2024 The top 20 short film projects of Shanhai Project were officially announced today. The 20 short film scripts are based on the theme of "Back to the Small Town". They all incorporate the young directors' respective life experiences and life observations, and have significant personalization and local expression. The short films cover youth, growth, children, science fiction, fantasy, family, sports, thriller, suspense and other diverse genres.
Young directors use different perspectives to find the unique temperament and humanistic charm of "returning to the small town": Ren Honglin's "The Return of the Tired Bird" intercepts fragments of the lives of middle-aged women "returning" to their parents' homes, revealing the circumstances in which they live. Multiple dilemmas; "After the Pelican" by Bu Jingwei uses the identity confusion of small-town male workers as a guide to explain the complexity of human nature.
In terms of visual metaphor narrative, their creative concepts are also full of imagination: Zhou Xiaoting's "Hard Bones" uses a barbed wire fence to highlight the strong resilience bursting out in the girl's growth process; Weng Zihao's "Slash and Fire" uses a ball of flame to tell the story of flesh-and-blood brothers Love; Hu Qiao's "Three Gates" uses a football to outline the cultural scene of a small southern town...
Today, the top 20 young directors of the 2024 Shanhai Project will come to Guangzhou with these 20 short film stories to be completed, and will be held in the Shanhai Training Camp Receive all-round guidance from senior mentors in the industry. After being polished by Shanhai Training Camp, the top 20 short film projects will compete for up to 10 support places and receive creative support funds ranging from 50,000 to 200,000 yuan provided by Yangcheng Evening News.
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1
After the Pelicans ran away
a strange bird
Plot | Youth | Mandarin, Chaoshan dialect | 18 minutes
Director: Bu Jingwei
Producer: Zhao Xinyi
Screenwriter: Bu Jingwei
Chendian Town, Shantou City, a A pelican that accidentally escaped from the zoo became a hot spot for people in the town to track. At the same time, in a garment factory in the town, a love poem accidentally leaked became the laughing stock of the entire factory. Catch the fleeing bird and find out the person who wrote the poem.
2
The rain will fall, the pig will sink
Plot｜Youth, Music｜Cantonese｜15 minutes
Director: Guan Shanyi
Producer: Song Xiaojia
Screenwriter: Guan Shanyi
Hot summer, college entrance examination The failed A Deng, under the arrangement of his sixth uncle, and the "Failed Alliance" band will perform at the classmates' entrance banquet. They wanted to take the opportunity to show off their style as a frustrated person, but the rehearsal was interrupted in various ways. Frustrated and irritable, they simply ran to the river to cool off. A pig floating on the river triggered a pig-pushing game between them and the boy on the other side. During the stalemate between the two sides, dark clouds covered the sun, the dead pig was about to sink, and the heat of youth was poured out by the rain at a glance. The heavy rain came as expected, and they turned everything in the countryside into music, which they played every time during the subsequent journey and turned into eternal memories.
3
Remains of the Long Day
echoes of the long day
Plot｜Family, Youth｜Chaoshan dialect, Mandarin｜20 minutes
Director: Chen Jiaxiang
Screenwriter: Chen Jiaxiang
Producer: Ji Shuofan
In 2002, two people in a coastal town in Chaoshan Chuan Chuan and Xiao Xia, left-behind boys in a small town, spend a lot of time every day. They long for real attention and respect and buy bus tickets to Shenzhen.
They have excessive sincerity or hatred that has nowhere to release it. Because of his friend's betrayal, the impulsive teenager decided to set fire to his house. The heavy rain is coming, and like a butterfly effect, the development of events is off the track. Grandpa Xiaoxia is worried that his grandson will fall and die on a rainy day. The two teenagers originally thought they would gain attention in Shenzhen, but when they arrived at the first stop in Shenzhen, their luggage was stolen. Their young lives were like fired bullets, powerful and shining, but unfortunately their light was short-lived. Under the dust of the times, the youth of bad boys seems to have been prescribed.
4
Sudden rain
sudden rain
Plot｜Chaoshan dialect, Mandarin｜15 minutes
Director: Chen Zhilin
Producer: Wang Haoyang
Screenwriters: Chen Zhilin, Li Siyuan
A 23-year-old backpacker Axin suddenly encountered a heavy rain while traveling in Shantou and had nowhere to escape. She was taken to his dilapidated home in the old town by local tricycle driver Ade to take shelter from the rain.A Xin was suspicious of the sudden kindness. In this narrow and dim room of a single man, A Xin tried to communicate with A De using gestures and simple words, but the communication barriers made her more and more anxious. Ah Xin's desire to escape became stronger and stronger, and she was constantly struggling in her heart: Should she trust this strange old man, or should she continue to be vigilant?
5
sparrow tail
nature town
Plot | Mandarin, Cantonese dialect | 10 minutes
Director: Dai Xiaolu
Producer: He Bin
Screenwriter: Dai Xiaolu
After the rainy season, a new volunteer from a cram school came to the tea garden town in Guangdong, Xiaolu. She has just experienced an emotional setback and will spend a Mid-Autumn Festival with her children in the mountains that is filled with joy and sorrow.
6
三门
the third goalkeeper
Plot｜Sports｜Mandarin, Cantonese｜15 minutes
Director: Hu Qiao
Producer: Li Qixin, Dai Chao
Screenwriter: Hu Qiao
Zhou Lifeng, male, loved playing football as a child and watching it when he grew up. ball. But like most Chinese football enthusiasts, his football dream was killed early in his studies. When he was about to turn 40, Zhou Lifeng took advantage of the company's assignment to go on a business trip to relax. But he accidentally joined a local grassroots football team and got a chance to fulfill his childhood football dream. It's just that he has long passed the age of dreaming.
7
The endless summer
the endless summer
Plot｜Children｜Zhanjiang dialect｜15 minutes
Director: Lin Binghan
Producer: Wu Xinyi
Screenwriter: Lin Binghan
In the endless hot summer, a crew is using images to record a man over eight years old. Xun's mother-in-law's oral history about Guangzhou Bay was unearthed. An orphan girl named Regina grew up in a nursery in the late 1940s. She established a close relationship like mother and son with the loving nun Antuo, but she had to learn to accept the destined separation. story. The film explores Regina's search for self-identity and her hidden history.
8
Feng Ping Wangji
darking streams
Plot | Cantonese | 20 minutes
Director: Li Jingyu
Producer: Ji Shuofan
Screenwriter: Li Jingyu
The land woman and the Dan family woman (Aru, Ling) who once knew each other as "mother and daughter" Aunt) returned to a fishing town in Huangpu Ancient Port, Guangzhou, which was undergoing commercial renovation, to deal with real estate issues. This place is the last hometown of the Dan family in the Pearl River system.
Aunt Ling's son Zi Xing was buried in the sea. Over the years, the two of them have been unable to let go of the pain of the deceased. On the day when fishermen across the coast bid farewell to their lives in the Dan family, the two returned to the sea. In the depths of the distant sea, they experienced a A wedding at sea that has been lost for fifty years. In the solemn ceremony, the history of the Dan people in the Pearl River system is presented...
9
The South Wind Slowly Travels on a Summer Night
keep walking
Plot | Fantasy, Family | Cantonese | 18 minutes
Director: Liu Quanwen
Producer: Fanta
Screenwriter: Liu Quanwen
Jiahui, who is about to turn 30, is unemployed and returns to her hometown in a depressed mood. Grandma ran away from home again due to mild Alzheimer's disease. At dusk, Jia Hui ran to Nanfeng Ancient Zao to find her grandma. When she got lost, she met a little girl running around. The little girl took Jia Hui to see a man doing something. Mother-in-law in a clay pot. The mother-in-law took Jiahui and the girl back to their old home, eating watermelon and chatting together. Jiahui felt that everything around her was very familiar. She suddenly realized that her mother-in-law was very much like her grandmother when she was young...a journey back to her childhood summer nights. , meet ghosts in sadness, and regain courage in their hometown.
10
Green Mango
green wheat
Plot｜Mandarin｜20 minutes
Director: Li Wanyu
Producers: Lin Boyu, Ma Lin
Screenwriter: Li Wanyu
After recovering from a fracture, Wei Zai, an autistic patient, returns to the physical therapy center to work again. On the way, he rashly meets a Girls strike up a conversation. Coincidentally, the girl was the new tenant of the physiotherapy center. Unexpectedly, on the first day they met, Wei Zai entered a state of madness. It tells the story of two souls getting closer to each other and redeeming each other.
11
Tiger Crane Li Qing
martial arts youth: leaving adolescence behind
Plot｜Youth, action｜Mandarin, Cantonese｜20 minutes
Director: Mu Ming
Screenwriter: Zhong Zening, Mu Ming
Producer: Yingwu Production
Transfer boy Huang Xiaoyou has been in Wearing the city uniform that he was proud of before in the county middle school, he tried to practice Yuexi Hongquan with his classmate Li Yu to identify with this place. However, a performance accident disgraced him, and he was bullied by a school bully and lost his beloved school uniform. Li Yu recklessly made an appointment with the school bully to have a fight during the holiday. At this time, news of summer job recruitment came. Huang Xiaoyou was increasingly looking forward to escaping from this land, but the ties of friendship put him in a dilemma.
12
sleepwalking
coming home
plot ｜ Women, Fantasy ｜ Mandarin, Chaoshan dialect
director: Picnic: Gao Tianyi
Supervision: Yang Yanshu, Li Mingyu
screenwriter: Zheng Miaoxin
has left the country for many years, wandering wandering Freelance model Yixuan in the city returned to her hometown in an island town in Chaoshan with her director boyfriend to shoot a fashion advertisement. However, she was injured in an accident and was unreasonably replaced. Later, she witnessed a girl stealing the crew's Super 8 camera. She pursued her in the dark night. , through the noisy and violent present, return to the dreamland of the past home, memories emerge, and soothing songs are heard again...
13
The Tired Bird Knows Return
homing
Plot | Family | Mandarin | 20min
Director: Ren Honglin
Producers: Liu Xiaodai, Wu莻
Screenwriters: Xie Xirui, Ren Honglin
After divorcing her husband, Sister Lang, who has been working and living outside the home, returns to her parents' home with her son Xiaole. On the one hand, Sister Lang has to take care of her seriously ill mother, and on the other hand, she has to take care of her young son who is adapting to the new environment. , life suddenly fell into a dilemma, and I didn’t know how to move forward at all. Xiao Le accidentally discovered her grandmother's diary when she was familiar with the family environment, and became very interested in the words left by her grandmother and the birds returning to their nests on the balcony of her grandmother's house. In what I thought was such a peaceful life, the death of Lang's mother may be leading life to another turning point.
14
Heartfelt Storm
everyone has a price-tag
Plot｜Youth, Family｜Mandarin, Cantonese, Leizhou Dialect｜20 minutes
Director: Wang Ting
Producer: Li Kexin, Cao Yang
Screenwriter: Wang Ting
15-year-old girl Jiale is eager She received a high-end battery car as a reward for entering a key high school, so that she could go on a graduation trip with her friends Aya and Xigou. Jiale's father, Brother Jiu, was organizing a banquet for college entrance. He chose top-quality abalone as the main ingredient for the banquet, hoping to gain fame in front of his relatives and friends. Brother Jiu felt that the expensive battery car was not practical, so he rejected Jiale. At the entrance banquet, Jiale learned that his friends who had failed the high school entrance examination were about to go their separate ways. With the typhoon approaching, this summer, Jiale realized for the first time that the class gap could not be bridged by a battery car.
15
slash-and-burn farming
please don't leave
Plot｜Family｜Cantonese｜20 minutes
Director: Weng Zihao
Producer: Liu Zhiquan
Screenwriter: Weng Zihao
After being released from prison, Awei faced debt problems and returned to his hometown, while his brother Ahui returned to his hometown. They refused to receive land compensation and fought for farmland. The two brothers were disappointed with each other but could not separate. In the end, in a fire caused by Young and Dangerous, they rediscovered each other and decided to face the future together.
16
鱼美人
migration
Plot｜Suspense, Fantasy｜Mandarin｜15 minutes
Director: Wang Pengwei, Jin Tian
Producer: Wang Pengwei, Jin Tian
Producer: Huang Bingjie
Screenwriter: Jin Tian, Wang Pengwei
Rafting Tour Because "I" in the lake met a talking fish and two severed fingers, I embarked on a journey that was both dreamy and illusory, about memories and farewells.
17
Retracing the migration from
any port in a storm
Drama｜Comedy｜Mandarin, Cantonese｜18 minutes
Director: Ye Siyu
Producer: Wang Jinpeng
Producer: Ni Jun
Screenwriter: Ye Siyu
In the summer of 2024, "Shenzhen Passage" Open to traffic. Chen Yan followed the crew back to her hometown, Nanlang Town, Zhongshan, for short-term filming.
Chen Yan is just a low-level actress. In order to gain more opportunities, she took the initiative to act as a dangerous action stunt double. While she was hanging in mid-air, she reunited with her father Chen Zhou, and faced Chen Zhou, the once famous puppet show inheritor. This made Chen Yan, who had been trying to show off against her father for a long time, feel embarrassed. In a moment of embarrassment, Chen Zhou asked: "Are you happy?" This question made Chen Yan laugh and cry. Like practicing a puppet, Chen Zhou tried to find a direction for his daughter's life again, and the two people's lives were connected again because of the puppet show... Minutes
Director: Zhang Di
Producer: Liu Beierui
Screenwriter: Zhang Di
In 1999, on the eve of Macau's return, a boy, Wu Ziyan, and his grandmother were dependent on each other and ran a five-treasure rice food stall in San Deng, the old city of Macau. Because he was ordinary and shy, he couldn't make friends and was bullied by his classmates. One day, he received a love letter from Shanghai with a photo of the beautiful girl Ma Lili. Soon, the news that he had a "Shanghai girlfriend" spread like wildfire. In the process of keeping this secret, he experienced the bittersweet youth of his own.
19
Hearth rice dumplings are waffles
oblivion
Plot｜Mandarin, Taishan dialect｜18 minutes
Director: Zhang Yichuan
Producer: Song Yang
Screenwriter: Zhang Yichuan
Female white-collar Linda returns to her hometown of Taishan after nearly twenty years. The primitive way of waiting to meet an old friend ended up being a misplaced encounter. She and her new acquaintance Azu, a young man from a small town, are both trapped in the quagmire of time. When they embark on this journey of memories mixed with the smell of food, the end of the road is both an end and a new life.
20
Tough girl
a tough girl
Plot | Youth, family | Hakka, Mandarin | 20 minutes
Director: Zhou Xiaoting
Producer: Lin Boyu
Screenwriter: Zhou Xiaoting
In 2004, an 80-kilometer barbed wire fence separated the city of Shenzhen, and Girl Jin Di lives in Shenzhen outside the barbed wire fence, and she wants to "go to Shenzhen" to study. However, her father was suspected of stealing computers, and Jin Di was reduced from the top student in the class to the "thief's daughter". The originally certain chance of admission became shaky.
The "Going to the Mountains and Seas" Young Directors Creative Support Program (referred to as the Mountains and Seas Program) is a large-scale talent support activity sponsored by the Yangcheng Evening News Group to discover, incubate, select and cultivate outstanding young Chinese directors at home and abroad. The event is based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, looking for cutting-edge forces in the field of video creation from around the world, supporting them to explore different types of short film creations such as plots, documentaries, animations, etc., to break through and expand the imagination of the future Chinese video culture, and also let the world through Rediscover China through images.
Producers: Du Chuangui, Lin Haili
Directors: Sun Aiqun, Sun Xuan, Hu Quan, Lin Rumin
Chief planner: Sun Chaofang
Executive director: Lu Nanfang
Event coordinator: Cai Chunchun
Communication coordinator: Li Li, Zhan Xiwei
Text: Zhan Xiwei internship Student Sun Xiao
Design: Count to Ten Design
Typesetting: Intern Guo Meiting
Acknowledgments: Guide Tube
