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Amidst an economic slowdown, China's freelance truck drivers risk their very lives to earn money traversing the road to Tibet, feared as the most dangerous in the country.

Reports of UFO activity in the Soviet Union.

A vividly colourful video piece by Mai Endo and Aya Momose, in which the two artists knead clay while discussing the notion of 'ideal genitalia'

I continue to indulge in the illusion that I am a fish.

I often envisioned floating images. Not knowing where they were heading or why they were drifting left me feeling uneasy. So, I decided to observe from a distance. I layered the moments when I felt myself floating over the gestures of drifting. Could the image of floating, settled onto film, provide answers to these questions?

This film begins from what is unseen rather than what is seen. The act of connecting fragments is carried out by the audience. Images that were once unrelated become intertwined, and something unfolds in the spaces between them. That which does not flow is dead. Fragment is a collection of images derived from this sentence.

Documentary about a mother trying to find the cure for her autism son and started Stars and Rain Education Institute to help parents with autism children.

Ode I is a document of the filmmaker's two female friends over four years. Their S&M show's violent scenes are another world and a strong contrast to their everyday life with their cats, in their peaceful garden, and walking among the trees.

On March 1993, the Daguan Village in Jilin Province started to re-elect the members for the Village Committee. It was the first time for them to use the write-in election process.

An animated documentary about the life experiences of people with vitiligo.

Documentary on the film Terra Formars.

Story of Fletcher Hanks trying to search Plane 53, a World War II vintage freight plane that crashed March 11, 1943, while flying the supply route from northeast India over the Himalaya Mountains to China. From his first attempt in 1944 to finally located the wreckage in 1997.

This is an installation documentary created in 2015. The quiet process of making boxes indoors reflects the author's patience and caution, the narration when the screen is black reflects the author's familiarity and confidence in what he wants to express, and the dodging perspective and trembling picture when facing the crowd outdoors reflect the photographer's cramped and alienated. A lot of things happened after 2015, and the film was re-edited. The current version has almost used the best materials of that year.

The ubiquitous loudspeakers, television propaganda and slogans in towns and villages are constantly instilling the will of the powers that be and the alienation of thinking in the minds of the people. Men, women, and children of all ages are trapped in a huge brainwasher-like airbag promoted by propagandists, and they roll forward and backward.

A lyrical reflection on the commodification of affection takes place among the spectacular forms of carbon. The sounds, broken down into acoustic and synthetic sections and composed into an urgent poem, are accompanied by images taken from documentary and fictional forms and folded into visual reflections on light, its refraction and decay. Sound details coalesce into a spatial formation, and randomness gives way to a solid structure.

Park Sungeum is an elderly woman who lives in a shabby tile-roofed house. The eaves of her roof are sagging, and the utilities have been cut off. When she is not at home, she goes to a local Senior Citizens Centre. The centre is her shelter when it gets bitterly cold in winter. She usually spends a day, however, by the wooden gate at the entrance of her house. By the gate, there is clutter of clothes, dishes, a table and a plastic bag of miscellaneous items. A cat is also leashed there in the dark, and Sungeum cares for the cat.

Years after a fire burned down the infamous Moria camp in 2020, the living situation of refugees in Greece is still dire. Noemí, the Spanish photographer, shares the story of the Instagram project Now You See Me Moria, which she initiated with Amir, an Afghan refugee in Moria. Determined to change the often one-dimensional media portrayal of refugees and raise awareness of human rights violations, Now You See Me Moria depicts the daily lives of refugees through their eyes. Volumetric Interviews follows their memories with Noemí and transforms the videos recorded inside the refugee camps into 3D landscapes, bringing Noemí and the interviewer digitally to the camps. Through the inherently limited view resulting from the cameras’ perspective from the original videos, Volumetric Interviews challenges the limitations of information in humanitarian crises.

Memories, places and experiences are compiled in a short film showing the filmmakers own diary of various places within Japan.

The story of a famous whale restaurant in Japan.The documentary film "Whale Restaurant" presents the story of a whale restaurant that has attracted the interest of many people around the world. It is a unique film that shows for the first time the little-known and mysterious whale restaurant.

Adopted by a Dutch family, a young woman has struggled not to feel like a stranger in a country so far from her birthplace, Taipei, and has always longed for a place to feel truly at home. With this desire, she embarks to Taipei on a journey of self-discovery.

The film focuses on the struggle to stop the transportation of U.S. military fuel tanks and follows the young workers who are fighting together under the banner of anti-Vietnam war, anti-reorganization struggles, and stopping the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.

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.

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......

Xiaolong and Tala were ruffians who feel pound walking on the street. Tala stole a DV, Xiaolong fell in love with the girl in the DV tape. By chance, he met her, Yu Qian, a girl who was studying drawing. She studied in the same studio as Wang Hui. When developing friendship with Xiaolong, she indeed loved her teacher. The thirst and shyness for love has cast shadow on the young girl's life. And Wang Hui had also lost in the swirl of love and jealousy. Tala hurt someone and had to run away police. Xiaolong helped Tala's escape, and asked gang members to resolve the problem. Tala had once again returned the town.

The two films: < The Cormorant and the Lake> and < The Old Man and the Lake> follow the life of a fisherman or a lake guardian who are away from the modernization while leading a simple peaceful life incoherent to the Nature. It unfolds to the audience how important role of traditional culture in protecting the environment and how important the environment is.

This film tells the story of a father (the director himself) who was trapped at home during the COVID-19 epidemic. In order to improve his relationship with his son, he took the initiative to bathe and wash his hair. The 3-year-old son has an "Oedipus complex". He is too attached to his mother and inexplicably resists his father, which makes his father a little jealous.

The title of the film, "The Sea Breeze", is about the strong winds flowing from sea to the land. Also, it reflects the living style of people who live in Da-chih village. Over the labor, activities and conversations between the villagers, we can observe the relations between people and the natural environment. The film tries to illustrate the feelings of changing and remaining with long takes. Besides, the ecology and evolution of the old abandoned houses present the trace and texture of time and space, people and memories. Lifeless as they seem to be, they imply great power.

During the period from 2011 to 2013, The Physical Guerrillas created, lived and thought with a porcelain doll disease. Focusing on the live performance of 《Limbs》, the state of the folk theater troupe of that period is presented around the front and back of the stage.

After a heartbreaking experience at school, a teacher took her own life. Her father, a potter, was devastated and could not fire his kiln for a long time. 15 months after his daughter`s death, he finally fires the kiln again. As he watches the flames, he begins to sing a song in her memory. Through the very personal story of the deceased teacher`s family and an artist, this documentary delves into the challenges of the education system in South Korea and reveals the path to healing.

The tale of a stateless boy on Phayam Island, who grew up by the sea, dreaming of becoming a world-class surfer, only to have his dreams dashed by legal constraints that cruelly confined his aspirations.

Jinshan Temple is the only Buddhist temple built on water in China, which dates back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), almost a thousand years in the past. Observant Buddhist believers often converge here to perform a rite known as "fangsheng", or "life release", which refers to the practice of saving animals from captivity and releasing them into the water. The film tries to form a slice of the history of this eternal artificial architecture through ecology, geography and folklore. A Gopro camera was tied to a turtle that was released in the river to inspect the underwater space of the temple.

"Separation" is an essay documentary that delves into the intricate relationship and conflicts between contemporary Taiwanese society and European and American values. This exploration takes place through the lens of three millennial Taiwanese artists who share their overseas experiences during the pandemic and post-pandemic era. Hsiao-Chu resides in New York, Shou-An in London, and Chen-Yi in Philadelphia, each offering a unique perspective on the evolving immigrant status, personal exploration of sexuality, and the artist's profound understanding of self and community.

When Director Laway was small, his father began working as crew on fishing boats out of the port of Kaohsiung. All through his youth, Laway's mother took him by Kinmen bus from Taitung to Kaohsiung to visit his father every year or two. Amis people have worked on fishing boats for years, and such family visits were common in the years from 1940 to 1960. With permission granted in April of 2013, Director Laway picked up his camera to film six of the Amis crew members. He boarded a Taiwanese ocean-going ship on Bona Bei island - an American possession in the South Pacific. With this ship he followed a purse seiner for 20 days, filming the crew's hard work and difficult life. To conclude, how was Laway’s father able to get through twenty years of his working career as a crew member? The director's only assistant is the son of a photographer - Mayaw‧Laway

What if Putin’s Russia in 2022 had never happened? Such is the hypothesis of this historical-hysterical dystopia, partly generated by AI, and driven by our political unconscious.

This tells the real life stories of four queer Hong Kong (trans)migrants born in the 1980s, for whom the experience of immigration and diaspora is intertwined with childhood memories of Hong Kong under the no longer existing British colonial rule. This reconstructs their nostalgic homes in virtual reality (VR), that draws attention to diasporic narratives and cultural archives through the process of cognitively metaphorical ‘returns’.

Child Portrait is a mirror that presents life from multiple perspectives, reflecting the various relationships between the self and others, and the issues that come with different emotions. Painting is not simply a thinlayered medium presenting one's skills, but an art of deep understanding and acceptance. The painting throws out questions, and I walk into the world of the painting with my camera to find answers with the painter across time and space.

Beginning with a woman describing traumatic scenes in her family, the film uses a non-linear and mise-en-abyme narrative to make it difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction.

When a boat sets off, passengers may anticipate their destination's appearance. Some believe imagination can transport them, while others need firsthand experience. The story of Keelung Islet documents both a process and a state of consciousness.

"I've been screening film works for nearly 50 years, and out of the many screenings I've been to, there have been two times when the audience fainted. My work "Memories of the Seaside" and a certain work by Mari Terajima. However, Hideto Ishii's "Lights" was the only one that immediately after the screening, one audience member exclaimed, "It's amazing!" and stood up and applauded. When I thought who it was, it turned out to be the filmmaker Isao Kota. Sitting through this film for nearly 50 minutes can be a pain. However, what is unfolding here is neither a spectacular view nor a visual pleasure. If you were to ask me what it was, I would have to say "abyss." That's why I'm attracted to. As you watch this movie, you can eliminate the distractions that occupy most of your mind one by one. After just under 50 minutes, you might be able to reach some kind of catharsis." — Mikio Yamazaki

Siufung attempts to formulate transgender subjectivity by retelling his own gender struggle through poetry and experimental video.

Having existed for over two thousand years, the Guqin is one of China's most original string instruments. In the year 2019, the 82-year-old Guqin master, Wong Duo, reluctantly performed in his hometown of Suzhou, where his lifelong dedication to the revival of traditional silk string style has made him a minority among the predominant steel string players. To support him, Li Guo, Wong's youngest disciple whose playing strongly echoes that of her master's, invited Wong to give a truly authentic Guqin concert in the modern cosmopolitan of Shenzhen, in order to reach a larger and more diverse audience.

Muay Thai was introduced to Taiwan when Thai migrant laborers came here to work. Han Reng-ding, a Taiwanese who for a long time had no fixed address, joined Li-Chin muay thai at age 22 and, for the first time, found a sense of belonging as he was learning the martial art. The boxing gym’s Thai head coach, Sonsumrit, took special care of him, and the migrant Thai workers taught him everything they knew about boxing and life. They were as close as family members for six years. However, Han’s life will unfold differently due to a new plan.

In the midst of political battles, people sang together, hoping for solidarity and a brighter future. The lyrics and syllables people used to chant always seemed to align with the song's ideals, but in reality, it's heading to a blurry past. The Maeng-Kong's cry, however, is not tied to a specific era that people yearned for. Their song simply echoes as their mating call rather than a political statement. The sound "Maeng-Kong-(Croak- Croak-)" howls; could we imagine a space of struggle and solidarity once more?

What would it be if anything had bloomed from where everything collapsed? Amid the pouring out of irreducible beings, some endure time and space that are only shattered and torn apart.