Seventeen-year-old Xiaokui has spent her entire life in a small seaside town. A top student with a quiet passion for girl idol groups, she is well known throughout the neighborhood — as is her closest friend, Qiangwei, a brilliant math prodigy who recently transferred back from the city.
At seventeen, Xiaokui’s world is one without romance, without a cellphone — just geography magazines and a giant television screen. In the stillness of her routine life, an unexpected “aurora” quietly descends u
Student Short Film
Blue
Celine, a young singer, is devastated by an unexpected death. In a mysterious twist, she can finally say goodbye, as well as be comforted by the only person who could help her: the one who hurt her.
The Pichenotte
When Stéphane, a death agent overwhelmed by grief, meets Huguette, a senior woman challenging fate, their connection upends his mission. Friendship arises in the very place where life was supposed to end.
A Leaf From The Moon
Under the blue moon, mysterious spirit Yen comes on land in search of her human mother. She befriends Sami, a strange orphan, who suggests that catching a thousand falling leaves would grant them a wish, and Yen would find her mother. As they go on catching leaves, Yen grows closer to Sami, discovers her own humanity, and ultimately remembers her past.
Shedding
In a dark, isolated home, a Chinese American teenage girl lives under the strict control of her mother, who treats punishment as care and obedience as survival. As the girl’s compulsive hair-pulling turns into a secret obsession, the tension between them builds toward a violent confrontation.
A Game To Remember
The North East of England ice hockey community reflects on mental health, fellowship, and loss, as they share a last game with their lost teammate, playing with a puck containing his ashes.