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This film is an attempt to create the certain sense of places in Manchuria. Sound and images excerpts from Manchurian action films and official photo documents of Manchuria areas are crossed to arouse sensory experiences.

Documentary about the construction of Baoji–Zhongwei railway.

The ancient craft of horsetail embroidery empowers Shui women while connecting with the global fashion scene.

Documentary about the 12-year girl who suffered from uremia and needed a kidney transplant to continue her life.

In April 1920, the Japanese army slaughtered Koreans living in Vladivostok. They also executed Korean revolutionaries such as Kim Afanasi and Alexandra Petrovna Kim before the forced migration of 1937. The scenes of Korean genocide in Ussuriysk and Vladivostok make up the exile trilogy prequel, and archives history on screen.

Micronesia transitioned from Spanish, German, and Japanese colonies to American rule. The film follows survivors of the Pacific War, including conscripts from Korea, and questions the history of the modern era of invasion.

A short documentary film by Soh Ideuchi.

Homecoming is a two-track visual poem following Akio Yuguchi’s journey back into his childhood and his quest for coming to terms with living abroad far from his former home. Facing up to past and future challenges, the protagonist decides to send a letter of condolence to his father, who lives in Japan in a high-risk area for earthquakes and tsunamis. Through the rhythm of his reflective soliloquy, the desire for homecoming sounds a bell for the departed while heralding the dawn of a new life.

A film that looks back at the death of his sister in his childhood, dealing with personal grief and guilt from past and present.

“Tian Tong Yuan” is the life of the group-renting north drift graduates in Beijing. With my 4-month exprience living there together with them, I shoot this documentary, which describes the life of the north drifts graduates living in cellar. It reveals tha fact under the big pressure in finding jobs and high house prices, the 'ant tribe' have to live in a poor condition and have to face the great contrast between the dream after university graduation and the true world.For them, the glory of 'the chosen one' had already faded away and the life of being a 'north drift' make them struggle for survival. How to climb out of the underclass is the qusetion just as how to move out of their cellars, making them entangled every day. It is also worth thinking that can knowledge really change fate?

In democratic countries, the media is the mouthpiece of the public. However, in a Shenzhen TV station where protecting the interests of the Party trumps all, reporters are merely mouthpieces of the government. 'First Spot' is a TV programe that investigates social disparities in the community, but most of their coverage is 'buried' away. The film follows the daily operations of the TV station and hits the streets with the reporters who attempt to unveil the city and its people in all its different forms and faces.

The film explores a piece of a family past from a hundred years ago. Through the narration of a photo album by one of the family members, a history of regional migration caused by social changes is revealed. From hallucination, the protagonist's nostalgia for old photos and longing for the past merge into one.

The People’s Commune Assembly Hall was an iconic site for political gatherings and propaganda during China’s national collectivisation period between the 1950s and 1980s. Its physical space, the projected space and the reconstructed filmic space are juxtaposed, amplifying the inherent narrative capacity of the commune hall.

“Road to Human Rights” revisits Taiwan’s authoritarian past through the stories of four political prisoners during the nation’s White Terror era. The documentary resonates with viewers across generations, especially younger activists, who play a crucial role in effecting change in Taiwan’s politics and society.

Attending a straight friend’s wedding, I feel incredibly jealous. I recently broke up with my girlfriend of three years, and I was sure I would be the first to get married. People say celebrations are reciprocal, but as a queer person, I wonder if I will ever get my wedding gift money back. While I hope that same-sex marriage is possible, I question whether the institution of ‘marriage’ is truly necessary for living well together.

A re-examination of the case of Masumi Hayashi, sentenced to death for arsenic poisoning of 63 victims at a summer festival in 1998.

This documentary explores karakami, a patterned decorative paper hand printed onto washi. The director visits the Karacho studio, established 400 years ago, whose 11th generation master - Kenkichi Senda, still produces karakami using the original woodblocks from the studio's founding. We see how pattern making developed, drawing inspiration from other cultures, back in time to the rock carvings at Val Camonica.

Miss Kim Lilac is a story about a lilac tree called ‘Miss Kim’ that was brought to america from its native korea and named by an american botanist. The tree's name, which has changed over time as it moved across countries, is an imprint of colonial history, female objectification, capitalization of nature, and the migration of korean women.

There was a tale about a city... There was a tale about a city... There was a tale about a city... (A Thai folk tale about a sunken ancient city intercut with contemporary pictures of Bangkok.)

Born in a remote mountain village, Lan is a transgender woman missing home but unable to return to it.

Regarding the lives and struggles of feminists Li Maizi and Xiao Meili, she took her home for the first time to meet her father

A vivid portrayal of the world of so-called “tekiya” street hawkers who make a living on the fringes of festivals, centering on the big boss of the entire Kyushu region.

This film depicts Li Rong, a modern rural youth, and through his continuous efforts, he never forgets his original intention. He went to the city to seek more opportunities and better development. Faced with the pressure of urban life, he did not compromise with life. Faced with family pressure to get married, he also pursued his own love. After Li Rong found a job in the city, he worked seriously, diligently and steadfastly, winning the respect of his colleagues and the appreciation of his boss.

The government's discriminatory policies, wars, profit-seeking politicians, and capitalistic exploitation forced indigenous peoples to leave ...

Now I understand that the more completely the dinosaurs were annihilated, the wider their domain extended. They not only controlled the forests that covered the continents, but also penetrated into the depths of human thought that remained on Earth. Starting from the ancient, fear and doubt inducing ancestors, they continuously stretched out their necks and raised their claws, expanding their domain.（Calvino "The Dinosaurs."）

Nobody likes to play tennis with Tyrano so he endlessly hits the ball against the wall – until one day he meets Brachi. Playing a match, however, doesn’t quite work out as Brachi keeps falling over. Tyrano tries everything to make Brachi stay and finds out in the end that all the other dinos have their problems, too. But hey, whatever!

The documentary The Last Year of Darkness is a tantalizing portrait of the underground scene in Chengdu, China. Now IDFA is bringing that scene to real life at an Amsterdam club. This dance event will feature scenes from the hundreds of hours of raw material and music by the film’s stars and editor.

Dao-Shun Zhang began to study magic with his magician father, Qing-Zhou Zhang, at the age of 3. He is a child with moderate to severe hearing impairment. His father led him into the world of magic. At the age of 15, he has participated in magic competitions all over the world, but Dao-Shun said that he has lost his passion for magic. He does not want to continue to make a living as a magician in the future, but his magician father expects him to inherit the family business. Now Dao-Shun is faced with the career choice of the junior high school entrance examination. How should Daoshun face his future?

How can we excavate and rewrite the stories of ghostly beings, intertwined in places banished from our senses? To do this, we sift through the debris of history, scrupulously collecting and connecting stories, while distorting the time like a botanist on the asphalt, as dislocated botanists, twisting the time of a smiling garden into a stroll to reminisce – to embrace repressed, estranged kinship.

Test prep students and filmstrips cannot resist (p). However, I have doubts about the preceding proposition (p) by making the following playful arrangement or associative reasoning, and I try to examine the possibility of its negation (~p). {α(1)=CSAT(수능), α(2)=Conformity(순응), α(3)=Non-CSAT(비수능), α(4)=Non-Conformity(비순응), α(5)=Anti-CSAT(반수능), α(6)=Anti-Conformity(반순응), ... , α(2n-1)=?, α(2n)=?, …} This work is filled with direct or indirect image(s) related to this arrangement or reasoning. Between the chain(s) of these image(s), there is (I believe) a certain emotion mixed with anxiety, remorse, anger, etc.

Xiao Nong is a young farmer who has worshiped his ancestors from the time he was a child. When he prays to his ancestral spirits and his mother is not healed, he gets disillusioned. As a friend tells him the the good news, an animated Zhuang-style cartoon tells the gospel story from creation to Christ. He believes in Jesus, his life is changed, and he begins to tell his friends and family about his new faith.

More than 60 years ago, my father followed his parents and took the train to Kaohsiung. Little did he know it was a one way trip and grew up in Liuhe Night Market ever since. Then he became a Japanese tour guide, traveling around and accompanying countless families. The most complete time we spent together was to go out with my father’s group–a way to improve intimacy. Due to the pandemic, his work has been suspended. If the past is a kind of scenery where sight-seeing is laid above; this film is a journey of himself.

Li Sheng Zhao was born in a landlord family in Sichuan. He used to be a soldier, and then became a student in the Department of Economics at Sichuan University in the spring of 1961. After he became a rightist, Mr. Li was escorted to his hometown of Long Chang County in Sichuan province. He observed that people were dying with hunger in his way to hometown. With his investigative experience in army, Mr. Li was called for conscience and justice, and started a private investigation. He braved the risk of death to write this hunger report to the central party committee leaders, requesting them to take measures to save the country. Although he received a reply from Ma Yin Chu, the former president of Peking University, and Deng Zi Hui, the former vice premier of the State Council, this did not prevent him from becoming a counter-revolutionary and getting into jail for 18 years.

The villagers of Longsheng Village, Zaoqiao Township, Miaoli, have persevered through the threat of mob violence to protect their hometown from being polluted by business waste. After 20 years of struggle, victory is now in sight. However, cases of illegal dumping of business waste are still occurring near villages everywhere in Taiwan, and we are all implicit. How will the future of Taiwan look?

To solve the problem of styrofoam, an adventure of beach cleanup in Penghu began. It started with a two-person studio and expanded to include many environmentalists. As they set foot on the small offshore islands to clean up beaches, challenges arose in the process. Is the carbon footprint generated during beach cleanup more environmentally unfriendly? How to deal with the piles of litter? These problems came as a great blow to them, just like waves crashing on the shore.

The sounds of nature: the chirping of insects, the calls of birds, the rustling of leaves in the wind, the gurgling of rivers, the buzz of lumberjacks' chainsaws, and the noise of excavators...