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When fishing at sea, he always glimpses Guishan Island. Childhood memories and the villagers' distinct qualities were buried there during the village’s relocation. 'Now, we hide our homesickness in dreams'. Witnessing the island's tourism deeply affects displaced islanders.

This letter originated in Paris as a means of addressing the issue of ‘everyday racism’ and violence that cannot be replaced by the universal. Its purpose is also to offer a response to my friends who have shared their own experiences of discrimination and violence.

November 2022, in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic, a mutual friend of ours, B.A.T., a sound and performance artists, and director of experimental art venue FA ZHAN in Chengdu, suddenly disappeared. Lost his track of all contacts. Until December, he still didn’t show up at Shanghai for the 5th Cement Park Live Art Festival. We tracked threads of info from fellow performance artists’ of his whereabout, until Covid ends and his art space was shut down······

Kurokawa Yoshimasa, Daidoji Masashi, Masunaga Toshiaki, and Arai Mariko, all members of the East Asian Anti-Japanese Armed Front " Scorpion, " were incarcerated for instigating the bombing of the Marunouchi offices of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. This film was conceived of and directed by Kurokawa whilst in prison. During the making of this film, he and his fellow members were under sentences of death or life imprisonment. As testimony to Kurokawa's idea that " the emperor system is not only an incarnation of the patriarchal principle but also the embodiment of the female principle, " the film aims " to critically examine the essence of the Japanese maternal image. "

After my father's sudden death, I find old photographs while organizing his belongings and visit the houses in the pictures. Through this journey, I bring back the trivial secrets of my family and my forgotten childhood memories. Those memories expand to collective memories of my neighborhood and spaces in Gwangju.

On the road of horses that erased horses, I remember the time of the horses. Use the horse's ears and mouth to feel it. Blurry but wide vision, distant and near passing conversations.

A gripping recount of a solemn teacher's ceremony, attended by devoted students ranging from ordinary individuals to business tycoons and celebrities.

Chinese documentary directed by Zhang Yalong

Naboisho, which means “coming together” in the Maasai’s Maa language, is a community response to the challenges of the privatization of group ranches in the Greater Mara Region. Strain was put on the soil, endemic vegetation, and the wildlife because of intensive herding and various tourism activities such as camping and off-road vehicle activity. I use a field diary to record and track the daily tracks of wild animals and their survival status. In this way, I re-learn about the land, the animals, and the ecology. This film is dedicated to all those who work, build, and protect the conservation areas, and all the creatures that run on the land.

A land acquisition has disturbed the peace of Shezidao for years. With the new mayor taking office at the end of 2022, the residents are once again confronted with the uncertainty brought by development. Behind the struggles, what is life like on this "trapped island"?

Numerous planes of different sizes and shapes make up the three dimensional system. Increase and decrease of the number of planes are used to describe the physical change of the human body. When there are so few planes, the boundary between a person and a slice of plane becomes thin. Revolving between the morbid loner and the periodic insanity of the neighbor, the story reveals itself in reality and in abstract.

Fat tiger and Morgan are friends who skateboard together. They all share the common life choice problems faced by contemporary Chinese youth. Including: love, career, family and so on. How to balance skateboarding with life choices. Both Fat tiger and Morgan are trying to come up with their own answers.

The Soviet Union, as the world’s first socialist country, was at one time glorious. The great Lenin led the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its people to create this powerful country. The working class became the masters of the country. Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Union as a whole developed significantly and prospered. However, since the death of Stalin in 1953, a political thought trend has spread inside and outside of the Soviet Union to attack the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its leaders, and completely repudiate the history of the Soviet Union. This trend is historical nihilism. It continuously uses lies to slander and discredit party leaders, destroying the beliefs of the people. In the end, even the leaders of the Soviet Union became pro-American elements and the main culprits responsible for splitting apart their own country.

A silly question asked, to the people I met at the small mountain in the neighborhood: "Do you believe in the spirits of the mountain?" The answers revealed different ideas on myths, religion, and the village. Local artists have started performing rituals for the mountain spirit...

Documentary on the Toho strike of 1948

Bottoms Up! is a little anomaly in the field of Korean documentary films, which tend to lean toward grander themes. After watching this film, which captures moments of bar talk, you will be wondering whether the scenes are real or directed.

In 1997, the Taipei City Council abolished the Licensed Prostitute System without any compensatory measures. For over 2 years, Miss Guan was one of the leading figures that organized over 500 protests to defend the prostitutes’ work rights. Yet under huge pressure from their mounting debts and governmental crackdown, she finally threw herself into the ocean….

Reorganize the memories of blood and tears and truly present the historical scars. Over the past three years, re-interviews with the victims’ family members and full DV records. An introductory guide to understanding modern Taiwanese society.

Ahmed Alian, Ertuğrul Yunus, and Mamoru Hasegawa are three Muslim men living in Japan, in a journey of self-reflection. Their various perspective and differences in religious practices brings out important discussion about an everyone's specific experience of one single religion.

There are many "street barber stalls" under Hutoushan. Most of these stalls serve senior citizens and working people, and have become a traditional part of ordinary people's lives. The stall holder and the customer are separated by mesh nets, while friendships and a feeling of warmth and humanity flow between them.

Weaving together recollections of a female oil worker, daydreams of school children, and nostalgic memories of residents' past, "As long as there's us" transcends temporality, documenting the past and present of an oil-producing city in northeastern China. Vibrant colors and sounds of the city, along with quiet and meditative scenes of industry and abandonment coalesce at a juncture in time.

Hyon Gak Sunim's visit to Europe in. It is to look back on Zen Buddhism in Europe rooted by his teacher, Sungsan Monk, and to promote world peace through good. From Oslo, Norway, to Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, etc., wherever the monk's steps are reached...People are gathering. "What is Buddhism?" "How should I practice?" Questions that have been accumulated so far bite your tail. In response, the monk refers to the "heart" position that cannot be seen but must be seen.

Suna and Bunny, a lesbian couple, are planning their wedding on the last day of 1999. They want to invite their close friends to join the celebration of their love. However, the wedding is called off after their sudden breakup. When the ex-lovers get together for the documentary shooting, it seems like they still have feelings for each other…

A father who indulges in alcoholism and domestic violence after drinking had an argument with his son who had not communicated for three years before the Chinese New Year. Facing the camera that his son had been shooting, the father shed tears for the first time.

When the Chitwan National Park was established to protect wildlife, the Tharu people who lived in the area were forced to move out. They were forced to settle in villages on the outskirts of the park. Meanwhile, rhino horn, which became more valuable than gold, led to ruthless poaching, and the rhinos were driven to near extinction. The Nepalese government mobilized the army to protect the rhinos, and it was successful in doing so. However, the national parks provided limited habitat for the growing rhino population. In search of scarce food, rhinos began to cross boundaries and enter the nearest villages. It was inevitable that the first human-animal conflict would occur in the Tharu settlement, the closest village to the national park, the so-called ‘buffer zone.’ Rhinos are disappearing because of human greed, farmers are being forced to leave their villages because of rhinos, while jungle guides are surviving on rhinos. Conflicting desires. Can they coexist in the buffer zone?

In mid-19th century, an American civilian merchant ship from Swatow, China passed through Taiwan Strait accidentally drifted to Vele Rete rocks and hit a reef. 14 crew members land on the coast of Kenting, Hengchun. They accidentally entered the aboriginal territory and was attacked. Only one crew member survived and ran to Takao, brought the incident to the light. This incident triggered a series of international political and diplomatic disturbances in the future, and also affected the far- reaching destiny of the aborigines in the southern tip of Taiwan. 150 years later, what was left after the accident that caused an international sensation?

​The once-misfit percussion team Tago is headed to the Netherlands for their first solo tour, but tickets aren't selling like they should. Tickets aren't selling, and the audience isn't exactly thrilled. Mistakes abound and their bodies don't listen. Will this group of imperfect people ever be able to knock on the door of a bigger stage?

​The piano arrived in Korea in 1900, about 200 years after its invention. The first people who saw the piano people who first saw the piano were said to have heard an unintelligible sound coming from inside the barrel and called it 'ghost barrel'. 'Ghost Barrel' is a music documentary that retraces the footsteps of the piano in Korea over the past 120 years. The journey 'Ghost Tong' follows pianists Won Jae-yeon and Kim Jae-won, musicologist Heo Ji-yeon, piano tuner Yang Hyung-joo, carrier Cho Hyung-chun, Kim Ki-seon, and Kim Sung-jong, a piano tuner, repairer, and distributor. past, present, and future of the piano.

Motorcycle gang documentary

Fai is a 28-year-old girl from Turin, born from an Italian mother and a Thai father. Their parents are now divorced, and her father, now a successful engineer, has come back to Thailand. She returns to Bangkok, her hometown, to write an article on the work of Italian architects in Thailand commissioned by a design magazine to her because of her dual identity. Fai begins to visit places sometimes with a childhood friend, other times with experts on architectural and historical matter. She lets herself go to the evocative atmosphere of these places finding a way to connect better different elements of her multi-cultural identity.

Orchi(D)ad, as the name suggests, is about “orchid”, about “father” or “patriarchy”. The film mainly outlines ten films related to the symbol “orchid”, emphasizing the connection and entanglement between “orchid” and multiple themes: sex and lust, myth and colonial imagination, collective history, and personal memory, etc. The film quietly shuttles between truth and lies in the form of “storytelling”, attempting to capture the hidden desires and constraints of the encounters in their hearts like mimic orchids.

Ms. Taki Kudo says she has been able to connect with deities since she was six or seven years old. Even in modern Japan, mediums like Ms. Kudo are in demand, providing such traditional services as expelling a curse and invoking spirits for health and long life. At twice-annual rituals at Mt. Osore-Zan, she and other female spirit mediums allow the dead to speak through them, relaying insight, comfort and warnings from the deceased to their loved ones. Another important duty is caring for the mulberry-wood Oshirasama puppets representing individual souls. Ms. Kudo dresses and stores the puppets and performs the lively rites in which spirits come down from the mountain in order to protect and purify the people of her village - the deities are cajoled by offerings of food, lights, money and candy.

The film was made for my grandmother, who was Love for me. Love is a very important value in our life. It will remind value of love in our society.

“Historic Exception State” originates from my visiting the pyramid of the legend at Qixing Mountain. Through the stroll and walk, the sense and memory accumulated inside and outside the body and the guidance of many linking prick points, with the images which are born with timeliness and constructiveness of reality and fantasy, the film develops with the creation of exploring memories, history and nature.

The central character is a 7 year old girl called Sachiko. She has just lost her immediate family in the firebombing of Tokyo and takes the train to her uncle’s family in Kumagaya in Saitama Prefecture. She is not out of danger yet, for the train gets shot at by a plane along the journey. Her uncle meets her at the station and he and his whole family welcome her with open arms. With her cousins, Sachiko explores the beauty of the natural landscape around Kumagaya. Sadly, these beautiful days of late summer are not to last. The final movement of the film depicts the final air raid of the war. The city descends into fear and chaos and Sachiko gets separated from her family with tragic results.