Paradise Lost
Movie Traveler
The Enwinding Threads
Salty Breeze
Summer behind the Door
The Enwinding Threads
Monsters Never Know
In the Name of the Tree
The Coin
Bathhouse Drummer
Dear Miss Bird
Spring Afterwards
Director: Coral ZHANG Yutong
Star: KE Siyuan, CAI Ziyong, CHEN Yonghan
Production Unit: Youth Film Studio
Genre: Feature Short Film
Language: Mandarin/Teochew
Color: Colors
Runtime: 25 mins
Storyline:
"Cok hue hng", which means“walk out of the garden”, is a traditional coming-age ceremony in ChaoShan Area. The child must be very careful on the day to pray for the good luck in the future. With the anxious expectations of parents, our character ”Gou” made a big mistake on that day, with the disappointment of his mother and friends, for the first time, he felt the taste of adulthood.
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Paradise Lost Director Coral ZHANG Yutong
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Director: GUO Zhongjie
Production Unit: Beijing Film Academy
Genre: Animated Short Film
Language: None
Color: Colors
Runtime: 10 mins
Storyline:
The projector spent his every single day invariably with films. Though sometimes bored, he still imagines experiencing the same world as in the films. One day he happened to find a reel documentary of his own life. By editing this reel along with those classic film clips, he opened up a magic journey...
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Movie Traveler Director GUO Zhongjie
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Director: ZHANG Jinruo
Production Unit: Animation School, Beijing Film Academy
Genre: Animated Short Film
Language: None
Color: Colors
Runtime: 7 mins
Storyline:
When she was a child, the girl learned to embroider with her grandmother and wanted to finish a work with her grandmother, but she gradually forgot about it when she grew up. Many years later, at her most anxious moment, she can still recall her grandmother's patient teaching...
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The Enwinding Threads Director ZHANG Jinruo
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Director: CHEN Linpeng, LI Yuanxi
Star: ZHOU Yan, HAN Qiuchi, WEN Han
Production Unit: Beijing Film Academy
Genre: Feature Short Film
Language: Mandarin
Color: Colors
Runtime: 24 mins
Storyline:
The story took place in a coastal city. HONG Mei, a mere bath maid, came to this city in seek of work for the sake of her children. She got to know LIANG Zhou and they lived like a normal couple. They dwelled in a chawl-like building with a simple yet cozy life. However, the unexpected occurrence of Hong's husband changed it all...
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Salty Breeze Director CHEN Linpeng, LI Yuanxi
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Director: HE Qiuyao, HU Yinghai
Star: LI Yilin, LI Jingling
Production Unit: Department of Cinematography, Beijing Film Academy
Genre: Feature Short Film
Language: None
Color: Colors
Runtime: 6 mins
Storyline:
A girl with a secret crush on her teacher has to face others' sneer and doesn't dare to make her own confession of love. She starts a magical journey in her inner world before she makes the final decision.
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Summer behind the Door Director HE Qiuyao
Summer behind the Door Director HU Yinghai
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Director: TANG Ruihong
Production Unit: Stop-animation Animation Lab, School of Film and Animation, China Academy of Art
Genre: Animated Experimental Short Film
Language: Mandarin
Color: Colors
Runtime: 4 mins
Storyline:
This is a secret diary of summer. The entire film is directly animated on time-stamped film, and the improvised painting traces are infinitely magnified through projection and scanning. This short film collects the emotions that belong to each person's unique taste and ferments them into small universes, and will eventually disappear with the touch of green at the last moment of summer.
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The Enwinding Threads Director TANG Ruihong
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Director: YANG Ming
Star: YANG Ming
Production Unit: None (Independent)
Genre: Feature Short Film
Language: Mandarin
Color: Colors
Runtime: 15 mins
Storyline:
The Mongolians believe in Tengri and insist that everything in the world has a soul. As for the person who is full of hostility and doesn’t respect life, they call Monster, as the evil behavior of Monster is not its original intention. So his family send him to the temple to purify his soul so that the spirit of Tengri converts Monster into human with the right direction.
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Monsters Never Know Director YANG Ming
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Director: WANG Cong
Star: FENG Yinming
Production Unit: School of Arts, Peking University
Genre: Feature Short Film
Language: Mandarin
Color: Colors
Runtime: 29 mins
Storyline:
Back from Beijing, LIU Shiqi came to his hometown in order to reclaim his land from his uncle. During the deadlock of the two arguing men, LIU's aunt-in-law was "possessed" by his dead grandmother who rejected LIU's request. Doubting if this supernatural act is a deceitful trick, LIU decided to find out the truth behind that mysterious "Tree of Ancestors". Not yielding to this ridiculous superstition, this brave man was obliged to fight against the whole village alone...
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In the Name of the Tree Director WANG Cong
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Director: SONG Siqi
Production Unit: FiLM iNDEPENDENT
Genre: Animated Short Film
Language: Mandarin
Color: Colors
Runtime: 7 mins
Storyline:
In Chinese New Year, finding the coin inside the dumplings means having a blessed year ahead. On a young lady's journey to a foreign country, she lost a jar that contains all the lucky coins she had collected since her childhood. Will she be lucky enough to find it back?
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The Coin Director SONG Siqi
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Director: LIU Kaiqi
Star: LIU Rui, LI Bin
Production Unit: None (Independent)
Genre: Feature Short Film
Language: Mandarin/Japanese
Color: Colors
Runtime: 17 mins
Storyline:
The Japanese drummer Shota came to Beijing for performance. He chanced to enter a time-honored Chinese bathhouse when he had a hard time in pursuing new inspiration. There the inspiring rhythm of back massage by the bathhouse owner resonated in his mind and body. Finally, Shota completed his art creation and made a new friend, to whom he presented a fabulous percussion show with basin, brush and voice.
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Bathhouse Drummer Director LIU Kaiqi
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Director: ZHANG Wanlin
Star: YAN Quan, LIU Baisha
Production Unit: Beijing Silver Grass Film
Genre: Feature Short Film
Language: Mandarin
Color: Colors
Runtime: 12 mins
Storyline:
The roar of demolition outside was constant, but much laughter and beauty kept lingering in the ears. In the very day, a blind girl who had never been outside the house, experienced countless changes all of sudden. At the moment she was about to leave the house, she hesitated...
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Dear Miss Bird Director ZHANG Wanlin
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Director: HUANG Gang
Star: TANG Guowen, MA Wanshan
Production Unit: Guangdong Yongchao Film Co.,Ltd
Genre: Feature Short Film
Language: Mandarin/Cantonese
Color: Colors
Runtime: 25 mins
Storyline:
In Guangdong, South China, March is the rainy season in spring. The Luo family living in the old neighborhood are busy preparing for the upcoming wedding. Under one roof, the widowed father, the unemployed son and the divorced daughter are giving to each other support and encouragement as well as tension and frustration. On the night before the wedding, it rains heavily and every one in this family has his/her own concerns in mind.
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Spring Afterwards Director HUANG Gang