Along fragmented paths, we come to glimpse landscapes elsewhere. When these everyday moments brush against lived experience, we are suddenly carried back in dreams—to a past once lived in our homeland. By weaving together the experience of being away from home with what has already passed, a vision emerges that belongs to us alone, singular and unrepeatable. This film selection, jointly curated by enclave partners from different countries, reflects the concerns they observe through their own eyes. Within this rising enclave, we see, encounter, and exchange… and continue moving forward.
In the playground of short animations, established narrative frameworks are shattered. Sensibility breaks free from the shackles of human form, finding freedom in the world of images. From the whimsical love between human and beast to the dogs nurtured upon the skin, here we transform, merge, fracture, and reassemble— finding a five-minute respite.
Before settling into the stability of adulthood, we are all perplexed students navigating the currents of life. This selection focuses on a group of Hong Kong teenagers who have yet to enter the working world. The life circumstances, social shifts, and even familial relationships they encounter are unprecedented experiences. The journey from attempting to understand, learn, and overcome these challenges, to ultimately accepting their self-determined fate, broadly reflects the collective atmosphere and mindset of Hong Kong as a whole
Before the day comes when reality and illusion tip out of balance, we swim within transparent bounds. Through the refraction of glass, we see only a warped reality—at times imagining ourselves the hand in control, yet in truth only the mouth awaiting its feed. In this vast fishbowl we call the world, bubbling away, who among us is any freer than the others? The moment the goldfish appears in the video： The Last Man on Earth（00:30） Monsoon Blue（00:36） Keep Out（00:14） Set Sail（01:07） Gold Fish（00:03）
When dreams return in fragments, when memories slip away, when the past comes rushing in, when the storm circles back—take a few minutes, just drift for a few minutes. The everyday can transcend time and space; abstract animation and imagery capture colors we cannot speak aloud, like elephants hidden in a castle, a head holding onto its last strand of hair, someone lost in a midsummer dream, or a fierce cyclone swirling outside. We all need—and deserve—these few minutes.
Are children inherently innocent? And what kinds of struggles do teenagers face while growing up? Here are 5 selected short films that invite us, as adults, to re-enter the world of children and adolescents, in an attempt to get a little closer to them.
Burning
Blossom
The Last Day of Summer
Those Who Dance
Shouting my heart out in the square, only to lose my voice like some bad joke. About to wave the flag—almost take the wrong one. Guess I’m hitting that early-senior haze; can’t be bothered to raise it anymore. Forgot it, just headed home and went to bed early. Before sleeping, I watched some films on Giloo—ended up in tears. Turns out awakening just makes things blurrier. Can't help pressing the play button for the next video.
In Character
