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Killing the Violet 2023
On a normal day, a stranger breaks into Sumire's apartment and assaults her. Sumire reacts incredibly calmly to the incident, but she still feels the dangers and uncertainties creeping upon her. All that seem to be peaceful and ordinary start to collapse. As everything slips toward the unexpected, Sumire starts writing again, and reinvestigating the relationships around her.
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Bottled Insects 2023
In a mysterious pet market world, a girl who loves small animals lives alone. Her life is all about her pets, but little does she know that she has lost her sense of self in this world.
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Alien Human 2023
Alien Human asks us, “Is human the only species who can hurt each other psychologically?” In Wen Pang’s animated reimagining of a comic series by Yuewei Wang, four short stories are pared down to four fleeting poems—Pearl, The Goldfish, Ocean and Hole. An audiovisual pleasure that will delight even those among us who think they don’t care for animation. The first moment the velvety narrator promises, “If you hold your breath long enough, I’ll take you to another world,” let yourself be transported.
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Maternal Awakening 2022
I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy... I journey through 10 years in search of the maternal.
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The First AI Sentenced to 2022
In the courtroom, a trial is in progress with you, an AI, as the defendant. You are being charged for killing a fellow submarine crew when the vessel was trapped in an undersea volcano and had run out of food.
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Tears Never Fall 2022
You drift through outer space with your buddy and end up in an abandoned interstellar town. The remaining residents of this town live without gravity nor contact with the rest of the universe. You get separated from your buddy, but the townspeople give you little clue as to his whereabouts. Who is your buddy, exactly?
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I wanted to be wanted. 2022
She wonders when she started thinking that she was only a convenient tool for someone else. The protagonist finds herself rattled because of some minor occurrences in her daily life.
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Poo Down Hill Up 2022
Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from the sky and it's showing what the hill is seeing.
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Winter Star 2022
It's winter but my heart and the classroom are hot. Unexpectedly I got my hands on a star fruit, but I never told anyone about the taste.
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Invisible 2022
In the woods is a company where animals work. One worker, the chameleon, is hurt by the ridicule from his colleagues. Can they come to understand each other?
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Liminal Park 2022
A dark dark amusement park. Gradually, the rides begin to move.
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HA・NA・KU・SO 2022
Things are kind of crappy right now. In Japanese, we say "hanakuso (nose snot)" instead of crap, though. Here's a dose of hope and giggles.
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OP's Happy Adventure 2022
A day in the life of a little ghost imitating human beings.
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Out Beyond the Window 2022
The view from the window takes me far beyond.
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THE HANDS 2022
The hand is born into the universe, which in turn creates new universes and more hands. New lives and worlds are created with these hands and universes, which proliferate as they continually conflict and harmonize with each other.
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Poetics of the Garden 2022
I try to remember what your hand felt like on my back when I was a child. And now I place my hand on yours, bent from pain. Like landscaped gardens are meant to evoke the four seasons and the cyclical wonders of nature, I gaze at you, hoping to find us one more time.
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Before Dawn 2022
One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and alarms began to ring through the city, and dawn came.
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919 2022    star_border 5
A man is walking along the beach. Then a demon, the man’s pain, appears and chases him. The pain is unbearable, coursing through his entire body. He somehow manages to get away, but eventually, he returns to the ocean even though he knows that the demon will appear again if he goes there.
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Boogerly Love 2022
Hanako always watches the other kids play but she is too timid to ask if she can join in. Then one day, Booger Gal rockets out of her and helps her nose into a new life.
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3 Intestine Road, Fish Island 2022
A story of a family of three consisting of a pig, fish and a tadpole that lives in the stomach of a big fish. Their lives are turned upside down when a fruit floats into their home.
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