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Debris

In the remote coastal settlement of Island Splendor, a shipwrecked father and his young daughter Tang build a fragile life among the driftwood and sand. After his wife's death, Ge struggles with prejudice and alcohol, while Tang finds joy in the wild creatures around her. The arrival of mysterious confections sparks Ge's obsession to recreate them. His experiments take a dark turn when he accidentally consumes his daughter's pet toad's venom, transforming him into a demon. Believing he's found success, he abandons Tang to pursue his ambitions. Left alone, Tang befriends an injured bird she names Dodo. Though initially seeking recognition as a performer, she discovers her true calling in cultivation, learning to coax life from the harsh island soil despite countless setbacks

Debris

NR 2024
Through the Dams

A river was polluted, and some human tissue was found downstream, so the Water Conservancy Bureau sent Aaron and a team of explorers to investigate the source of the pollution. Bryan went up the river to look for bodies. After setting off, the expedition team spent a night in a wooden house that had been abandoned for many years. After waking up, Aaron found that the other team members were missing strangely, and a videotape in the wooden house recorded the clues of the whole story.

Through the Dams

NR 2024
Approaching The Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine is known as the quintessence of China and one of the important intangible cultural heritages of mankind. The documentary《Approaching the traditional Chinese Medicine》is a popular science documentary on the history of intangible cultural heritage. Starting from the source of human medicine, it expounds the whole process of the origin, development, maturity, decline and return of Chinese medicine. It reveals the inheritance and development relationship between TCM and medical sages such as Fuxi, Yan Emperor, Huang Emperor, Qi Bo, Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, Hua Tuo, Ge Hong, Sun Simiao and Li Shizhen. It also explains the integration and development relationship between Mongolian medicine, Tibetan medicine, Miao medicine and other minority medicine.

Approaching The Traditional Chinese Medicine

NR 2024
I'm Gonna Find You

Sixteen years ago, a human trafficker broke into Wu Xinghu’s house and took his 13-month-old son. Since then, he has been on a relentless journey to find his son. In July 2023, Wu Xinghu reached out to Wang Meizhi and Wu Xuexian, the parents of another trafficked child, and they decided to meet up in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, to look for their kids together in Henan, Shandong, Anhui, and Hebei Provinces. During the search, Wu Xinghu’s parents passed away one after another, while Wu Xuexian’s child was miraculously found and rescued. This only fueled Wu Xinghu’s resolve to find his own kid.

I'm Gonna Find You

NR 2024
Shards

At the family reunion on the winter solstice, the grandma and mother knead dough to make Tuanzi (Dango, rice dumplings), while the grandpa and father fold gold foil paper into ingots. The son wanders among the adults, worried about a secret he has discovered. On the surface, the day seems fine, with everyone maintaining their usual expressions, yet something hidden simmers and grows within their chit-chat. This is a process-genre film. “Juci” is a Chinese restoration technique that fixes porcelain by nailing broken shards together. Like the vase in the film, the family is both broken and complete, separated and integral.

Shards

NR 2024
Anti-Human Rhapsody

We are living in a time of catastrophe: global warming, extreme climate change, declining biodiversity, and the threat of extinction. These crises raise the need for a fundamental reflection on anthropocentrism and the relationship between humans and non-humans. Within this context, Human Discord Rhapsody imagines a world without us and emphasizes that the world we live in is more than a human world. Snails and ants imagine and sing about a world without us and a world beyond humans, respectively.

Anti-Human Rhapsody

NR 2024
Maetel Animals' World

This original work is by Andrew Shin, who made his directorial debut with "The Rabbit in the Night Sky" while working as a composer. Set in the fantastical worldview that is characteristic of Shin's works, the story explores the nature of our finite lives. A young girl returns home after being released from hospital. There is an invisible wall between her and her father, and for some reason, she is terrified of finding mirrors. Soon, strange events begin to occur around the girl, and after she runs away from home, a mysterious woman appears before her... (MTL of eigacom overview)

Maetel Animals' World

NR 2024