Friday 17 October
Ventilator Cinema // 15:30 // € 12
To Dive X Ventilator
Genre: Chinese, Drama, Action,
Line up: Yu-Xuan Wang, Helena Hsu, Roy Chang, Asian Records: The B-Side of Youth
Open: 15:30 - 21:00 hrs
Tickets: € 12 / €7,50 & €5,50

Part I: Feature Film Screening

15:30–15:35: Opening remarks & feature film introduction
15:35–17:15: Feature film screening
17:15–17:40: Post-screening Q&A with the director
17:40–18:10: Intermission

- Feature Film :Little Blue(96min)

Xiao Lan's first sexual experience is at the beach with Wu Miao, but when he loses interest, she turns to men on the Internet for comfort. This is a journey that every girl is destined to embark on at the crossroads between sex and love.

Part II: Short Film Collection

18:10–18:15: Opening remarks & curatorial introduction
18:15–19:55: Short film collection screening
19:55–20:15: Post-screening Q&A with the director

Short Film Collection: 

《No More Gravity At Night》(27min):

In an abandoned cement yard in the southern suburbs, a group of workers living in a utopian memory plot a "demolition" to make a quick buck. Chen Qing, a young boy among the workers, hopes to use his actions and even sacrifice himself in order to take his uncle away from this place, in order to wake up his young heroic uncle. At night, his relationship with his uncle had become subtly close, rigid, and broken, and his quicksand memory was like this dusty cement factory, eventually buried in dust.

《HANNYA》(11min):

《HANNYA》 portrays the sexual fantasy of a dance hall girl, using striking visuals to highlight contrasts. Roy falls in love with a man and, through secretly watching him being intimate with other women, becomes entangled in a struggle between desire and illusion.

《Fly Me To The Sea》(28min):A Danjia girl, who grew up on the sea, has gills inside her body that allow her to breathe underwater and dive deep for extended periods. Swept up by the great tide of ‘moving ashore’ in contemporary China, she leaves the ocean as an adult to work at a local clothing factory in Lotus Mountain. Can she adapt to life on land?

《Wild Bird》(23min):In a northern town buried under heavy snow, everyone tacitly abides by one rule: silence. He Yishan cannot understand why birds are allowed to sing, but people are forbidden to speak.

Animated Short Film:

《How I Grew Up》 (7 min):

There are many unnoticed emotions within us. In this film, “I” experience a fear of being suspected by others, triggered by something as trivial as an unthrown cup of coffee. The story revolves around observing this emotion: through four small episodes of growing up, its roots are traced, until finally “I” come face to face with the emotion itself.