STRAW 2025: A Mother’s Silence Was Louder Than a Siren
A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.

Pia has dropped out of school to work as a journalist in her father's newsdesk, but struggles to communicate with other people. When her mentally ill grandfather passes away, Pia get offered to take over his apartment. In the middle of the moving process she finds suddenly some secret papers her grandfather has hidden away. These documents suggest that someone controls internet, and have scary plans for the world's population. Pia starts to examine his claims in her grandfather's documents, before she know it, she is trapped in a race between life and death.
A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.
Given a choice between a man and a mountain, it’s safer to choose the mountain.
'Tuca and Bertie' (2019) is an animated series centering around best friends of the same name as they traverse the challenges of their thirties.
Cassie, a musician, and Luke, a man serving in the Marines, form a false relationship and keep it a secret.
When the world lost Chadwick Boseman on August 28, 2020, we all saw the impact of representation in film. Boseman was not only a Black superhero leading a Black cast in one of the most successful films in history; but his successes paved the way for more, long-overdue diversity in Hollywood.