2023Competition Short Film Collection 2

Synopsis

A Parting Day
Xiao Feng despised her backward hometown and her parents and did not want to stay at home for a moment. On the very morning before she was to leave home, she experienced something unforgettable with her father that changed the way she felt about him and the whole hometown.

Cremation, or The Quarantine Hotel
She returned from overseas and had to see her critically ill father for the last time. In the quarantine hotel, her isolated life was like being stranded on a deserted island, and memories of her father from childhood were intertwined. She set fire to the room, but the memories could never be cut off.

Soul of Coal
Plagued by tinnitus, Ye Ziwei discovers a skull during a routine job at a coal washery, thus uncovering the memories and scars of a previous generation. The death of his father and the appearance of a mysterious man break the original trajectory of Ye Ziwei’s life. In this land，history and reality are intertwined.

All Fires The Fire
The Chinese New Year’s Eve of the north, the snowy night. An estranged father and son, a noisy and absurd family banquet, a journey home with no end. Speeding on a lonely and uninhabited highway, with no intention of breaking reality and escaping into a fantasy journey. The moment the fireworks exploded, all the flames were one, but the son found that the beginning of the journey was the end of everything.

Qian Ning

Qian Ning, born in Zhejiang Province in 1997, is studying in the Department of Film at NTUA, and he was selected for the 2020 Golden Horse Film Academy. His short film Monster Days was selected for the San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival, the Boston International Kids Film Festival in the United States, etc. He likes themes with mysterious and fantasy elements, trying to show things that deviate from common sense while highlighting a certain reality of the world.

Feng Luming

Feng Luming is currently studying at the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy.

Kyle Lyu

Kyle Lyu, male, Chinese, was born in Fenyang City, Shanxi Province in 1997. He is a graduate of the School of Arts, Peking University in 2022.

Wang Yifeng

I am studying film at Sichuan University of Communication. I took a year off from school during the pandemic to learn photography and lighting skills in Beijing and Shanghai. I have worked with crews of different production scales, and I have rich experience in film and television production. I have held several photography positions on student crews. This is the first time that I have created my own work independently.