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The film focuses on the stories of three children with autism and their families. When a husband, unable to bear the fate of his child's autism, chooses to jump from a building; when 'mom' becomes the only word in the universe of a child who cannot communicate with the outside world; when an autistic child, carefully cared for into adulthood, comforts their crying mother by saying, 'I will take care of mom'... These are not just stories—they are real-life glimpses into the lives of over ten million people with autism.

In the spring of 1987, a 14-year old runaway boy ended up in a college campus and made it his home. He grew up on campus under care of students activists. They call him "Poliboy."

Forests and places full of green are sinking into the dam. The construction of the dam will erase 200,000 trees. The PH Studio, a unit consisting of an architect, an artist, and a photographer, hears this and comes up with…

Concert film performed at Tokyo International Forum for her ANSWER tour.

The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered the most experimental among the 20th-century British writer's literary works, from which the young filmmaker took inspiration for his film, borrowing passages and visions to explain his own understanding of what cinema is. A film that plays with water - precisely - and light, and yet in a very dark b&w lit up by rare flashes of colour, making a journey in the night in which the shadow of a man gradually acquires substance.

A portrait of Shingo Tamagawa, the talented animator behind the mysterious short animation film PUPARIA.

Self-described “traitor to my male gender,” Da Xi Ge has known herself for some 55 years, but has never possessed the vocabulary to adequately express this knowledge. This documentary short, overlaid with a kaleidoscope of symbols of traditional femininity, follows the day-to-day life of a scavenger, as she prepares for her dream of sitting for a wedding portrait.

An essay film that interweaves meditations on travels with stories of journeys in China across a century: A student expedition into the heart of China in the 1930s, a young traveler's visions of the melancholic landscapes of his homeland, the narratives of movements in early Chinese silent films. Through these fragments of travelogues, the film explores the nature of consciousness in motion and what it means to use archives, images, and cinema as documentations as well as vehicles for travel.

An indigenous couple married young with a child when they were only 16 and 19 years old. The financial burden and challenges in life were so heavy for them that quarrels were unavoidable. As their former elementary school teacher, the filmmaker recorded the young couple’s daily life, while trying to give them a hand in their time of need.

In 2013, the director was hired to produce a short film on the causes and treatment of osteoarthritis among the elderly, yet the award-winning film was soon embroiled in an unexpected copyright controversy with the commissioning organisation. This self-reflexive documentary questions not only the notions of artistic reproduction and intellectual property rights in the digital age, but also the 'ownership' of democracy in Thailand.

The East-West Highway was soon to be built in central Taiwan. It would pass through the village of Liu Ts'o, and many homes and rice paddies would be destroyed. The filmmaker, Hu Tai-Li, went back to her mother-in-law's village Liu Ts'o, where she did anthropological research from 1976-78, to preserve some images of life at that moment - forever.

The military dependents' village is a special historical product of Taiwan. Contained the cultural identity in its unique space. Now, as the years change, we will once again witness the new occupants built up a new life aesthetic along with the process of the repair and relocation. In the interaction between old and new, continue and innovate the life style and life memory of the village.

Three women connected by fragile memories and vague associations. Director Noh spins her poetic family story between Korea and Japan, beyond the historical scope of the war.

Boarding for the island of Shikoku in southern Japan, in the footsteps of the pilgrimage of the great Kobo-Daishi. Shot in POV, the film engages the viewer in a mystical odyssey.

A visual poem etched onto 16 mm film that follows the movement of light and colour in the Nordic winter.

This is a 'Minority Report [or the Report on Minorities]' captured during the 2002 Korea - Japan World Cup season. The huge suvvess of this sports festival bolstered 'national pride' among many Koreans, who have forgotten that feeling for a long time while it gave some people a feeling of despair. Those who despaired that this soccer event completely excluded 'minority' voices who suffer from bitter reality and ordeal. This festive event was only for the majority of people who think they represent Korean as a whole.

Yu Tian (played by Hu Tian) is a senior this year. He hasn't returned home for a few years while studying in a big city. The estrangement between him and his mother (Lin Jiehua) is somehow getting bigger and bigger. He is immersed in his artistic dreams and is not practical, but his mother, who has always been conservative, does not understand. His friends remained the same, still the same young people in the small town. Friends booed that he would be the most promising one among them, but he himself was convinced. He told his sister (played by Sun Nan) that he would go to the big city to make a fortune.

For years he has stayed behind closed doors without leaving his home, uttering nothing to anyone. The desire to communicate and the energy to act have completely vanished, and the opportunity to change is dim and distant. This is an attempt by the filmmaker to reappraise the relationship between himself and the world through external observation and self-reflection.

Short documentary on the making of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, included with the Limited Edition

After failing to find her place in the city, Jialing returns to her borderland hometown and takes up work again in a rundown nightclub. As she tries to rebuild her life, her estranged father reappears, hoping to reconnect before the holidays.

Luo Fuxing is the ‘godfather’ of Shamate, an alternative Chinese subcultural movement. Two decades into his career he takes on a new challenge: theatre.

The documentary "Wounds – Veterans' Stories" primarily focuses on the veterans who came to Taiwan in 1949 with the memories and traumas of the civil war. The film is conducted along with two story lines: One is conveyed through the personal accounts of the veterans in Taiwan telling their memorable stories of migrating to Taiwan, while the other one follows the story of the Borough Chief of Xianghe Lane in Kaohsiung who escorts the ashes of deceased veterans back home. Through the record of the veterans' stories, the impacts of war on individuals and society as a whole is revealed.

A portrait of the director's home village in Baiyin province. The people of the village have been isolated for years and are finally forced to vacate for the construction of the West-East Gas Pipeline.

An Educational film made for Japanese children about Railways. At the time, Japan was suffering from a shortage of Oil and their railways were incredibly important.

"The sulphur-iron mine is located at the common boundary of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou province, with an area of 1774 square meters. The Yong Ning River originated from here, flowing northward 108 kilometers into the Yangtze River. The mine was established in 1950 and its products are mainly exported, with some concentrated uses within in the county. We found this place in the newspaper by accident; it's called Big Tree County. Many years ago, it was part of the forest along the Yangtze River. A sulphur-iron mine was discovered in the 1920s, which started large-scale sulphur smelting. Now the old way of sulphur smelting is ranking first in the country[sic]. On our second day there, in this remote valley in the southern part of Sichuan province with hundreds of thousands of people living there, we met a boy named Tan Cong. We then got to know his family, as well as a local school teacher, and some of the locals smelting the sulphur."

The factories which were abandoned, the temporaries who were employed on a temporary basis, and the words were painted on the edge of the wall of the city. They were dirty humble but very strong, it reflects the real situation of "workers" in the social class. These factories, workers, and wall were utterly discarded after being used up, without any responsibility and affection. They were "relics" of the modern industrial process, and now left behind in the edge of the city and barren. We try to record the imminent disappearance of these graffiti walls, abandoned factories, are the temporary workers in an atypical way. Because of these images usually remind us that the city hides a group of incomplete consciousness and the body, they are in the search for a possible survival, a possible aesthetic, a desolate before the disappearance.

HEAR EVERYTHING is a short film about the 2× Grammy Award-winning producer and beatmaker, Knxwledge. The film traces his journey from Los Angeles to Tokyo, where he embarks on a deeply personal musical and cultural exploration of the city he now calls home. For the first time on film, Knxwledge opens up about his path from a church-going kid, for whom video game music was among the only sounds he could hear besides gospel. To winning Grammys and eventually creating music for the very games that first inspired him. Part documentary, part love letter to Japan, the film follows Knxwledge as he immerses himself in a new environment, drawing constant inspiration from the people he meets and making beats at every possible moment. Always in headphones as he road-tests the ATH-R50x throughout his journey. Featuring appearances from J Rocc, Mndsgn, The Alchemist, Anderson .Paak, and some of Japan’s most influential figures in contemporary culture.

Si-rak participates in rehearsals with the cast to write an audio description for the performance.

My old aunt’s increasing physical weaknesses are deteriorating the atmosphere at home, gradually alienating her from the rest of the family. After my father died, the relationship between me and my mother became more unintelligible, so I decided to bring the family back together through simple daily conversations with my aunt. These dialogues brought up a stream of emotions and understanding much needed in our family.

While suspended from a crane eight storeys up in the air, a man performs a guitar solo. The act staged in homage to a failed art project from 20 years ago is one of several moments in Taiwanese history that artist Hsu Che-yu unearths and reanimates.

This film was produced for a briefing to the Ministry of Economic Affairs by the people of Houjin opposing China Petroleum Company’s fifth naphtha cracker plant. It brings together scenes of pollutions caused by the CPC over the previous year, interviews of the people affected, and footage of a series of protests, including that of the residents carrying coffins to the CPC facilities.

Shows the activities and ways of life of Japanese folk potters in Onda, a romote village in the mountains of North Central Kyushu, Japan. Presents a detailed account of traditional pottery - making techniques which have remained relatively unchanged for more than 250 years.

Through its little screen, what kind of world does a Game Boy see as it records? As a child, the Game Boy was my most faithful companion at my hospital bedside. Years later, lying in a hospital room once again for surgery, my father couldn't be there because of other obligations. So I brought it with me, hoping to capture this journey through its tiny screen.

Starting from the children’s party where Zhang Shengjia celebrated his ninth birthday at a KFC fast food restaurant in 2006, the Chinese artist and filmmaker’s essayistic archive film unfolds a cheerful cultural history of the birthday cake from a Chinese perspective. The convention reached China from Western Europe and North America in the early 20th century and merged with local birthday traditions. The constantly growing influence of Western consumer culture since Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms of the 1980s was exemplified in 1990 when almost 13,000 customers were registered on the opening day of the country’s very first McDonald’s restaurant in Shenzhen.

From spring to fall of 2023, a documentary film crew spent five months at a hospice hospital in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, observing "the hospice and the people in it" to shed light on the role of modern medicine and how we as a society view the needs of the dying. What do those who suffer the pain of illness and are at the end of their lives need? What makes us human in the face of dying and death, and what gives someone the possibility of a "day"?

A filmmaker daughter studying in a foreign country belatedly learns of her mother’s cancer. Her mother has hidden it from her, lest she worry, but the daughter feels upset. The mother has been a doctor for thirty years, and she has thought as much about death as about living well. As the hospital has been her playground, the daughter is familiar with the scene of death, but the thought of losing her mother scares her.

This documentary introduces outsiders to the scenic wonders and peoples of the far-off country. But the film also had a charitable purpose. Although reusing footage from Beautiful Japan—most noticeably the scenes with the Ainu of Hokkaido—it also interjects new material more central to the sponsor, about the role of women in Japan and their special needs. The film is incomplete and it is unclear how much of the film is missing.

Members of a queer dance team, all in their 30s and 40s, decide to come out. This unprecedented documentary presents the story of LGBT people in South Korea through spectacular rhythms, music, and moves.

The Lighting aims to revisit issues of discrimination rooted in technological development and image production. Three professional Togolese photographers explore how to use instruments to compensate for insufficient exposure while shooting dark skin tones. A leading software engineer, developing facial recognition algorithms at Taiwan's MediaTek, talks about how a newly-created camera algorithm is very popular on the African continent.

This is a propaganda film made after the establishment of the wartime total mobilization system. The film includes various war efforts, including Gyeongseong Prefectural Association's offering of airplanes; prisoners' contribution of heavy machine guns; the inauguration of the Joseon Youth League for war support; a ceremony to celebrate the fall of Wuhan; a Chinese consul's visit to the Joseon Shrine; visits from Italian and Mongolian delegations to Joseon; and encouragement of bond purchases. The narration at the end is recorded in Korean in a heroic tone. The narration encourages everyone to faithfully pursue his or her livelihood, accelerate the implementation of national policies, and achieve the 'purpose of the Holy War.' It is the only extant film of the ‘news films in Korean language” produced by the Japanese Government-General of Joseon during the Japanese colonial period. Acquired in 1994.

Introduces Arita ware’s 400-year history through the eyes of young and energetic artist Miwa Komatsu. We look forward to seeing the new “Arita” creations that Miwa will create, along with Sakaida Kakiemon XV, who has taken on the preservation of the traditions of Arita ware, that will lead them to the next 100 years.

Eiko Kanno is a 79 year old grandmother whose life has been completely changed by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Her life should have been with her grandchildren but because of the disaster which caused her entire village of Iitate to be evacuated. She now lives by herself in temporary housing. Yoshiko Kanno and her extended family are very important to her changed life. Yoshiko Kanno lost her parents in the evacuation and she found herself living next door to Eiko Kanno. They entertain themselves by telling jokes to each other like a comedic duo. They now live together.

A documentary film about a Chinese family discussing and arguing about what to do with a relative in severe condition in the hospital.

PARK Hyun-sung was once a promising boxer but after he experienced deep frustration at Olympics for twice, he took a wrong turn. He joined a gang and tried to suicide, but miraculously survived and is now managing a small gym at Yeongdeungpo. PARK Ju-young who almost passed a civil service examination suddenly gave up on everything and restarted her life as a boxer. Two people who were living in completely different world met each other and made a unique story.

Where temperatures fall so low that even the trees can freeze and explode, the flora and fauna of a certain forest in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido have evolved clever and curious ways to survive the cold. Squirrels rely not just on memory but also on an enhanced sense of smell to locate their stashes of nuts under the snow. A particular species of woodpecker carves a deep, roomy hole in a dense white pine for a nest, feasting on the ants it somehow knows are inside. And a coniferous tree native only to this region has devised an ingenious way of self-defense. The question is not how cold is cold, but how to exist in spite of it all.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sai Enterprise's Ginî piggu 4: Pîtâ no akuma no joi-san.