Suburban Birds

My Blue Summer

Luo Zhi, a proud and intelligent girl, loves Sheng Huainan, while Sheng Huainan is unaware of her feelings. As Luo Zhi enters college, she surprisingly found that she and Sheng Huainan are in the same college.

Children

Wai and Na have always been the good Christian couples in others' eyes and they are finally getting married soon. However, an unplanned pregnancy drags the two Christians into the dilemma of human nature... Years after tying the knot, Na is pregnant again and this time they have another difficult decision to make. Two lives, two decisions, all depended on whether they were more afraid of god, or of human.

My Father's Son

Qiao, an 18-year-old boy, loses his voice while delivering a eulogy for his late father. He runs away from the funeral and hides from his family. Between past, present and future, the young man recalls his relationship with his brutal and secretive father, who left him a passion for boxing. Ten years later, now an engineer, Qiao develops an AI boxer to help people learn boxing. Training with the AI day by day, Qiao begins to see a ghost.​​

Distant Thunder

A group of children are playing hide and seek. Lei goes the furthest. He sits by the river and nobody finds him. 20 years pass in the blink of an eye.

Double Helix

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.

Those Who Loved Me

During the pandemic, someone shot a short film on a mobile phone—— it’s a love story about an airline stewardess who wanted to fall in love during the dynamic zero-COVID policy in Beijing, so she set out to reconnect with her ex-boyfriends.

Winterstare

In 2003, I came to Hong Kong and hung out at bars a lot. Soon I became obsessed with a beer girl Yun. On a whim, I decided to make a film to document our love. I asked Hengzhi to Play “me” in the film, as Yun’s boyfriend. Unexpectedly, what happened on screen became true. Yun and Hengzhi clung together. One day, Yun left a note and disappeared without a trace.

The Leaf Leaves the Tree

An insomniac daughter and a beekeeper father lived alone in the woods. The daughter cannot sleep at night, go out alone loiter, recant the memory of the past is remade in the dream of the day life. The daughter and the father live in the same space year after year, but they have no overlapping days, until one day the daughter found that the father had a mistress.

Romance in Silence

Golfville

For photographer Zou Qiao, Golfville and the behemoth-like golf course nearby are bizarre and unforgettable. He never expects that the hotel owner’s daughter is so pretty. Neither does he expect that he will be involved in a murder case. He is going everywhere with his camera, shooting birds, women, hands washing golf balls, and glitter of broken glass. Yet he grows more and more confused.