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CinemAsia: Under a Harvest Moon

In many cultures, the spirit of the full moon symbolises collective reunion, renewal and celebration. Across the mid-autumn festival, lantern parades, harvest rituals, and family traditions, it marks a time imbued with folklore and a sense of wonder. How might we re-embrace these practices of dreaming and collective imagining in the everyday, both within and beyond our own traditions? 

Bringing together six films from Asia and the diaspora which playfully explore mythical histories, fantasies and the future, we want to reflect on the importance of gathering, gratitude, and re-connection under the harvest moon.

The screening will be followed by a lantern workshop led by Alina Tang, the founder of Pansy, a ceramic & illustration studio in Amsterdam. Everyone will receive a small lantern to craft whilst collectively reflecting on the program’s themes and new beginnings. Participation in the workshop is optional, but all are welcome to join! 

Doors open: 19:00

Short film programme: 19:30 – 21:00 

Workshop: 21:00 – 22:00 

Short Film List (total run-time: 85 mins):

Full Month

Ash Goh Hua | Singapore | 2025 | 14’ 

Following the birth of her niece, Jing returns to Singapore for the newborn’s full month celebration. Here she is forced to confront her contentious relationship with her estranged mother and a traditional family politic—the causes of her departure a decade prior.

Little Rebels Cinema Club 

Khozy Rhizal | Indonesia | 2024 | 17’ 

Set in 2008, Doddy, a 14 year old boy, tries to recreate an iconic scene of a zombie film with three of his best friends, using a handycam belonging to Anji, his sad and angry emo brother.

She Cries (The Holy Water)

Panida Petchara | Thailand, The Netherlands | 2026 | 10’  

Drifting through a waking dream of endless rain and tears, a diasporic artist bridges her grandmother’s fading memory with the golden mermaid folklore of her youth.

The Tale of Tran Thanh Duong 

Hachul Le Do | Vietnam | 2025 | 8’ 

In a world where men are fish and women are shrimp, the birth of a new species emerges. Drawing inspiration from Vietnamese folklore and traditional musical theatre, Trần Thanh Dương swims against binaries with the spirit of a mythic species that doesn’t quite fit anywhere—a fictional reimagining of Saint Gióng.

Surface Tension 

The Serrano Sisters | Philippines | 2025 | 17’ 

Young competitive swimmer Bulet returns to her family’s lakeside home in a Philippine jungle town. Amidst church rites and fiesta crowds at her cousin’s wedding, reality and dream begin to blur and Bulet confronts the loss of love and land.

Grandma Nai Who Played Favourites 

Chhengkea | Cambodia | 2025 | 19’  

During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her queer grandson is about ​to get engaged to a woman.

CinemAsia Film Festival brings together stories from across Asia and its diaspora to enhance Asian visibility and empowerment in culture and media in the Netherlands. The festival aims to foster an inclusive society by enriching the public discourse on Asian culture through an intersection between Asian cinema, popular media, and community building.

The next edition of the festival will take place between 31 March–4 April 2027. Please visit cinemasia.nl to find out more.

attic presents: Chinese Short Film Program #2

attic presents: Chinese Short Film Program #2
Rehearsal for Rest
Screening & Activity

For this edition, we want to collectively explore the concept of “rest” through a program of short films and group activities.Rehearsal for Rest responds to a common experience: the inability to pause. Even when we stop working, part of us is still checking messages, thinking about what’s next, or trying to catch up. We all long to slow down, yet in practice rest can feel unnatural, even performative. Meditation, wellness, and self-care often turn rest into another task. As the year comes to an end, we invite you to step back from the everyday rush and consider what rest might feel like again.
Cinema is a space where reality loosens its grip and time stretches differently. The 6 short films in this program move through atmosphere and sensation. Some move slowly, some have little or no dialogue, and some drift without a fixed storyline. Rather than pushing you toward a definition, they leave room to wander, to get lost, to rest your attention on an image or a sound.

Alongside the screening, we’ve prepared a booklet with film notes, reflections, and small games / exercises. You can explore it whenever you like, during or after the event. In the intermission, we’ll invite those who wish to try a few exercises together, but you’re free to simply take the break for yourself.

The title of the program is inspired by Phil Solomon’s film Rehearsals for Retirement (2007), created within the digital world of GTA. In this work, Solomon departs from the tactile world of celluloid and enters a dematerialized, simulated space where light, texture, and gravity dissolve into something dreamlike. In a similar spirit, our program moves between fiction and reality, between presence and disappearance.

Program Schedule
15:00 Doors open
15:30 Introduction
15:40 Screening Part 1
16:15 Intermission / Group activity
16:40 Screening Part 2
17:30 Closing activity

Film Lineup
00:00 A.M. | Yuanshen Yang | 2022 | 3mins | No dialogues | Dutch premiere
At 23:59, a white-collar worker, who has been working overtime for days on end, finally arrived home.

even if you want to go wherever you want to go it will leave regrets | Tianqi Tang | 2023 | 22mins17s | CN with EN subs | World premiere
*According to the filmmaker, the film’s synopsis drifted into the Moroccan black market with the computer he left behind in Casablanca.*

Night Breezes | Liangqi Yao | 2025 | 7mins43s | No dialogues | Dutch premiere
A late-night walk through London, drawn again and again to the city’s glow.

Les Choses Venues | Ziyang Wang | 2024 | 12mins17s | FR with CN+EN subs | European premiere
Anne travels alone to Auvergne after a strange diagnosis. A friend comes to visit her, and a conversation unfolds.

Chroma | Yunyi Zhu | 2024 | 7mins48s | EN with CN+EN subs | European premiere
Tilda Swinton, boating in the luminous, colorful Kunming Lake, tells us about Jarman’s last film Blue, and his poem Chroma, written during the same period, in a garden by the sea.

Family Images | Yang Li | 2024 | 28mins38s | CN with CN+EN subs | European premiere
Three skateboarding teens start a shared life. On moving day: a crash, a breakup, a stray cat—and a new chapter begins.

About attic
Founded in Amsterdam, attic is a community-oriented platform for moving images and artistic exchange. Follow us on Instagram for updates (@attic.ams).

Check out our previous program here


attic presents: Chinese Short Film Program #1

Someday, That Space in Time

What remains when space is neither home nor destination, but transition?

What kinds of memories emerge when nothing stays long enough to be remembered?

“Someday, That Space in Time” is the 1st edition in attic’s Chinese Short Film Program, bringing together ten short films by emerging Chinese filmmakers that explore how we move through space and time when neither feels fixed.

These are works shaped by transitions — between past and present, physical and digital, memory and forgetting. They reflect on how memory is formed not through certainty but through drift, how space becomes meaningful only in passing, and how the self is shaped by what cannot be held in place.

We invite you to this program not just to watch, but to feel in what shifts, what echoes, and what remains long after it has gone.

  • The majority of the films will have their Netherlands premiere at this event
  • Live Q&A sessions with the filmmakers will follow both parts of the screening
  • All the films are with English subtitles
  • Follow @attic.ams on Instagram for updates

Program Overview:

13:30 Doors

14:00 Part 1. I followed the river before I knew it was memory

  • 知了 Summer Knows | Hongshi ZHONG | 2023 | 20mins | Chinese with English subtitles 
  • 水门的洞口 Where Rivers Part | Linlin DENG | 2025 | 13mins | Chinese with English subtitles 
  • 散射至弥漫 Melting Blue | Ziyuan HE | 2024 | 14mins | Chinese with English subtitles 
  • Imaginary Rescripting | Kexin HONG | 2025 | 24mins | Chinese & English with English subtitles 
  • 盲点、流动 Blind Spot, Flowing | Jiacheng KANG | 2022 | 10mins | No dialogues

16:00 Intermission

16:20 Part 2. I became the trace of everything that passed

  • Unassimilated Tremors | Yiru DING | 2025 | 7mins | No dialogues
  • 倾听 选择 再一场 Listen Choose Once Again | Zhaodong ZENG | 2024 | 4mins | Chinese with English subtitles 
  • 像孙治国一样吃火锅 Mr. Sun’s Hotpot | Weicheng HUA | 2017 | 14mins | Chinese with English subtitles 
  • 九龙东往事 An Asian Ghost Story | Bo WANG | 2023 | 37mins | Chinese & English with English subtitles 
  • 大桥遗犬 A Dog Under Bridge | Rehoo TANG | 2022 | 12mins | Chinese with English subtitles

About attic:

attic is a film and cultural initiative based in Amsterdam, dedicated to creating a welcoming space for independent cinema and shared cultural experiences. Through curated screenings, conversations, and cross-cultural gatherings, attic invites audiences to engage with moving images that transcend language and geography.

We imagine cinema not just as a place to watch, but as a space for connection — for recognition, for reflection, and for building new forms of community.