Shorts and student films – Silk Road International Film Festival https://silkroadfilmfestival.com Silk Road International Film Festival Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:58:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://silkroadfilmfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Shorts and student films – Silk Road International Film Festival https://silkroadfilmfestival.com 32 32 Student Films 2020 https://silkroadfilmfestival.com/student-films-2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=student-films-2020 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:35:58 +0000 https://henrik.qodeinteractive.com/?p=1624

Wed 22 Jan 2020
Jonathan Swift Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

Free Admission

Incubation

A lonely girl runs away from home, and she is trapped in a time loop when she touches the magic egg. Her soul wakes up again in the room and she finally sees herself dead in the boat.

Director – Bo Zhang, Yunxi Guo
USA & China // Live Action // 5 mins

Paper Boats

Why can’t Rahel bring herself to sign her artwork? The visit of her high school academic triggers memories of why she is haunted by her surname, yet would not consider changing it.

Director: Gonzalo Guajardo-Fajardo
Ethiopia & United States // Live Action // 15mins

Memory Foam

This short video art piece provides a glimpse of contemporary bed culture, and reveals how our hidden emotional experiences, attachments, memories and nostalgia find their place among the physical components of a bed. 

Director – Martyna Dubicka
Ireland // Experimental // 6 mins

Midair

A young boy follows a black balloon around his neighbourhood on the day his father passes away.

Director Biography – Zhaoxin Liu
China & USA // Live Action // 10 mins

Archie’s Bat

Archie’s Bat is a story about a lonely young boy who is surprisingly given the chance at friendship when his path crosses with an injured bat. 

Director: Shannon Egan
Ireland // Animation // 2mins

Prey

As an ancient eastern proverb described: “a mantis hunting the cicada unknowingly falls prey to the eyes of an oriole.”— the most vivid view of natural cycle in human societies is best seen through lens of karma on a microscopic scale.

Director: Sun, Jing
China // Animation // 5mins

The Beekeeper

Deep in the heart of a bamboo forest, a paternal bear watches over Mae, a spirited young girl that he is raising. Sustained by the collection of beehives that the bear tends to, the two live together in peaceful harmony. 

Director: Robyn Conroy
Ireland // Animation // 6 mins

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Shangri La

This film is based on a true story about a white-collar Chinese worker that lives in Beijing. After he reads the fantasy novel “Lost horizon”, he begins an extraordinary journey with a backpack to find his “Shangri-La”. His quest to find it was so intense that he crossed 6 provinces and 12 cities, passing by the Shangri-La and the Tibet region.

Director: Carlo Christian Spano
China // Doc // 38mins

We are the Bulls

The story of five boys who became outlaws in the neighbourhood with a BB gun.

Director: SeWoong Bae
Republic of Korea // Live Action // 30mins

Shooting Crows

A park in the fog. Crows flap and caw in the sky. A homeless man sleeps between the trees. Now and then a crow is shot: as a  deterrent. The crows rally after every shot. A woman disappears. The police gather evidence. What is really going on? Are reality and imagination slowly blurring? 

Director: Christine Hürzeler
Switzerland // Doc // 20mins

The Stop

Jakub takes his last bus to school in the nearby town to get the results of the secondary school leaving exam. His ultimate visit to school marks the end of one stage in his life and the beginning of another.

Director: Bartosz Reetz
Poland // Live Action // 14mins

Glamorous City

Due to the rising cost of living, the illegal construction of the house is facing the problem of demolition. The North drift girl Smile is not knowing where to go in Beijing. Because her and her colleagues and friends, the Beijing boy Jingbaiwang got along, let the smile make up her mind for her new life, and decided to draw a memorable end to her life in Beijing. Before leaving, Smile and Jingbaiwang spent the most common night in Beijing, it was the most romantic night. 

Director: Ji Yuan
China // Live Action // 12mins

More Than I Can Say

The rhythm of life of Qinghua and his wife in the north have been disturbed by the arrival of his mother-in-law from the south. At this moment, due to the cultural differences between north and south people, also the communication differences between parents and children, which made them turn depressed. Their life of living under the same roof looked be like calm, actually it’s very conflicted.

Director: Wang Liyuan
China // Live Action // 15mins

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