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Taiwan<\/p>\n

Thus Spoke Chatergil Potter<\/h2>\n

TING Chi-wen\uff0fdigital\uff0f22min\uff0f2026<\/h3>\n

Having been brought back from the dead, Father Potter sets out on a journey to reexamine \u201cthis world\u201d from the space between what is human and what is not. When he was alive, he gave answers to people in the confession box, but now, having lost his physical body, he faces the existential question \u201cwhat is a human being?\u201d Skillfully weaving together found footage and generative AI images, this post-AI surrealist work contrasts this question against a \u201cnon-human\u201d perspective.<\/p>\n

\"\"TING Chi-wen<\/strong>
\nTING Chi-wen is a director from Taiwan. His artistic expression constantly reflects on the relation of technology and humanity, which are often combined with alternative stories and visual experiments. His latest short film and art video work have debuted in Clermont-Ferrand ISFF and Ars Electronica in Linz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hong Kong\uff0fMainland China<\/p>\n

Fly Train<\/h2>\n

Ria ZHANG Riwen\uff0fdigital\uff0f4min\uff0f2025<\/h3>\n

The shadows of buildings in the nighttime scenery that rolls by outside the windows of the train car, and the bright windows of the fast-moving train that race by one after another… Dreams with a floating sensation multiply, and the audience\u2019s memories are stirred as images from the origins of cinema combine with scenes of modern cities. A dreamlike \u201cphantom ride\u201d in which handmade techniques using silhouette art imbue the work\u2019s worldview with emotion.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ria ZHANG Riwen<\/strong>
\nRia ZHANG Riwen is a Hong Kong-based artist and experimental animator working across moving images, abstract animation, and live visual performance. Through a straightforward yet poetic approach, her practice explores the interplay of sound and image, transforming concrete subjects into abstract visual language, with research interests centring on the fluidity of personal identity in relation to geography and memory, and the space abstraction occupies within a narrative-driven media culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mainland China<\/p>\n

Xiaogao gonna die LONELY<\/h2>\n

Isabelle GAO\uff0fdigital\uff0f8min\uff0f2025<\/h3>\n

Dangling between the \u201cmillennial generation\u201d and \u201cgeneration Z,\u201d the protagonist, Xiaogao, finds herself tangled up in relationships with friends, family, and her lover, and on the verge of being crushed by social pressures surrounding marriage and childbirth. Playing the main role herself, the director gives a comical portrayal of a story based on her own experiences through a rhythmical and surprising sequence of scenes.<\/p>\n

\"\"Junyan (Isabelle) GAO<\/strong>
\nJunyan (Isabelle) GAO, a Shanxi-born filmmaker with a background in French language and literature, explores femininity, loneliness, passion, and emotional honesty. As a writer and producer, her short film Seeding, Blossoming, Fruiting was selected by Leeds IFF, Norwegian Short FF, Nashville FF, Bogot\u00e1 Short FF, and other international festivals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Taiwan<\/p>\n

Well-Intentioned<\/h2>\n

CHIEN Man-Chun\uff0fdigital\uff0f30min\uff0f2025<\/h3>\n

The filmmaker lost her family home inscribed with memories of her late mother because of an airport expansion. Images of her mother\u2019s death and mo-sin-a, creatures from Taiwanese folklore that are known to carry people away, are layered on top of each other. Through objects that reflect her mother\u2019s absence, such as notebooks, her mother\u2019s clothes, and her own drawings, the filmmaker describes her own sense of loss and her relationship with her widowed father.<\/p>\n

\"\"CHIEN Man-Chun<\/strong>
\nCHIEN Man-Chun is a Taiwanese artist whose practice is rooted in lived experience, exploring family memory, emotional residue, and the vanishing landscape. Guided by somatic awareness and working across multiple media, she stays intimately attuned to sensory perception, allowing fluid, unsettled inner experiences to momentarily settle into form.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Japan<\/p>\n

Boss of Green<\/h2>\n

OBITANI Yuri\uff0fdigital\uff0f30min\uff0f2026<\/h3>\n

The newest work by OBITANI Yuri, who has been making unique, experimental films in the Japanese personal filmmaking scene since the 1990s. \u201cI\u201d run into a man playing a toy piano in the street looking for \u201cTenten,\u201d and then… Incorporating entirely first-person shots and sound images that can be described as the pronoun of the filmmaker, the film draws viewers into a strange everyday world. The long take of a road cutting across farmers\u2019 fields is particularly striking.<\/p>\n

\"\"OBITANI Yuri<\/strong>
\nOBITANI Yuri is a filmmaker and artist. Since the 2007 film “An Acid Field”, he has consistently employs POV shots, wide-angle imagery, handheld long takes (or sequence shots), and post-sync sound an unwavering pursuit of a unified sense of spatial distance between seeing and hearing, as well as presence and verisimilitude of soundscapes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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