During the Republic of China, a frozen-aged strange man Bupleurum appeared in Qiandeng Town. It was rumored that there was a dragon living in his body. Reporter Wei Yutong took photos of strange people
Dr. Splits, a brilliant scientist, creates a time machine, but a critical error results in the fragmentation of his personality into distinct and competing parts. As these divided aspects clash with one another, an internal conflict unfolds. The ultimate question remains: which personality will emerge victorious in the end?
An Alaskan bush pilot attempts a daring rescue of a stranded researcher deep inside an arctic cave system thought to be an entrance to the inner earth, only to find himself battling creatures not of this world.
A man works as a caretaker at a human farm. One day, however, the plant is suddenly shut down due to poor performance. The man is entrusted with the task of dismissing the remaining pre-shippers at the plant, and he desperately tries to dissolve them...
A brief, colorfully animated satire on modern socio-filmic culture and its primary users. A young cinephile reviews a film on Letterboxd while his girlfriend patiently waits for his attention. She makes an effort to seduce him but he’s preoccupied writing his review on “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Before.” Before we know it, a demonic alien creature descends from the sky in an effort to woo the unattended damsel, stealing her away from her earthly boyfriend’s film bro obsessions and constantly buzzing fruit flies.
He desires and is desired, he inflames and burns at the same time. What he sees, he doesn't understand, but what he sees he is on fire for. What separates lovers is so small. From his own eyes he dies. "I am he. My own image doesn't deceive me. I am burning with love for myself. Oh, I wish I could leave my own body! But the two of us, together, in one breath we will die." Based on "Narcissus and Echo" from Book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Marie Cosnay.
Maori astrobiologist Xuê Noon (Victoria Hunt) finds solace in Mars in 2051 as a leader from the Aotearoa Space Agency on an international scientific mission, following the discovery of dormant microorganisms by the NASA Mars Sample Return Mission in 2039. Xuê wanders across this sentient planet and reflects on the newly found lifeforms as she grows plants in a glasshouse. Through the spirit of an ancient taniwha, she slipstreams in spacetime to the Atacama Desert in 2023 where she lived as an Indigenous scientist years earlier. In Atacama the film engages with numerous ongoing life-and-death struggles for land and water justice led by Indigenous communities, activists, and scientists in this old, vital yet scarred desert. Through interviews and conversations, the film depicts centuries old and ongoing forms of social injustice and ecological degradation to weave a critical allegory against the renewed commercial impulse of a new space age rampaging in the 2020's.
In the wak of a nuclear war, a young man believes himself to be last person left alive, until he meets a strange young mute woman with life-saving abilities.
Welcome to the year 2075. In a world ravaged by asteroid impacts, humanity clings to survival amidst the ruins of a once-thriving civilization. This futuristic short film immerses you in a post-apocalyptic journey, where a father and daughter, Orion and Ryker, navigate the challenges of a drastically changed Earth 10 years after a catastrophic event reshaped our planet.
One day, mysterious cosmic rays that materialize two-dimensional objects rain down on Earth. A monster octopus drawn by a young boy comes to life and wreaks havoc in the city. Kintaro tries to make the octopus disappear while it's still inside a wall, but ends up falling for the monster's provocations, making the situation even more complicated. Kintaro JK is also in danger.
Shark is invited by a senior rat shark to join an Oreore scam, but he mistakenly calls Kintaro. Kintaro hears that Shark has broken the golden Shachihoko, and goes to find a replacement. The story gets complicated, and Kintaro and Shark decide to settle the matter in a game of baseball fist.