Synopsis
A Roadside Banquet
A day in 2016 China, 11-year-old girl Mai attends her baby brother’s first birthday party and learns a crushing truth: her parents never ever wanted a girl in their family. What’s worse: she starts turning into a feather duster.
Chen Wen Yuan
In a maternity hospital, an anxious young woman sits on a bench waiting for her B-scan pregnancy test. On accident, she drops a button, she’s been rubbing and encounters the woman next to her – someone that looks twice her age. The two women have a chat, get to know each other’s lives, and even begin to share their secrets…” Next patient, Chen Wenyuan. Please enter the B-scan room.” Two women, one button. A soulful encounter in motherhood…
De songes au songe d’un autre miroir
The world is alive, but maybe without mirrors and images, none of it would exist. The blind create images in a different way. They are on the other side of the mirror.
Hanging
He Qingqing broke up, and she couldn’t figure out why love suddenly disappeared. During the process of questioning her ex-boyfriend, she gradually realized that she had fallen into madness, and the more she tried to resist, she fell into even greater madness, ultimately reaching an irreversible situation.
Peng PeiQi
Peng Peiqi is a Chinese writer/director living in Los Angeles, with a BFA in Film & Post-Colonial Studies from Emerson College and an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute. A child fantasy writer that later studied Sociology, Peiqi does socially conscious female dramas with fantasy, gore, and absurdist elements. Her narrative shorts have been screened at many festivals, including Cleveland International Film Festival, Chinese American Film Festival, and L.A. Shorts. A semi-finalist in the ScreenCraft Film Fund Competition, Peiqi did script development work for FilmNation, Partizan, and Imagine Entertainment.
Li Yingyi
Li Yingyi, Master of Fine Art (directing direction) of The Central Academy of Drama. Her feature debut SHALL WE TALK was selected at the 13th FIRST International Film Festival. At the same time, she directed and produced multiple NGO and avant-garde theatre plays.
Zhu Yunyi
Zhu Yunyi is a Chinese artist whose practice questions memory and perception. He graduated from Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts in sculpture and Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, he works based on the combination of a series of personal experiences relating to the uses of some of our underestimated senses in the field of art, such as touch, and the questions of memory. He transforms these experiences and memories into works by various approaches of mediums.
Cui Shuming
Cui shuming, graduated from the film and television directing department of the central academy of drama. From shandong province, and now in beijing.
