鱼缸 魚缸 Adela KWOK 18 min 2026 Fiction Cantonese, English English Subtitles
Over the holidays, Elaine stays behind alone in the office. Amid the mundane routines of answering emails, watering plants, and taking calls, she quietly tests the boundaries imposed on her, like a goldfish occasionally surfacing for air.
Director
Adela KWOK is a director, writer and producer based in Toronto. She began her career in grassroots organizations within the nonprofit sector, an experience that informed her interest in intimate, vulnerable stories grounded in organic rhythms and textures. Adela's work blends surrealism and natural imagery to explore diasporic identity in North America.
Credits DirectorAdela KWOK Principal CastRachel Jay KUANG ProducerLI Zeyang (Jamie)
7:50 PM, WED, NOV 25Screening with Green Lake (46 min), Selection (23 min), Won't be Here (17 min)
Won't be Here 我不在的明天 TAN Jiali, ZHU Haoyuan 17 min 2025 Animation Mandarin English and Chinese Subtitles
The 49th Annecy International Animation Film Festival—XPPen Award for a Graduation Film
When I am gone, who will gather the traces I leave behind? In whose memory will I linger? I won't be here, and yet I will be everywhere.
Directors
TAN Jiali is an animation Director, illustrator, and graphic designer who graduated from the Communication University of China in 2024. His previous work One Day in the Room: You and Me was an official selection of Feinaki Beijing Animation Week 2024.
ZHU Haoyuan was born in Huanggang, Hubei Province in 2002. He graduated from Communication University of China in 2024 and has directed two animated short films. Their latest film Won't Be Here won the XPPen Award for a Graduation Film at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2025.
DirectorTAN Jiali, ZHU Haoyuan ProducerCAO Lan EditorZHU Haoyuan SoundLIU Yang
7:50 PM, WED, NOV 25Innis Town HallScreening + Q&AScreening with Caught in the Stream (18 min), Green Lake (46 min), Selection (23 min)
Selection 祝日 ZHANG Yaoyuan 23 min Japanese, Mandarin
Xiaowei takes his son Yangyang to a football club tryout. Language, conflict, and unfamiliar social codes constantly remind them of their place as outsiders; but on this day, at least, they grow a little closer to each other.
ZHANG Yaoyuan (b. 1989, Dalian, China) moved to Japan in 2014 to study filmmaking as a recipient of the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship. He received his PhD in Film from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2024 and is a four-time recipient of the Housen Cultural Foundation Film Fund. His short films have screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival and Tokyo FILMeX, and have won Best Film at the NOWNESS New Talent Awards and Best Short Film in the Fei Mu Awards at the 8th Pingyao International Film Festival. His feature project Buy My Car received the Red Sea Film Fund Award at the Asian Contents & Film Market of the 30th Busan International Film Festival.
DirectorZHANG Yaoyuan
Principal CastWANG Qiaosong, Tsuyoshi ABE
ProducerXU Mei, WANG Shen ScreenplayZHANG Yaoyuan CinematographerYOU Jin Production DesignerZHOU Zixuan EditorHONG Wei SoundAkihiko SUZUKI
7:50 PM, WED, NOV 25Innis Town HallScreening + Q&AScreening with Caught in the Stream (18 min), Green Lake (46 min), Won't be Here (17 min)
Green Lake 绿湖 ZHU Linwei 46 min Mandarin, Yunnan Dialect
Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of coarse language, tobacco use, lighting that may affect photosensitive viewers
The 62nd Golden Horse Awards—Best Live Action Short Film Nomination
The 23rd Brive Film Festival—Grand Jury Prize
At a fading phosphate fertilizer plant in Yunnan, boiler worker HU Xin falls for nurse LI Yue. She reminds him of his childhood sweetheart, who drowned years ago. What passes between them may be willful illusion, with much that cannot be spoken. Like glints of light on the green lake, their love shimmers and ripples, but a missing-person case corrodes it.
ZHU Linwei (b. Kunming, Yunnan Province, China) holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the Beijing Film Academy. His short film Green Lake, which he wrote, directed, and edited, was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 62nd Golden Horse Awards, and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 23rd Brive Film Festival, hosted by the French Film Directors’ Guild (SRF). The film has been selected for numerous prestigious film festivals at home and abroad, and will be distributed by ARTE. He has been selected to the 2026 Golden Horse Film Academy.
DirectorZHU Linwei Principal CastLI Fu, ZHANG Wenyu ProducerCHEN Ai, HUANG Jing ScreenplayZHU Linwei CinematographerWANG Chenxu Production DesignerFAN Keming EditorZHU Linwei, ZHAI Ziyue, YANG Yang SoundYUAN Jiating, QI Lemeige MusicSONG Yilun
7:50 PM, WED, NOV 25Innis Town HallScreening + Q&AScreening with Caught in the Stream (18 min), Selection (23 min), Won't be Here (17 min)
Estimated end time: based on the published film runtimes added together, plus 30 minutes for the announced Q&A. The publisher gives a start but no complete session finish; confirm the final running time with the festival. The shared festival checkout lets you choose the correct screening; festival packs are separate multi-screening products.
Published individual screening admission: CA$11.98 (incl. CA$1.98 Fee). Ticket option: Fountainhead Shorts (2) | 7:50 PM NOV 25. Caught in the Stream, Won't be Here, Selection, Green Lake 《鱼缸》《我不在的明天》《祝日》《绿湖》 Fountainhead Programme | “源泉”单元
Location details: Innis College — Innis Town Hall Theatre; access via east atrium