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Filmstill Sliver Cave

Sliver Cave

Yin mu
Caibei Cai
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
China
2022
14 minutes
Chinese
Subtitles: 
English

Bizarre animations of strange beauty on a metal plate, set to Free Jazz. Light reflexes. Lines and circles that take on human or insect form, merge and dissolve. Sometimes a voice from offscreen gives directions, demands a new plate. Then everything starts again – but differently. The realization dawns slowly: This is an expedition to an underworld that generates silently communicating ghost lights.

Anke Leweke

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Director
Caibei Cai
Script
Caibei Cai
Cinematographer
Leilei Xia, Suwen Chen
Editor
Caibei Cai
Producer
Caibei Cai, Shuolu Si
Animation
Caibei Cai, Jie Shen
Winner of: Mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Filmstill Will You Look at Me

Will You Look at Me

Dang wo wang xiang ni de shi hou
Shuli Huang
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
China
2022
20 minutes
Chinese
Subtitles: 
English

The summer after graduation: Own life plans and expectations of the parents’ generation collide. While Shuli films his friends with a Super 8 camera, his mother wants nothing more than for him to get married. She resolutely refuses to speak about the fact that her son loves men and has been living with his boyfriend in Beijing for years. A deafening silence. Idyllic family pictures are overlaid by a long overdue confrontation.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Shuli Huang
Cinematographer
Shuli Huang
Editor
Shuli Huang
Producer
Shuli Huang
Sound
Nicolas Verhaeghe, Jingxi Guo
World Sales
Flavio Armone
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Documentary (International Competition Short Film)