THE AMBROSE FINCH

Dunyasha Althaus

BEST STUDENT PRODUCTION

2025

13 min

United Kingdom

English

Thirty years after the death of her infant son, Agnes Ambrose invites her two estranged children, John and Giselle, to share a final meal. Over the course of the evening, she reveals her decision to end her life. Agnes drifts back into the past, reliving the painful events that led her to this decision. When she returns to the present, it becomes clear that the reunion with her children was simply a last wish, and she must prepare for her death without the reconciliation she had hoped for.

Dunyasha is a filmmaker born in 2001 in the United States and raised in Switzerland. She trained at Bournemouth Film School, where she specialised in Producing and graduated in 2025. Now based back in Switzerland, she is developing her next film while also working in dementia care—a role that continues to shape her artistic perspective and inspires her to tell deeply human, existential stories.

Dunyasha Althaus