HiShorts! Film Festival

A house, a woman, a man, a turtle, and a train

Jules has been sober for a year, but she can’t stop vomiting goldfish. Striving to put her life back on track, she must preserve control when a fish enthusiast unexpectedly enters her life.

Ah Fung is a primary school girl who cannot let go because the old housing estate is about to be demolished. Then she meets a new friend in this disappearing place.

The 14-minute experimental fashion short film HÓNG uses nine sets of costumes and seven constructed scenes to review the development and evolution of feminism in post -1949 China, blurring the cultural and political experiences of three generations of women into one abstract character.

Through a childhood recording, a grandmother's story, and a family video, I try to find out why the fig tree in my hometown disappeared, questioning the source of human memory, and forgetting…

Two sisters live in a second-hand store where drug parties are common. Chun finds solace by hiding herself in an old fridge, while Chieh appears indifferent. After a close murder on a summer afternoon, Chun realized her seemingly amiable uncle is a perpetrator and she fell into an emotional abyss.

It lives by the sea, accompanied by another being. In the monotony of time, it finds solace only in the ocean's depths. Suddenly, it discovers they both yearn for the same unknown.

One afternoon, a solitary elder drifts into dreams of the past; by the riverbank, a young girl searches for her path through the mist of youth. In their own realms of time, they quietly meet.

A middle-aged man hiding his unemployment from the family hangs around the street and falls asleep in a gallery. Thanks to the safety guard working there, he finds a moment of inner peace.