Xihe Ding

A group of people that disappear after a mysterious light falls upon the city, leaving the survivors to try and unravel the mystery.

Bloom is an impressionistic sketch of longing, growth, memory and separation. The film intends to portray an experiential landscape of love and loss. Starting in late 90s Beijing, a time when drastic social and economic transformation is taking place, the film attends to the inner world of a young man Mu Ke, and unravels with the dialogue of "exchanging story" between Mu Ke and his younger self. Narratives, memories, imaginations and disillusions flow out into an ocean of pure time.

When Wang Wei, a small private business owner, was struggling to run his health club, his father Wang Dezhi, who had joined the scientific expedition team by mistake 20 years ago and had been missing for many years, suddenly appeared in front of him. After 20 years, his father looked the same, but his memory was disordered, as if he came from another time and space. His father told Wang Wei the story of the scientific expedition team: a group of people drove into the desert for scientific investigation, and when they were preparing to return, they found a submarine that should have appeared on the other side of the earth. What was even more unexpected was that there was a "Pisces meteorite" from outer space in the submarine. Anyone who touched it would open a parallel time and space, bringing themselves to another time and space. In order to survive, they had to start a fight...

Late at night, KONG Xianyun and her younger brother Yuanyuan escape from their family house. They trek into an abandoned school, where Yuanyuan’s memories are awakened – the sound of books, piano, and laughter. Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire engulfs everything. Adapted from The Song of Life by the worldrenowned sci-fi writer WANG Jinkang, this speculative short contemplates on the future of AI. Soaked in a never-shredding atmosphere and accompanied by the secret tune of a piano, DOUBLE HELIX tells a gripping story of intelligence robot, family trauma and a pair of run-away siblings who trek into an abandoned school.