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Shenmu County is China's largest coal producing county where serious environmental problems are induced by the over exploitation of the coal resources. However, to pursue economic interest, it continues and even accelerate the predatory exploitation at the expense of the environment Luo Yanrong is a blaster in Shenmu. He and several other workmates share a room where there is neither bathroom nor toilet. The food of the mine’s canteen is pretty bad. He once got injured at work in a blast. In order to support his family and his children’s education, he has been working in the mine for over a decade. Xu, a miner in Yibin City of Si Chuan Province, died in a gas explosion. His family are immersed in deep grief

BUGAKU is "Samurai Art" --- With a theme of “Bunobi; beauty of martial arts and Samurai cultures” lying underneath, Bugaku is the dynamic and stylish cultural art that combines Japanese traditional martial arts and Japanese traditional samurai culture like Noh-theatre or tea ceremony, both of which Samurai actually practiced and loved.

In my high school senior year, I began filming me and my friends as we studied hard to get into a good university. As time goes by, I become a university student, but still feel the same anxiety I felt like a high school student. One day, I get a call from my high school friend saying she is not doing well. I try to help her, but it doesn’t go well. I decide to write a letter to her.

Japanese mondo film primarily shot in Thailand. Various murders, suicides, and accidents are displayed.

Mother and son who got separated from adoption, decided to live together for the first time in 40 years. This is because his mother is about to die. While his natural appearance and personality are exactly the same, everything else is completely different. In fact, they are foreigners to each other. However, to compensate for the time they lived apart, he goes back to his childhood. On the other hand, resentment towards each other grows because of the pain engraved in each other's hearts. It is uncertain how much time is left between the two, but there are still a lot of things to do while they're together.

The outflow of population, mainly young people, from agricultural, mountain and fishing villages in Japan to urban areas became remarkable from around 1960, but the actual situation of Japan's depopulation, which is rapidly progressing in the shadow of high economic growth, was interviewed after 1970. Pick up the voices of the residents. We interviewed mountain villages and remote islands in Hokkaido, Tohoku, China, and Kyushu. The aging of villages and the rapid decrease of households affect all the lives of residents such as school consolidation, agriculture and forestry, and living road management, and the decline in village (community) functions is further accelerating remote villages.

Spring Flower City comprehensively shows the urban style and cultural landscape of Kunming. Kunming enjoys the reputation of "Spring City" and is an important tourist and commercial city in my country. The director uses the identity of a tourist to record what he sees in Kunming, and uses a first-person perspective to record the people and beauty he saw in Kunming. Through the scenic spots, he can review the history of Kunming and look forward to the future of Kunming.

A short special program in memory of Shotaro Ishinomori.

The soldier's written words breathe life into the desolate and shell-covered Tong-Sha Island, transforming it into a vivid landscape. It's a place where many men seem symbolically bound, unvisited yet too precious to forsake.

Karakami is a decorative Japanese paper used to ornament interior sliding doors during the Edo period. Woodblock-printed motifs, such as cherry blossoms and dragons, are said to have inspired several prominent European artists in the 19th century. This program examines the history of karakami through the work of a family in Kyoto that has preserved this traditional art form for nearly 400 years.

A Chinese documentary directed by Zhenbang Tan

The Last Page documents the final days of a bookseller Polan Shobo, specialising in antiquarian books in the Tokyo suburbs. Kyosuke Ishida, the owner, decided to close down his shop after 35 years due to the recession brought on by the pandemic. In the week before the closing day, the shop saw an unexpected surge in visitors.

If you add up their followers and subscribers, it's over 1 million! Four influencers representing Korea in their respective fields have gathered together!

This 80-year-old mansion is packed with historical memories and traces, yet it gave me a strong sense of disappearance when I was in there. The old lady, who lives alone in the mansion, begins to lose the ability to recognize herself in her wedding photos. As the memory fades away, it seems to make the objects in the house gradually lose their meanings. Facing those objects that have been lost in history, I try to add my own memories as if to give them new souls, and the video itself is the container that contains everything and becomes their new body.

Shot over a period of 15 months from April 1969 to July 1970, Motoshinkakarannu captures a tumultuous time in Okinawa’s occupation, offering an unflinching snapshot of Okinawan society that captures the daily lives of sex workers, yakuza, tourists and G.I.s in Koza City.

Views of Hong Kong was produced by Hong Kong Tourist Association to promote Hong Kong and attract foreign visitors, providing a precious record of old Hong Kong..

A 480-minute documentary, a historical record of the change of independent music across China, mammoth and complete, involving evolution and conflicts of several generations in Chinese society. In the second decade of the 21 century, it has been ten years since the Beijing Olympics. China has seen the abundance of wealth and civilization. Facing such a diverse lifestyles, people are far more different from each other than ever. Conservative, avant-garde, worried, daring, they not only fail to be understood, but also fail to understand one another. The film is a driving bus of our times, which has already lost its political halo in 30-years glory history, filled with artists, businessmen, workers and all different people who get in and off, however, the innocent younger generation is still queuing up anxiously outside, who might get in one of the buses, or smash all buses.

Recorded live at Kichijoji Manda-La2, Tokyo on September 8, 2007. The Chamomile pool DVD documents concert footage from Ai Aso from 2007 in Tokyo. Hypnotically delicate, angelic and minimal in structure Ai, accompanied by her band, and with guest appearance by Wata and Kurihara for a portion, craft her unique blend of songwriting and psychedelic musicianship. Produced by Atsuo, of Boris, and edited and directed by Ryuta Murayama

Despite forming a natural part of the life of half the world’s population, menstruation is still a taboo in many countries. The film A Bloody Taboo shows just how stigmatized it is in Japan. The intimate testimonies of a large sample of women reveal that the unwillingness of the patriarchal society to lead an open dialogue about the monthly menstruation is just a symptom of a bigger problem that is gender discrimination.

People in my hometown call those who are shy and untalkative "touxiuzi". Within this courtyard, the touxiuzi gene is embodied in the members of three generations. As a touxiuzi in our family, I try to uncover and open up the real heart beating under our touxiuzi exterior, yet in the end I only open up myself. The touxiuzi in the family continue to circle in the air above the village and grow in the village's soil.

"The story of cows who didn't become meat." In 2002, people called bullfight a tradition and defined it as legal. At the same time, various bullfighting competitions were held and a huge gambling house was built. They dragged the cows into a huge amphitheater and made them fight. The gambling tickets were sold like hotcakes and fanfare burst everywhere. In the midst of it, something that is not a human being is bleeding, crying, and shedding tears. However, no one seems to be interested. On the endless truck, bulls shyly sticking out their heads speak to the camera. "By the way, can you listen to my story?“

Peninsula Tour departs from Seoul and travels through the “Asian Highway” into China. This tour finds the worlds dis/continuity through air and land, virtuality and reality, old and new technologies. The tour ends up with an unexpected encounter of a German traveler who visited North Korea. The film reflects the hypocrisy and the deception of globalization, freedom and unification today through a stranger with similar experiences.

Shin Ki-soo spent his life collecting visual materials, and drew upon them to make this film about the history of zainichi Koreans in pre-war Japan. From the massacre of Koreans at the construction site of the Nakatsugawa hydroelectric power plant in Niigata Prefecture and the joint struggle of Korean and Japanese factory girls at the Kishiwada cotton mills to the dispute at the Sanshin Railroad construction site in Aichi Prefecture and the strike at the Aso coal mines in the Chikuho region of Kyushu, this film uncovers and assembles valuable testimony from many people who played key roles in the movement to free Korea from Japanese colonialism.

What does excluding someone mean to us? Why is it wrong to exclude someone? It is easy to perform exclusion and elimination. But taking the easy way out, it always brings problems. Those who are considered "non-existent." Among them, children are the most easily discriminated against. A story about a No-Kids Zone that prohibits children from entering, and about children that society wants to consider as "non-existence."

Hollywood musicals on a massive scale are pleasing to our eyes and ears. But the more I watch them, the more I wonder why there aren't many musical films in Korea. This documentary goes to meet the directors who researched and made musical films in Korea, a wasteland of musical films, and also tells the story of a student who takes on the challenge of filming a musical from the perspective of young people, based on his research and interviews with those directors.

The space where people live is not just a place to feed and house themselves. It means a place where the emotions of life are accumulated and melted for a long time. Therefore, we call it home or hometown. Home or hometown, which expresses coziness and comfort to people, is just an unfamiliar expression to those who live in Onsan. The people of Onsan resemble dandelions, who cannot take root in their place of living and float like dust.

Recognizing the seriousness of the problem of garbage caused by food delivery, I decided to practice the #container_for_courage challenge, an environmental movement that has recently spread, for a week.

I lost my passion for filmmaking after becoming a film major. However, I regain my passion by meeting my peers and a film director and listening to their stories.

M was born in Japan, and after liberation, he and his family moved back to Korea, their homeland. Since then, he has been living as a potter, as an engineer, as a shipyard worker, and then as a businessman. This change of his occupations overlaps with his unstable life, like the four names he got after changing his name four times.

A group of first-degree visually impaired (fully blind) people spontaneously formed the "Mind Music Club", preparing to hold the band's first offline ticket concert. The society gives them too much prejudice, and they don't even have the right to go to the playground to relax and play···. They want to let more people hear the voice of their hearts through singing.

A father has been fighting for the rights of his daughter since she consumed tainted milk powder, yet fails to be understood. With a focus on the connection between father and daughter, the director returns to her own family, discussing love and growth. All of these efforts started with an experience dated back to her childhood.

In the 1920s, a Kavalan family took refuge in Hualien. 70 years later, the filmmaker, a third-generation member of the family, embarked on a self-searching journey to recover his lost identity, producing the first documentary ever made by a Pingpu descendant. Through depiction of traditional Kavalan ceremonies and collective memories, the film asks us to recognise Pingpu peoples’ place in Taiwanese history, as well as their suffering and feelings of inferiority during years of forced migration.

Song of the Wanderer features a group of 'voiceless people', a part of the indigenous community in which the filmmaker resides. Due to frustrations with work, divorce, and life in general, they are often subject to isolation, emotional breakdowns, and even self-harm behaviours. The filmmaker engages them in genuine conversations, while inviting the viewer to listen to these 'voiceless people' sing: In their songs are their true feelings.

This is my second documentary film, and it is fully composed of old people. One woman, nearing 80, is living out the last two years of her life. From when she is still using a cane to walk, to when she becomes paralyzed. This is my grandmother. We also see other elderly people from the village, their daily activities, the tales of their starvation from 50 years ago.

“Mr. Hu” is a portrait-film, an homage to a man, a story about a life like many others. Due to the conflicts in the Middle East, the collapsing economies and the fluctuating oil prices, Mr. Hu immigrated from Hong Kong to The Netherlands.

A man back to his hometown,and felt familiar with someplace he used to stay.

In 1949, the Nationalist government safely arrived in Taiwan, but the war between the Nationalists and the Communists continued to ravage the island of Kinmen. Situated between the two coasts, Kinmea was bombed by the Communist Chinese government on every odd-numbered day for over 20 years following the Battle of August 23. This island with an area of 140km^2 endured more than 970,000 bombs. Working with donations from over 300 island residents, local filmmaker Dong Cheng-Liang reveals this hidden history from the residents.

This film explores the "craftsman's spirit”, focusing on how the last generation of shipbuilders found emotional sustenance in their trade and the merging of traditional arts and crafts with new modern technologies.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on numerous sporting activities. This film describes the hurdles company manager Cheong Wai and his assistant, boxer Cheong Lap Cheong, are facing together. With the near prospect of shutting down the boxing academy they run, how will they survive such a tough challenge?

On May 12th, Deng Shengyin from Beichuan was working outside. When he heard the news, his wife Zhu Xiaorong, who was in the county seat, had fortunately escaped the disaster, but the child who had just gone to school never returned. This film records the living condition of Zhu Xiaorong's family in Beichuan for more than a year after the disaster.

This experimental short, shot in a number of public spaces across China, explores the ways individual self-expression may in fact become codified in collective forms—or, if you like, how collective performance extends into the age of the supposed individual.

Between April and June 2003, the brutal SARS epidemic had a deep impact on Chinese people's lives, especially in Beijing. Flocks of migrant labourers who had come to the capital to find work started straggling back to their hometown in the countryside to escape the illness. I spent a day in the crowd packed into Beijing West railway station, trying to capture an event that made many feel emotional disquiet, while forcing them to meditate on their life and situation. Because of everyone's panic, many people are eager to leave Beijing to escape the disaster. On May 8th, the author recorded what happened at the Beijing West Railway Station that day, revealing the various mentalities of the Chinese people in front of emergencies.

Zhou Zhi, the patriarch of the family, rules strictly following the handed-down 'hereditary tradition': listening to no one. In the face of new economic challenges, he decides and acts totally arbitrarily. Unable to adapt himself to "modern times", not the least because of his stubbornness, he runs into heavy debt putting the family in great financial difficulty. Turning to his daughters and sons-in-law for support, he receives a cold welcome. Around the almost larger-than-life patriarchal figure of Zhou Zhi, this film vividly portrays the difficulties of an ordinary Chinese family, with its members having to change their lifestyle in the face of economic difficulties and a shifting culture.

In China, most of the young people in the countryside moved to the cities for better job opportunities. Only children and old people are left behind. They live around this river and this bridge. This dangerous bridge has not been repaired for 20 years. It seems that all the problems, the persons and the objects in the countryside have been forgotten.

Mabanan is an Atayal settlement in Miaoli County, where the filmmaker was born. During the Japanese colonial rule, most of the indigenous community's land was expropriated and registered as state-owned forest. The Kuomintang (KMT) government later imposed even more restrictions on the use of the land. How would the Mabanan community reclaim their homeland when the government still refused to recognise proofs of residence of their ancestors?