5 minutes. One headset. The goodbye you never got.
A young adult comes home to organize his father’s belongings and inadvertently finds his childhood VR goggles, which open up memories of the past. In his early childhood, his father died unexpectedly, leaving him without closure. Through the VR goggles, he discovers that he may have a second chance to say goodbye to his father.
Direction
Two directors, one devastating vision in 300 seconds.
Cinematography
Cyberpunk aesthetics weaponized for emotional devastation.
Writing
Economy of storytelling—every frame earns its weight.
Director
Jiaxing Yang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Emerging from Chinese indie animation scene, where short-form grief narratives are exploding on festival circuits.
5-minute runtime places it in animation's most brutal category: too short to process, too long to forget.
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