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Dingjun Mountain
An AI live-action short: a veteran with Alzheimer's hears the familiar beats of Peking Opera during a night-time building fire, sees the flames as an ancient battlefield, and charges against the fleeing crowd to save a trapped child.
Only Cats Know
A healing AI animated short: a young woman worn down by failed job interviews adopts a white cat, and each night, as she sleeps, the cat slips into a dream world only cats can enter to turn her nightmares around and bring her luck.
The Shape of Fear
A short film made as a gift to the author's childhood self: broken doors, silent dolls, masks and empty theaters from recurring nightmares become symbols of fear, on a journey from fear to memory and reconciliation.
Dotting the Eyes
A photoreal short about Lingnan lion dance and its lion-making craft: a young craftsman can't give his lion its spirit until an old master shifts its brows and eyes a few millimeters, dots the eyes with cinnabar, and the lion wakes.
BENEATH THE DREAM
A mystery-fantasy short set on a search for water in the desert: looking for a lost ancient riverbed, Ahe sinks into dreams within dreams, wanders between buried ruins and a thousand-year-old temple, and meets a priestess with her own face.
STARGRAVE
A retro-futurist sci-fi animated short: chasing the golden maintenance vehicle that stole her power source, salvage operator K descends beneath a planet marked for dismantling and receives a dead world's final memory.
Between the Echoes
A short film about saying goodbye: years after his father's death, Chen Mo returns home, follows old belongings into a rebuilt memory, keeps their promise to see the sea, and passes that love on to the next generation.
HUINAN
A short film about growing up and saying goodbye: Yuyu steps into a magical realm shaped by memory and, through flower forests, humid courtyards and rooms frozen in time, recovers the traces of her grandfather.
AIDA in the Checkerboard World
An experimental opera film that reimagines Verdi's Aida as a vast chessboard society where everyone is a piece with an assigned position and move, and the priest who narrates the rules finds he is a piece too.