Season 2

Yao-Chinese Folktales 2 is a collection of nine animated shorts brought to life by twelve visionary directors. Building on Chinese imaginative storytelling, it explores diverse themes and artistic styles, blending fantasy, folklore, and allegory with reflections on real life. The shorts invite audiences to ponder self-identity, family relationships, and social connections, offering both visual richness and thoughtful insight into contemporary human experiences.

Episodes

Each episode has its own detail page.

Episode 123 min2026-01-01

How to Become Three Dragons

This film features 2D cartoon style with meticulous and vibrant brushwork, using a young snake's quest for immortality to explore themes of self-discovery and growth.

Episode 222 min2026-01-01

Man in the Ear

Employs ink-wash sketching and is based on strange tales from "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio", outlining the inner desires of the heart.

Episode 322 min2026-01-08

Today's Zoo

With a retro picture quality and mockumentary style, it reflects individual choices within a fantastical stage.

Episode 422 min2026-01-15

Light Snow

Felt is used as the material to create stop-motion animation, delicately portraying the complex and profound emotional bonds within family affection.

Episode 522 min2026-01-22

San Lang

Combines 2D and 3D animation, featuring desert aesthetics and science fiction elements, as it searches for the inner path home amidst the world of martial arts with flashing blades.

Episode 628 min2026-01-29

The Big Bird

A 2D animated film in a dark fairy tale style, using this dark fairy tale to write a story of a journey of guardianship.

Episode 724 min2026-02-05

Worship the Mountain

A fantasy realism piece that showcases Hakka culture, blending Hakka folk customs with fantastical imagination to find echoes of homeland and distant places.