FIRST FRAME short film collection 1

Li Yingyi | Qiu Yu | Cao Yinuo | Zhang Hanyu | / | / | 107min | Short collection
Chen Wen Yuan - Li yingyi丨What You Can't See - Qiu Yu丨Pipa and Lizard - Zhang Hanyu丨Wild Bird - Cao Yinuo

Synopsis

Chen Wen Yuan
In a maternity hospital, an anxious young woman sits on a bench waiting for her B-scan pregnancy test. On accident, she drops a button, she’s been rubbing and encounters the woman next to her – someone that looks twice her age. The two women have a chat, get to know each other’s lives, and even begin to share their secrets…” Next patient, Chen Wenyuan. Please enter the B-scan room.” Two women, one button. A soulful encounter in motherhood…

What You Can’t See
Yiwei met the girl, who left without saying goodbye, on her father’s truck. At that moment, Yiwei realized that she was always being a pawn in the scam about smuggling. The door to the real world opened in front of her.

Pipa and Lizard
A small-town girl, Shao Wenhan, carries her mother’s lifelong hope : to escape the small town and find the way to the big city by playing Pipa. But Wenhan, though dedicated to fulfilling this dream, does not believe in her mom. During their hard struggles, she secretly tries to find a new way out for herself…

Wild Bird
In the northern town covered in heavy snow, everyone tacitly adheres to a principle of not speaking. He Yishan doesn’t understand why birds can sing, but humans cannot speak. She expressed herself loudly in her own way, and her sister He Yizhou worked hard to protect everything. Two girls are like free souls floating above a small town. As the millennium approaches, this freedom drifts with the wind, and everything about freedom and bravery is engraved in the hearts of young girls.


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Li Yingyi

Li Yingyi, Master of Fine Art (directing direction) of The Central Academy of Drama. Her feature debut SHALL WE TALK was selected at the 13th FIRST International Film Festival. At the same time, she directed and produced multiple NGO and avant-garde theatre plays.

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Qiu Yu

Qiu Yu, who grew up in Shenzhen, graduated from the Department of Directing, Beijing Film Academy in 2022. Still trying hard to exploring the world.

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Cao Yinuo

Cao Yinuo, a directing student at the Communication University of China and unofficially recognized as the world's happiest child, strives to evolve from a student director to a creator.

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Zhang Hanyu

ZHANG Hanyu, director and writer. She graduated from Media Arts Production at Emerson College. She has participated in the production of several independent shorts, and PIPA AND LIZARD is her debut short film as director.