Won’t be Here
我不在的明天
China|2025|Drama|Animation|16min
Director: Tan Jiali, Zhu Haoyuan
Screenwriter: Tan Jiali, Zhu Haoyuan, Cao Lan, Wei Mingzhi
Executive Producer: Zhu Haoyuan
Producer: Cao Lan
Editor: Zhu Haoyuan
Art Director: Tan Jiali
Sound: Liu Yang
Music: Tan Jiali
导演: 谭家立,朱皓源
编剧: 谭家立,朱皓源,曹澜,魏铭志
监制:朱皓源
制片: 曹澜
剪辑:朱皓源
美术指导:谭家立
声音:刘杨
音乐:谭家立
Synopsis
Her disappearance began in the early hours of one morning. We took the wrong suitcase at the airport before the typhoon hit. After that, her life and ours have continued like this.
Festival&Award

ANNECY 2025 XPPen Award
Director's Note
Taking a person’s sudden disappearance as the creative starting point, the work extends from this premise to envision the lives of three individuals connected to her after she vanishes. It depicts these three figures across different temporal dimensions, revealing their lingering emotional threads to the missing person. The visuals and audio respectively shoulder the narrative dimensions of “reality” and “memory”, constructing a disjointed and overlapping temporal structure – a dislocated interweaving of presence and absence.

Tan Jiali
Tan Jiali is an Animation Director, Illustrator, and Graphic Designer who graduated from the Communication University of China in 2024. His latest film Won’t Be Here won the XPPen Special Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (2025). His previous work One Day in the Room: You and Me was an official selection of Feinaki Beijing Animation Week 2024.
Zhu Haoyuan
Zhu Haoyuan was born in Huanggang, Hubei Province in 2002. Graduated from Communication University of China in 2024 and has directed two animated short films. The co-directed graduation work Won't be Here (2025) was shortlisted for the Annecy Animation Festival and won the XPPen Special Award.






