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Based on a found West German super 8 film, circa the 1970s, this digital trace from the twilight of a more tactile, mechanical era was created using a hand-cranked 8mm projector. Transmitted via this juxtaposition of contemporary and obsolete technology, the mundane events in the film seem more distant in time than the 40 years since they were photographed, inviting reflection on recent tectonic shifts in human technology and culture.
Back Home is an autobiographical documentary about the filmmaker’s heart-rending personal journey to reconcile with her estranged mother, who is about to undergo hip surgery in Tokyo. Filmed mostly by the director herself, the story explores the complexity of the Mother-Daughter relationship, which had been strained over the years apart by physical and emotional distance.
Four artists decide to invite their parents to play the parts of dissidents in 1980s Taiwan. To get prepared for the performance, the artists show the actors footage from that time, initiating the discussion of arts and politics. Although none of them were involved in the event, they are still caught up in the story as well as their own past…
This film centers on the life turning point of Wang Yueqin and her family, fishermen from the Huaihe River, as they leave the water to embrace a new life on land.Faced with drastic life shifts and an unbalanced marriage, Wang Yueqin, who has endured hardships and devoted herself silently all along, finally awakens. Breaking free from traditional constraints, she achieves personal independence and self-growth through building a life on her own, embracing a new, hopeful life. Her story embodies the resilient strength of ordinary women in the new era.Much like the Huaihe River after its throes of transformation, she brims with new vitality and flows onward quietly.
On 14 May 1989, the Far Eastern Textile Industrial Union passed a resolution in favour of strike action. However, the Hsinchu County government and police authorities actively helped the employers in breaking the strike action. This film documents the 17-day desperate protest lasting until the employers announced a full return to work, finally concluding the battle.
“Lifeng Coal Mine” (利豐煤礦) in Sanxia, Taipei County, was once Taiwan’s largest specialized coal mine. Unable to compete with cheap imported coal amid Taiwan’s impending WTO accession, the mine shut down, leaving 118 miners unemployed and sparking disputes over pensions and severance pay. San Yan (《散宴》) follows several aging miners, including brothers Huang Wu-yi (黃武義) and Huang Rong-quan (黃榮全), documenting their reflections on unemployment and their lifelong labor underground. After sharing one final farewell banquet, the miners’ “black gold dream” disappeared together with the closing mine. Through the film, the director moves beyond stereotypical images of miners’ hardship, portraying instead the quiet resilience and optimism of these “last-generation miners.”
I work at a call center making a graduation documentary. One ear to the phone, straining toward the past, the future, anywhere but here—calls find me: their voices, silences, sighs—worthless, discarded—passing through me into the partition as faint, indelible stains. Messages accumulate in a voicemail left unopened.
After the death of her gentle grandfather—the only protective figure—the filmmaker's mother’s mental state began to unravel. In an attempt to find spiritual grounding and emotional clarity, mother and daughter travel together to Tibet, seeking distance and faith as a way to make sense of their fractured past.
The documentary follows the inhabitants of Suzu City as they recover from the 2023 and 2024 Noto earthquakes, and their attempts to keep their local festivals alive.
Documentary report on Gao Yizheng, a female in her 40s, working to support her family.
Since childhood, I have carried an imaginary self named “Rachael LEE,” who lives in France. I believed she would fade, but even in my mid-twenties she remains. Refusing to leave her as a dream, I take my camera and leave for France to uncover who “Rachael LEE” — and who I — truly am.
Ripples Apart is the story of windsurfer Chang Hao, who grew up in the Mountains of Nantou, the only region in Taiwan with no coast. Chang and his Australian coach, Alex Mowday, share a unique and rare bond, two athletes separated by years of age and very different cultures, but who hunt the same Olympic dream. The road to the Olympics is long and difficult. Alex and Chang Hao must beat the odds to qualify, training on the small island of Penghu, off the coast of Taiwan, battling the wind and waves and searching for perfection in the sport of their dreams.
The quiet awareness that everything is temporary. The beauty that exists because nothing stays. In Japan, this feeling followed me everywhere. Watching moments unfold, then disappear. In this film, I tried to capture that sensation. The beauty that exists all around you. The calm. The feeling of being fully present. No destination. No story to follow. Just a moment of stillness, and the sense of plenitude that comes with it.
After I year I went back with my wife to my favorite place in the world. Here's a short little film of our moments. Not sure if 5 minutes will show how special this place is and how much it means to me, but I hope you enjoy.
On a sweltering summer day, a 16-year-old boy arrives at high school for the first time. As he drifts through the school’s mandatory military-style training, the summer slowly draws to a close.
A documentary exploring the symbolism and the significance of salt in the Japanese culture through the artist Motoi Yamamoto. Through his art and personal experiences of loss we explore the ephemerality of our existence. It's about death, salt and art.
An interview went on. We tried to figure out the film we worked together. Simple but complex. Time is such an interesting thing.
On the outskirts of Yichang, Hubei province, on a hill called "Jianshan", where the director's father was once deported decades ago, an elderly couple in their eighties, a three-legged cat and a calf with autism live there. The couple, who have been together for 60 years, have conceived seven or eight children, all of whom have died one after another due to various misfortunes, with the longest surviving child being in his 40s. The two old men live as vicissitudes and persistence as the old stone house they live in.
Glacier expeditions that reveal both the majesty and fragility of Earth’s largest mountain glaciers.
As farmland vanishes and neighbors sell their land, one family faces the same fate. Through conversations with an elder left farming alone, the filmmaker explores the quiet struggle of letting go and the deep values rooted in the land, seeking to preserve something before it inevitably disappears.
The Taoyuan Aerotropolis project, Taiwan's largest urban development, forces nearly 10,000 families from their homes. As land is leveled and memories erased, residents struggle to preserve their roots. Powerless against economic progress, they cling to the fading traces of a homeland on the brink of disappearance.
They were once Taiwan’s wildest stunt heroes! In the 1970s, a taxi driver led the nation’s top stunt riders and daredevil performers to form the "Shenfeng Stunt Troupe," risking their lives in breathtaking shows that packed arenas and made headlines across the island. Now, the aging team leader’s youngest daughter sets out on a journey to find and reunite the former comrades who once "burned their youth on tires." When the Rumble Sounds Again is a true and thrilling Taiwanese legend — a story that reignites the roaring engines and unyielding spirit of a generation that refused to give up.
The local government of Liaoning province restricted the fishing time for jellyfish on one of the days between July 15th and 30th, this is the documentary on those fishermen waiting the confirmed date to come.
This documentary presents the local church history and an individual life history from a personal perspective.
Told through oral narration, this documentary retraces the life of Wang Yufeng, an 87-year-old retired teacher.
"Secrets of China's Three Armies" is a late 80s PRC military documentary film co-produced by the August 1st Film Studio of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Hong Kong Silver Capital Company.
Through fragments of everyday speech, this documentary constructs an alternate dimension of portraits for characters featured in earlier films. These previously unused materials—marked by the repetition of certain words—reveal deeper layers of social and environmental context.
TOUCHING THE SOUND is an experimental documentary that synesthetically re-interprets the sound heard and generated by people whose fundamental human values are under threat. The film's immersive 7.1-channel sound invites the viewers to resonate with and empathize with the tremors of the people confronting panhuman crises such as climate change, gentrification, and war. Through a series of omnibus stories unfold in Gwangju, Jindo, Istanbul, and Tsogttsetsii in Mongolia, the film explores the sonic expressions of people on the edge-between life and death, settlement and wandering, and memory and oblivion-through a tactile experience.
The reality of designated drivers who cannot take their eyes off their phones for even a second while fighting a war to get designated driver calls, and the harsh lives of female designated drivers who have to silently endure insults from rude customers and drive to their destinations are revealed without reservation. Those who have to work themselves to death until dawn to complete one more designated driving call also need warm encouragement. They met sisters who did the same job when they joined the 'Kabugi Mutual Aid Association', a mutual aid organization for designated drivers. Until then, they were lonely individuals who worked separately. They shared their joys and sorrows, created an app to find a late-night restroom, and also grew a community that helped designated drivers who were having a harder time than them. The reality is not easy, but the weed-like vitality of these female designated drivers who encourage each other and live faithfully every day is tenacious.
A Japanese herb called 'shiso' looks like a perilla leaf but has a unique fragrance. It's like how I have a Korean name and nationality but still feel a sense of alienation in Korean society. The death of my grandmother, a first-generation Zainichi, raises a question for me: Does death also mark the end of the life of an outsider? In the end, where do we return to?
Record of refugee camps in Israeli-occupied Palestine and Lebanon between 2003 and 2012.
TV documentary about the city Chamdo (aka Changdu or Qamdo) in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
This video is edited from some images taken with an iPhone by the director's family members who went out to play during the three days from New Year's Eve to the second day of the first lunar month.
Trees from the backyard of NANO LAB, Melbourne, Australia.
A young girl from Korea was forced into sex slavery as "Comfort Women" by the Japanese during World War II. After she escaped, she married to a Chinese farmer and settled in China. Now half a century later, she is going back to Korea and find her relatives.
A yaksha gets revenge on the devadas who insulted him with the help of his diamond finger. Told through traditional khon dancing.
Documentary film completed in 1994, shot over two weeks, about one of the main production areas of jujube fruits in China, Lujiazhuang village on Taihang Mountains. The original version of the film is 55 minutes long; later, a shorter, 30-minute version was released. The credits on the original film list Wang Zijun, Wang Haiping, and Yang Yang as co-directors.
We connect to 'Underland,' a forgotten world. Somebody's still there. What's the reason that this being is still living in this place? Guided, we explore Underland.
Over the ten years, Ino has been passing down the Atayal culture with real actions, imparting all he learnt from the forest to children in Cinsbu. The audiences can feel his natural philosophy of life in his words and deeds. He makes people realize that there exists genuine, pure and beautiful relationship between human and myriad elements of nature.
Lumi, formerly homeless due to family issues and business failures, spends a decade in odd jobs, park benches, and internet cafes. Joining a social enterprise, he gains skills, saves money, and rents a place, but his past still haunts him.
Wang migrated from his hometown(a village in Guizhou Province) to this Fengjiang townlet to earn a living by recyle toxic plastics and metals out of those trash hills, Unfortunately Ms wang's skin is allergic to those poison metals ，she suffers from little lumps all over her body
Yang’s father was sent to prison when she was 13. The Children’s Village, a shelter for children of criminals, took her in and provided her with basic education. However, Yang did not feel at home there. She hoped to one day leave the village and for that day to arrive soon. Yang managed to leave the Children’s Village before reaching 18. Yet just after celebrating her 18th birthday in the city, she suddenly vanished without notice. No one knew of her whereabouts. Director Hu tried to trace her with his camera, following clues that might lead him to her. Little by little, through this process, he was able to understand Yang various choices in life.
The artwork presents three scenes: the Paju factory where the books are made, a French professor reading in a lecture room, and a forest landscape. These images are projected simultaneously on three screens arranged in a triangle, allowing viewers to move around and experience the installation from different angles.
"Sovereignty at Stake" is a groundbreaking CGTN documentary that explores the complexities of the South China Sea issue, addressing global inquiries on this contentious topic. Through individual narratives and authoritative interviews, the documentary offers valuable insights into the historical background, legal principles and geopolitical dynamics.
The 49th Hexagram explores the construction of cultural memory and political narrative surrounding the history of the Korean peninsula. Employing the services of an animation studio in Pyongyang, North Korea, Ho Tzu Nyen’s work reinterprets scenes of political uprising and mass demonstration as depicted in South Korean narrative film and television. The project aims to form a direct relationship between South Korea’s political history and the tensions that still define the country’s relationship with its northern counterpart. The result is, in the artist’s words, a “game of exquisite corpse across geopolitical barriers.” The artist developed the experimental soundtrack in collaboration with Korean artists and musicians Bek Hyunjin, Park Minhee, and Ryu Hankil. Offering two vocal renditions of texts from the forty-ninth hexagram of the I-Ching, an ancient Chinese divination manual, the soundtrack composites historical interpretation with translation to speak of revolution and renewal.
Set amid the outsized period sets of Hengdian World Studios, the largest film studio in Asia, the film follows Iris, a young actress searching for her voice as she prepares for the leading role in a Chinese historical epic. Couched in the conceit of a “making of” special, In Her Time depicts Iris behind the scenes, rehearsing lines and describing the artistic process of coming to inhabit her character. Throughout, she deliberates over the demand the film places upon her to master performing pain and victimization. Iris’ Version introduces new content shot from Iris’ iPhone camera, intercutting the “official” footage with reflections on the filmmaking process from the actress’ perspective.
This is an experiment about recording a long lens of a space, two people, and a device. The director and producer are the boyfriend and girlfriend present in the car, and the GoPro placed in front of the car realistically records the daily conversations, arguments, kisses, and tears inside the car. The experiment lasted for a month, with misunderstandings, emotions, rationality, restraint, and helplessness.
The protagonist of the documentary, Yifang Lin (1926-2018), was born in Chiayi in the 15th year of the Republic of China (Taisho 15th year). When he was young, he went to Hiroshima, Japan to study with his elder brother. During the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, he happened to leave Hiroshima because of work and survived this disaster.
