THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS
14’47 - 4:3 - UK - 2025 - 5.1
Director: Elham Ehsas
Producers: Lorraine Bhattachary/Shakyra Dowling
Executive Producers: Stefan Allesch-Taylor, Ellie Bamber, Zoe Bamber, Josh Cockcroft, Danusia Samal, Lucy Stone, Robin Saunders, Dale Vince OBE, Charlie MacGechan, Kristin Tarry
Cast: Olivia D’Lima, Priya Davdra, Arjun Singh Panam
Winner Hot House Shorts/Climate Spring Film London Funding Award
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
2025
Aspen Film Festival World Premiere
Raindance Film Festival WINNER - Best UK Short
Hollyshorts Film Festival
Show Me Shorts
This Is England
Encounters Short Film Festival - WINNER - Chris Collins Best of British Short Film Award
Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Flatpak Film Festival
Puerto Rico Film Festival
Cinehill Motovun Film Festival
IFF Integrazione Film Festival
Minikino Film Week
Aswan Women’s Film Festival
BFI Imax Screening
London Indian Film Festival
Trieste Film Festival
ShortS International Film Festival
NYC Climate Film Festival WINNER - Best Narrative Short
Sentiero Film Factory
13th Bosphorus Film Festival
Monstrale Film Festival
International Festival BRNO16
Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec
Jagran Film Festival WINNER - Best Short
Tasveer Film Festival
Madani Film Festival
Ottawa Film Festival
Jakarta Film Week
London Breeze Film Festival
Planos International Short Film Festival WINNER - Best Cinematography
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival - WINNER - Samansa Award
SPEKTRUM Film Festival
Cairo International Short Film Festival
Tweetfest Film Festival
2026
26th Landshut Short Film Festival
Fargo Film Festival
Dublin International Film Festival
REVIEWS
★★★★★
“Ehsas has created something singular; a climate film that breathes with soul, memory, and meaning. One of the most vital shorts of the decade.”
Arts Muse Magazine
★★★★★
“A quiet revolution disguised as a short film. Urgent, lyrical, and deeply necessary.”
Just Celebrity Mag
★★★★★
“A quietly radical masterpiece. This is what the future of climate storytelling must look like — rooted in humanity, cultural truth, and emotional clarity.”
Film Business
★★★★★
“A cinematic lament, a spiritual reckoning, and a climate film unlike any other. Elham Ehsas has delivered a quiet epic of ancestral grief and radical resilience. The earth may be shifting, but this film plants something that will grow long after the rain has come.”
We Love Short Film
★★★★
"…smooth and extremely satisfying..."
Film Threat