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UNCONSENSUAL, 10min., Israel
Directed by Ido Fruchter
On the shores of the Sea of Galilee, a teenager tries to interpret his relationship with his girl-friend. A confessional film that offers another look at human contact and its complexity.

BREAK RULES, 3min., Ukraine
Directed by Dmitry Koturanov
Each of us has our own way. And no imposed rules and personal opinions of outsiders should prevent him. Freedom in self-expression, but in order to become original, you need to go a long way and break more than one wall.

ADOBO, 14min., Philippines
Directed by Mariella Balanquit
It is a fine evening that is dedicated to reminiscing about something important and all of the siblings have to set aside all their busy schedules at this time after not being able to meet for years. Instead of having an uplifting short time to cope up with one another, Mrs. Telly’s children started to bring a fight on the table about the life they are all living now. All of them stopped when the eldest sibling put the adobo on the table, and this is where their love is put to test.

BONSAI, 20min., USA
Directd by Leslie Yusuke Watanabe
Many years ago, while my father was working on his Bonsai plants in the garden, my mother said to me "He made my life a Bonsai" The result, decades later was this extremely personal work intertwining the technically brutal creation of the beautiful bonsai tree with the life of my mother.

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS, 2min., USA
Directed by Kaylee Tan
A quirky student who daydreams with her head high in the clouds must creatively elude her strict math teacher to remain there.

FOR ROY, 12min., Canada
Directed by Vivian Cheung
Inspired by true events, an imaginative Asian-Canadian girl attempts to fold a thousand cranes as she learns to lose her father during his final days in the hospice.

REQUIEM, 6min., Canada
Directed by Deadbeat Animation
On the night of a grand concert in Paris, a young pianist flees from her performance after a panic attack, and finds herself wandering deep within the mysterious Catacombs.

I INFECTED THE UNIVERSE, 10min., USA
Directed by Qiang Chen
The new crown virus has swept the world and infected the whole world. I drove a tricycle passing by the China Aerospace Administration, and was forced to wear a mask, so I started to escape, accidentally hit and started the space rocket and came to space. I traveled into space with the virus, Infected the whole universe, what should I do if I feel guilty?

LOVE AND AI, 30min., China
Directed by Fengjiao Ling
This film tells the poetic sci-fi love story of an AI falling in love with a human girl in Chongqing，China in 2035, where two souls redeem each other. It delves into the love and existence of the post human era. The inspiration of the story comes from the birth of the artificial intelligence language model ChatGPT, Dennis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 and Spike Jonze's Her.