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DIR EN GREY streamed the final performance of their hall tour, which took place across 16 shows in 14 locations nationwide.

Structured around a dancer's routine, the film unfolds in four stages: hope, fear, anger, and longing for stability. It interweaves these emotions with those of locals of Matsu, the military, and first-time-visiting photographers from Taiwan island.

Acclaimed Chinese TV documentarian Wang Haibing’s Home was an official selection at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The film records a story between humans and animals. The protagonists of the story are: a giant panda, who is about to be released into nature, and several ordinary workers at the rescue station to protect the giant panda. The relationship between man and nature depicted here is simple, harmonious and beautiful.

YB BOX reveals the unique culture of Korean autonomous prefecture in Yanbian, Jilin Province, China. It narrates the journey and unforgettable experience of three young beatboxers as they travel from Yan Bian to Beijing and Shanghai to support one of the worldÂ’s top beatboxers, Killa Kela. Yan Bian is the capital of beatboxing in China. This relatively small city has a vibrant creative culture, where beatboxing, DJing, breaking and other forms of hip-hop thrive. While the main sounds are drum-beats, the masters can add a range of other sounds until a magical and unbelievable effect is created. Born in the 70s in New York, beatbox arrived in Yan Bian via the internet. Led by Gui Jing, the film shows how creative culture can emerge and grow in the most unexpected places and reveals the energy, curiosity and innovation of ChinaÂ’s youth.

Ran Ran is about to leave Beijing. With only ten days left, how will she decide to spend the rest of her time?

There is a family. Grandmother settled down in Sadang-dong and looked after her son and three grandchildren. After the Sadang-dong house was demolished, the family was lucky enough to find a rental apartment in Sanggye-dong. A Nice Place (2009), the previous work by the director, was a documentary about the life of this family for 10 years. 'Daldongne 33 Up is a record of what happens in the next 10 years.

A story of Wat Wanlayangkool who is a famous writer and a political activist. After the coup he became a political refugee and had to move far away from his family and his home.

This is a film both about the spectacle and the space, about how the spectacle has caused the mutation of the (physical and phycological) space in which we reside. This film is determined to be the ‘film on space’ of our times, an epic theater, the general observation of the geological structure of this time. I therefore invent or re-invent some terms for my purpose: Archae(now)logy; Ruinology; space bankruptcy; theater of life -- theater of cruelty -- theater of spectacle; the body-film; the New Berlin Wall - Iron Curtain; and “refugees without camps”, ‘the plants”, “the ghosts,” the asthenosphere, dark energy... I have stolen a great amount of found footages/ready materials or already existed films. This “stealing” is exactly the way to get connected with history and the history of film, to construct an “echo film”.

Someone constantly gains wealth and power from a community of race, of nation... Not only that, that someone tries to pass on that power and wealth to his descendants forever. Because of that, someone has to constantly maintain this community of race, of nation... Someone, therefore, caselessly recreates the prestigious values of this community, which exceeds the self... and, in the end, a forever self-reproducing circulating ring which comes from the lives and actions of those who have been brainwashed that they are part of this community from the womb...

Time to Remove Superman It is fragmentarily a story of death and it can also be connected to the opposite - birth. When I did research for this work, what was really interesting was an article read that 'We came from dirt and we go back to dirt' is everywhere in all religions and philosophies of all cultures. And I found that sentence and thought over different things and I reached it was meant to be only that way. Regardless of primitive or modern society, religions or philosophies couldn't help but think human body is rotten away and it is cremated and made dirt. We know the process but we haven't seen that. I thought it would be meaningful if I made that out to show. We've watched a mummy disappearing in a movie using CG but I thought I could visually display a message that things we cherished or in which knowledge was contained were made dirt or on the other way, they had been dirt before they came to us.

How should I love you, my child? This story is a mother’s agonizing journey of parenting. Wu Jun, a mother in her 50s, has been in emotional turbulence for over a decade. In 2004, Quanquan, her then-16-year-old daughter, suddenly jumped to her death. Unexpectedly, Quanquan’s last words had nothing to do with her parents. The mother was filled with agony and bewilderment, questioing what she had done wrong, and her beloved husband, unable to bear the weight of the loss, moved away from Hangzhou. To start anew, Wu raised another girl, Tingting. Amid intense education competition, she racks her brains to pave the way for Tingting’s better future. However, the girl became rather difficult after entering puberty. Why is parent-child relationship so challenging? How should a mother face her own life? By the beautiful West Lake, Wu starts to read her late daughter’s favorite fable, ROOSTER THE GOLDEN COMB – Fate is as cunning as the fox in the story…

The gender issues that exist in Taiwan's rap circle are actually a microcosm of the overall social gender structure. Even though there is now an increasing awareness of gender equality in society, gender limitations still exist and require our continuous efforts to slowly change them.

The Japanese Government-General of Joseon designated ‘Patriots Day’ in September 1937, requiring all citizens to visit the Joseon Shrine on the first day of every month, raise the Japanese flag, clean up their neighborhoods, offer silent tributes, and practice the Gymnastics for the Imperial Subjects. The Government-General awarded medals to loyal citizens for exemplary achievement of these tasks. In particular, on the day of Patriots Day, all people had to stop what they were doing and pay their respects on the spot following the time signal. A woman washing clothes, elderly people ice fishing, and factory workers; men and women of all ages pay tribute in silence at the time signal, which makes for stirring cinema. Although the film was made to promote Patriots Day, the villagers' various community activities such as the rice-saving movement, the waste collection campaign, and collaborative farming are presented in a peaceful fashion. Acquired in 2006.

Li Ze-yang's journey in music was bumpy yet full of colors. His musical collection serves as a historic witness to ethnic communities. His relentless editorial commitment proved a quintessential scarcity in the history of Taiwanese music.

Around the year 2000 AD, it was reported in the news that about two million cotton pickers rush to the vast land of Xinjiang every year, just like migratory birds, arriving in September and leaving in November. With curiosity, I also joined this "migratory bird" team and headed straight to the Xinjiang farm thousands of miles away. The train was very crowded, and among the cotton pickers who were mostly female workers, the vast and beautiful Xinjiang surprised these "migratory birds" for the first time. The hardships and joy in Xinjiang's cotton fields were also their first experiences. This film is the memory of me joining the migratory bird team as a cotton picker.

HAHN Dae-Soo is a singer whose song 'Give Me Water', expressed his generation's thirst for freedom during the political turmoil of the 70s. After 20 years of inactivity due to political reasons, he returned to Korea on May 2001 for a concert. This film reveals his vision of music and his lonely life as a bohemian. He tells us the meaning of eternal loneliness, confessing that, 'Life is fragile, and I am just glad to be alive'.

When Ariel was in elementary school, she often lied in her mother's arms and listened to her recounting memories about Ariel. In 2024, at the age of 26, Ariel invited her mother to share her experiences about her pregnancy, but she declined. So Ariel interviewed her close friend and her mother instead. If Everyone is just an observer of memories, what is the meaning of retelling them once again? Are children and their mother bonded by blood, by relationship, or by an invisible gap within the streams of memories?

During 2020, when the pandemic policy loosened, a violinist went back to hometown in mainland China to meet his parents and his friends. A sudden accident happened, everything changed, and a ceremony is no longer a "ceremony".

A 300-ton Schnaveer type trailer created through the development of heavy goods transport technology at Nippon Express. This work records the work of transporting a 280-ton ultra-heavy transformer for substations in its complete state.

Short documentary film for Oriental Time • Living Space directed by Jiang Yue. This was a "demo" that Jiang made for Living Space's new producer, Chen Mang, after the departure of the original producer, Lu Wangping. From the example set by this film, Living Space thereafter developed the slogan: "Telling the stories of ordinary people.”

This is an earlier version of the film A River Stilled (静止的河). It's a documentary film about a young couple who live on opposite sides of the river at a time when their houses are about to be demolished as part of building the dam for the Three Gorges Dam project.

Fly through an abstract world, drawn in by digital ink. Inspired by Taoist philosophy and the writings of Zhuang Zhou, this interactive experience allows the visitor to fly, swim and soar as something other – and maybe more – than human. The game is controlled by moving on a custom-built balance ball controller, which heightens the corporeal experience.

A ordinary village in Jiangxi Province, is the hometown of the director. The youth are heading for the city, the author is anxious of his hometown to be changed too dramatically in the coming days. He records down the precious shots of the villages in its four seasons, and then turns to those youth struggling in the city: their worries, their joys and their missing of the hometown. In the film, the author tries to explore the meaning of hometown for those being forced to look for new chance in the city by the market, although his story is not ending......

This is a documentary about the armed violence in China during the Great Cultural Revolution. Traces are spread out from the only left 「Cultural Revolution Graveyard」 in Chongqing, through looking for the kinsfolk of the victims and the survivors participated in the fights, ask them to recount their experience and the scene of the armed violence of the Cultural Revolution, recollect the impact of the bygones to their life in the course of their growth, listen to their opinions and reflects to the historical disaster.

A short film showcasing Okinawan religious practices.

This remarkable record of Kunming, regional capital of Yunnan Province, southwest China, was shot by French consul and hobbyist filmmaker Auguste François in the dying years of the Qing dynasty. The five astonishing, intimate scenes show a bustling market by the city wall, a rabble of Miao soldiers training, a wealthy couple dining, lounging opium smokers and an opera performed at a private party.

From the Fox Movietone News Collection, three Chinese singers and musicians perform a song about the Ming Dynasty, then storytellers tell a story about bargaining at the market. Fox Movietone News Story 4-866.

A young woman in love embarks on a dangerous journey to find a man she met on the internet and doesn't know much about. Her stubbornness goes so far that the director is forced to stop her. The film thus opens up questions about the author's responsibility for the subjects she is following in documentary filmmaking.

Masarap Na Kanta begins like an impressionist painting. A man sits at a table outdoors, which makes the scene look like another uneventful day in the suburbs.

Director Anthony Ramos joins his good friend, painter Frederick J. Brown, on a trip to Beijing for a retrospective of Brown’s work at the National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square in 1988, the first retrospective of an American artist in China.

Mosuo, located in South-West China, is the only Matrilineal society in China. The first record of Mosuo culture dates back more than two thousand years. Today, this tribe still retains their unique culture, in which people live with their mothers' families and never marry. Concepts such as 'father', 'husband' and 'wife' have no meaning in Mosuo culture. Men and women may sleep together at night, but during the day they return to their own families. Mosuo culture is one in which men and women live harmoniously, and where there is no difference in status between the genders. Director Chou Wah Shan is a former associate professor at Hong Kong University, whose area of interest is gender and sexuality. He spent more than a year with the Mosuo people, and the result is an intimate portrait of this fascinating tribe.

A documentary film about conflicts in the Korean American Association in San Francisco.

This film mainly records the story of two adolescent children receiving primary education of Peking Opera in Shanghai Opera School in a documentary form. As they are in their adolescence, they gradually form their own plans and ideals for the future. On this unusual learning path, they face the problem of choice between reality and ideals, and gradually learn to accept and grow up.

The "Wugong sutra" is also known as "Transfer to the Sky". A prophecy written by the people since the Five Dynasties Northern Song Dynasty is said to be the proverb of the Tiangongshan Zhigong, Huagong, Yigong, Tanggong and Baogong Wugong Bodhisattvas. The salvation people were robbed at the end, often used by rural secret social organizations, and also banned by the imperial court rulers. The belief in the "Five Annals" in the rural society of northwestern Yunnan has abandoned the function of politics, and only pays attention to the practical effect of the Wugong sutra curse on treating and saving people and protecting one side. This film is a field survey of the Wugong sutra as a folk belief in rural society in northwestern Yunnan.

A Guan Gong Temple once occupied this Mongkok site where protestors had just been cleared, and it is now the police’s last line of defense. Hilarity ensues when the filmmaker with a tiny handheld camera appears, is stopped and promptly surrounded by the police.

Omnipotent Youth Society's first recorded performance since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A medical perspective of Minamata disease in three parts - 1) Progress of Research; 2) Pathology and Symptoms; 3) Clinical Field Trials

A mutilated and grotesque woman’s body chases after a man. The combination of the photomontage and text represents women’s labor, expressed through uniforms and clothes, and women who were sexually objectified, conveying feminist discourses and disciplines. The chased man never understands the existence or content of the images and texts. The blunt presentation of women’s unheard voices and objectified bodies, and the excessively-visualized images, demand immediate introspection.

The virtual dinner series from Japan's K-Network aims to offer lonely guys lessons in dinner date etiquette in the privacy of their homes... or Mom's basement, as the case may be. Features a variety of everyday-type attractive women enjoying a meal and making small talk at the camera, er, at the viewer. The view is face-to-face, as if you were really sharing a tabletop with the sweet young thing. Fortunately you won't have to pick up the check later, but unfortunately she won't be inviting you up for coffee even more later. You win some, you lose some.

Dancer Nonoko Sato at Gallery Kaos No Ma in Kyoto. Shot in ambient light on 30 year old Kodachrome and developed in Caffenol, each frame of the film was exposed for up to a second. Nonoko Sato (Japan) is a member of Kiraza Butoh Company and is also active as an independent artist. Special thanks to Matuo Sunamoto of Gallery Kaos No Ma, Kyoto.

Filled with interviews with the production team, the featurette covers the story's development, the film's style and look, and even has the original Japanese teaser.

Civil rights activist Hu Jia was held under house arrest from 2004 to 2008 in the upscale eastern suburbs of Beijing. One day Hu picked up a video camera and began to document things outside the window: his watchers, shepherds tending their flocks, spiders in the rain, and his fellow activist and wife, Zeng Jinyan, going to and from work under the unnervingly close watch of plainclothes police.

Amateur's Riot (Shirōto no ran) is a Japanese association of activists, committed to the living conditions of the poor people (binbōnin) in Tōkyō. The association was founded in 2005 by Matsumoto Hajime, Yamashita Hikaru, Futatsugi Shin, Mochitsuki Rui and Ogasawara Keita. The protagonists of Shiroto no Ran played an important role in the anti-nuclear demonstrations that appeared in response to the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.

The sound of sutra chanting echoes slightly around the temple located in northern Burma. The monks here are leading a peaceful life.

More than four years after the Fukushima Dai-Ichi disaster, the invisible radioactivity is still omnipresent, but gradually vanishing from the locals 's mind.

Luo Zhangjie is 88 years old. Her son Qi Caizheng has lost his memories due to meningitis, and now he can't even cope with the basic tasks in his daily life. Moreover, he hits whoever gets close to him. Luo has been looking after her son, but as she's getting old, she is training her granddaughter-in-law to take care of her son.

A woman in Ecuador reads a letter from her Chinese friend, telling her about the city Guangzhou and its special African enclave Xiaobei.

A short documentary about a Korean high school student preparing for the most important exam she will ever take, an eight hour long college entrance exam.

2013／HD／Color／52min／