NOT SATISFIED, REDO

Director: SHUI Yuan | 4min56sec

Synopsis Statement

Gaming streamer Two Little Children Argue About the Sun has recorded a new game review and experience session. This film is one of the works in the animated short film collection BURGER ORDER.

Director's Statement

A multimedia artist working in animation, visual design, and live performance. Born in Leshan, Sichuan in 1999, she graduated from the China Academy of Art's Animation Department in 2021 with her work BROKEN POTATO. In 2023, she directed the music animation MV for LI Yuchun's song THE OSTRICH HAS RUN AWAY, which received widespread acclaim across various platforms, garnering tens of millions of views on the day of its release. Her works have been shortlisted for several film festivals, including the Montreal International Animation Festival in Canada, the StopTrik International Film Festival in Slovenia, the IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival in Bulgaria, the Norwegian Short Film Festival, the Feinaqi Beijing Animation Week, and the FIRST International Film Festival, etc.

LOOKING BACK AGAIN

Director: GUO Shirui | 4min55sec

Synopsis Statement

This is a short documentary about my father. On a summer night in 2023, he secretly bought a plane ticket to the Yunnan border. On that anxious night, two men pretending to be “my uncles” broke into our home. They sat together, ready to redeem my father.

Director's Statement

GUO Shirui, born in Shanxi Province in 2004, has the biggest wish is to gain 20 kilograms, and to live happily with fewer worries, while hoping for the health and safety of family and friends.

FO-DIMENSIONS

Director: ZHONG Nianyu | 2min27sec

Synopsis Statement

This short film uses the simplest method of “burning a stick of incense” to attempt to break free from the confines of three dimensions and illustrate what the fourth dimension looks like—a thinking space-time, the Buddha space-time, and the Fo-Dimensions. The film features both the fast pace of the “instant universe” segment created by AI and the slow, nearly two-minute process of burning a stick of incense. The contrast between fast and slow rhythms may lead the audience to reflect: a lifetime is so short, but a stick of incense burns for so long.

Director's Statement

She was born in 2003. She went to Sydney and studied at Chatswood High School from the age of fifteen. She is currently studying editing and directing at Chengdu University. In the past two years, she has directed fiction short films such as THE GRID, RICE DUMPLING, FEET, and OZONE, as well as short documentaries like MOTHER RIVER WITH NO SPLASH, THE DISAPPEARED SPEECH, and a series of family documentaries titled GRANDMA'S HOUSE, among others.

PLAYING HOUSE

Director: HAN Yuqi | 4min59sec

Synopsis Statement

Zhongchuan, who is six years old, has long lived in a family environment where his father is violent towards his mother and himself. One day, when he was at Xinwen’s home and playing the game of “playing house” with Xinwen and Yuanxin, Zhongchuan reenacted his father’s usual violent behavior. In his mind, he performed so well, but little did he know that the happiness and misfortune of the two families were brutally exposed in this game of “playing house”.

Director's Statement

HAN is currently studying at the Beijing Film Academy's Continuing Education School in the 2023 production program. The film PLAYING HOUSE is her first official work as a screenwriter and as a director. She shot the public welfare online film I STILL WISH during high school, during high school and worked as a script supervisor and assistant director in TV, film, and short film crews.

CALLING

Director: LIU Kada | 5min

Synopsis Statement

Graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in directing from the Beijing Film Academy. His representative works include 77 HIGHWAY and COMEDY HERO, which are known for the unique style. He won a Special Award at the 2015 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival for microfilms and the Best Feature Film Award at the 2017 Beijing College Student Film Festival. Additionally, he received the Annual Best Film Award from Tencent Pictures in 2017. He was selected twice for the Green Directors Project of the China Film Directors’ Guild and was chosen as a director for Jackie Chan’s Project A.

Director's Statement

Graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree in directing from the Beijing Film Academy. His representative works include 77 HIGHWAY and COMEDY HERO, which are known for the unique style. He won a Special Award at the 2015 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival for microfilms and the Best Feature Film Award at the 2017 Beijing College Student Film Festival. Additionally, he received the Annual Best Film Award from Tencent Pictures in 2017. He was selected twice for the Green Directors Project of the China Film Directors' Guild and was chosen as a director for Jackie Chan's Project A.

SO LONG , MY EARS

Director: Angel Good LESLIE WANG | 5min

Synopsis Statement

A young girl who lost her hearing at an early age begins to faintly hear the world through the whistling noise of her hearing aid. After a successful cochlear implant surgery, years of deafness and isolation leave her feeling overwhelmed. She refuses to speak and tries to escape…

Director's Statement

Born in Jiangsu, he is a European screenwriter and director whose works have been selected for numerous film festivals. His feature film WUHAN GIRL was selected for the Silk Road IFF, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. PARENTS, AFTER DIVORCE was selected for the Hainan Island IFF and the HiShorts! Film Festival. The film 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. Her works THE CARD, THE GIRL AND THE CAT and GIGGLE have been selected for many awards in film festivals at home and abroad.

MY OWN NAME

Director: LIU Yitong | 4min59sec

Synopsis Statement

LIN Zhaodi is already 75 years old. Her name originated from her mother’s desire for a son. After her younger brother passed away, she wants to change her name. Despite being repeatedly rejected by her family, she still yearns for a name that truly belongs to her.

Director's Statement

LIU is about to attend California State University, Northridge. This is her first time participating in a film festival with her work.

BREAKING BOYS

Director: FAN Qing | 4min56sec

Synopsis Statement

In 2024, Breaking (also known as Breakdancing) will be officially included as a competitive event in the Paris Olympics. BREAKING BOYS seizes this opportunity to follow five teenage members of the Shanghai Breaking Training Team. The documentary captures their training and daily lives during the preparation period for the Olympic qualifiers in May. These adolescents, in the throes of puberty, harbor their own thoughts and concerns regarding dance and competition, victory and friendship, as well as their bodies and personal willpower.

Director's Statement

Born in Shanghai, FAN is currently a director at NOWNESS CHINA. Keeps seeking for inspiring film making, focuses on culture, fashion and art. Always working on utilizing visual languages to embrace the novel and extraordinary parts of life.

THE MONEY

Director: YANG Liping | 5min

Synopsis Statement

After years of separation, a couple finds each other again through the serendipity of a single phone call.

Director's Statement

Graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and studied in the director course at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. Studied under directors Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Nobuhiro Suwa, and Akihiko Shiota.

PANORAMA

Director: Hu Maomao | 3min33sec

Synopsis Statement

One day, while taking photos of a property, FEI Min, an employee of a real estate agency, encountered the owner’s 10-year-old daughter, Yaoyao. Missing her old house, Yaoyao had sneaked back to stay for a while. FEI Min took a panoramic photo of Yaoyao and her old house.

Director's Statement

Hu Maomao, from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. After graduating from university, I became a self-educated filmmaker out of the passion for filmmaking. In 2013, I studied in the Film Research Institute of Yunnan University. After that, I joined a media company in Nanjing and became a short video director.

MELT

Director: TSAI Sungying | 3min20sec

Synopsis Statement

Mingyang, who has been in love with Ronghua for a long time, shares a bowl of shaved ice together. He has to melt Ronghua’s heart before the shaved ice melts completely.

Director's Statement

Keep going! Die trying! Hope to be able to tell a story through films one day!

NO BRAKES

Director: YU Zihao | 4min13sec

Synopsis Statement

In the middle of the night, a man rushed to the repair shop and requested to have his car repaired. The reason is……

Director's Statement

YU enjoys creating short films that are easy to understand and accessible to a wide audience. His goal for the future is to direct commercial feature films. He has experience with multiple short films. To watch them, please search for "step-by-step-rolling" on Bilibili.

DARK BLUE

Director: WANG Mitong | 4min47sec

Synopsis Statement

When a girl is questioned by the police after unintentionally witnessing a robbery, she realizes that she did not see the perpetrator clearly. However, motivated by vanity and the rewards that await her, she randomly identifies someone. Can she overcome her guilty conscience?

Director's Statement

Female, born on February 15, 2008, she is a tenth-grade student at Beijing City International School.

UNTITLED PROJECT

Director: HE Qile | 4min58sec

Synopsis Statement

A film about us filming a film.

Director's Statement

Currently a sophomore at Nanjing University of the Arts, studying jewelry design.

I BRING SPRING HOME

Director: CHAO Fan | CHAO Fan

Synopsis Statement

Seven-year-old Guoguo has long been troubled by the noise from upstairs. One day, Guoguo decides to go upstairs to find out what is going on. She discovers an elderly grandmother suffering from an eye disease, unable to go outside. To help, Guoguo ventures alone into the woods to collect bird feathers, fishes in a small pool, and picks a peach blossom from an old temple to bring back home. The grandmother experiences the beauty of spring brought back by Guoguo through touch, smell, and hearing.

Director's Statement

Screenwriter and director. CHAO graduated from the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy. His film works include CATTLE, ONE MAN FUNERAL, and TIGER IS COMING. In 2021, ONE MAN FUNERAL received the "Spirit of Freedom" award at the 15th FIRST International Film Festival.

SUMMER

Director: LIU Shuai | 3min26sec

Synopsis Statement

One summer evening, with heavy rain approaching, the crops in the field were still not harvested.

Director's Statement

Male, freelance, from Baoding, Hebei, currently living in his hometown.

STARWALK

Director: Oneday Zhou | 5min

Synopsis Statement

In 2047, to address the environmental changes on Earth, the United Governments initiated the “Oasis Project”, sending astronauts to distant star systems to find a new home for humanity. After a year on the perpetually frozen planet M421, Chinese astronaut QIN Peng is about to embark on his final expedition.

Director's Statement

ZHOU graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Communication University of China and a master's degree from the University for the Creative Arts in the UK. Currently, he works as an editor and director. His short films including MY GRANDPARENTS and PORTERS WITHOUT A PORT has won several awards at film festivals.

NEST

Director: Yang | 3min8sec

Synopsis Statement

She was waiting for him, but he already had his own nest.

Director's Statement

A freelance director.

DARK AND EVEN DARKER

Director: LI Xinge | 5min

Synopsis Statement

The experimental film DARK AND EVEN DARKER uses the “shadow” as its narrative core, exploring and depicting the everyday world in reverse, reflecting on the relationship between light and shadow, self and the world. The “shadow” becomes a way for self-consciousness to intervene in the gap between “human-world” in a fluid and intangible manner, connecting nothingness and existence to form a third element beyond the binary. People believe shadows depend on light, but during an eclipse, when everything is engulfed in darkness, shadows seem to vanish with the light. Everything is shrouded in a vast shadow, the shadow does not need to rely on anything and has its own life.

Director's Statement

A master's student in the MFA Film program at School of Arts Peking University, focuses on non-fiction experimental film. Her directorial works aim to explore the boundaries and integration between "reality" and "fiction" in non-fiction imagery. From undergraduate to graduate studies, her creative direction has centered on urbanization themes, experimenting with different media to enhance the layers and creativity of her works.

YOU CANNOT PASS

Director: CHEN Shaobo | 4min59sec

Synopsis Statement

The security guard in the booth at the neighborhood gate enjoys making life difficult for everyone who enters his sphere of influence with slow reactions, cold attitudes, dogmatic rules, and contemptuous glances, until one day…….

Director's Statement

Originally from Shijiazhuang and now residing in Hangzhou, he graduated from the China Academy of Art. He has worked as a game designer, cartoonist, and art teacher, and has been engaged in film and television production since 2022.