This film program brings together eight hand-picked animated works from Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. Diverse in aesthetic sensibility and technique, they are united by a shared commitment to the expressive power of feminine authorship. Each film speaks in its own visual language - playful, poetic, visceral, surreal - and pulses with urgency, vulnerability, and creative force. Together, they explore identity, gender, desire, and the body—not through fixed labels or inherited narratives, but through voices that speak entirely on their own terms. These works stretch the boundaries of what animation can be—not just a medium, but a space where storytelling becomes an act of self-definition.
2023 / Hong Kong / 5 min 50 s
This short film tells the quiet, intimate story of two friends, one with typical hearing, the other living with severe hearing loss. Through their daily interactions, the audience is invited to step into a world where sound feels distant, fragmented, or even absent.
Directed by Lam Tsz Ching
2022 / Taiwan, Malaysia / 10 min
This animation trilogy was created using more than one hundred plants. Set to selected music from the opus of the German romantic composer Schumann, the germination of seeds, growth of stems and leaves, flowering, and fruiting, evoke the journey of a woman falling in love, giving the exhibition a rich and delicate emotional feel.
Directed by Raito Low
2024 / Taiwan / 7 min
Trees are flames blooming with flowers, animals are drifting flames, humans are speaking flames, and the lamp watches over everything in the room throughout the night. Until the sun rises, the matter left behind on the dining table — remnants of what has burned through the night — begins to hatch us. Chrysalide takes place in the liminal hours before dawn, reconstructing a magical realist narrative that unfolds around a dining table, where transformation and quiet metamorphosis take form in the afterglow of night.
Directed by Jung-an Cheng
2023 / Japan / 12 min
This film is about gazes and goodbyes. An attempt to weave images with words and to weave a poem with images. I realize that living is suffering to see that Nemu, the one of my daughters, squirms with the struggle and sunflowers squirm to try to bloom.
Directed by Yuri Muraoka
2020 / Taiwan / 5 min
Vagina labyrinth is an animation with a video game style, based on a female perspective. A contemporary image of female body eroticism. The sexual experience that enters the vagina can be imagined as a maze adventure. Players have to go through various levels in this vaginal maze to unlock arousing passions and attack the clitoris ... until the treasure of the orgasm can be excavated. In the video, a large number of symbols of body and sex are used to show female eroticism and fantasy.
Directed by BadBadMeowMeow
2025 / UK / 12 min
Mid-itation” is a guided meditation that parodies the self-help guru. This autobiographical short film explores what it means to seek spirituality in an age of extremes. Set within the glossy, rendered surfaces of a sterile digital room, the guru delivers her instructions through the superficial comedy of internet lingo. Beneath the irony, however, lies a sincere search for belonging, oscillating between hope and doubt, creation and destruction, comfort and grief. Drawing on Butoh dance, spoken word poetry, and mindfulness practices, the film invites the audience to “shift into a comfortable position” and surrender to its surreal logic.
Directed by Letao Chen
2023 / Taiwan / 4 min
We enter the world from the womb with empty hands, and depart with nothing but our tomb. A runaway tomb on its journey represents a nomadic existence. Life is like a road trip that eventually leads to rebirth for all.
Directed by Pei-Yi Yu
2024 / Taiwan / 4 min
This animation is inspired by my experience working in a funeral band during university and my grandmother’s Buddhist funeral. These formed the foundation of the story, layered with imagery of the Virgin Mary and the expectations imposed on motherhood in Christianity and Catholicism.
Directed by Dan-Fong Wang