Narrative Shorts Showcase – Animation

Borderline
Kong Son-hee, 2022, South Korea, 7m
A child awakes with twisted limbs in an unknown space, facing danger; a fairy comes to her rescue.

Confusion of the Afternoon / 午後的迷茫
Yung-Chieh Lee, 2023, Taiwan, 3m
East Coast Premiere
Two boys play poker on a dull afternoon. As one boy inadvertently touches and makes eye contact with the other, it sparks a beautiful, imaginative dance.

Goose Mountain / 鹅鹅鹅
Hu Rui, Chen Liaoyu, 2023, China, 18m
Mandarin with English subtitles
A peddler meets a Fox scholar on Goose Mountain who invites him to a drink. The Fox’s sweetheart Rabbit emerges from his mouth, followed by other nested sweethearts, Boar and Goose.

Handwritten
Jaime Sunwoo, 2022, USA, 9m
English
New York Premiere
Jaime Sunwoo highlights the beauty of handwriting through playful paper puppetry and animation, exploring its significance in history and our modern world.

Hidari                                       
Masashi Kawamura, Iku Ogawa, 2023, Japan, 5m
Japanese with English subtitles
Jingoro “Hidari” is a carpenter/sculptor who loses his arm—and his father—during the Edo Castle renovation. He seeks vengeance with his sidekick Sleeping Cat and his weaponized prosthetic arm after discovering that the murder was carried out by the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Impurrfection / 貓年海岸
Chiang Yao, 2022, Taiwan, 13m
Mandarin with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Unable to swim in the zodiac race due to aquaphobia, Mr. Cat lives regretfully by the sea until an accident brings him closer to the water.

Little Pig Demon (Nobody) / 小妖怪的夏天
Yu Shui, Chen Liaoyu, 2023, China, 22m
Mandarin with English subtitles
One day, the monster king announces a plan to capture Monk Tang. Eating him can give monsters eternal life. Can a little pig demon fulfill all his tasks?

The Kidnapping (Old Man Yang) / 小卖部
Gu Yang, Liu Kuang, Chen Liaoyu, 2023, China, 17m
Mandarin with English subtitles
Old man Yang is about to move away from the Beijing Hutong that he lived in for years, but he cannot help reminiscing about the old times. Until one day, he gets a mysterious Prize Drawing….

Ship Down the Well / 小满
Chen Xi, Zhou Xiaolin, Chen Liaoyu, 2023, China, 14m
Mandarin with English subtitles
A boy is frightened by a monster in the water, and his friends bring him to a deserted yard where they find a statue of a monster.

What We Leave Behind
Kang Nam-jin, 2022, South Korea, 11m
Korean with English subtitles
International Premiere
A glimpse into the life of a man, from the birth of his child to the death of a loved one, told through his possessions and the place he calls home.