The Last Kiss
- English (US)
In a hidden boutique that promises revenge with a single kiss, a woman seeking to erase her pain discovers that vengeance demands a heavier price — and an eternal role she cannot escape.
Beneath the surface
- English (US)
A woman who has experienced violence in her marriage struggles and wanders repeatedly due to her subconscious obsession with "family integrity". The essence of the robots in the story is the carrier of the female protagonist's subconscious original family's shaping of her marriage concept. Will she ultimately remain in a marriage of ashes or be reborn?
IMPROVEMENT CYCLE
- English (US)
This film was all created using generative AI technologies. Some images look like Japanese landscapes but are slightly different. Strange songs are sung in mysterious language. This is a memory that regenerates from the brains of humans which are already extinct. The aliens are continuing to work silently, collecting and recording these memories from around the world. They have a very important purpose.
The Bearer
- 繁體中文
This film is inspired by a true story. A Taiwanese village chief, honouring a promise to the elderly veteran Li, joins forces with his sister Xiuqin to fulfill a sibling reunion seventy years overdue.
Test Strike
- English (US)
A short AI film exploring morals in medieval Japan. During that time, samurai practiced a custom known as "tsujigiri" (辻斬り). This film is a brief sketch of how such an event might have unfolded.
Echoed in Water
This short video art piece reimagines the 15th-century painting, Saint Elizabeth's Day Flood[i], —as both historical trauma and contemporary omen. Combining AI-generated shots inspired by the painting with modern video footage, the film collapses time: Gothic churches stand beside glass towers, villagers row past androids, and muddy floodwaters surge through both ancient towns and contemporary skylines. Through haunting juxtapositions, Echoed in Water reflects on the repeated violence of human-induced climate disasters. The merging of eras suggests not only the continuity of environmental vulnerability but also how technological advancement has not only failed to safeguard against nature's wrath but also contributed to it. The medieval past, once seen as distant and irrelevant to our lives, becomes a mirror for our present anxieties—especially as rising seas, broken infrastructures, and ecological displacement become daily realities. The work offers a visual meditation on fragility, memory, and the myth of progress. It is not only an elegy for the drowned but also a warning: history, like water, finds its way back. The Saint Elizabeth's Day Flood two panels depict the flood on November 19th 1421 (the feast day of Saint Elizabeth). The right panel, which is more complex, has a unique visual language of distorted perspectives and proportions. It depicts multiple stories simultaneously, which construct the overall narrative of the event. These intriguing features serve as a template and starting point for an investigation aiming to translate and transform the painting into a storyboard that animates a picture of past and present ecological catastrophes. [i] The Saint Elizabeth’s Day Flood, Meester van de Heilige Elisabeth-Panelen, c. 1490 - c. 1495
THE LAST DREAM
Amid the ruins of war, a young girl holds onto fragments of her lost family. Between ashes and silence, she slips into a fragile dream where hope still breathes
Cendres (Ashes)
- Català
What is left of the witches that were burned? What lies behind a word that is often used in a banal way? Witches have nourished the audiovisual imagination with stereotypes that rarely resemble the women who died under this accusation. Humble women, some dissidents, and often slaves of the new order that was built to stay. ‘Ashes’ explores the video-to-video technique in a piece that confronts stereotypes through the claim and the spell: say 'I'm a witch' three times and you'll be a free person. Do you dare?
MANIC : The noise we called salvation
- English (US)
BAIFF 2025 Cinematic Singularity Award - In the near future, emotions are treated as diseases, and every citizen is implanted with a neural system called NIRVANA to maintain emotional stability. Noah, a psychiatrist working at the heart of this system, encounters Mirae, a high-risk patient known as “the woman who went mad trying to save the world.” Through her cryptic words, Noah begins to rediscover long-forgotten emotions—and fragments of truth. Meanwhile, Zola, a janitor and secret member of a resistance group, is covertly collecting emotional data from Noah and Mira in preparation to dismantle the system. Using his insider access, Noah triggers a disruption at the system’s core, but a final confrontation with the system’s creator—the hospital director—leads the story into a tragic spiral.
