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Kenji Shiratori, a blind man, visited an art museum for the first time on a date with his girlfriend. That day, as he listened to the words spoken in front of the work, he began to think, Maybe it's possible to see art even if you're completely blind.

Witness the miraculous spectacle of the full moon night, drawing people from all directions, brimming with faith and eager eyes. Amidst the enigmatic occurrences that defy explanation, we delve into the essence of creation, guided by the legendary tales of the wise, unveiling intricate truths for all to behold.

On November 28, 1820, Engels was born into a family of factory owners in Wuppertal, a small town in the Rhine Province of Germany. He received a good education since he was a child. Although he was born into a family of factory owners, Engels was very sympathetic to the working people and often gave the money he saved to the poor. These actions aroused his father's dissatisfaction, resulting in a very tense relationship between father and son. The film crew visited Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, etc. country, photographed the actual places where Engels lived and worked, and invited authoritative research scholars at home and abroad to interpret his life. ■

Maria has been dreaming about escaping from her slum neighborhood in Davao, Philippines, and getting a job abroad. When Maria was introduced to a talent manager, Madam Yolie, her dream was about to come true.

An ex-Red Guard and anti-Communist soldier during the Korean War, started a three-generation family next to Taoyuan Air Base. Despite the base's historical significance during Japanese occupation and the Cold War, the Taoyuan Aerotropolis project will erase its rich history by 2025, marking another loss in Taiwan's disappearing past.

The Tano Bora, meaning ‘The Magnificent Five’ in Swahili, was the famed cheetah coalition here in the Masai Mara—captivating observers with their stealth, strategy, and striking beauty. The artist follows one of the cheetahs from the perspective of a follower, intuitively and visually connecting the traces of movement in the wilderness. The body image is used as a means of creation to extend the habitat of the animals beyond the frame. In this way, the cycle of "life and death" is explored, thus visually touching the traces of the fate of wild animals.

This is the first film in a series of works by the artist to engage with ways of coming to knowledge of the ecosystems of language. Its Chinese title translates directly as "the sky rained grain," the phrase used by the legendary Cangjie to describe the creation of Chinese characters, as recorded in the Huainanzi. Its first short film, but this is the language we met in, is where trees, teeth, and spoken words cross beyond the threshold of re-relating. Many elements in the film are of a learning process, of a word’s relation to language, a language’s expression to another, of wood in room returning to tree in soil, of teeth evoking bone memories — its 400 million year evolution from fish scales, of working together, and of a new story revealing itself. Instead of coming to terms with or tracing the complexity of a loss, the series proposes a different position in relation to the pain of losing.

An elderly couple runs a store in a hillside neighborhood that was busy when it first opened but is now quiet. As the couple gets older, they spend more time apart than together, yet the time they spend together is still full of affection. It is the story of a couple that appear cold on the surface but have a kind heart.

It's about my family's self-disclosure. In 2007, I involved in the divorce of parents with holding the camera, from 2008 to 2010, I further explores the reasons.

The CCTV New Year's Gala, also known as the Spring Festival Gala (Chunwan in short) is a Chinese New Year special produced by China Central Television (CCTV). The program is a variety show, often featuring music, dance, comedy, and drama performances, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's most watched television program.

Documenting Grandpa Wang's life in the preceding days of the Chinese Lunar New Year.

In the dream I had one early morning in 2014, I was sitting in the backseat of a car. The driver suddenly turned to look at me and said: Why aren't you filming? It was my second elder sister who had already passed away. After her death, I began to keep a diary and take pictures. When I got a video camera, I began to film the daily life of my family. I filmed out of the fear of death and loss. The idea was to capture everything on film before it disappeared. 2015 was the 20th anniversary of my sister's death. That dream seemed to tell me to face her death. Death did not stop the passing of time, and the family members I was filming continued to avoid their grief which hadn't subsided with time. Birth and death continue to alternate in our lives, and we are always getting ready for the day when we must say goodbye.

This documentary closely follows two Japanese individuals who have undergone body modification, a major cultural trend overseas. Through images and provocative statements, the documentary delves into the inner world of these individuals, challenging the impression that they are only feared based on their appearance.

This is the story that happened two days before and after my cousin's wedding. Because the Taoist said my zodiac was bad and would bring bad luck to the wedding, I had to stay alone in a room. The door of that room became the only channel for me to communicate with the outside world at that time. The people and things you can see are also the whole world I can see. (Zonghua Li)

In this work, the artist borrows the figure of Sophon from Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy The Three-Body Problem to envision an alien anthropologist’s journey to Earth.

Trans woman? Homosexual? Pansexual? Beijinger? Geek girl? Beatbox？Christian? Game addict? Actress? Bean pole? Cosmetic surgery failure? Long haired? Flirt? How many more tags to you need to fully understand her? Let us enter the world of Sisi together.

Documentary director Chen Jiaping is also a poet. He used his mobile phone to record the most authentic and vibrant lives of poets in this era. Poets Ma Hua, Ma Yan, and Hu Xudong passed away at a young age, symbolizing the beginning of the decline of poets born in the 1970s. Kun Niao, a poet from the 1980s, leads an unstable life, and neither of his parents attended his wedding. Chen Jiaping plans poetry events for the post-90s young poets, and young poet Zhang Xiaozhen finds this very meaningful. However, when his father comes to Beijing, facing Chen Jiaping's poetry and family life, it is nothing short of a judgment on his existential ethics.

This documentary thoroughly examines America's greatest urban legend, John Titor, a self-proclaimed time traveler from the year 2036, and the many prophecies he left behind. In addition, the film also explores the future prophecies he left behind with experts.

Part of the route and journey of the people's voice. After the voice of the people has been raised.

This film documents the real-life situations of live-streaming influencers, fans, and practitioners on Kuaishou in Guangzhou, China, in 2022.

When I accidentally found out that my grandmother had two names, Oksoon and Chunja, I was fascinated by the countless stories she told me. The distant and the not-so-distant stories, were sometimes trivial, sometimes overwhelming. During the filming, meeting Chunja, whom I had not known, and Oksoon, my maternal grandmother, repeated. I recorded the daily labor of Oksoon, who had lived as a woman and an ordinary citizen through the Japanese colonial days.

If there is no utopia on the map of this world, then this world is not worth considering. Independent documentary director Sun Zhiqiang has always maintained a firm belief in Utopia, and has regarded it as his consistent state of existence and creative practice guidelines. From the first part of "The Edge of Freedom" to the "Utopia" ", Sun Zhiqiang has always focused his camera on the group of people living on the edge of freedom in the underground rock circle, faithfully witnessing their changes over the past ten years. In "Utopia", we not only experience a journey in the lives of these musicians, but we also learn about the things around them and the wider environment.

Jinu is unable to cry when he wants to. So, He learns to cry and express emotions through acting class.

On weekdays at 8am, Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) protests at the subway platforms in Seoul. The protest demands policy and budget for disabled people living in the community. SADD’s year-long subway action, which began in December 2021, delays subway trains during rush hour, greets incoming trains at the platform, to call out to the public. On a busy commute, on a subway that doesn't move, some are silent, some cheer, and some swear. SADD claims, "We want to move around together, to be educated together, to work together, and to live in the community together." Their repeated protests and actions on subway platforms have started to draw reaction from the government, the politicians, the media, and the citizens.

A short film by Rhee Hun

The second part of the documentary trilogy "Northwest Lu", "Alzheimer" focuses on the state of life of the elderly in their twilight years, mainly by showing the relationship between mother and daughter (there are also a part of mother and child relationship) to describe the real state of life of the elderly in their twilight years; it also describes the daily conversations between the grandparents and the life imagery hidden in the details of life; Alzheimer is not a disease, but just a part of the elderly walking through life. Alzheimer's is not a disease, but just a part of the life of the elderly, which is equivalent to the process of the reverse growth of life consciousness, and to look down on the boundaries of life and death; in addition to this, there is also the significance of the quietness of the cozy village life.

A short documentary about Jimmy, a black Taiwanese drag queen. The film considers the socio-cultural complexities of the protagonists's mixed parentage. With a contemporary urban narrative, it incorporates animation to create an affectionately comical insight.

The film depicts a corporatocracy dystopia in which a neoliberal regime of multinational corporations govern society, bringing suffering. Under the rule of this globe-wide empire, the unemployed, psychiatric patients, as well as those who have either little faith in society or advocate views contrary to the mainstream, are increasingly excluded and are brought to a place called the Transit Area via the Biofunction Optimization Support Program. These outcasts are trapped in a labyrinthine space created by the system where they can only wait to be expended in biological experiments. These supposedly worthless people slowly commence to dismantle reality and the system’s lie of a bright future through both inner monologues and vocal utterances.

This is a story about Yang Yang, a lonely deaf girl who's finding friends, and about the director, Yuen Nanhsi, who meets her by chance. Their lives intertwine with each other, revealing the difficulties the youth face and their longing for the future.

Here we meet a Japanese immigrant who traveled across the world at a young age and paved a unique path to success.

“One Day I Will Return Home" is the story of Taiwanese veteran, Lai Xing-yang and his imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp. Although the story contains nothing that pushed the events along or heroics of any kind, his 96 years of life were still filled with shocking moments!

This story begins with a photo taken a century ago during the colonial era. The director goes to Yeongdeungpo with a camera to find any trace or signs of factory girls in the photo. There are no large factories anymore, only apartments, department stores, racetracks, inns, steel factories, restaurants, unidentified places, or empty ruins. Through the lives and landscapes of Yeongdeungpo, the director wants to discover any traces that factory girls might have left.

Being a lesbian in Korea is hard. Marriage, a happy future, or even one’s own death seem far away. So this unique woman makes an unconventional choice – she arranges her first funeral.

A bamboo forest becomes a city with bustling streets that then smoothly transform into photographs: never really in focus, ever more fragmentary and blurred. Born in Gunsan and after seven years, I was repatriated to Japan… begins as a formidable exercise in fūkei-ron, only to turn into a meditation on what remains of the past, with worlds, eras and personal views colliding.

Rong Geng was born in a family of calligraphy and eunuchs in Dongguan in the late Qing Dynasty. He was a pioneer in the field of ancient philology in our country. This documentary adopts the shooting method of combining biography and current reality, closely follows the theme of "home and country in the half-life collection", and tells the feelings of Rong Geng's family and country through the perspective of Mr. Rong Geng's descendants.

An educative film about the water supply and watersystems in small towns and villages in Japan. It captures the unsanitary and inconvenient lifestyles without water supply through examples from various places, and shows how life can be brighter if a small but managed water supply is installed. The first film directed by Susumu Hani, produced under the auspices of the Ministry of Health.

Thirty-year-old Sisi is a World Boxing Council Asia Title champion and the mother of a three-year-old boy. Not only will she have the opportunity to fight in a potentially career-changing International Boxing Federation match, she will also be taking full-time care of her son. Sisi was born and raised in a conservative family who believe—as many do in China—that motherhood is a woman’s most important job. After her son was born, Sisi suffered severe postnatal depression. Boxing became her way out, away to show the world she existed. With her athletic career reinvigorated, Sisi is constantly dodging accusations about her life choices. Can Sisi win inside and outside of the ring?

While images are forgotten and returned to memory in a spinning motility, the empty point of view returns to the viewer and repetition returns to the uninterpretable dimension.

"Nan Xia the Tramping Tiger" used to be the favorite show of Zhu, Ching-Quei, the founder and first-generation director of Shinergy Puppet Show Theatre, as it has been a renowned masterpiece of this theatre for years. When Zhu Ching-Quei died from disease in 2015, his eldest son Zhu, Sheng-Chueh started to take the helm of theatre, but was faced with a dire crisis in the fast-changing world. Then his younger brother proffered an idea of using projection mapping to create the best ever Golden Light Puppet Show. Hence the two brothers are faced with a tug-of-war between tradition and innovation.

In Hpakant, Myanmar, poor young people are numerous. Some of them engage in drug trafficking and make a living out of it. Some of them choose to leave Hpakant in pursuit of love. Some of them stay in Hpakant and dream that the jade hidden in the mountains might be the hope of improving their future lives; thus they often sing this song: “…before the best of luck comes, don’t underestimate we, jade miners…”.

That old street is no longer flourish. The walls have fallen and houses were abandoned. But still living for those who were forgotten by times. Grandpas playing cards, chatting and drinking tea, Grandmas doing laundries…. They slept inside the old house, but doing everything outside the house. They helped each other, day by days, year by years.

A short documentary for the 40th anniversary of the Thammasat University massacre, remembering the event from the point of view of the victims