FinalistaWarsaw Glitch 2026

A Message for the Butterfly

What if the things we remember were never meant to stay with us, but something we send ahead?

Twórcy Zuxin Hou, Mark Wachholz

Kraj

China, Germany

Status Finalista

Kategoria zgłoszenia Documentary

Czas 8:08

Synopsis

What if the things we remember were never meant to stay with us, but something we send ahead? Follow a journey of the mind in which bodies dissolve, dreams change shape, and fragments of the past travel toward beings of the future. What survives when the self does not? What is lost? And who receives the message after the sender is long gone?

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O twórcach

Hou Zuxin is a director, screenwriter and singer from Beijing who gained international acclaim with her 2014 documentary short My Dad's a Rocker (David L. Wolper Award at the IDA Awards) and made her feature debut with the Chinese-Italian-German co-production The Italian Recipe (2022). A Message for the Butterfly (2026) is her first AI short, co-directed with Mark Wachholz, a Berlin-based screenwriter and AI filmmaker with over 20 years across TV, games and novels, known for The Cinema That Never Was (2025) and Céremony (2025).