Yen was born in Germany, her parents in Vietnam. Being different is not a foreign feeling for many Vietnamese-Germans. Since studying in Norway, Yen understands how hard it is to build a new life in a foreign country with a different language. She learns to classify her identity, fears and, above all, her strengths.
"Kids Forever" is an experimental essay film that explores childhood through a montage of scenes featuring children from various films. The film creates a narrative about childhood by blending clips from classic and contemporary movies. The selected scenes depict children wandering, some appearing neglected, and others joyful. "Kids Forever" highlights the universal experiences of childhood that transcend time and culture, evoking a melancholic emotion that often forms at an early age and carries into adulthood.
A girl purchases some flowers and a fairy offers to enchant them. The girl follows the fairy’s instructions, and plants the flowers. The next day, the flowers grow into small characters and start dancing, to the amusement of the girl and the animals nearby.
Reffie goes to an observatory and notices that the face of the moon is sticking its tongue out at him. As revenge, Reffie crashes a rocket into the moon, turning the moon into a crescent moon.
Soldiers, Generals and elephants march into battle accompanied by different kinds of equipment, including cars, a train, tanks and planes with a dirigible.
Ponsuke laments over his inability to shapeshift. After helping some chickens, he discovers a book on shapeshifting. Based on the 1934 character by animator Ikuo Oishi.
Fisherman Urashima Tarō rides a turtle on top of the ocean waves. They then submerge underwater and arrive at a castle, where they are celebrated and greeted by dancing people and octopodes, and a princess. Based on the folktale “Otogi Banashi.”
Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Joshua Serafin collaborates with director Kitty Yeung on a stunning new cinematic extension of the former’s live performance works “VOID” (2022) and “PEARLS” (2024), from the ongoing “Cosmological Gangbang” trilogy.
Joshua Serafin’s artistic process is a sociological exorcism of Filipino identity situated within global ideologies and contemporary phenomena. Intuited from tropical myth and inspired by the dreamwork of a nonbinary cosmopolis, Joshua enfolds queer and trans methodologies into their sites of creation.
In Huy Nguyen’s family, there are many things that are left unsaid. Why is the story of his parents’ migration hardly mentioned, even though it has had a profound impact on different generations? Why is the relationship between parents and children so complicated? Is there a common story? And where does each person’s individual identity take shape? To find the answer, Huy sought out his grandparents in Vietnam. There, he recorded their daily activities, meals, and conversations. By building a close relationship with his grandparents, he also tried to understand and be closer to his parents.
Backstage is about a small fictional community theater group who are in the middle of rehearsals for their winter production. But behind the scenes chaos, shenanigans, and politics threaten the shows progress as the company juggles their daily lives with the demands of the show.
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