Mini movies motivate young directors

It was a hot summer in 2010.Shen Ao, then a 23-year-old who had just graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, took a ride on a long-distance bus.

On the journey, which departed the Chinese capital bound for a far-flung fishing village in Xiangshan county, East China's Zhejiang province, the bus got stuck in traffic jams in Beijing and Tianjin that lasted for a few hours.

To kill the time, he came up with an idea for a short film about a middle-aged businessman's reunion with a love interest from his youth, but the plot takes a dark turn.