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Title: Box of Frogs
Runtime: 28 min
Country: UK
Director: Ian Puleston-Davies
Placement: Award of Excellence
Competition: March, 2026
Synopsis: Rob has battled obsessive-compulsive disorder since childhood, and it’s finally caught up with him. After his intrusive thoughts cost him his job, a humiliating final straw sends him spiralling — and straight into an OCD support group in an old community centre.
Led by Anna, who lives with Tourette’s, the room is chaotic, funny and painfully honest. As the group share their struggles — Rob begins, reluctantly, to feel less alone. And for the first time, he wonders if this broken little circle might be where he belongs.