Short film
Paper Daughter
2026 · 15 min
A quiet, haunting stop-motion mood piece that weighs guilt and reinvention with gothic patience and a heavy heart.
- Directed by
- Cami Kwan
- Genres
- Animation, Drama, History
- Starring
- Rebecca Wang
- Overview
- A young Chinese woman grapples with the guilt of using the identity of a deceased girl to immigrate to the United States via Angel Island in 1926.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, eerie, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Guilt, identity, immigration, isolation
- Content
- Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Cami Kwan
- Genres
- Animation, Drama, History
- Starring
- Rebecca Wang