Hair

Director: Wang Guofan | 4min56sec

Synopsis Statement

A father who became addicted to alcohol and engaged in domestic violence after drinking broke out with his son who had not communicated for three years before the Chinese New Year. The father shed tears for the first time when facing the camera that his son had been filming.

Director's Statement

Born on October 22, 2002, studying at Hunan Normal University. Actor of the Changsha Damp Zoo Theater Troupe, starring in dramas such as METAMORPHOSIS and REBORN AS A BIRD, and directing the drama XIANG LAN.

Lai Lie

Director: Cui Binglin | 3min41sec

Synopsis Statement

20 years later the primary school was turned into the nursing home in the village. Each day the guard Li will open the door for the cyclist Huang on time，and Li will greet him : Lai Lie!

Director's Statement

Education: Bachelor of Performance and Creation. (Beijing Film Academy) Awards: BEIJING FILM ACADEMY 1st PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY AWARDS. Experience: Participated in many films and television productions.

She Goes To Work

Director: Wang Yueyang | 4min59sec

Synopsis Statement

The protagonist, a young woman gradually losing her eyesight, seeks a running partner who is also her visual guide. It is through this circumstance that she crosses paths with a volunteer. Both individuals share a deep desire to break free from their internal struggles. The story unfolds during their first jog together.

Director's Statement

Yueyang Wang, male, graduated from Beijing Film Academy and currently lives in Beijing, working as a screenwriter and director.

Mom

Director: Shen Di | 5min

Synopsis Statement

Daughter’s wedding will be held soon, and the mother who accompanied her daughter back home for the wedding is still preparing her wedding speech on the boat in the early morning.

Director's Statement

Shen Di, graduated from Shanghai Theater Academy. THE STORMS IN OUR BLOOD won the second prize of the Cinefondation of the 71st Cannes International Film Festival. WHAT CAN I HOLD YOU WITH won the special mention of 2021 Beijing International Short Film Festival. YEAR ZERO was selected to 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.

Flame Youth

Director: Lv Bowen | 3min30sec

Synopsis Statement

There is no dream in the county. The dream is in the distance. Erchuan opens the door and is alone; There is no dream in the distance, dream in the dream; Erchuan pushed the door open and was still alone. Well, goodbye to my father and old hometown……Perhaps three people’s lives are just one person’s life.

Director's Statement

Young director and recording engineer, under the guidance of Mr. Wei Longbiao, graduated from the eighth year of Xi'an Chunguang Yinghua. As an assistant director, I filmed the 20 minute graduation short film BITTER ALMONDS. Director and voice designer of short films such as FLAME YOUTH, won awards such as Best Picture in fM2022 Video Poetry and was nominated for the 12th Macau International Micro Film Festival Student Group.

A Walk In A Park

Director: Li Yue | 5min

Synopsis Statement

The protagonist, a young woman gradually losing her eyesight, seeks a running partner who is also her visual guide. It is through this circumstance that she crosses paths with a volunteer. Both individuals share a deep desire to break free from their internal struggles. The story unfolds during their first jog together.

Director's Statement

Li Yue graduated from the University of the Arts London in the UK. He is currently based in Shanghai. His short film won the Best Short Film award at the BFI London Film Festival. He also received the Silver Screen award at the Young Director Award. It was also nominated for the Best Short Film category at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

Spring Blossoms

Director: Xiao Zihang | 4min59sec

Synopsis Statement

After the children were born, we attempted to play around and struggle with immortality, time, and fate while searching for our original look in the pictures. The past and present are just figments of our imagination and memories. With this new life here, we can look forward to another spring with patience and hope.

Director's Statement

Xiao Zihang, director and producer. Since 2014, he has participated in the production of more than 30 types of works. In 2019, it was selected into the Young Filmmakers Training Program of the China Film Special Fund, and its works were selected into many domestic and foreign film festivals. Always put the burning initial heart of "discovering life and loving dreams" in the highest position.

____，Ready

Director: Guo Jun | 5min

Synopsis Statement

When his birthday, be tipsy. When he received a birthday gift seemingly sent by his own phone. It was a video that delved into the truth of his daily life, a truth that was undeniably his own. However, within this unadulterated reality, there might exist some additional truths, perhaps waiting to be unearthed.

Director's Statement

Graduated from Shanghai University of Technology, studied at the Jiangpan Drama Society, worked as a stage play director, writer, actor, and independent film and television director. Drama GREEN SPRING scriptwriter, director, actor, has won the 10th College Drama Festival second prize, outstanding performance award. Drama UNKNOWN DISTANCE scriptwriter, won the 16th College Drama Festival best scriptwriter.

Thorn

Director: Wang Xi | 4min4sec

Synopsis Statement

The girl received a proposal from her friend to remove her armpit hair, as her armpit hair grew back, her body was itching more and more.

Director's Statement

Xi Wang, from Shenzhen, now a junior student majoring in radio and television directing, she started shooting short films in 2020 and has been shortlisted for three international film festivals.

Frozen Frog

Director: Sun Yiyang | 3min21sec

Synopsis Statement

Because of the lack of common language, a frog choose to be silence. “It’s a comma animation. I made these ceramic frogs during the 106-day lockdown. The crystals of frog spawn in the green glaze are sourced from the dust in the air, and time is frozen in this moment. On January 8th, 2023, Shanghai officially abolished antigen tests and quarantines for arrivals. On January 29th, 2023, the 8th day of the first lunar month, we free captive animals to pray for luck. To shoot this footage, I placed the ceramic frogs onto the water, but starling ones in hibernation.”

Director's Statement

2000 Born in Shanghai, China. An experimental animation artist gives birth to handmade films, and installations. Currently Yiyang study in Estonia Academy of Arts. Her film has been selected in some international film festivals such as Animafest Zagreb, and POFF Shorts. She regards herself as the "Bunny mimic Nüwa" in both game and labor.

Carpool

Director: Yu Hang | 5min

Synopsis Statement

A girl who was traveling with her boyfriend unexpectedly encountered her ex-boyfriend while carpooling. The three of them got into an argument, and the carpool driver forcefully intervened after receiving a phone call.

Director's Statement

Director graduated from Southwest Minzu University, majoring in animation and then got a further degree in the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy.

Human Phantoms

Director: Ma Xiao | 2min 37sec

Synopsis Statement

This is a time of disorder and isolation. Wars, Pandemic, Protests and suppressions. The world is splitting up and the society is falling apart, people are dividing from each other. Everything is messing with human’s inner being, attacking their mentality and consciousness, their memory and visual starts to make turbulence. This is the visual of a virus who transfers from human to human, this virus sees through humans, feels what they feel, remembers what they remember, everything is phantoms in their mind. The virus eventually get overloaded by all these sensory stimuli and it exploded inside the person’s mind, the person it’s in thus get infected.

Director's Statement

Ma Xiao is born in Yunnan, China, he started editing documentary film in 2017 and beginning to direct docs, music videos and commercials in 2020. His work ENCORE was selected by MIFW in China in 2021 and won LAFA Honorable Mention in 2023.

Nurse Light

Director: Lyric Wang Leslie Wang | 5min

Synopsis Statement

A nursing student enters a hospital placement and is overwhelmed by the sudden sense of purpose and the pressure of doctors and patients; she suffers from insomnia and tries to escape ……

Director's Statement

Born in Jiangsu, he is a European screenwriter and director, and his works have been selected for many film festivals at home and abroad. The feature film "WUHAN GIRL" was selected for the Silk Road International Film Festival; "Parents, After Divorce" was selected for the Hainan Island International Film Festival, HiShorts!; TALK" was selected for the Wu Tianming Youth Film Fund Master Class.

LESLIE WANG is a graduate of the Nanjing Art Institute and is passionate about independent film and independent animation. His works "THE CARD", "The Girl and the Cat" and "Giggle" have been selected for many awards in film festivals at home and abroad.New feature film MISSING FAMILY.

Water Ghost Season

Director: Liu Shuai | 4min44sec

Synopsis Statement

The poems of lonely people in their hometown.

Director's Statement

Freelancer, director, ready to open a noodle shop and earn some money to continue making films.

A Nap, A Nap

Director: Wang Xide | 4min59sec

Synopsis Statement

Xiaolin is an employee on the night shift of a convenience store. She was on duty that day. Two customers walked into the store. A melody of music came from the customer’s earphones. A piece of news about ostrich disease was mixed in, creating a weird atmosphere.

Director's Statement

WANG Xide, director and screenwriter from Changzhou, Jiangsu. His works mainly focus on portraying the intertwined fates of individuals, the style is simple and sincere. His film project LETTERS FROM HOKKAIDO won the Best Commercial Potential Award at the 2018 Chinese Young Generation Film Forum, and it also was shortlisted for the Top 30 in the 2018 CFDG Young Director Support Program. In 2020, the film project DOWNSTREAM was selected to film markets at FIRST International Film Festival, Beijing International Film Festival, Chinese Young Generation Film Forum, and etc. The short film SILVER MOON was selected for the 86358 Short Film Festival. A CHAT won the 2020 Hainan Island International Film Festival H! Action Project Market “Ying” Film Award.

Home Not Alone

Director: Xiao Yifan | 4min37sec

Synopsis Statement

Late at night, an ghost enters the house and is chased away by a toddler who is not even one year old.

Director's Statement

Yifan Xiao was born in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree. Then worked in art department for films and television productions from 2008-2012. In 2013, he pursued further studies at the New York Film Academy, and after graduating in 2016, he returned to China to pursue a career as a director. His feature film LEAPING OVER THE DRAGON GATE was nominated at the 14th FIRST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL and won the Best Director Award.

Another Day

Director: Wang Danyang Chen Yiquan | 5min

Synopsis Statement

This short film, from the perspective of “Flâneurs” to explores the boundaries between objectivity and subjectivity. Through visual and auditory elements like childhood symbols and fragmented information from the era of social media, it creates a “Heterotopias” within the city, for expressing the spiritual space of “The Net Generation”.

Director's Statement

Wang Danyang was Graduated from Beijing Film Academy 2019 Film (TV) virtual space Design. Graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2023 with a master degree in contemporary art creation. Began to work on video creation in 2014. The brand manager of Aaru Art Center.

Chen Yiquan was born in Shenzhen, Guangdong in 1994. In 2017, he graduated from the Film and Television Advertising Directing program at the Beijing Film Academy. He always aimlessly captures everything around him until one day he gathers them together to express new emotions.

Unspeakable

Director: Chih-Chieh Yu | 3min

Synopsis Statement

A program named Midjourney is an AI image generation software that can create exquisite images simply by inputting keywords. When Jia liang saw the products created by others, he was amazed and entered the keywords related to this project. The resulting images were very satisfying. He began to test other keywords on the program and successfully completed the project with the help of the AI image generator. Suddenly, Jialiang had an idea and entered the question, “What will my death look like?”.

Director's Statement

Chih-Chieh Yu, a film director and writer born in 1996, won the 44th Golden Harvest Award for Best Student Narrative Short Film with his latest work CONTAINED. The film's clever one-shot design and rhythm also earned it nominations at the Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival and the China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival.

Zoetrope3--The vagabond over the city

Director: Lin Yi | 5min

Synopsis Statement

The “ZOETROPE” series focuses on exploring the collage and fluidity of memory. The third film THE VAGRANTS OVER THE CITY presents the state and attitude of “VAGRANCY” through the dismantling and regeneration of words and images. By scanning the QR code you will get the topic eye of this film.

Director's Statement

The "ZOETROPE" series focuses on exploring the collage and fluidity of memory. The third film THE VAGRANTS OVER THE CITY presents the state and attitude of "VAGRANCY" through the dismantling and regeneration of words and images. By scanning the QR code you will get the topic eye of this film.