Synopsis
A day in 2016 China, 11-year-old girl Mai attends her baby brother’s first birthday party and learns a crushing truth: her parents never ever wanted a girl in their family. What’s worse: she starts turning into a feather duster.
Lei Lei
Lei Lei, graduated from the China Academy of Art with a master's degree, Her works has been nominated for the Annecy Animation Film Festival, the Chinese Women's Section of Stuttgart animation film festival, Raindance Film Festival, and won the Dunhuang Award, the Porto Women's Film Festival Best Animation, and the Special Award of the China Independent Animation Forum. Her work was collected in the China Contemporary Animation Archives and Art Museum of China Academy of Art.
Director's statement
It uses symbolism to compare a closed system to a bus, and depicts passengers in alienation and surveillance from a microscopic perspective.
