 1971 armed rebellion against landlords in eastern Nepal and fight the political erasure of women’s participation.

Documentary Association of Pakistan Best Pitch Award

Where It Rains

Nuruzzaman Khan · Bangladesh / Lithuania

A Bangladeshi man confronts the challenges of identity, fatherhood, and bureaucracy in Lithuania, a country ranked happiest for youth yet haunted by one of Europe’s highest suicide rates, through the reflections of Lithuanian friends and family.