Selection

Screening: Professional Competition 5
China 2023
Duration: 07:32
Directed: Ming Zhang, Yixin Guo
Production: Jiede Wu
Dialogue Language: Chinese

"Hey, Xiaozi" is an animated short film about how people with social anxiety overcome their social anxiety. It tells the story of a girl who runs away due to social anxiety and finally overcomes her fear and bravely faces herself. This film adopts a two-dimensional animation form and employs exaggerated and humorous methods to narrate the story, depicting it from multiple angles. Describe this common phenomenon in modern society in a relaxed storytelling style.