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In 1985, US company DuPont received permission from the Ministry of Economic Affairs to set up a titanium dioxide plant near Lukang, Changhua County. The local residents held a series of protests against the plan, even one in front of the presidential office. This rising community consciousness, combined with a growing environmental awareness, ultimately drove DuPont out of the region.
Born in a county town beside the Han River, Wan Ying, the host of the podcast bowuzhi.fm, never found interest in the river that flowed past her home every day. It wasn't until she returned home for a family funeral in early 2023, standing by the riverbank during a night of vigil, that she was deeply moved by the silent flow of the magnificent river. Inspired, she invites a few friends for a journey upstream the Han River, aiming to rediscover the mother river whose name has long been obscured. Han River, China's third mother river, originates between the Bashan Mountains and the Qinling Range. As it flows, it nurtures a commercial golden waterway connecting the north and south of China. This journey uncovers tales of pioneering construction, passionate departures from home, dramatic business legends, scenic views of vast farmlands, and breathtaking mountain vistas shrouded in mist.
A mid-length film of Cho Hye-Jung
A-He, a 70-year-old film projectionist, has worked for 37 years in Shin-Rung theater in which just shut down recently. To make a living, he went to other theaters in Chiayi to look for a job. However, he was rejected due to his age. Suddenly, he felt he has lost something that has always been the majority in his life. Idling, he still went to Shin-Rung theater to clean up the projection equipment and tidy up the reels every day while waiting for the new investor to reopen the theater. One day, A-He returned to the theater and played a film. A long-awaited reunion is presenting through the image with movies.
Paradise revisits South Korea’s era of authoritarian development (1970s-1980s) through the lens of queer livelihood. Despite the harsh realities of successive dictatorships, compulsory military service, and expectations of marriage and childbirth, six elderly gay men reveal how they converted second-run theaters and nearby bars into popular sites of erotic liberation, same-sex friendships, and romantic encounters.
When Paldang Dam was built, many farmers lost their farms. Instead, they started organic farming in their land around Han River. In 2008, Korean government announced four River Plans including Paldang. The plan in Paldang organic town is to build bike lanes and a public park instead of farms. It causes serious conflicts among the farmers as they decide if they should fight against the government.
5639/5640 Green Leather Slow Train, the "mountain bus", has maintained low fares during more than 20 years of operation. You can get a rare income in remote mountainous areas.\r This film reflects the humanistic care of Train 5639 by showing the deep friendship between Wu Wenzhen and other vegetable farmers and the people and things on Train 5639.\r This trip The train serves as a bridge for the Miao villagers to communicate with the outside world, and it carries the desire of the mountain villagers to live a happy life. It is not the speed that is slow, but the patience to keep pace with the low- and middle-income people.
A film which focuses on "younger A-bomb survivors" who have no clear memories of the atomic bombings and their efforts, and frustrations, at passing on the A-bomb experience. The film follows them as they meet many people during a long voyage at sea, including victims of the Vietnam War and the sole survivor of a Nazi massacre of a Greek village, and start taking action to convey the bombings.
This film is about the story of the main character and his younger brother, the younger brother saw the comic book of the main character, in his brain, he had a fight of animal chess related to memory. The younger brother belongs to the green party, the elder brother belongs to the orange party, at last the elder brother lost and the younger brother won in his consciousness, the younger brother took the elder brother to see the future elder brother in the heart of the younger brother.
798 ArtDist was originally an old factory built with the assistance of East Germany in 1950s. After the reform and opening up, with the change of policies, a large number of workers in this old factory were laid off and forced to stay idle. Just as China's modern art residence sprouted, 798 ArtDist came into being。Now it has been from a factory number to an art district, which displayed a process of conceptual transformation of the art industry. In the two mountains trapped by political constraint and commercial temptation, is contemporary art still pure? 798 ArtDist shows us the modern version of Along the River During the Qingming Festival.
A bunch of indie filmmakers came to the grassland，everybody stayed in a tent, just open their mind and be sincere. They made conversations, which were about their confusion for life and be puzzle for artistic creation. Multifaceted sentiments were created. The goats were not vegetarian animal anymore，and the interlocutors were eating goats. An old man wanted to possess a young girl, the so-called artists were actually a tribe of infantile children. The goats were naked and waiting to be sparked…
On April 6, 2001, a gas explosion occurred in the Chenjiashan Coal Mine of the Tongchuan Mining Bureau in Shaanxi Province, killing 38 people. On November 28, 2004, a gas explosion occurred in the Chenjiashan coal mine, and 166 people were killed. Five years later, Lin Xin, the son of the miners, filmed this film about mine disasters. Through the oral interviews of more than 20 people, such as miners and family members of the victims, and random interviews on the street, the film presents the real life of the miners and the cruel and complicated social reality behind the mine disaster from different angles. This film is the end of Lin Xin's "Trilogy of Survival".
Chen came from a family of herbal doctors, who have treated numerous orthopaedics dseases, severe and minor. Chen's house, hardly a big one, have accommodated patients from different ethnic groups and from different villiages near and far. The patients found themselves recovering sooner under the care of Chen than that of doctors from large hospitals, and the charges for their treatment were rather small. Year after year, Dr. Chen dedicated himself to this charitable work... This movie attempts to show the medical conditions in remote rural areas in China as objectively as it can. Dr. Chen, as a thread, links togther the real lives of the locals presented by a group portrait of them. Also, It reveals that the traditional doctor-patient relationship has survived the aggressive modern civilization in this area, so has the culture of helpfulness common to an "aquaintance society".
In the mountains of western Fujian, mushrooms emerge in large numbers after rain. Hakka people pick mushrooms up the mountain with baskets at three or four o 'clock in the morning. The process of picking mushrooms is also the process of harvest.
Xilin Gol grassland in Inner-Mongolia is one of few natural grasslands with high-quality pasture in China. When a rich coalfield is discovered under the ground of this beautifully natural scene, the nomadic herdsmen reluctantly migrate into the cities and wave farewell to their grassland. The water levels lower, plants die, and only sandstorms remain on the prairie.
Captain of the French Gendarmerie. Special bodyguard. Trained Special Forces worldwide. Classified missions in Afghanistan and Libya. Killed 47 human traffickers in Thailand while fighting the grudge of about 8,000 people he had killed. The next generation of war non-fiction, following the world's most powerful man for four years!
At the foot of a mountain, there is a one-hundred-year-old house. Closely connected with each other, four women decide to become a real family there. In their capable hands, they build a home for women in this once deserted house.
Mottainai Kitchen is a culinary road movie, tackling the issue of food waste and other environmental issues in Japan, searching for sustainable solutions. The film follows filmmaker and food activist David Gross as he discovers the fascinating Japanese concept of “Mottainai“, meets local chefs, scientists and farmers while creating tasty recipes for a “Zero Waste Kitchen Revolution”.
Drawing on the threads of Virtual Currency and Digital Junk, Very, Very, Tremendously seeks to discuss how the acts of production and consumption from the virtual world interact systematically with reality, whilst also mirrors how the ‘two realities’ coexist in geopolitical conflict.
The footage contains scenery from various areas in Tokyo such as Akasaka, Ueno Park, and Shimbashi. As Korean subtitles are included, it is presumed to have been produced for the Korean audience. The film vividly documents sights and scenes of Tokyo including Tenryumon, a Chinese-style building that was a popular spot in Ueno Park before its destruction in the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945; the activities of the Tokyo City Youth League, established in 1925, who played a role in the support of the wartime system; people walking downtown; and the movement of a train from Shimbashi Station through Tokyo Station to Kanda Station. Acquired in 2010, and transferred in 4K resolution.
a film produced by Wang Wentao
The film shows a deep insight into the existential dimension of cheese production through fermentation processes in the interaction of people, microbes and natural elements. The result is a cheese that "reflects Japan in one bite".
Sunshine is a 20 year old young woman who served a sentence for drug abuse. Having found to be pregnant on her first day in prison, where the child was born, Sunshine was left with a new reason to live. Although in the past the relationship with her family was not the best, during the time in prison her relatives made sure they would write every day, and visited without fail. On the day of her release, she was carrying over 500 letters and a chance to turn a new page in her life.
Every mother develops an indivisible bond with her child. This connection remains forever in their resembling personalities, even after they stop living together. However, with the fast social development, from time to time, the family structure changes. My mother is a casino dealer. I forgot how long ago have we talked and listened to each other. The gentle whispers of "good morning" or "good night" are long gone from our lives.
When my parents decided to take both my grandmothers under our roof, life remained stable, despite the fact that one of them was plagued by mental illness. As time went by, however, the problems slowly started to emerge.
Although the Family is society’s smallest unit, home education may influence the development of the city in a subtle and gradual manner. What kind of belief a man raised from a grassroots family will pass to the next generation?
A year on from the 7.21 incident, the narrative of what happened that night has morphed from an attack by white-clad men on ordinary people into a violent confrontation between men in white T-shirts and men wearing black. Hong Kong Connection reviewed CCTV and online footage from the day to look for clues and track down those captured on film in a bid to understand the truth as they told it. One of the producers Choy Yuk Ling was later arrested by the Hong Kong Police Force for her involvement in this truth unveiling documentary.
It's never an easy work of making money. Some people in China devote themselves into their career in the US company AMWAY due to its rosy prospect. What they do is organizing meetings, seeking for new partners, selling products. They find it extremly exciting and inspiring. Mr Wang chose to enter in this game. He enjoyed it in spite of he never gaining from it. While his senior partner, Mr Li,was alway unstable. He confused with his future, but couldn't make a final decision of giving up. 'modus vivendi' is about people struggling, slightly, for a better life. Nobody benefited from the project, but it made things seem to be different.
It's a biographical and daily life documentary about TANAKA, Mitsu who is the legendary leader of women's liberation movement of Japan on 70's, filmed closely for four years since 2014.
Documentary about the harassment of striking garment factory workers in the city of Nakon Pathom, Thailand.
Simply start recording the niece grow up, mother in the process accidentally into the shot, watching his mother take care of nieces look, as if I saw my childhood, in the lens of the mother, suddenly became very different from her in the impression and saw her anxiety, irritability, weakness, fear, but often are niece intrusion becomes funny, witty.
Hirofumi Nakamoto collects various aquatic organisms, releases them in his house and films the scene. This is the latest work of the 'Living Creatures Sci- Fi' Series, which has been continuing since 2011.
The record is the life of several Miss Accompany. The leaves, Yang Hong, Yang Hong’s boyfriend Liang Lei, and a girl named nicknamed San Warm are the four main characters in the film. They lived together in a rented unit on the outskirts of the city, and the story started here; after 70 minutes, the characters left the city or did not know what to do - the images showed them from autumn to winter, in a foreign city The flow of. But the seasonal characteristics of such a time passage are completely unsuccessful in the film because it is a life in the dark. The characters are just awake at night, they are in nightclubs, bars, hair salons, dance halls - almost all scenes of the film have nothing to do with day, the difference between night and night, which creates a split between the two kinds of life. After the city's daily life scene, the part that is hidden. It is also secret.. https://movie.douban.com/subject/3732547/
Through close observation of autistic children and young adults (ranging from 3 to 24 years old), the film reveals the challenges of some of the fast growing, yet invisible population across China, all fighting in their own way to survive in a competitive society. The focus is on the artistic journey of some individuals who evolve through painting and music, while their parents learn to accept reality. The film questions the boundaries between "normal" and "abnormal" while capturing the unique voice of those most often silent.
The documentary takes a close look at the present situation of rural education in China. The story takes places in a over-crowded and under-funded middle school in a poor rural area of Yunnan. The school has a student population of 1,700 which is much larger than the school can handle. The film records the daily school life which includes school duties, classroom teaching, morning assembly, staff meeting, student counseling and public services, etc. The film shows the typical school life teachers and students face every day. The documentary employs the observational approach; there is no voiceover or interview.
Four armed police soldiers who work guarding an embassy in Beijing have ended their term of service. These four young men, ranging in age from 20 to 25, all worked as film projectionists for the squad, and after the final outdoor screening, each soldier marks leaving the squad in his own personal way. Ren Yong goes to Tiananmen to give blood, while Fang Lei resolves to lose his virginity. Rou Quan stands sentry one last time at his former place of work, and Cai Fengcai sings at a party for ex-servicemen. The four then leave the squad behind them, with three boarding trains back to their respective family homes, while one remains to work and be with his girlfriend in Beijing, a city which still feels unfamiliar after nine years.
A documentary that explores the life history of an 84 year old woman.
Echoes Between Seeing is an ongoing audiovisual experiment which combines 16mm travel footage shot in Spain and China with AI image-to-image processes, creating landscapes where analogue film grain meets fluid, generated forms. The original footage is continuously reprocessed, generating imagery that exists between documentation and hallucination.
Parco writes a plea letter for his younger brother Rico, arrested for his role in the 2019 Hong Kong protests. The process stirs memories of Parco’s own 2014 arrest and their emotional distance. Before Rico’s sentence, the brothers share a rare moment of connection and plan to document prison life. Parco moves abroad before Rico’s release. The family sells their home, preparing to emigrate. On a final trip to Japan, Rico briefly experiences freedom, while Parco is wrongly arrested. As the family prepares to leave Hong Kong, Parco reads his letter one last time, confronting questions of fear, freedom, and identity—as a Hongkonger and a brother.
During the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations, despite the question "Are there still people doing student movements?", there were youths guarding Gwanghwamun Square. Time passes and the director, now in her thirties, seeks out colleagues from that time when those moments began to feel meaningless. What remains for them, and how much has the world they hoped for changed? The film follows moments where past passion and present life intersect, reflecting on memories of activism and what came after.
Park Do-soon, the founder of Suneung(South Korea's College Scholastic Ability Test), had failed in his own university entrance exam. His creation—Suneung—would face similar trials. Although designed to put an end to test-oriented education, his new admissions system would be reshaped by external pressures and societal backlash against his intention. Amid the growing controversy, Suneung and the broader admissions reform faced the threat of being scrapped altogether. Ultimately, compromises were made, such as including science and social studies in the test.
Madam Ye is a documentary film on the typical exploits of Ye Shuhua, who is an internationally renowned astronomer, an important founder of astronomy in China, a strategic scientist, the first female director of an astronomical observatory in China and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The film tells the story of her 70-year dedication to astronomy.
A short film by Cho Hye Jeong