2019 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

Length: 6mins46secs

Director: Peter Mattson

Cast: Peter Mattson、Meredith Scardino

Hank is a simple, henpecked robot whose curiosity is piqued when he finds an old surfing manual in a dumpster on the way to his 9-5 factory job.

Length: 19mins30secs

Director: Ying Liu Hatch

Cast: Yifeng Tian、Zhenyu Jiang、Juemeng Wang、Lucifer Xie、Mickey Miao、Ryan Feng

A girl receives a gift, an AI robot version of the boyfriend she just broke up with, who comes with a remote control that allows her to correct his every move. Yet there is a secret to this robot…

Length: 5mins59secs

Director: Yiwei Pu

Cast: Ted Chun、Cindera Che

As an old woman falls ill, her husband concocts a mysterious plan to fulfill her dream.

Length: 9mins59secs

Director: Luis Peña

Cast: Refugio López、Grecia Balboa、Jamie Williams、Wilson Azer

Relying on no one else but each other, drug dealer Elias tries to escape the loop of his broken life caused by his junkie sister Meri.

Length: 5mins46secs

Director: Mulan Fu

Cast: Meng Jin、Mulan Fu、Johanna Lee

A chance encounter between a stray cat and a young girl becomes a lifelong friendship able to withstand distance and time.

Length: 9mins57secs

Director: Jingnan Wang

Cast: Claire-Monique Martin、Kelsey Andrae

The Fiddle Player is a story about an exceptional violinist who cannot find a job. When she is about to give up her dream she finds hope in an old high school friend, who turns the tables on their friendship and her career.

Length: 5mins25secs

Director: Tian Leng

A cinematic and poetic exploration of the space and time in Chinatown of Downtown Manhattan, Dear Friend Chinatown uses the form of a postcard to a foreign friend to depict the beauty of life here.

Length: 5mins54secs

Director: Bailey Liu

Cast: Phillip Guy、Gia Zinovoy

Jeff is a lonely guy with no experience in dating women. He sets out to pick up a woman in a bar. He wants to get lucky but his eagerness places him in a terrible position as he walks into a trap.

Length: 11mins51secs

Director: Christopher Ma

Cast: Christopher Ma- Director、Christopher Ma- Writer、Xiaoli Liu- Writer、Victoria Zhang- Producer、Anton Kurov- Producer、Natalie Dease- Production Design、Becky Baihui Chen- DP、Cabba Jiaxuan Cai- Sound

After Chinese Sorcerer Dee finds out that his friend’s fiancé is a vampire, he decides to pay a visit and save the day.

Length: 21mins7secs

Director: Peiqi Peng

Cast: Lanhua Ma -Producer、Allura Grace Duffy- Producer、Qin Ziwei- Director of Photography、Peiqi Peng- Writer

In a Chinese tourist group among the heat of the Nevada desert, a teenage daughter fighting with her father encounters a mysterious woman.

Length: 14mins7secs

Director: Anthony Cheuk On, Chan

Cast: JAKE JENSON
、SCOTT ALIN、JESSICA MALKA、RYAN ALESSI、ZACHARY WESTERMAN、PRYMRR、MELANIE NICHOLSON、CHRIS YESCHENKOV

“Memory Revival” pianist Frederick confronts the “Memory Eraser” in a soul-wrenching duet that forces them both to reckon with memories of their childhood they had long-since forgotten.

Length: 12mins50secs

Director: Xiao Wang

Cast: Danielle Miele

An inside peek into a quirky collector’s world, an obsession for antique jewelry and gems, and a start of a jewelry blog that becomes a profession.

Length: 21mins31secs

Director: Yuhaojie Zheng

Cast: QI SUN、GRACE CHANG、LEANN LEI、JIZHONG “JAMIE” ZHANG、ZITA BAI、SHUANGCHENG SUN、HUANZHANG ZHANG

After openly defied his mother by choosing Kung Fu school over college, a 19-year-old boy comes home for Chinese New Year and finds everything changed.

Length: 14mins54secs

Director: Nancy Lin

Cast: Tricia Fukuhara、Daniel Chung、Noveen Crumbie、Jesten Mariconda

Spunky teen Nova Dante has one job: caretaker to the Dante family cemetery and the ghosts that live within. With her parents away, Nova must balance her work and personal life as she and her inattentive Shinto priest boyfriend accidentally release evil ghosts that threaten to take over the world.

Length: 29mins10secs

Director: Weng San Sit

Cast: Lydia Look

Filmed in China, Mexico and the United States and utilizing archival footages, Searching for Liang Zhu journeys into spaces that are echoing with the story of the Butterfly Lovers; a Chinese legend about a woman named Zhu Ying-tai who dressed as a man in order to have an education. The story is embodied and […]

Length: 10mins23secs

Director: Sophie Cheung

Cast: Raymond Kwai、Bonnie Chang、Huaiyi Tsai、Chester Wai

The Dragon Dream tells the story of Asian American college student Sam. He lives in two parallel yet conflicting societies: American at school, and Chinese at home. He tries to live up to his parents’ expectations while withholding his inner emotions.

Length: 5mins42secs

Director: Liann Kaye

Cast: Ryan D. Wright、Yoko Hyun

When a timid, midwestern boy decides to propose to his girlfriend, he has to go through her immigrant, Chinese mother first.

Length: 11mins

Director: Dede Harlan

Cast: Dede Harlan

What The Hell is a story about two neighbors who don’t get alone with each other end up killing themselves into a heaven and hell transfer station, where they are told only one person can go to heaven, and they have to make a choice.

Length: 21mins53secs

Director: Jiayi Li

Cast: Burtis Cutler

An old cowboy Burtis is tired and lose the passion of life. He tries to looking for a person to making a duel for meaning of existence. When the critical moment come, a real choice will be made by himself.

Length: 19mins5secs

Director: Yunting Chen

Cast: Benjamin Leleu、Rodrigo Obregon、Lauren Faulkner

A 18 years old boy who lives in a small town wants to be an artist by following his father’s step, he needs to make the decision while he’s facing the fare of the unknown future.

Length: 22mins32secs

Director: John Jiang

Cast: Lawrence Chen、Jing Zheng

Wu is a tightfisted taxi driver who worships his money. Intrigued by a generous offer for fare, he steps on the journey with his wealthy passenger. This is their ‘last ride.’

Length: 23mins44secs

Director: Michael Justin Lee

Cast: Amanda K. Morales、Marlain Angelides

A modern reinterpretation of the ancient Greek tragedy about family honor and a young woman’s devotion to her departed brother