New Dogs

Princess

on a sunny day, the old couples doing their ritual routine to their beloved god

Kesha, a final-year film student, lives in a warm family with her mother who also her beloved teacher, Yuke. However, their lives change when Yuke begins to experience increasingly severe memory loss. Amidst this, Kesha is faced with a major dilemma, continue pursuing her dreams or return home to avoid missing out on moments with her mother before it's too late.

Amidst cityscapes, an experimental short film unravels a woman's exploration of inner pain.

Exploring love's complexities, an experimental film captures a woman's brief yet significant journey, prompting her to break free and embrace newfound liberation

Infatuated with her crush Owen, Isabelle devises a plan with her best friend Jasmine to get his attention.

As a rural village prepares for its final harvest festival as a luxury building development is greenlit, an ancient threat awakens and Julian must come face to face with a haunting piece of folklore.

Moin Moin

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But pushing on the walls distorts the room in various ways, always appearing to bring the hole closer while still leaving it tantalizingly inaccessible.

A boy who is kicked out of his post-apocalyptic camp is forced to try and find a new home, as well as, civilisation without being caught by the unknown beings that lie ahead.

On a night in Shanghai, there is an accidental encounter and separation of the broken-hearted Ajie and an amnesiac old lady…

A short film based on a combination of the director’s personal experience and social reality. It tells the story of Li Yun, a middle school girl who seems to be strong and has no weakness. When “menarche” comes, this secret becomes a huge test for her. Her good friend Chen Xue keeps this secret and helps Li Yun in her transition into adulthood.

A story which focuses on a woman who is born poor and suffers immensely for her family. As a wife, she supports the whole family and takes good care of her paralysed husband. As a mother, she is misunderstood by her adolescent son. As herself, she has a strong desire for the beautiful things in life which cannot be fulfilled. All of these involve money. So the woman comes up with a “brilliant” idea…

Hui Chang, who is pregnant, believes in Buddhism. She supports her family by folding and selling paper ingots. In a pregnancy check-up, she finds out that the fetus has a chromosome defect. In order to keep the baby, Hui Chang’s husband Guoliang Zhao takes her to a sorceress for a cure. In the process, Hui Chang’s faith is questioned and she suffers anxiety and pain.

Two sisters argue and one runs away from home. When she crashes her car into a tree, she ends up recovering with a cast on her leg. She and her sister then reconcile through the process of forgiveness.

An off-screen narrator reminisces about his fun-loving, ex-girlfriend, Isabelle, and the elevator game that she created. By describing the way the game is played, he highlights all the things he misses about her and in the end, expresses his regret about losing her.

Haunted by flooding memories of their parents' verbal abuse, an insecure person decides to stop reflecting and start living the life they never knew they could have.

A woman who has been watching her next door neighbor for some time develops an intense affection for her neighbor's cat. This love will eventually end in regret.

The short musical All my life is a love story that takes place over many years. After 50 years, Maria arrives with her husband at the 50th-anniversary celebration of the choir she belonged to. It turns out that Jan, an old love from her 20s still has strong feelings towards her. Can true love survive all this time?

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces.