RHIZOMEMIND
A Lab for Mapping Digital Environmentalism(s)
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Chihiro Yamanaka
Japan, 2025
5 min 10 secs
​​The east wind begins to blow, carrying warmth into the water. Landscapes merge without boundaries, and in time, the mountains drift into slumber.
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Radheya Jang Jegatheva
Australia and UK, 2024
8 min 55 secs
​​A heartfelt story of unrequited love explored through a lonely seagull struggling to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.
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Daria Mantsereva
Russia, 2024
7 min 33 secs
Young man arrives at sea coast, as instructions in the mysterious letter told him to do. He was in search of his origins, but he discovers a strange new world of fish people. He has never seen anything like that, but why does it feel so familiar?
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Mahdi Barqzadegan
Iran, 2024
12 min 18 secs
This film tries to show the relationship between art and artist.
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Kuan Yu Lo
Taiwan, 2025
6 min 54 secs
This film depicts a fierce conflict among its protagonists, laced with an air of cunning and deceit. While themes of greed and ambition are clearly exposed, the story unfolds with a comedic twist, delivering a playful yet sharp commentary on human nature.
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Kuntao Zhou
China, 2025
6 min 10 secs
The short film introduces a fantasy story full of bizarreness, where a lonely "bone hunter" accepts a test of human nature from the "snail man" during his journey of searching for bones.
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Chandan Priyadarshi
India, 2025
24 min 50 secs
Jasmit Singh Arora, a Kolkata-based Sikh businessman-cum-enviromental activist, is on a quest to collect 200 crore gutlis (mango seeds) from the public in order to plant 20 crore trees. To achieve his goal, Jasmit has explore various avenues whether it's running a social media campaign or climbing the buildings of Bada Bazaar to collect gutlis from mango-papad makers.
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Maryam Mari Samadi
Belgium, 2023
14 min 46 secs
A pregnant woman who lives and sells salt with her husband by Lake Urmia is facing the risk of miscarriage because of the impact of salt storms caused by climate change and human factors. They plan to move to the city after selling their property, and until then, the woman tries to protect her fetus from the dangers of the environment.