Presented by MPS Film Directing

Apple Box Short Film Festival 2022

May 20, 2022; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
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This year’s MPS Directing thesis film festival will be broken into three two-hour screening blocks of seven films, detailed below. Each screening block will be followed by a Q&A, a special screening of MPS Directing’s Learning Film Counterblow and an awards presentation.


10:00am–12:00pm

Roque directed by Sebastian Botero-Paramo

Strings directed by Grace Chang

The Book Watcher directed by Xinzhi Chen

Never Forget directed by Ida Anita Q. Del Mundo

Fairness directed by Damon Deng

Focal Point directed by Wenhan Dou

Chandra directed by Ariana Gupta


1:30–3:30pm

The Moon Stealer directed by Yongqing Jiang

The Meating directed by Jiamin Jin

Free Car directed by Jonathan Lamm

Battle directed by Haochen Liu

Eating Flower directed by Shan Long

To Live and Die in BK directed by Shane Santana

Killing Myself directed by Jillian Sobrino


4:00–6:00pm

Union Square directed by Yifei Song

Dying to Survive directed by Anna Sørrig

The Birthday directed by Chuqi Wang and Xinyi Zhang

Obliquity directed by Yiran Wang and Jingfan Zhang

Peephole directed by Liping Ye

Purple and Blue directed by Ashan Zekai Zhang

Hide and Seek directed by Yifan Zhou

Free and open to the public