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Li Ruicheng is the fourth generation owner of his family's two century-old Chinese medicinal plaster business. He has spent the past year appraising the potential heirs to the family business, but just as he is about to arrive at his decision, his two children express their desire to start their own businesses.

Super 8 film of Ally Mobb's 30th birthday party Sept. 28th, 2014. Shot on a single 50ft roll of Kodak 100D reversal film. Edited in camera. Song "Littlestar" by Ally Mobbs.

Life at the kindergarten appears rich and colourful, made up of a variety of cheerfully sunny rituals and games meant to train these children to be good members of society.

ITER is an international attempt to meet humanity's energy needs by harnessing nuclear fusion. We take you within the ITER project to see how close the technology is to becoming a reality.

Documentary about agar production.

Matsuko Deluxe explores the seemingly familiar yet overlooked facets of Japanese culture through real-life experiences.

Produced during the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from Great Britain to Mainland China in the wake of cataclysmic regional changes, Simon Liu’s dizzying, claustrophobic Let’s Talk captures the anxiety of an uncertain future.

70 years ago, a massacre called ‘Red Hunt’ occurred in Jeju island. Over 6 years, countless lives were murdered in the Daranshi cave, Jungbang waterfall, and Ompang field. There was no line between life and death. There were only ideological and political strategies that surrounded Jeju. After 49 years, survivors can finally testify the memories that could not be forgotten.

Director Lee Dongwoo of No Money, No Future (2016), created his second film with the main character of a homeless man he met at Tapgol Park in Jongno. One morning, this homeless man is drunk and approaches director Lee for money. He is a doubtful character who is often in and out of the detention center and mentions Bresson, Ozu, and Ha Giljong. He claims to have been invited to the Venice International Film Festival and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival with his film Self-Portrait 2000. Self-Portrait 2020 is a record of strange friendships and a film of respect (homage) to a promising young film director of 20 years ago. Two directors, two films, and splendid credits.

The Father Moon Ik-hwan had been imprisoned for inaugurating the National Security Law after visiting North Korea. However Korean people’s desire for reunification heated up the whole country and Moon Gyu-hyeon and Lim Su-Gyeong visited North Korea. That means Father Moon’s visit to North Korea triggered Korean people’s desire for reunification. This film represents the Father Moon’s point of view on and people’s movement on reunification through influence of his visit in North Korea in 1989.

Thousands of poor Chinese workers wait years to petition against injustices suffered in their home districts with the court of the plaintiffs in Beijing - often the last resort for those seeking redress for dismissals, land confiscations, beatings and arrests. Filmed over a decade, director Zhao Liang gives an insight into the shared disenchantment of those who search for justice from a system that pays little to no significance to their individual suffering.

On a stone mountain in the far suburbs of Beijing, there is a group of migrant workers from the Northeast who are engaged in stone mining all year round. Lao Cao, Xiao Cao, Lao Yu Lao Zhang are among them.

​Seung-woo, who is a 20-year veteran rock musician, forms a band named ‘The Monotones’. But the first vocal’s skill was below standard, and the second vocal has been cast in a new soap opera. Finally they meet the third vocal, Sae-young. But Sae-young leaves the band, because his personality is not compatible with Seung-woo. The remaining members try to find a new vocal, but it is hard to find a good vocal at that time. Seung-woo decides to perform without vocal. It is his last effort to keep the band ‘The Monotones’. Through The Monotones’ rooftop concert without vocal, they come to realize that this is where they should be, and they remember when they first began.

Produced and broadcast by China Media Group, this series adopts an international perspective to showcase the dramatic changes in the lives of ordinary Tibetan families across education, economy, healthcare, and cultural heritage. It vividly presents the transformations of Xizang Autonomous Region over 60 years, particularly since the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, countering external false narratives. The series has received awards from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.

The film records the daily life of four generations of a Xianbei nationality family in northem shaanxi descended from clan lords. Integrated with the Han majority, they live a simple life. The documentary reflects their religious faith and spiritual world and their surroundings. On the edge of modernity, when they face frustration, hardship and loss, they interpret life in a unique way. Their attachment to the soil, religious worship and commitment to destiny all tell us a story about deep, loyal and truthful sentiments.

This is a story about individuals from small, geographically marginal communities who still maintain a connection with nature, illustrating how they honor their ancestral hunting culture by reinventing and reinterpreting it.

An amalgam of colorful shots of chemical pollution superimposed on aerial shots, disturbing images of burning smokestacks, and purposely distorted sounds and images work to portray unconventional industrial sights and the vividness of air pollution that would otherwise be difficult to do.

Ju and I have resided for nearly a whole year in the area of South Stone, of which appeared to be a distant village completely abandoned by the city, yet maintaining its very own independent system of living. Our perceptive consciousnesses were re-ignited (by the situation of South Stone area), Our activities here made hap-pening of improvised scripts, of images, and of body exercises, on the new time path, we are to be the man who plants scenarios.

Documentary about China's first antarctic expedition in 1984.

Through text, researcher-writer Alexandra David-Néel’s journey across the Himalayas a century ago unfolds via her letters home—seeking answers in a world fractured by colonial entanglements, wars, and human ferocity. In audiovisual spaces, the filmmaker's experiences in eastern Tibet are reflected via her own lens and those of native Tibetan people. What begins through her encounter with a legendary school in the region becomes, by the film’s completion, an elegy — as violence eclipses “history”, yet fails to erase memory. Meandering between past and present, the work invites viewers into a meditative space open to contemplations on life, death, history, remembrance, the self, and more.

The lives of Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle were torn apart when they were wrongly convicted of killing police officers—Sunny in the U.S, Peter in Ireland. Each were jailed for crimes they did not commit, only be exonerated after more than a decade each behind bar. In the aftermath of unimaginable hardship, by chance, they found one another and became the world’s only wrongfully convicted, death sentenced, cop-killer accused, exonerated and married couple!

Amid a pandemic, the chance meeting of byebyesea and crew sparks a vow to tour the U.S. coast to coast after the pandemic. The spontaneous journey, concerts in every city, from California to New York―will they safely navigate it all? Experience the adventure infused with byebyesea's music, challenges, and friendship.

The Occupy Central movement called for civil disobedience in the middle of Hong Kong’s financial district, in pursuit of democratic elections. The movement attracted many sympathetic students and citizens, and became known around the world as the “Umbrella Revolution” in 2014. This film closely follows the action on the ground: debates within the movement, street speeches, the unofficial referendum which was held as part of the campaign, and the student-led protests at the Central Government Office. It examines the tumultuous thoughts and feelings of seven activists who were there at the heart of the struggle.

In northern Shaanxi, those three-wheeled trucks who came to the city from rural areas came to be suffering. They talked hard and finally sent their children to distant universities. Four years have passed, the big children can't find a job, the future is uncertain, the smaller children have come to the age of the university. It seems to be in the instinct, a family is still like a hen hatch, waiting for the new hope to break out.

Five part history of Gaza from 1986 to 2009: 1) Raji Sourani’s Path; 2) Two Intifadas; 3) Rise of Hamas; 4) Blockade; 5) Assault on Gaza

The film is a war-propaganda newsreel film produced when Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War was imminent. The film covers the visit to the birthplace of the late Captain Choe Myeong-ha (Takeyama in Japanese), the first Korean-born Air Force officer who was killed in an operation to attack an airfield on Sumatra. It introduces the captain's parents and keepsakes, and follows junior officers undergoing military training at the captain's alma mater. The film also covers the training of young sailors, the process of making pine coal oil using rosin, the achievement of 1.2 billion won of savings, and mining ore for military supplies. Acquired in 1994.

1983 KBO 30-win legend Chang Myeong-bu and his hidden yakuza brother, Yong-bu. Divided by the mound's light and alley shadows, they fought to survive Zainichi discrimination. Through Yong-bu's eyes, this tragic saga weaves unseen records and KBO archives into a forgotten diaspora's requiem.

Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

"Making a Perfect Donut" is a video work focused on US military base issue in Okinawa by Kyun-Chome who works as a contemporary artist in Japan. This film is a project documentary that started from the question “If one was to combine an American donut with its hole in the center, and a round shaped Okinawan donut; wouldn't that be a perfect, holeless donut regardless of which side of the military fence it is seen?”

Drawing on the first-person accounts of former postal worker and political prisoner Hsu Chin-Yu and her peers, this documentary confronts the grim fate of some who dared to oppose the authoritarian regime of 1950s Taiwan.

Documentary on the Caohai Lake of Guizhou Province, how it was destroyed in the past and restored later.

Starting from 2020, COVID-19 infectious diseases broke out all over the country, with Wuhan in Hubei Province as the hardest hit area. On a special day with wind and snow, Chen Huiying and her family returned to their hometown in Hubei (Hongtu Township) to accompany the elderly for the Spring Festival. At this moment, many roads in Hubei Province were closed, people could not get in and out-effectively prevented and controlled the spread of this epidemic. Almost everyone in this little township were trapped here, workers therefore had no option but to stay at home. Overwhelming news of COVID-19 came from TV news and Internets. The number of infections and deaths rose sharply with all-day live broadcasting. Accompanied by fear and anxiety, repeated the usual ordinary state of life, and children seeded the only fun in the enclosed space. As days passed, everyone looked forward to having a safe environment for their families and waited to the situation of the epidemic to improve.

Ten years after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Yushu, a group of professional musicians search for new voices of Tibetan folk songs in local primary schools. The new generation carries the hopes of Tibetan families, and in their bright voices, we can sense warmth, human resilience, and inner strength.

The piano is an instrument without which it is impossible to imagine the musical world. But how did it first make its way from Western civilization to areas where it was traditionally unavailable, and what were the consequences? In her short film poem, the author becomes an archaeologist of sorts through evocative images of the piano amidst natural scenery and questions about the Korean adoption of the chamber note A, which is a tuning standard in music, as she uncovers historical, social, and cultural layers in relation to sound.

Lin Huizong often drives north to see his wife, Xu Yu'e, at the Medical College of Fuzhou University. Xu Yu'e is a "dissection teacher", that is, a deceased person who donated his body to be used as anatomy class teaching materials. In Asia, which attaches great importance to the burial of the deceased's body, doing so often requires facing the reluctance of relatives. And what changes will this dedication bring to the family, teachers and students of the medical school? What does "alive" mean? When the end of life is not physical destruction, but the impact left on future generations, how will people decide the color of their lives?

n 2013, Chulayarnnon Siriphol was hired to produce an educational short film about osteoarthritis titled A Cock Kills A Child By Pecking On The Mouth Of An Earthen Jar. It was agreed verbally that Siriphol could submit this work to any open call competitions under his own name. However, after winning the Vichitmatra Award from the 17th Thai Short Film and Video Festival, he was accused of violating the film copyright and obliged to give the award certificate to the hired organization. After returning the award certificate, he later gave away 100 copies of the certificate to anyone for free, re-rendered the work multiple times deteriorating video, and distributed it as an edition of 100 artwork, selling each DVD for 100 Baht.

After China's ban of imported plastic waste, Thailand has become a new destination for the global plastic waste from developed countries. As a result, some trash collectors quit their job and Thailand become the world's trash.

Following the mother of martyrs Pro-Ukraine, Qingwen who missed her lost son Guo Zhenggao and accuse the brutal of the war that takes up so many life.

This is the story of a deaf photographer who has always chosen to see rather than hear. He encounters “song”, and explores it, marries his deaf partner and fathers a hearing child. One day, a lullaby slips through his lips and his life is changed forever.

Centred on the interwoven relationship between nature, spirituality and ritual, Charwei Tsai's​ "Lanyu — Three Stories"​ portrays the everyday life of the Tao people.​ Telling three short stories, the video is a journey into the indigenous communities that live in Lanyu, a rocky island off the southern coast of Taiwan, which controversially houses the nuclear waste of the country's three nuclear reactors.

Directed by Lucy Walker, Make Haste Slowly: The Kikkoman Creed explores an almost 400-year-old Japanese company, the impact it had on a small farming community in Middle America and the art of naturally brewing soy sauce. Founded by a woman in feudal Japan, Kikkoman has been guided by a family creed handed down for 19 generations.

Following the protest against the 2021 Myanmar military coup, travel blogger Naw and her husband embark on a harrowing escape through the vast jungles. Amidst the chaos and uncertainty, the couple finds comfort in an unexpected companion – a newly adopted kitten they name "POOPY."

Noriaki Tsuchimoto, a documentary filmmaker known for his series films on Minamata disease, travelled to Afghanistan in 1988 for the production of the film "Afghan Spiring", during which he developed alcoholism. In 1996, after several years of hospitalization and treatment, he accepted a long interview with his close friends, cameraman Koshiro Otsu and producer Tetsujiro Yamagami.

Shot in Super 8 by a group of NDU members in the course of a day, the film documents the second Six Cities Joint Disaster Prevention Drill, organized in Shinjuku on the first of September 1981, an event that mobilized about twelve million people.

Rise of a man from the lower castes of society to become a "Big Brother", managing prostitution and gambling businesses.

In the man-made waterways of rice paddies, the water in nature must follow artificial rules. In that way, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a new form of beauty distinct from the natural state. The theme of this work is the liveliness of water as it follows the man-made course.