Program 17
MONDAY
OCTOBER 24, 4:00PM

Wonderlanding
China / Drama / 13 mins
Director: Ying Qi
Producer: Brisa Tu
Cast: Kiva Gao
Jiaxin, a young Chinese girl who wanders angrily after being rebuked by her mother accidentally encounters and helps a female tourist Meng. Jiaxin refuses Meng’s adventure invitation and voyages to a wonderland with her mother.

Genius Artist
China / Drama / 8 mins
Director/Writer: Boyuan Cao
Producer: Mame Astou Toure, Reagan Irene Radwanski
Cast: Peter Xiao
A mediocre art student called A Liang, who just experienced a car accident, suddenly gets the ability to predict the future with his painting. As he becomes famous online, his own future seems to be changed.

An Invitation
China / Drama / 13 mins
Director/Writer: Yeung Tung, Hao Zhao
Producer: Xuli Cao, Hao Zhao, Yeung TUng
Cast: Jim Ping Hei, Yu Xuan Liu
An 8-year-old boy reluctantly visits his divorced father in Hong Kong, who wants him to become a Hong Kong citizen. They both keep secretive intentions and find it difficult to ask what they want from each other.

Yesterday and Today
United States / Drama / 18 mins
Director/Writer: Dmitry Gubin
Producer: Dmitry Gubin, Jianna Kristine
Cast: Simon Val, Victor Steinbach
A teenage Jewish refugee from USSR, who lives in a cheap motel with his grandfather, has to come to terms with life on the streets of 1990s New York City.

Boy, Addicted
United States / Drama / 16 mins
Director: Anna Chaoqun Wang
Writer: Chaoqun Wang
In an urban city of South China, a chauffeur boy, Ah-le (22), moves on to a new addiction when the romance with a call girl Xiaohui (26) turns out to be the price he cannot afford to.

Lin
United States / Drama / 12 mins
Director: Lillian Xuege Li
Writer: Lillian Xuege Li, Yawen Hu
Producer: Lillian Xuege Li, Zhong Guo, Dong Li
Cast: Lan Zhong
How can a woman become herself when she has been shaped and taught to sacrifice for the gaze of others? Lin (Lan Zhong) has many roles -- a mother, a wife, a waitress, an immigrant. She is also a woman with a secret who finally decides to quietly rebel.