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Animated short about chinese history and culture.

When internationally acclaimed artist Mo Ke announces that he is selling his prized painting, "The Falling Feather", and that he will donate all the proceeds from its sale to a small Yunnan town, everyone in the art world is puzzled and intrigued. Why is he doing this? To answer this question we are transported 20 years into the past, to when a young unknown painter visited Yunnan and was captivated and inspired not only by the beauty of the location, but by a young woman... with a feather in her hair.

In an environment with mirrored walls that create infinite reflections, a video plays in an EVD. This all-in-one home entertainment system was produced in the early 2000s in China as a progressive device with the aim to allow hearing-impaired people to “see music”. Soon considered outdated, this sophisticated instrument ended up in remote rural areas of Sichuan where the artist noticed it while conducting field research in ethnomusicology. Recalling a dashboard for space navigation in a science-fiction film, it inspired him with a dreamlike narrative, suspended between past and future. Liu references major Western SciFi movies, the chants of ethnic minorities from the South-East of China and the sudden arrival of pop music in Hong Kong, in the 1980. Between the vernacular and the urban, the artist ponders the powers of magic, utopia and disappearance.

A romantic Lama poet, being influenced by materialistic China, chooses to live a secular life and gets married, thus skillfully avoids the disastrous influence of the materialism on religion.

In Southern Beijing, a father and his son who relied on each other were struggling to live, and two daughters wanted to seize their father's retirement expenses for their own personal gain. And misfortunes came one after another. The 60-year-old demented son was deliberately abandoned by his brother-in-law, and the young tenant went astray for so-called love. Life was getting tougher. In the constant struggles, the 90-year-old father felt hard to bear the burden of life, and wanted to end his life with pesticides with his son. The film ends here and leaves the suspense, in which the cold-bloodedness and fetters of kinship are vividly displayed. The feeling of powerlessness goes straight to the hearts through screen. Two people’s lifetime adding up to 150 years come to an abrupt end.

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"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door ..."

It’s about an old man, who had a rather hard life. He started off poor, then wealthy; from wealthy to unwell; And from the illness arises his determination to write.” This is what my father told me, the director to say about this film. And as the director, I documented his life which could be missed 9 years ago, and his journey, from where he lived now to his hometown, from life to death.

I used to take metro and ride bike to work during my foreign years. After years now back to my country Tainan, I find myself could only drive or choosing motor bike in the city, because there are so less regular bike lanes, and no bikes on them. It looks I was forced by the city to make the only choice to drive. I goto my 2 friends, one is the bike shop owner and the other is NCKU Urban Plan PHD. I finally understand how to bike in Tianan.

A family memory connects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with separations in their lives. Laotaitai’s husband died in the foreign land, leaving her a coat with his property. She never remarries ever since. In the local folklore，a woman is imprisoned and her grievance becomes the clouds in the mountains. This film mixes non-fiction and fiction storytelling through visualizing ancient Chinese poetry and cultural symbols and a voiceover transcending time and space to express the grief of parting.

The film builds a two-line narrative frameworkspanning five hundred years: five hundred years ago, Sun Wukong was saved by Xiu Niang before going To the we st, and there was an emotional bond. Xiu Niang's search for her husband failed and turned into a white bone spirit; five hundred years la ter, the four masters and apprentices passed through the white bone cave and launched an intellectu Al struggle with the white bone spirit group.

Lily is the nickname of lesbian girls and lesbian phenomenon in Chinese language. Lilies' Talk is a feature length documentary film that portrays the life and thoughts of young Chinese lesbian/bisexual girls living in three cities: Beijing, Chengdu and New York. Twelve girls aging from 19-29 opened their heart and showed their stories in front of our camera. It is not just about Chinese lesbian group, but also about youth and love. The lesbian/bisexual girls are actually no different from heterosexual girls in life except for the fact that they are attracted to the same sex.This film hopes to draw attention to this unique subculture and eliminate the myth and horror around it, as love is love after all.

Based on a true story, the breakup between a writer and his gay lover and their unforgettable love cause great sorrow for every character in this story, presenting how gay people have to live in Chinese society.