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Nov.5th - 8th, 2021 New Chitose Airport Terminal, Hokkaido JAPAN

New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival November 20th - 23rd,2020

ONSITE FESTIVAL

Best of Feinaki -
New Generation of Chinese Animation Artists in the World
Curator: Yantong Zhu

The Best of Feinaki – Beijing Animation Week: this program is a rare opportunity to see how young Chinese animators are now showing their dazzling talents around the world.

Screening

Sparky

0:04:20

Director : Dian Liang

Sparky likes to gaze out of the window, to see every possible or impossible thing.

Sweater

0:02:00

Director : Zilai Feng

A man is putting on his sweater. The sweater is so colorful, the sweater is mesmerizing, the sweater makes him lost. Inspired by the short story "Don't You Blame Anyone" by Julio Cortazar.

Time! Time! Time!

0:02:02

Director : Haomin Peng

The intangible concept of time might be finally within our grasp, when a radical speech is given by a philosophy professor regarding Bill Viola’s works.

Petty Thing

0:03:46

Director : Zexi Li

The summer afternoon was no special, until the kids, also gun fight lovers, hung around in the village and found a replica pistol. As the trigger was pulled, the whole wood was awakened.

The Big Tree in front of the House

0:06:07

Director : Yinan Liu

It should have been an ordinary day but it was anything but usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did the people come from and where were they going? I was peering out at them from the window, but the big tree obstructed my view.

Self Scratch

0:09:00

Director : Chenghua Yang

Following a break-up, Wen sinks into melancholy. She can't talk to anyone and therefore talks to herself a lot. By understanding that it is not the love she has lost but her confidence, she will be able to reconcile with herself and feel ready to love again.

Sister

0:08:02

Director : Siqi Song

A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?

Half Asleep

0:05:16

Director : Caibei Cai

One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship.

Every Flower

0:08:36

Director : Yuanqing Cai

She, not only her, they are all the only children in the family, Typical underachiever, they often run away from home and social youth people like them at Internet cafe, when she finally plans to go home, Only to find that the family had moved away...she, now is one of them.

Half of an Apple

0:04:19

Director : Xiaolin Zhou

A boring afternoon in December, Papa Bear washed an apple and cut it in half. Half to me and half to my twin sister. We all don't like the apple with a kitchen knife smell.

Me and my megnet and my dead friend

0:13:05

Director : Maoning Liu

When I recalled my childhood, a magnet that accompanied me to grow up and a dead friend was the symbol of my past years. I tied the magnet to the trousers and pulled it out all day. The magnet could suck the iron on the road. Blocks or coins make me very happy. Until I met the friend who wanted to fly to the universe, he was as fat as I was, and then he accidentally fell into the water and died. My childhood was over.

The Six

0:05:00

Director : Xi Chen

A man, a woman, and a crane, in six repeating scenes.

SPLASH

0:09:25

Director : Jie Shen

The splash of water is like a bomb, about to break the tranquility of the pool.

Curator

Yantong Zhu

Animation filmmaker, artistic director of Feinaki Beijing Animation Week. Born in 1988 in Nanjing, China. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with master’s degree in 2014. Her work “My Milk Cup Cow” won 24 prizes all over the world, such as Grandprix of KROK, Grandprix of BIAF, Young Animation Award of Stuttgart and New Face Award of Japan Media Arts Festival. Founded Feinaki Beijing Animation Week as one of the co-founders in 2019 and serving as artistic director. Visiting lecturer at Communication University of China, department of Animation. In charge of the executive producer of animated omnibus film “To the Bright Side” in 2021.

New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival

Office
New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival Office
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Sapporo Tokeidai Bldg., 9F,
1, Nishi-2, Kita-1, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0001 JAPAN
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