Director: Yang Qing | 5min
Synopsis Statement
This is a story that happened at night. The corner restaurant, the street lamp, the rain and the passers-by witness a lot of misses and misses of this father and his daughter.
Director's Statement
Yang Qing is a director and a screenwriter. His works include Chongqing Hot Pot and One Night in Supermarket.
Director: Taylor Ni | 4min59sec
Synopsis Statement
The film DAD, HUSBAND, ROBBER is a family comedy. Luo seems like a harmless man, but is secretly planning a robbery with his colleague Fei. However, their robbery did not go smoothly: Luo’s wife, son and even his mother came to mess up his plan, and caused a farce.
Director's Statement
Taylor Ni, born in 1999, is from Shanghai. He used to study at Vancouver Film School. He has a strong interest in comedy film. He loves to bring laughter to the audience.
Director: Zhang Ximing | 4min30sec
Synopsis Statement
This is a story about the life and struggle of feminists Li Maizi and Xiao Meili. She brings her home to meet her father for the first time …
Director's Statement
Zhang Ximing was born in 1985 in Liaoning, China. His work I'VE GOT A MELANCHOLY LITTLE PROBLEM was screened at the Busan Film Festival's Wide Angle section, FIRST International Film Festival and the Golden Horse Film Festival. THE SHIP OF FOOLS was shortlisted in the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival - film project venture and Film Mart of the 13th FIRST International Film Festival.
Director: Lin Qiying | 3min03sec
Synopsis Statement
Two men on the street use their cellphones to ‘attack’ each other because of a ‘scam’, but it quickly escalates to something they didn’t expect…
Director's Statement
Lin Qiying is a Chinese born filmmaker based in Guangdong. Coming from a design background, Qiying is currently a graduate Filmmaking student in NYU Tisch School of the Arts. In his works, he explores possibilities that can combine narratives and visual forms to create new ways of visual storytelling that are different from other art forms.
Director: Chris Yu | 4min58sec
Synopsis Statement
From the director’s own perspective, the film tells the love story of a couple who are about to get married shooting wedding registration photos in a warehouse. There are many interesting details in the film, and the documentary shooting also makes the film full of genuineness and empathy. It is a short film full of warmth and love.
Director's Statement
Chris Yu is a director, a photographer, an editor and a vlogger. His works include documentary THE SECRET OF MUSIC, film WEIHAI, New Pants Band's MV LIFE IS HOT BECAUSE OF YOU and so on. He is good at capturing delicate and real emotions with the lens and showing the deeper connection between people under the appearance of life.
Director: Bi Shanyi | 5min
Synopsis Statement
Lin Hui, an unemployed live streamer accidentally clicks into an applet named ‘The Little Genie Fish’ during a live stream. The ‘Genie Fish’ claims to be able to grant him his wishes. After being humiliated by his girlfriend, Lin makes a vicious wish on her, only to realize there’s no turningback…
Director's Statement
Bi Shanyi graduated from Beijing Film Academy with MFA in Film Directing. His works include short film MAN ON THE LIST and SCHOOL UNIFORMS AND PISTOL. He has also worked as a producer in GHOST IN THE MOUNTAINS. Later he had an interest in new media image creation because of HOT HIM.
Director: Sha Mo | 4min42sec
Synopsis Statement
One day, a young man received an unexpected package, which made his day pleasant. But he knew from the moment he turned on the magic switch, the time to farewell with her was counting down…
Director's Statement
Sha Mo graduated from Beijing Film Academy majoring in directing. He has directed web series MY HUCKLEBERRY FRIENDS and film I WANT US TO BE TOGETHER, which is in post production.
Director: Zhong Muxuan | 4min10sec
Synopsis Statement
As the epidemic strikes the world, people wear masks and ‘free breathing’ becomes extravagant hope. In the eyes of robots, human beings always regard the lost as the most precious, and “free breathing” is regarded as the highest pursuit of human whether in spirit or body. Maybe we can fight for the right of ‘free breathing’, so that we can live up to this moment…
Director's Statement
Zhong Muxuan is an outstanding young filmmaker in China. She has won the Best Screenwriter Award of Canada Golden Maple Film Festival.
Director: Lia Wang | 3min08sec
Synopsis Statement
A young, visually impaired woman — accompanied only by her guide dog – sits in a café, reading a novel as she waits for the next bus. Suddenly, a pay phone begins to ring loudly outside. Led by her trusted friend, the young woman then experiences something that can only be described as magical.
Director's Statement
Lia Wang is a current second-year screenwriting student at the American Film Institute. She lived in New York City after college, working in acquisitions and development for a time at A24. Most recently, she placed as a finalist in the ScreenCraft Drama Contest and in the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition with her feature screenplay, HILLS OF GOLD.
Director: Chen Shuo | 5min
Synopsis Statement
This film is about the mental and emotional states of a man under quarantine. Isolated from his wife and daughter in a different hotel room, a man has a chance to face his true self and examine the loneliness in his marriage. During quarantine, the depression and anxiety caused by the environment and self-struggles are somehow relieved through the “abnormal” communications with the family. The sudden fever that happens to the daughter makes the man feel the power of love and the courage to overcome the crisis of his daily life.
Director's Statement
After studying Philosophy in Sichuan University, Chen Shuo majored in Assitant Réalisateur at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français. Ever since he returned to China in 2008, he has been working in the film industry. He participated in several projects including a feature film WINTER CICADAS, a documentary series A BITE OF CHINA 2, and a commercial A TASTY JOURNEY. In order to enrich his understanding of cinema and film production, he joined two different workshops: One led by the editor, Mary Stephen, and the other lead by the screenwriter, Krzysztof Piesiewicz.
Director: Wu Tang | 4min48sec
Synopsis Statement
It was nighttime in the city, two passengers encountered through a carpooling service. The short journey lighted up a moment of exhaustion as the summer fireworks glitter by the water that only ends too soon. In such a metropolis, they would never meet again. Like NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft which spent 9 years to just whoosh past Pluto and have a brief glance, the real mystery of the universe is to say ‘Hi’ and ‘Goodbye’ at the same time.
Director's Statement
Wu Tang studied Film at Warwick University. She lived a mundane life for many years in the UK. She decided that if life is to be wasted then it should be wasted on making films, therefore she is now a director.
Director: Wu Jinming | 4min45sec
Synopsis Statement
THE MUSEUM IN MARCH is an stop motion animation made by a family of three during quarentine. All of the properties and characters are made with toys by the daughter. The father was in charge of screenwriting, post-production and sound, while the mother was in charge of cinematography and grip. The production took three weeks, using family-owned digital camera, and the lighting support in slow-mostion was supportd by flashlights and bath heaters.
Director's Statement
Wu Jinming is the Art Editor in Cheif at the China Financial Publishing House. His short film THE LOST ERASER was awarded the 4th China Micro Film Festival as well as 21 other awards.
Director: He Ziyuan | 4min57sec
Synopsis Statement
In the last soccer game in school, Xia, waiting for her best friend Jun who was late, tried her best to play a draw and get the game into overtime. They kept the promise of playing the last game together in the injury time, which became a memory of the last time the childhood friends met in their lives.
Director's Statement
He Ziyuan graduated from the Communication University of China and is currently a graduate student of the Film Directing Program at the California Institute of the Arts. He is an ignorant man who pretends to be observing life.
Director: Fan Wenhan | 4min57sec
Synopsis Statement
Two men, a misunderstanding, and some jokes.
Director's Statement
Fan Wenhan graduated from the undergraduate directing program of the Beijing Film Academy. He is a current a candidate of the master’s program at Taipei National University of the Arts.
Director: Wang Fei | 4min40sec
Synopsis Statement
One man, one phone, one night. Staying in the dark, brightness is in his heart.
Director's Statement
Wang Fei is a photographer and a director. He graduated from Beijing Film Academy majoring in cinematography. He is passionte in film and music.
Director: Cheng Thim Kian | 4min45sec
Synopsis Statement
Professional sound recordist Soon, and his assistant, Maz, go to the park to record the sound of crickets. However, their different working styles lead to conflict…
Director's Statement
Cheng Thim Kian is a Malaysian filmmaker. His short films include SALARY, MEN WITHOUT WOMEN LOOKING FOR BANANAFISH, GIRL WITHOUT CAT TELLING HER STORY, and BAEU BAEU have been screened at international festivals around the world. BEE, MY FRIEND premiered at OAFF(2020) and competed for Housen Short Film Award.
Director: Wang Dongjian | 4min13sec
Synopsis Statement
The Chinese characters are broad and profound. The word “Xu” is both wasteful and a sense of timidity. But the film’s purpose is to choose the latter. A vain girl picks up a mobile phone. Driven by greed, she is attracted by bargaining with the owner. Returning the lost items is a traditional virtue. I hope that everyone can live up to it at any time.
Director's Statement
Wang Dongjian graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2005, and has made a lot of advertisements and micro films after graduation. He has won many awards in China and abroad.
Director: Real Zhao Ying Zhaoyi | 5min
Synopsis Statement
A young girl uses studying as an excuse to visit her friend. She feels nervous, though she doesn’t know why. Things she sees in her friend’s house becomes vivid in her mind, and the visit also turns out of control.
Director's Statement
Real Zhao is a filmmaker. Her work includes stop-motion animation I QUIT.
Ying Zhaoyi works in theatre. Her works include stop-motion animation I QUIT, short film OCEAN CROSSER and A NORMAL AFTERNOON.
Director: Liu Xiaohu | 4min59sec
Synopsis Statement
An intense gamble happened between two guys during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Director's Statement
Since middle school I moved to Hong Kong from Shijiazhuang. After getting my highschool diploma at academy of film from Hong Kong Baptist University, I began studying film at Hong Kong Academy.
Director: Gan Meiying | 4min55sec
Synopsis Statement
During his lunch break, Stanley, a concession stand worker at the local cinema decides to present his own passion project on the big screen. The film is filled with all kinds of desire. Theses desire sometimes can be mundane, sometimes bizarre. These moments of magic and spice unfold as the scene changes, and end unexpectedly.
Director's Statement
After completing her undergraduate degree in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, Gan Meiying has been focusing on Computational Arts whilst critically analyzing the use of Virtual-Reality in film in Britain. Her BA graduation short film, WISH TANK, has been nominated for 14th FIRST International Film Festival.
Director: Yi Lie | 4min53sec
Synopsis Statement
Our objective view is always monitoring out subjective imagination. One can never tell when fictional truth fades into hallucination.
Director's Statement
不会编程的码农转行的导演，与人合伙开了视效公司，拍摄了很多商业广告，同时也准备着自己的第一部长片。
Director: Zhang Chi | 5min
Synopsis Statement
One night, an unexpected guest visits the closed art museum, dancing in front of artworks. The senior security guard, who is about to retire, and the junior one, who just gets here, spend the entire long night catching the eccentric woman.
Here goes the saying: “Everything comes from nothing, while everything means nothing without you.”
Director's Statement
Zhang Chi graduated from University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China with a major in International Communication. In 2014, he founded the Indifferent Movie Workshop and started his career in making feature films. In 2016, his medium-length film White Fog Mystery Shore (65“) entered the Main Competition Unit of the 10th FIRST International Film Festival. Last year, his first feature film Ocean Animal (112”) entered the Main Competition Unit of the 41st Moscow International Film Festival, winning the Special Prize of the Jury. This film has also been nominated for best photography in the First Feature Unit of Camerimage International Photographers Film Festival. Currently, his feature film Memory Cage is in post-production phase.
Director: Guan Haotian | 5min
Synopsis Statement
Similar as many of the youngsters in town, Beast Chan and Old Six swing around with nothing but fantasies in their heads. Beast Chan rehearses for the whole night with her band, but nobody knows when the show would take place. Though Old Six is not used to the occasion, he comes to see her rehearse at last. Wandering around after the rehearsal, they spend the night together as so many nights before.
Director's Statement
Guan Haotian graduated from Communication University of China in 2018 majoring in Film and Television Photography and Production. He has been working as a freelancer ever since, devoting himself to the film industry.