A DRINK ON ME
Chinese Mainland | Social Drama | Cantonese, Putonghua | Digital | 15 min
Director: Lenti LIANG
Scriptwriter: Lenti LIANG
Producers: ZHANG Fan, Sol YE
A real estate agent and a laid-off delivery rider cross paths twice, between the revelry of the night and the rush of everyday life, never knowing who the other truly is in reality.
AFTER-SALES SERVICE FOR VIOLENCE
Chinese Mainland | Drama | Kazakh| Digital | 15 min
Director: ZHANG Ziwei
Scriptwriter: ZHANG Ziwei
Producer: WANG Yang
One night in Urumqi, two young strangers connect through a malfunctioning arcade boxing machine.
FOLDING MAINLAND – WINNER
Chinese Mainland｜Social, Drama, Comedy｜Putonghua｜Digital｜17 min
Director: QU Zhizheng
Scriptwriter: QU Zhizheng
Producers: Grégoire DEBAILLY, HUANG Xufeng
Feng Xiao partied wildly with his friends all night. After returning home, he learned that his father had been “optimized” by AI.
GIRI – WINNER
Hong Kong｜Drama｜Putonghua, Cantonese｜Digital｜15 min
Director: WONG Ka Ki
Scriptwriter: YEUNG Leung Chuen
Producer: WONG Ka Ki
A mountain recluse’s solitude is disrupted by a woman searching for a missing man, as an elusive myth of a white lake blurs the boundaries between grief, memory, and belonging.
GOOD MORNING
Macao | Social Experiment | Cantonese, Putonghua | Digital | 15 min
Director: Niko HO
Scriptwriter: Jacky MOK
Producer: Sabrina HO
Hearing strange noises care or self-preserve? Peephole fantasies. If nothing happened, our panic reveals not the neighbour, but our own fear and indifference.
GRAFTLINGS
South Korea | Drama, Suspense | Korean | Digital | 18 min
Director: Ashlan June
Scriptwriter: Ashlan June
Producer: Hayoung GHIM
A newly released convict comes home hoping to bury her past and make peace with her mother, only to find her buried by a stranger.
IMITATION – WINNER
Hong Kong | Coming-of-Age | Cantonese | Digital | 20 min
Director: Erica KWOK Chung Yee
Scriptwriter: Erica KWOK Chung Yee
Producer: FUNG Wai Sze
Moving between four washrooms across Hong Kong, fifteen-year-old Moon quietly imitates the strangers around her, imagining who she might one day become.
RED CANDY
Sri Lanka | Drama | Tamil, Sinhala | Digital | 18 min
Director: Bavaneedha LOGANATHAN
Scriptwriter: Bavaneedha LOGANATHAN
Producer: Bavaneedha LOGANATHAN
When tragedy forces a lonely eight-year-old girl into the path of the feared gangster woman in her apartment, two broken strangers slowly become each other’s family.
THE WAY HOME
Singapore | Drama | English, Putonghua | Digital | 16 min
Director: Christine SEOW
Scriptwriter: Christine SEOW
Producer: WONG Xiao Xuan
When a recently released ex-convict spends a day alone with the daughter he’s never met, an awkward outing to Sentosa becomes an unexpected journey from strangers to father and child.
TOWER – WINNER
Macao | Drama | Cantonese, Putonghua | Digital | 18 min
Director: CHAN Chon Sin
Scriptwriter: YE Shi Zhao
Producer: HONG Heng Fai
Min travels to Macau to meet her online friend Zhong. Wandering through the city together, they try to form a connection and understand each other.
UNDER A BURNING SUN – WINNER
Chinese Mainland | Road Movie, Youth | Putonghua | Digital | 25 min
Director: BO Hanxiong
Scriptwriter: BO Hanxiong
Producer: LUO Qiujun
After escaping a roadside service station, a young woman joins a drifting youth collective, where two life-changing encounters with strangers force her to choose between belonging and dignity.
UNPROVEN
Hong Kong | Drama | Cantonese, English | Digital | 20 min
Director: LAW Yik Man
Scriptwriter: LAW Yik Man
Producers: Chandra Shekhar VYAS, Asli FERHATOGLU
A Pakistani student rehearsing his LGBTQ asylum testimony meets a Hong Kong migrant in a Vancouver laundromat, where their encounter forces both to confront truths about identity, memory, and belonging.
WE CAME BACK TO STRANGERS, DAD – WINNER
Kyrgyzstan | Coming-of-Age | Kyrgyz | Digital | 20 min
Director: Ilimbek MAKSATBEKOV
Scriptwriter: Ilimbek MAKSATBEKOV
Producer: Amina SATAROVA
A family’s return to the village for dad’s school reunion forces a young boy to see his father and the world through a lens he never expected.
WHAT REMAINS OF THE ORDINARY – WINNER
Bangladesh | Drama | Bengali | Digital | 15 min
Director: Shubha Kumar PAUL
Scriptwriter: Shubha Kumar PAUL
Producer: Barkat Hossain POLASH
An airport cargo handler paid to escort a dead migrant worker’s body home is mistaken for his friend, drawing him into a family’s grief that transforms his understanding of loss and belonging.
WHERE THE SORROW OVERFLOWS
Hong Kong | Drama, Fantasy, Realism | Nepalese, Cantonese, English | Digital 4K | 20 min
Director: Nadia CHUI
Scriptwriter: Nadia CHUI
Producer: Steve LI
Driven by an untraceable water seepage, a grieving Nepali mother and a guilt-ridden caregiver clash, only to discover the phantom water weeping from their deepest traumas.
YESIMDE – WINNER
Kazakhstan | Psychological Drama | Kazakh, Russian | Digital | 12 min
Director: Ainamkoz YEMZHAROVA
Scriptwriter: Ainamkoz YEMZHAROVA
Producer: Aruzhan DOSSYMKOZHA
Saule finds herself alone at home with a mysterious woman while her son and grandchildren are away abroad.