Zoom In, Zoom Out
Southeast Asian Premiere
Dong Jie China 2026 116 min PG (Scene of Intimacy)
A game designer searches for his missing roommate through chat logs, avatars and secondhand memory, only to discover that digital remains reveal little of another person.
Shi, a video game designer, searches for his missing roommate Gao, and his only clues lie inside a game Gao used to play. The trail leads Shi to YY, Gao’s former love interest, and the two sort through his digital remains: saved conversations, a character still active somewhere, and scattered memories.
Zoom In, Zoom Out is a formal exercise in the possibilities that emerge when film and game languages bleed into each other. It asks how we can hold onto a loved one when they exist mostly as digital fragments, chat logs, avatars, and whether reassembling them counts as memory or something closer to invention. Zooming in and out, as a way of looking in the film, reveals each time the limitations of seeing others and ourselves.
Synopsis Writer: Sim Jiaying
Asian Feature Film Competition, Q&A
28 Oct, Wed 2:30PM / 116 min
Golden Village Cineleisure, Hall 2
Asian Feature Film Competition, Q&A
30 Oct, Fri 9:00PM / 116 min
Golden Village Cineleisure, Hall 2
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Zoom In, Zoom Out
发现之旅
Dong Jie
China
2026
Mandarin
English, Chinese
116 min
PG (Scene of Intimacy)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Dong Jie
Born in Wuhan and raised in Shanghai, Dong Jie is an editor, director and author that graduated in directing from Beijing Film Academy. His thesis film, Break (2019), which he wrote and directed, screened at Pingyao and other festivals. He was the editor for Summer Blur (2020) and Are You Lonesome Tonight? (2021), which premiered at Cannes. Zoom in, Zoom Out, his first directorial feature, premiered in Critics’ Week at Venice.
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