10 Seconds
26-Best Animation
Chih Hao Shen
Taiwan,
Animated Documentary,
Chinese - Min Nan,
English,
00:08:20
Ten seconds can reshape a world forever. At the epicenter of Taiwan’s 1999 Jiji earthquake, lives split between those who ran, those who prayed, and those who never woke again. Rendered in monochromatic ink and oil textures, this animated documentary reconstructs the director’s own family records. When the earth finally stills, how do we piece back a fractured city through strokes of black and white? It is a silent meditation on fear, fragility, and the enduring warmth of memory.
Film block:
ANIMATION / IT'S EITHER LONGING OR HUNGER
Screening:
Palace of Culture Pernik, Hall 1
- Language Chinese - Min Nan, English
- Country Taiwan
- Genre Animated Documentary
- Producer Li Hung Wang, MFX Films
- Year of creation 2026
- Duration 00:08:20
Chih Hao Shen is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary creator exploring human existence, memory, and the fragile relationship between individuals and the worlds they inhabit, through restrained visual language and poetic storytelling. His work has screened at Rhode Island IFF, Fantasporto, and IN THE PALACE, with projects featured at Oberhausen, Clermont-Ferrand, Visions du Réel, and Cannes Short Film Corner. Selected works include "10 Seconds" (2026), "The Last Atlantis", "Children of Earth", "After Ark", and "ONE" (all 2025).
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