Student film
Screenwriter Yizhou wrote a story set in Western Sichuan: Photographer Yu Yan travels to Yuzixi to find the mountain god who is said to predict the future. After fainting, he is rescued by Tibetan girl Pema Chodron. As they travel and live together, they gradually develop feelings for each other. Yu Yan discovers that her cowhide diary can foresee their ending. Yu Yan leaves in a fit of anger but returns, and the story repeats itself. Yu Yan and Pema Chodron are both projections of the two sides of Yizhou's inner self.
When John, a brilliant but volatile lawyer on the brink of personal ruin, accepts a massive retainer to defend a wealthy businessman accused of murdering his own son, it seems like a straightforward path to redemption. The suspect claims innocence, pointing toward an accidental shooting amidst a toxic family dispute. But as John dives deeper into the investigation, drowning in files, contradictions, and unsettling evidence, enters a psychological labyrinth. Confronted by a grieving, unyielding mother and an enigmatic family history, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur. Driven by obsession, John must uncover the truth behind a tragic family dynamic before the darkness consumes the case and his last chance at saving his own family.
TALL POPPY (Qld, AU)
A highschool girl finds her friends suddenly avoiding her when she starts taking control of her future.
A woman pushed to the brink by a dripping tap finds herself trapped in an increasingly absurd intervention staged by her own internal comment section..
