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.
Student Short Film
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.
Tales of Minho
An emigrant musician can’t recall the stories of his birthplace. A mother keeps the restaurant open, hoping her son returns. A cowboy wonders what’ll become of his cows. A widow cares for a chapel no one visits. And the oldest woman remembers everything—especially that—Estantegas. Under the burning sun, a strange figure roams the empty landscape of Portugal’s Minho with a boom pole, meeting the remaining inhabitants and capturing their memories on a sound recorder. An ethnographic ghost document
Princess Dina Bo Bina
When a vain princess runs out of her signature hair gel, she ventures outside of the kingdom in search of slug jelly, motivated by the fear that she will become unlovable if she can’t live up to her family’s eccentric beauty standards.
As I Witness (As I Witness قهر )
The act of writing collapses the past and the present into the dissonant experience of witnessing the colonization of the body.