The second short film programme at WineCast 2026 highlighted diverse themes including minority rights in Kakheti, a healing mud sanatorium, and a Malaysian singer in Venice. The competition featured eight films, among them two Iranian productions and a humorous Italian take on modern labour rights. Five Georgian films were screened, covering topics from minority rights documentation to poetic folkloric storytelling reminiscent of Tengiz Abuladze and Sergei Parajanov. Four of these Georgian films are reviewed here, with the final film being a 2025 Georgian-Serbian co-production by directors Lev...