MINT: CFF Short Film Competition 2

MINT: CFF Short Film Competition 2

The Fissure of The Red Sight 红隙
Year of Production: 2025
Duration: 120 min
Genres: Docu-Fiction
Production Countries/Regions: Taiwan(China)
Dialogue Language(s): Mandarin
Subtitle Language(s): English
Director(s): KAO Wei-Heng
Producer(s): KAO Wei-Heng
Premiere Status: UK Premiere

In Taipei New Park, a woman uses a device meant to find hidden cameras but accidentally brings the park’s statues to life. These statues, linked to Taiwan’s colonial past, seem to rise to avenge a tragic plane crash during a 1964 national day’s military parade under Chiang Kai-shek’s military law.

Throughout These Cages 囚笼之下
Year of Production: 2025
Duration: 16 min
Genres: Drama Family Narrative Historical
Production Countries/Regions: Indonesia
Dialogue Language(s): Indonesia Mandarin
Subtitle Language(s): English
Director(s): Aaron Pratama
Producer(s): Hafidz Nur Rahmadi
Premiere Status: European Premiere

Asun is about to start renovating their old house because of a will from his father, who passed away years ago. His mom, Aling, isn’t on board with the renovation. It has something to do with her unresolved past that she’s kept buried in that house.

Fatherland
Year of Production: 2025
Duration: 14 min
Genres: Drama Absurdist Allegory
Production Countries/Regions: China
Dialogue Language(s): Mandarin, Chinese dialects
Subtitle Language(s): Chinese and English
Director(s): Skylar X
Producer(s): Skylar X
Premiere Status: World Premiere

In a post-pandemic world, Youcai is the last guard of an abandoned waterpark, obsessively carrying out patrols that no longer matter. He punishes rule-breakers and stages a hollow ceremony of self-recognition. As hallucinations surface, the remnants of authority and order reveal their cruelty and hypocrisy, shattering the beliefs that once sustained him. Under the merciless noon sun, Youcai breaks away from the waterpark, drifting toward the fragile line between collapse and awakening.

Murmur 喃喃低语
Year of Production: 2025
Duration: 6 min
Genres: Adventure Animation
Production Countries/Regions: China
Director(s): Jinhong Yu, Ziyu Wang
Producer(s): Ziyu Wang
Premiere Status: International Premiere

One day, the girl saw flowers blooming on her body, her parents transformed into tigers in the bedroom, frog classmates on lotus leaves, and a runaway hotdog…

Rambling Accents 散步的口音
Year of Production: 2025
Duration: 18 min
Genres: LGBTQ+
Production Countries/Regions: United States China
Dialogue Language(s): English Korean Cantonese
Subtitle Language(s): Chinese and English
Director(s): Zhiying Huang
Producer(s): Eddie Yukun Long
Premiere Status: International Premiere

A Chinese woman decides to follow a Korean-speaking woman. They gaze at each other in Lingua franca, but hide behind the camouflage of their native languages. The disability of communication inexplicably dissolves in nights of rambling, simultaneous observation, and an unnamed trust.

Each Solitary Moment 夏游
Year of Production: 2025
Duration: 18 min
Genres: Fantasy Coming-of-Age
Production Countries/Regions: United States
Dialogue Language(s): English Mandarin
Subtitle Language(s): English
Director(s): Jingwen Fang
Producer(s): Cecilia Zhang
Premiere Status: UK Premiere

It’s a serendipitous encounter – two Chinese high school girls track a certain adult woman living in New York City, eavesdropping on conversations between her and her former friend in the mundane of everyday life, attempting to understand the meaning of growing up.

A Soil A Culture A River A People 又见炊烟
Year of Production: 2025
Duration: 15 min
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Production Countries/Regions: Germany, Belgium & China
Dialogue Language(s): Mandarin, English, German & Tagalog
Subtitle Language(s): English
Director(s): Viv Li
Producer(s): Julian Schwandner, Marc Goyens, Carlotta Cornehl
Premiere Status: UK Premiere

In a dystopian future where borders between countries are indefinitely closed, a replica of Hannover becomes the only way to experience Western culture. Citizen Yu roams around this nostalgic yet eerie town built by the memories of the past. What does he really see?

Back of the Portfolio 显影的想象
Year of Production: 2025
Duration: 20 min
Genres: Drama
Production Countries/Regions: China
Dialogue Language(s): Mandarin
Subtitle Language(s): Chinese and English
Director(s): Miaoxin Zheng, Jiangdong Wu
Producer(s): Tianyi Gao
Premiere Status: European Premiere

A middle-aged woman who escaped from a bad marriage follows her young girl lover to the island to shoot portfolio, playing her mother in the installations set up by the lover…

For more information on festival programmes, events and films, please visit MINT Chinese Film Festival’s website: www.unicornscreening.com

Please Note:
Seats MUST be booked for individual films prior to start times.
Festival passes do not automatically guarantee seats.
The full festival line-up will be announced on Sat 14 Feb. 
Passholders must select seats for films of their choice, the seat price will then reduce to £0.00 in the basket. 
Only one seat per festival pass holder is permitted, additional tickets will be charged accordingly.
Screen 3 Limited Seating – Advanced Booking Essential
Festival Film passes are non-refundable.
Festival terms & conditions apply.
For more details visit the MINT Festival ticket page HERE