Between Before and After

Kyoko sees her ex-lover Nagao on a billboard and finds her again. What binds them is a shared emptiness rather than love, a desire that never satisfies, and when Nagao proposes one last plunge, reality breaks in and leaves a rupture where past and future can no longer be told apart. A moody Japanese-language breakup story, in Bloomberg's words, and a Merit winner at Runway's 2026 AI Festival. At the Tokyo screening Yang Wang said AI had cut costs but not changed the essence of directing.