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Short film

A Story She Told

2026 · 15 min

A quiet, intimate short that unfolds like a confession, letting old feelings surface slowly beneath a celebratory surface.

Directed by
Vivian Ip
Genres
Drama
Overview
The return of an old love quietly fractures a filmmaker's celebratory night, as a private past begins to reveal itself in the story she chose to tell.
How it feels
Melancholic, earnest, tense and romantic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Love, memory, identity, deception
Content
Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
Note
Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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Directed by
Vivian Ip
Genres
Drama
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Places
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour1
Realism8
Romance5
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

Cast

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Vivian Ip
Written by
Vivian Ip
Starring
Aileen Wu, Hannah Leigh, Travis Lincoln Cox, Olivia Liang, Anya Karin West
Music
Jesper Ankarfeldt
Cinematography
Arlene Muller
Runtime
15 min
Country
United States of America

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