Original Film Title: The Elephant
Director’s Name: Yilun Bi
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Runtime: 5 minutes 14 seconds
Film Description:
A woman returns from business trip and finds her boyfriend is cheating with another man. With her boyfriend hiding in the room, the woman confronts the other man.
Original Film Title: 上锁的房间
Director’s Name: Zihan Jiang
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Runtime: 5 minutes 23 seconds
Film Description:
gloom in her life. She locks herself in the memory. The darkness of a rainy night makes her start to feel unease, and in front of the desperation is the simplest desire to survive. But perhaps everything is just confined within a circle drawn on the way to growing up.
When the sky transforms from night to day, the moment the bright light dips into the eyes, the girl gets the necessary growth on the road to growth.
Original Film Title: 小丽
Director’s Name: Wenyuxuan Du
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Runtime: 10 minutes 37 seconds
Film Description:
Xiao Li, a 16-year-old massage parlor worker, feels inferior because of her status as a “stone girl”. Xiao Li, who has been sexually harassed by male customers to gain a sense of female identity meets Yang, a 17-year-old restaurant deliveryman and the two begin an ambiguous relationship. Just when Xiao Li thinks she is about to become a “normal” girl, Yang’s attitude towards menstruation dashes Xiao Li’s hopes.
Original Film Title: Buddhist Prayers And Tristesse
Director’s Name: Zhelun Lin
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Runtime: 14 minutes 47 seconds
Film Description:
A young man can’t accept the fact that his mother decides to hold a Buddhist funeral for his atheistic grandpa. Therefore, a series of conflicts between all the family members start.
Original Film Title: Teenage Anxiety PSA
Director’s Name: Wanyan Chen
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Runtime: 2 minutes 44 seconds
Film Description:
There are many worries and anxieties people face during teenage times, such as body shame, peer pressure, appearance stress, and many more. It is always important to remember that being yourself, focusing on your inner beauty, and things that allow you to thrive make you beautiful and excellent.
Original Film Title: Kite
Director’s Name: Xinyu Liu
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Runtime: 10 minutes 35 seconds
Film Description:
Kite, a 10-minute short film, tells the story of Xing, a girl who is about to move abroad with her parents, and her grandmother on the last day in their hometown-a story about departure. This film restores the texture of life through a more realistic approach, conveys strong emotions in the implicit eastern way, and reflects on the passive position of women in family decision-making.
Original Film Title: Lost In The Black Wool
Director’s Name: XiaoQiong Liu
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Runtime: 2 minutes 23 seconds
Film Description:
This is an animated short film about an emotional self-blackmail.
I was inspired by the friends around me to discover that the psychological problems they developed in intimate relationships led to the chaos of their lives, and then used this phenomenon as a clue to explore the relationship between unhealthy attachment and self-emotion. I think this group of people is in great need of outside help and wake-ups so that they can escape from this relationship. Therefore, in this animated short film, I use the way to describe the contradictory inner activities of anxious attachment people in the relationship between the two, to show the loss and helplessness of this group of people in the face of the object, so as to build a consensus with anxious attachment people, so that they can be inspired by the third-person perspective of looking at themselves that are being eroded.
Original Film Title: Let Me
Director’s Name: Tianshi Wang
Country of Origin:China
Country of Filming: China
Runtime: 1 minute 1 second
Film Description:
The girl longs for the cake in front of her. As she saw it, it was a grateful surprise that brought happiness. Though, she then worried about her body and appearance. She had always wanted a perfect body; the cake would only drag her away from her goal. Soon, frustration and disappointment filled her. “Just let me do it, please?”, she thought to herself. She turned away toward the cigarettes, she chose to run away. Her mind soon dissolved into the pleasant feelings brought by the cigars.
This is my first time making a stop-motion video and it took me months to make. The clay model, which is the girl in the video, took me the most time. The inspiration of this video (or I consider it as a short-short film) is my older-sister, where I figured that she always had those contradicted thoughts, such as longing for delicious food but at the same time wanting to remain a good body shape(although she does not smoke). I guess everyone at some point all have that kind of thought. Therefore, I made this short video to reflect on it.
Original Film Title: The Moon Coaster
Director’s Name: Yining Zhong
Country of Origin:China
Country of Filming: China
Runtime: 15 minutes 35 seconds
Film Description:
The film tells a story of a poor girl’s encounter with the Moon God and how they heal each other. To the Moon God, the little girl’s trouble didn’t count for much. However, it was the little girl making wishes to the moon innocently, that let the Moon God knew that in this high-speed developing world, there are still some people willing to look up at the moon, and still believe in the moon, which let him realize his value. And in the conversation with the Moon God, the little girl understood that if she wants to fulfill her wishes, the most important is to be sincere.
The moon represents the inner self and the utopia of all sincere wishes. With the rapid development of the world, if you can keep sincere when you do anything, be loyal to your heart and be yourself, you will have an unexpected harvest.
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