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The abandoned farmhouse beside Shuangxi outside Taipei seems to be wandering on the edge of the city. This is the base of Ruiming Band. During the day, these people have their own identities. The lead guitarist Zheng Zhaoting (Abo) is in the daycare class, the bassist Yang Dongliang (Dong Niang) is a photojournalist, the drummer Han Ligang has no specific job, and the rhythm guitar player Dai Chongyuan (Senior) drives a taxi. Every night on holiday, they come here to rehearse. With their dreams of music, they relieve their discomfort with society. Can music be a meal? Is there any other meaning to life besides making money? The director fell into this fog with them, revealing nihilistic yet true confessions.

In the summer of 2017, two Chinese filmmakers start their journey with four mobile phones, and they go through 16 countries from France to Damascus. As far as their concerned, they are trying to present the current situation of refugees’ life in the “post-refugee era” in Syria. It gives rise to reflection to the right and wrong in the “refugee crisis.” It is also lead people to find out a different Syria and a different Muslim World.

A documentary about houses in rural Gansu decorated with portraits of Mao Zedong. More importantly: a documentary about the people who dwell within them.

A documentary about the underground hip-hop culture in Japan as of 2003. It capture a thriving underground hip-hop scene, touching on a diverse range of artists including graffiti writers, rappers, beat-boxers, breakers.

Echo with Women's Voices Their Involvement in Political Movements examines the women's movement and women's political participation in Taiwan over the past thirty years.

Once upon a time in a world full of pirate products, we watched monster movies and grew up. But those monsters disappeared when we finally became adults. One day, a teacher told in class that creation came from the past we neglect, that is how I started to contact a monster fan just like me.

Guo Jie is one of the estimated 277 million rural migrant workers in China. In Shanghai, Guo Jie buys and collects styrofoam boxes from markets selling fresh produce. She takes them to a seafood wholesale market where she resells them to wholesalers who will store fish in the boxes.

This film tells the story of the historical and current issues surrounding Korean Reunification through Korean Christianity while exploring churches in North Korea and South Korea. The vivid interviews with the members of an underground church in North Korea, North Korean defectors and missionaries provide insight and backstory to Korean reunification. With this unprecedented access, the film is a must see for anyone interested in Korean reunification.

I, a lesbian filmmaker, encounter people yelling at me to disappear from this world. It is a time of hatred in South Korea. LGBTQ people are the easy targets for hatred. In searching for what makes a marginalized life livable, I embark upon a journey. I encounter a double life of Lee Muk, a 70-year-old Korean “Mr. Pants” and precarious lives of a Japanese lesbian couple, Ten and Non, after 3/11. As an ever-growing number of citizens are becoming the targets of 'witch-hunting' in Korea, true faces of the haters slowly begin to unfold.

This acclaimed observational documentary produces an immersive experience of a Shenzhen factory. An unmissable analysis of the most important social transformation of our time.

Extras is a 2001 fly-on-the-wall Chinese documentary film by director Zhu Chuanming. The documentary has been said to be tinged with social criticisms in its observations of the lives and dreams of China's poorly paid film extras.

After the suicide of four brothers and sisters, the filmmaker attempts to sneak into the mountain village where this tragedy took place.

Wenfang came from the Chinese countryside to Beijing to be an actress – but as for many migrants that came to the city, she now lives in a 4 square meters room located two floors underground, waiting for her dream to come true.

This documentary is about a suspicious death of a first lieutenant Kim Hoon occurred at Panmunjom in Feburary 1998. Without clear justification, his death was made into a suicide case, leavng the truth unrevealed.

This documentary shadows a small community of "hidden" Christians worshipping in secret in Muslim Palestine, where their religion is against the law.

It’s been a while since high school baseball lost its glory. And to prove this, only a few parents and alumni are sitting in the seats. No one takes much notice of the consistently-losing Wonju High Baseball Team, yet the passion they display in this career-determining match is exceptional. To these players, baseball is everything, and the baseball field is an intense and competitive world.

TianAnMen sqaure documentary. About the Chinese goverment actions taken against its protestors in 1976.

A documentary about a professional Taiwanese basketball team's road to championship.

Hitting 30 and no husband in sight? Forget online dating. In this hugely popular documentary, Wu Wuna seeks out Taipei’s thoroughly modern matchmaker, Chen Hailun. She looks on in amazement as Chen fixes up the most unlikely couples. More therapist for individuals than broker between families, Chen nudges the men – “why not marry her?” – and reassures the women. The stories the couples tell might inspire you to believe in love and romance all over again. But you might also notice that Wu Wuna doesn’t seem quite convinced enough to engage Chen’s services for herself.

A Rebel Without a Cause for a new generation, and one of the most defiant children to ever grace the big screen, 14-year-old Hai is a teenage terror, a high school dropout and an all-around badass. He is also entirely irresistible. You cannot take your eyes off this kid, complete with a motorbike and an everpresent cigarette butt drooping from the corner of his mouth. (Dorothy Woodend, DOXA Documentary Film Festival)

Get ready for a virtual tour of the exciting world of Okinawa. More than 40 islands in the ocean will show you their beauty, from the sky, land and underwater. A relaxing music will wrap you warm and help to distract from the daily bustle.

It was February 2012, on a crowded Spring Festival train traveling from Guangzhou to Dazhou, Sichuan. A green passenger train was packed with travelers. A railway police officer walked through one overcrowded carriage after another, keeping watch over the passengers. During the patrol, the officer crossed paths with a young woman. Then, the crowded carriages gradually became empty. The train picked up speed. No one knew where it was truly headed.

Surrounded by major controversy, a general election that was supposed to bring a fresh start for the year 2026, resulted in once again a disappointment for many of the Thai people.

Follow a performance artist who refuses to be defined, drifting between landscape and memory, responding to identity and belonging through physical action.

A documentary film. A formerly salaried worker, now homeless, walks through Kyoto’s Sanjō Shopping Arcade and the area around Kobe’s Sannomiya Station preaching his own religion. Every day, he goes out into the city and speaks to people one by one. Will the city accept him, or reject him? His gaze remains fixed on the great flow of people moving through the streets.

Years after playing on the same pitch, a filmmaker returns to document his former captain, Hou Pei-hung, who now coaches the new generation. Footprints captures the raw sweat and tears of high schoolers in their final season, witnessing a profound story of legacy, youth, and a passion that never fades.

A tiny life takes on a life or death challenge amid the majestic grandeur of the Tateyama mountain range. Can a swan muster the courage to survive if it is unable to fly? A story sure to deepen your appreciation of life’s power and wonder.

During the creation of the performance Embodying Pasolini in Taipei, curator Olivier Saillard and actress Tilda Swinton revisit the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Through rehearsal, memory, and costume, cinema is reawakened in the living body.

Nazaré, Portugal—home to the world’s most colossal waves. Once driven by a relentless pursuit of success, former Korean national surfer Cho Jun-hee turned toward these legendary swells while standing at the edge of his life. Starting with nothing, he braved the towering waves without jet skis or rescue teams, facing the terror of a near-death experience. Now, with a dedicated team and equipment by his side, he prepares for his third and most daring attempt yet. This is his journey to conquer Nazaré's waves.

In October 2023, Tommaso visits Noto. After a 7.5 earthquake, he and a filmmaker friend return to document the aftermath. Joining Adriana's volunteer project, they face sleepless nights and devastation, profoundly changing them

Documentary short about primary school students going to army for the school military training. Aired as the episode 39 of People's Home (百姓家园) program.

Make a living as delivery riders. Making friends and getting along for several years. What kind of "spring" do each of us discover? From the spring of 2022, the end of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, to the winter of 2024, from the perspective of these delivery riders, the work experience, mindset shifts and growth of three of them were documented.

Focusing on a photograph of a migrant woman, known as the “Mona Lisa” of the Great Depression and a symbol of poverty, this study explores why photography embodies an indeterminate (im)possibility and how its latent power transforms into an event.

Suspended Duty - Taiwan Military Training Regiment delivers the story of some 4,000 young Taiwanese men who volunteered for the army established by General Sun Lijen in 1949. Receiving a short period of basic military training, they were informed they could return home to wait for reentering active service. However, They have never been officially discharged up to this day……

In December 1941, the Pacific War broke out. Hundreds of Taiwanese were recruited to join the war. When the war ended, these Taiwanese soldiers were sent to court as prisoners of war and faced identity crisis. Heat Sun intends to record the lives of these soldiers. Through conversations and visual images, the film reveals the issues surrounding humanity and war.

The entire world was thrown into war in the 1940s. Taiwan, still a Japanese possession, was swept into the war when Japan started the War of the Pacific. Hundreds of thousands of youth from Taiwan were conscripted into the army, and sent to the South Pacific. The cruel experiences of war are unforgettable in all their life.

A poet who stares at the sun too long goes blind. Plants bend toward the light, and a world brimming with radiance tilts into the dark. From noon to midnight.

Liu-Ming's father died in 1995 in an accidental explosion of a bombshell left by the Japanese Imperial Army in WWII. The debt left by his father's unsuccessful medical treatments left the teenage Liu-Ming no choice but to drop out of high school to work. Li Quan was a victim of the Japanese military's poison gas when he touched a mysterious container while working on a ship at the age of 29. Blisters covered his body and his genitals and internal organs were injured. Still suffering from serious aftereffects, he has fallen to a life of extreme poverty and twice attempted suicide. New accidents keep occurring. Sixty years have passed since the end of the war, but many potent weapons remain buried deep in China.

Documentary about the painter Morio Matsui

In Tōei, a small mountain town in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, a sacred ritual called Hana Matsuri ("Flower Festival") has been passed down for over 700 years. Widely respected by folklorists and ritual enthusiasts both in Japan and abroad, Hana Matsuri is not only a spiritual tradition, but also the cultural core of the local community—an embodied memory of who they are. Like many rural areas in Japan, Tōei faces rapid population decline and shifting social structures. This film gently follows those who sustain the festival amid such changes.