• The Rabbit is Dead

    Hanis Bagashov Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Fiction, Arabic, Bulgarian, English, French, 00:20:00

    A young filmmaker, Eva, juggles life and her first film in development - narrated by her own fictional lead - in this witty and affecting portrait.

  • Won’t be Here

    Haoyuan Zhu Jiali Tan China, Animation, Chinese, 00:16:43

    Her disappearance began in the early hours of one morning. We took the wrong suitcase at the airport before the typhoon hit. After that, her life and ours have continued like this.

  • ToWer

    SIQI WEI Japan, Animation, English, Japanese, 00:05:14

    This work examines binge-eating livestreams in contemporary internet culture through the metaphor of a tower rising from the desert, symbolizing exploitative online corporations. The protagonist, a man in poverty and constant hunger, is guided by a bird representing his inner self. As profits grow, he falls into a cycle of excessive consumption and self-destruction. The bird’s death marks the loss of his final rationality, and he realizes he has destroyed his only escape while the system continues exploiting others.

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