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Competition Short Film Collection 1

Huang Shasha | Fu Xiaoyu | Cheng Yu | Xu Yujie | 2020 | | 79min |

Synopsis

[White Horse]
The bystanders are whispering and they say an accordion could never talk to a white horse.

[The Water Will Carry Us]
In a village in southern China, a solitary and old carpenter made a wooden framed mirror by hand, but the person who ordered the mirror had been lost. Therefore, the old carpenter started to look for the person, carrying the mirror. On his way, the changes of villages and towns were reflected in the mirror, indicating something unusual was happening…

[Pomegranate]
Boy got a call from a girl he hasn’t seen for a long while. It made him remember that afternoon when he went to buy pomegranates with his father when he was young. That day, they met the women with the red scarf. Then he remembered the day he went walking in the snow with the girl.

[Ornithophobia]
A quiet girl tries to avoid the trauma brought up during her childhood, while she doesn’t know an unexpected gift is in exchange for a more brutal lesson.



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Huang Shasha

Huang Shasha is a 32-year-old Chinese filmmaker who graduated in Journalism from Nanjing University in 2009 and in Documentary from ESEC Paris in 2013. After graduation, she began her career at a TV station in Shanghai. Since 2016, she works as an independent director.

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Fu Xiaoyu

Fu Xiaoyu is a Chinese director and screenwriter. She holds a BA degree from Northeastern University (Boston) in Media Arts with concentration on Photography and is currently obtaining her MFA degree in Directing and Screenwriting at Columbia University. She is the member of 13th FIRST Training Camp and developing her first feature now.

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Cheng Yu

I started making short videos from college. I am currently studying in the director's department of Beijing Film Academy, and I have been making short films during this period.

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Xu Yujie

Born in Guilin, Guangxi, in1995. Graduated from the Royal College of Art, 2019.