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In a wooden house on the Tibetan plateau, a woman from the city strives to maintain a “perfect life”. On the day of her departure from this land, she finally digs out her daughter’s wooden box and heads towards the Divine Tree. The house, which never knew tears, has fallen silent, emptied of all presence in the morning light.
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A cunning mother uses a vacuum to get her son to keep her company.
Seventeen-year-old Ni’er feels trapped between her monotonous daily grind at a petrol station and the weight of family expectations. A fleeting encounter with a female truck driver radiating freedom and self-determination sparks a quiet revolution within her.
My daughter dislikes having her picture taken; plagued by anxiety about her appearance, she has grown accustomed to hiding behind her glasses. Yet I, her mother, yearn to capture these moments—and, above all, to truly see my daughter. When she finally picks up the camera, the lens turns toward me—and, in doing so, turns back upon herself. Can we, through the eyes of another, learn once again to see ourselves?
The story follows Xiaomei, a mermaid who enters the human world to learn how humans live when her merfolk community faces extinction. She later meets Afei, an orphan with a withdrawn personality before encountering Xiaomei, whose arrival completely transforms his life.
Bobbi, a robot trained to build houses, enters the "real" world to fulfill his mission -- but when reality begins to glitch, he's forced to question everything he was taught as a long-buried dream resurfaces.
After marrying her wife in Switzerland, Chinese filmmaker Yue returns home to confront the quiet fractures between her and her mother. Across generations, two women begin to speak—about marriage, gender, and everything they’ve kept silent.
Filmed in Northern Isle of Skye, bearing fruit of fondness is a 16mm black and white film hand processed with a type of invasive cotoneaster that is native to Eastern Asia, and was brought to the UK in the 19th century as an ornamental plant. Working with elemental kinship, the process guides a capacity to relate to pain while grounded in the understanding of interdependence, where concept of belonging erodes through patterns of mother-child relationships that extend to nation and citizen, land and dweller. The film features a single-take vocal performance of the script in Chinese by Shen Xin, interspersed with breath and stillness against the Southwest storms heard from their home.
The film explores an imposing building on the outskirts of Shenzhen, China. A pioneering architectural vision of its time that continues to resonate decades later.
In a rural village, a paralyzed grandmother and her pigeon-raising husband move through slow days shaped by quiet comforts and her ongoing truce with a stubborn body—until a family visit stirs memory, celebration, and a pot of their own pigeon soup.
A reclusive woman observes her neighbour Kankan’s daily routine through a hole in the wall. What begins as a reassuring ritual takes a turn when fragments of memories start seeping into her reality. As both characters mirror each other across incompatible worlds, the boundary between dreams, fears and reality blurs.
Wang Yunchan, a 28-year-old woman who has drifted in Beijing for a decade, has long struggled to survive on the fringes of the city. She decides to go back to her hometown to find her childhood friend Liu Xiaolu. However, the transformed hometown, altered old classmates and a completely changed Liu Xiaolu make her realize for the first time that she is destined to live a migratory life.
In a southern Chinese factory town, two inseparable girls, Anke and Yun, share the same dream of becoming “Miss Neon” in their dull gray world. Anke longs to be closer to her best friend, but their pursuit of color and freedom ultimately pushes them further apart.
After failing to find her place in the city, Jialing returns to her borderland hometown and takes up work again in a rundown nightclub. As she tries to rebuild her life, her estranged father reappears, hoping to reconnect before the holidays.
A director suffering from a lack of inspiration is working on a story. The protagonist in his mind does not want to end up starring in a terrible short film, and thus embarks on a journey to help the director find inspiration.
In an utterly dark society, violence becomes a spectacle, and sacrifice hardens into ritual. The victim is driven to self-destruction, in exchange for no more than a phantom of justice.
A young Chinese photographer and her partner VT live through the wildest year of their lives, moving between the shadows of the pandemic and trancelike underground parties, chasing a form of freedom that feels almost out of reach. But idealism soon collides with reality. Under a cascade of violence, her former life collapses completely. To escape a world where justice is unattainable, the two make a difficult and desperate decision. Their route stretches from Asia to South America and then northward—through Thailand, Dubai, Ecuador, and Colombia, and across the Darién Gap. In Mexico, they ride 8,500 kilometers on motorcycles, confronting endless checkpoints, corrupt police, and armed groups. On May 5, 2024, they finally cross the border—an arduously won moment of “temporary success,” followed immediately by forced return. Everything resets to zero.
The spatial memories of "you" and the toilet are deconstructed into fragmented visual poetry: "you" crying in the toilet, "you" dancing in the toilet, "you" restless in the toilet, "you" asleep in the toilet…
Ph.D. student Lin Wan Xing returns to her hometown and takes a job as a sports equipment custodian at Hongjing No. 8 High School. Wang Fa, a former British football club coach, becomes her mysterious tenant. Tasked with reviving the school's disbanded football team, Lin suffers a crushing defeat until Wang Fa steps in as coach, leading the team to victory. As past wounds resurface, the two briefly distance themselves but eventually reconcile. With the finals and college entrance exams approaching, they unite to inspire the team, overcome academic hurdles, and chase their dreams.
This is a one-minute 2D animation about a short-tailed orange cat whose unruly tail takes him through fragments of fantasy, dreams and memories.
The film follows an unidentified ghostly entity that travels through nocturnal shimmer. It is an ‘egregore’, a collective being formed by unconscious memories. Inspired by 1980s and 1990s Chinese children’s science fiction media, the film reimagines electricity not just as infrastructure, but as a living force. The images drift through the peripheral glimmers of a nocturnal city, where unfinished imaginings of the future slip into another world.
Between bare concrete walls, unfinished structures and stalled escalators, an otherworldly, gleaming metallic figure emerges. What was once imagined as a thriving city centre now stands unfinished and abandoned. Modernity has rushed past itself, indifferent to the original landscape and its local inhabitants.