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A documentary that follows mothers and their children who continue to live in both Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union and Fukushima in Japan after nuclear power plant accidents

A proprietor of a video company has racked up many debts due to filming, so he began his bidding life. During this time, he bid on a case which was a continuation of a young artist that he had worked with together before. The artist is full of talent, but he has always been ignored, and his heart is filled with depression. The two intend to expose the enviroment of the artistic world through this shooting so as to relive their sorrows. However, with the production of the film, will the two ease their sorrows, or will they increase them instead?

The film observes life of several shaolin monks and serbian young female anthropologist who came to conduct fieldwork. With so much chaos in today’s world, can these insiders and outsiders find the buddhist inner peace and the ending of suffering here?

Shibuya Crossing is one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in the world, with 2.4 million people crossing each day. This Tokyo Cityscape shows the sights and sounds of Shibuya Crossing to make you feel as if you were there.

A man and a woman are watching television on the beach. The television shows a film taken a year ago on the beach, which is adapted from the man's novel. Frame In Frame foregrounds the concept of intellectual play related to the cinema.​

Filipinos are frequent winners of global beauty pageants. They craze over pageantry not only in the Philippines, but everywhere the two million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) work. Factory OFWs Robin, John Louie and Raymond are candidates of the Ginoong Taiwan pageant held in Hsinchu. Can they grasp their dreams as they embark on the journey of companion and competition for the crown?

Shiba Inu dogs have quite the personality and are now more popular than ever. Discover their unique traits by watching personal episodes with their owners and "digging" the latest scientific findings.

Lee Yunjeong, my mother, who was devoted to church, stopped attending after the Sewol ferry disaster. Instead, she started going to work at the office of a human rights group for migrants in Ilsan. As her daughter and a film director, I began filming her surprising and unfamiliar transition.

2016 Auntie Li's 16-year-old daughter was raped and killed at the New Oriental Foreign Language School in Beijing. in February 2018, the murderer filed an appeal and she came to Beijing to seek justice for her daughter. Finding her daughter's belongings lost at the school, she was turned away from the school. She hated the murderer and couldn't forgive herself or let go of her daughter

An ethnographic film about the Shiraoi Ainu

Documentary on the making of the 1983 film Antarctica. Filmed during production.

With the arrival of an outsider, a peasant woman in rural China begins to sense the repressive, patriarchal bindings of her fate. A fruit tree fights to bloom. The Funeral of Spring is a deeply symbolic, intimate and languidly pastoral exploration of a woman’s sense of self in an environment devoid of female autonomy.

It's about an Elite in thai media that falling in love with 'farmer life' The found footage documentary, which shows conflicts between the idea of rural and city, monarchy and democracy, left and right, myth and ideal in thailand.

This documentary film is based on the works done over the period from May 2005 to February 2006. It featured a homeless community named The House Living Together which attempted to squat as a way of demonstration of the poor for the first time in Korea. The film followed the homeless' efforts with their determination on self-help and the squat process. Following the people closely, this documentary film tried to observe what the house means to human beings and how housing rights shall be realized in this society. Housing can be the primary condition for the homeless to maintain hope in their life. However, once a house was secured for them, the initial questions began to transform.

The analogue film maps our perception of the environment and how we relate to it through different perspectives and the influence of various changes. Do we perceive the city – the space we have been familiar with – in the same way when we look at it in hindsight from a plane window or watch it in a shaky 8mm video?

“The third part of the series focuses on western Tottori. There is a strong sense of community among the organisations that are active in the area. Not only do members gather on the days of the events, but they regularly share their passion and are quick to offer a helping hand. Viewing experiences consist of more than just the featured film or video. There are parts of it that can’t be quantified, so I hurried to make note of them before they faded from memory.” Sasaki Yusuke

“I headed to central Tottori, the focus of the second part of the series. On this journey, I met with many makers of independent films and documentaries. As I spoke with them, through my hazy surroundings, I began to see my next destination.” — Sasaki Yusuke

What is it like to be queer and Chinese? We met with some people and couples from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and Singapore. 5 beautiful and intimate stories that question identities, love, relationships and other personal queer experiences.

"We dream of a world where we can find our own way." If a woman removes the option of 'marriage' from her life, even those who see her for the first time predict her miserable future. The old belief that a woman's life has a happy ending only when she ends up as a 'wife' or 'mother' is still alive in 2020. Now in 2020, many women are throwing away old customs and flying into their own world. This documentary sheds light on the stories of women who are walking the path of singleness over time. Through this documentary, I hope that the freedom is expanded into two options, and thus make women's daily lives more diverse and free.

Taking us from Hong Kong's 1997 handover from British rule into Chinese administrative control, all the way to 2019, when a controversial extradition bill is greeted with massive street protests, this urgent film beds in with Hong Kong's pro-democracy demonstrations, offering a frontline portrait of four young protesters through a year of struggle. We see their hopes for a freer life and feel their fears as the authorities crack down. Pulse-racing scenes bring the viewer to street level, where peaceful protest is met with fury and tear gas. Clear-eyed about the complications and contradictions that come with a movement that changed Hong Kong forever, Hong Kong: City on Fire is a brave document of troubled times.

A documentary that is closely tied to "Kodomonosato," a playground that has served Kamagasaki, Nishinari-ku, Osaka, known as the "city of day labourers," as a place for kids to unwind for 38 years. No matter their disabilities or countries, "Kodomonosato" admits kids from 0 to 20 years old for free. It serves as a bustling gathering spot where parents and children who are temporarily away from home can unwind. It shows the trials of young people who overcome obstacles to become strong adults, the staff members who help them, and city dwellers.

Education ranks high on the list of every family’s priorities. Filmed over the course of an academic year, this is the story of the problems plaguing an ordinary middle school and the various coping strategies employed by teachers, parents and children. As they seek out individual solutions to a shared concern, they sometimes end up hampering each other’s best efforts.

In order to finish her homework, the girl decided to shoot a fake documentary. In the process, she came closer to her grandmother's world and found herself.

The term "garbage" is relative, but most people's definition of garbage is absolute and rigid, and the definition of a person like "garbage man" is also relative. Compared to the ostrich that disappears when humans avoid garbage and not see psychological. With a lively and lovely tone, the film brings out the special views of how the two protagonists look at trash when they walk between the cities, and then connects the delicate relationship between their love for trash and their families.

The short film recorded a group of children living status in a brick factory.Their parents work here to earn money.Because of the language barrier, living habits and economic conditions, they didn't go to school. But they are living in a wonderful time and they have extraordinary ability to survive......

There are two roads in the woods. You can only take one of them, and wonder about the other for the rest of your life. Longwu is a temple of no more than 20 monks. When 17-year-old Jime became a junior monk there, he had no idea whether it's better to renounce or to join the secular world. The temple quietly sits in the depths of a mountain.This year, with only 11 monks left, there are not enough junior monks to officially receive the precepts during summer recluse. The temple seniors decide to have three young monks to do this. Jime is fully aware what this means to him. He patiently waits for an answer to dawn on him. On a dark night, Jime takes out the long roll of sutra that he reads every day, and cleans it carefully by a lamp. This summer, someone has come to the crossroad of life. Of the two roads out there, he can only choose one.

This is an image of a family. Through the memories of many people, it traces the growth, migration and different life experiences of several generations of the author's family. It shows the destiny of ordinary people and their inner scenery in social transformation. Each generation has its own joy and pain, and life still continues in hope, hardship and helplessness. The various imprints of survival that remain in the film are the hard riverbed of individual life and a period of micro-history washed out by time

The film records the emotions and destinies of seven single women. Whether at a loss, confused, waiting in hope, disappointed, helpless, compromised, independent or defiant, they are closely bound up to this agitated and chaotic era. Through their different experiences they tell us about the failed marriages of middle-aged women, about life being single, and about a group of men who have not yet showed up but who appear vivid from a female perspective.

An individual's life experience is always a reflection and epitome of the times. Through the environment, literature, oral narration, calligraphy and painting works, this film faithfully records the upbringing background, family circumstances and life of the painter Chen Jiyong. His life experience and mind-watching are an ordinary case of countless intellectuals who have disappeared in the dust of time. At the same time, he has become a sample of images and life statues about this period of history.

This is a film about the unison between the four seasons of life and the four seasons of the year, intertwined with the geospatial and temporal dimensions of a small town named Tongchuan situated on the northwest of the Loess Plateau.

A beautiful documentary film about the Noh stages, juxtaposing the Noh Performance and the interview with the master Shoroku Sekine and his son Yoshito Sekine. The Sekine family belongs to the Kanze School and they always respect to the traditions not only on the Noh stage but also in their daily lives.

The film is composed of clips of footage shot in 2010-2015. The first clip: filmed in 2015, the daily study and life of Datong Youzai Primary School. The second clip: filmed in 2013, the state of the city of Taixing Daxing civil engineering transformation. The third clip: filmed for 2010-2013, on the eve of graduation and the last youth moments passing by. Fourth clip: filmed for 2010, the time we spent in a rental house during the summer vacation.

In the Chinese New Year of 2017, Solar and I went together to visit David Zhang who was practicing kung fu on Wudang Mountain. As the three of us interacted, we observed and looked after each other. We also filmed each other to document and reconstruct this experience of listening to each other and growing up.

These are conversations I had with four football partners respectively on the way to the football field，on the way back from the football field，on the way to class，on the way to the bar. The content revolves around freedom，love, meanings of life and so on, which is mainly about their views on the life situation of themselves.

For the dream of music, Pan, the folk singer, left home for Guangzhou. Two years ago, he released his first album, 《Hi, Pan》. The ideal life seems to be closer and closer for Pan. However, as time goes by, his thoughts have changed gradually. Music is not just as simple as music.

As a kind of traditional handmade paper in the area of Ninghua in western Fujian Province, Yukou paper is named after its soft and delicate quality as well as white and jade-like color. It is the best of handmade papers and needs to go through several complicated and elaborate processes. In a small village deep in the Wuyi Mountains, Xikeng, there were once more than five hundred paper mills, but now only one remains, still struggling to survive. The film crew focused their camera on the paper maker Hu Lanshan's family, quietly recording the process of making Yukou paper, the joys and sorrows of the paper maker’s family, and the changes of the whole era...

The arrogant Hua Pozi, the first-time brother who is full of joy. Even the seemingly greasy, exaggerated, and gaudy drum art seems to be unrelenting in the villages and villages.

The year 2003 is a rather turbulent period for Hong Kong – the economy was in recession, the government constantly implemented futile policies, the SARS outbreak, and, on July 1st, 500,000 people went on strike opposing the adoption of Article 23 of the Basic Law. It was against this political atmosphere that YIN Zhao-Jian gave up his social worker job, a 10 year long and steady career, and joined the political circle and participated in the district councilor election, which he had no idea about.

Kim Jae-pil, who participated in the Korean War as a member of the North Korean People's Army, saved the life of Ward Miller, a U.S. fighter pilot who was the enemy. The two hid in the mountains and shared life, death and friendship for 15 days. Finally, they were rescued by a U.S. military helicopter. Ward Millar was repatriated to the United States and Kim Jae-pil was sent by the U.S. military to the U.N. as a prisoner of war as he was dressed as a member of the North Korean People's Army. Ward Miller, who returned to the U.S. at the end of the war, found Kim Jae-pil and sent him a letter. Kim Jae-pil and Ward Millar exchanged letters in Korea and the U.S. respectively and shared deep friendships, but at some point, their letters were cut off for unknown reasons.

The film takes viewers on a time-lapse and hyper-lapse tour throughout post-Olympics Tokyo after the state of emergency was rescinded. Approximately 8,000 photographs were converted into images to create a dynamic view of Tokyo.

Yong-shun, in order to pay off his debts when he was young, he started a life of driving a ready-mix truck during the day and working as a logistics truck driver at night. He has a not-so-mentioned twin brother, Yong-ho. In the early years, he and his brother became partners and engaged in driving logistics trucks together, but everything ended in 1998 due to a traumatic accident. The accident also caused his mother to stop seeing him. Yu-xuan, since he was a child, his father and uncle would take him with them when they drove the logistics truck. His father died at work when he was in junior high school, and now he has chosen the same job as his father, intending to continue his father's unfinished drive.

Made up of shantytowns and brick houses in the Yangpu District, Shanghai, the area of Dinghai Bridge hosts a busy community of workers and immigrants. Ming Zhao is one of the outsiders who chose to run a second-hand bookstore to make a living. He is affectionately known as ‘Mr. Zhao.’ However, with the decline of traditional bookstores, the disappearance of flea market culture, and the future demolition project of Dinghai Bridge, what will happen to Mr. Zhao’s journey?