Taiwan | 2017 | 12:46

One day I asked my aunts and uncles about my grandpa while they were playing Mahjong. I asked them what does grandpa look like? Where did he come from? How was his childhood? What had he been through? The stories they told me amazed me. But are these all real? Who is he?

Philippines | 2017 | 01:35

War is a cycle, generational. And with this continuous cycle of blood and ignorance, we only let no one but the children to suffer. This short animation film explores the current situation of the Philippines and its children, from its previous bloody history repeating itself again.

India | 2016 | 09:24

WOOL E is the little girl child, floating in the placenta of her mother, expectant mother knits a sweater for the new arrival. slowly her yearning reflects in the design a little boy’s face.
WOOL E shocked to notice that the woven pattern is of a boy’s face… not her.

Hong Kong | 2016 | 03:36

Mocked by her classmates and belittled by her teachers, the girl's world becomes twisted and the people in it turn into alien beings. Something is amiss in her surroundings however, and she must find it and confront it.

Japan | 2016 | 07:30

From that day an anxiety started to root in the man's room. He just keeps walking not to sink in listlessness. This is a document to reflect my own anxiety arisen after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Taiwan | 2017 | 04:18

The girl in the water, and floats with the flowing river up and down. A little boat bobs gently which sail hurts the girl's leg accidentally.

Philippines | 2016 | 08:24

A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. It is about memory and forgetting, both in the context of the personal and of the national consciousness.

Taiwan | 2017 | 04:15

As definitions of beauty become ever more exacting, the standard of beauty are becoming more and more homogenous. In the plural society we lived in nowadays, is this the value of beauty we try to pursue?

China | 2016 | 06:25

The animation short,The Pear, is adapted from a story of the same title from Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio by Pu Songlin. An aphorism by Lao-tzu, “Excessive hoarding always leads to heavy loss”, is what truly lies behind the story.

Taiwan | 2016 | 04:30

People notice the changes in themselves (like losing hair). They wouldn't feel the pain, but they would know that part of them has just left.

US | 2017 | 06:54

A Chinese herbal doctor trying to heal herself from sickness by making a soup of memory.

China | 2017 | 04:38

Born in a poor family, the boy was sold at a very young age to be a servant of emperor's daughter in the royal palace. Sharing joy and sorrow, he and the princess grew up together, became friends and soul mates. However, their budding love seemed unrealistic in this feudalistic kingdom...

China | 2017 | 06:30

A peek into the wax lotus. Lotus Lantern is a tribute to late Chinese singer Zhou Xuan, a missing link between filmmaker’s queer identity and Chinese heritage.

China | 2016 | 05:12

Everyone is dealing with more than they choose to show. Only after acceptance can one finally move on.