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Fiction film about a young migrant worker who struggles to live an honest life in the city.

A short documentary about kissaten — Showa-era (1926-1989) Japanese cafe — culture. Būgen is a small kissa in a suburb south of Tokyo. It was featured in the book Kissa by Kissa. Proprietor Yamane-san has survived four bouts of cancer and has run his cafe for close to forty-five years. He makes a mean pizza toast with a unique cutting style. Pizza toast is a staple of kissa culinary culture.

Sou Sai Tong, a form 2 student in Macao, lives in Zhuhai. He is a cross-boundary pupil commuting daily between two cities. This film mainly records Sou’s life and habits, exploring his studies and growing process at school.

Mi, the protagonist of this film still shares memories of her grandmother in different social media platforms, three years after her passing. On the face of death, people have different ways of coping with loss and moving on with their lives.

When my parents decided to take both my grandmothers under our roof, life remained stable, despite the fact that one of them was plagued by mental illness. As time went by, however, the problems slowly started to emerge.

Although the Family is society’s smallest unit, home education may influence the development of the city in a subtle and gradual manner. What kind of belief a man raised from a grassroots family will pass to the next generation?

The experience and reflections of a red guard. Every time after a political disaster, most people are turned into victims of the disaster. The individual actions of the victims in the disaster are always overlooked. These actions overlooked ran through the entire process of the disaster. The entire process of the disaster turns most people into victims of the disaster. In every political disaster……

An age-old ethnic group is known to the world as “Mosuo” inhabits the region around Lugu Lake, which borders Sichuan and Yunnan. While they called themselves “Na” since ancient times. Our documentary team went deep into the Mosuo settlements such as Lugu Lake in Yunnan, Yongning, and Muli in Sichuan, and the camera focused on the ordinary Mosuo people.

An ordinary old herdsman living in the pastoral area in tibet who became a vegetarian in his twenties. He never got married,while he used to live with his brother who died later. He usually treats domestic animals like life's best friends. Many people even think that reincarnation into his house to be a yak is the result of a good deed in his life.

Soil-Flowers is a portrait film of a woman getting ready to go on a trip to China to take care of her elderly mother. She lives alone in a house in Toulouse (France) filled with tones of objects and belongings after her partner passed away. Even though the filmmaker stays behind the camera he is also an actor and spectator inside his own films. By following the woman who goes back and forth between China and France, he starts questioning about his own living coditions.

About Anne Czeksowikov, the great film-maker hidden from the world.

A docent introduces a video installation that the audience is about to see. She describes the subject of the video as an investigation into a person called Lea and her dubious identity on Facebook. The question is deftly transposed onto the credibility of the docent whose appearance mirrors the depiction of Lea, delegitimising the initial inquiry, ‘Who is Lea?’

Portraying the fifty-year history of zainichi (long-term residents in Japan) Koreans after the liberation of Korea, traces of zainichi evoked in this film question the concepts of 'post-war democracy' and 'pacifism' in Japan. With copious stock footage and testimony, the first half of the film, "History," chronologically traces the various experiences of zainichi from Japan's defeat (Korean liberation) through 1990. The latter half, "People," focuses on first, second and third-generation zainichi respectively, vividly depicting how they live.

A Better World (2017) follows the process of the ballot counting for the 19th Presidential Election in South Korea. The election took place in 2017 subsequent to a series of Candlelight protests leading to the impeachment of the predecessor. The highly charged atmosphere and restless energy amongst volunteers are palpable in the attentive documentation of the arrival and opening of ballot boxes in the public eye. As the counting begins the footage is coupled with another frame, shot with a thermal imaging camera, unveiling the unseen layer of an already transparent process.

It's never an easy work of making money. Some people in China devote themselves into their career in the US company AMWAY due to its rosy prospect. What they do is organizing meetings, seeking for new partners, selling products. They find it extremly exciting and inspiring. Mr Wang chose to enter in this game. He enjoyed it in spite of he never gaining from it. While his senior partner, Mr Li,was alway unstable. He confused with his future, but couldn't make a final decision of giving up. 'modus vivendi' is about people struggling, slightly, for a better life. Nobody benefited from the project, but it made things seem to be different.

This is a story on human desire and acrid smoke. When Myanmar opened its borders in 2010, there was an incursion of foreign capital into these unclaimed lands, with China the most aggressive of them all. Determined to also stake their claim within this fever rush of Chinese cash, Yung-heung and his comrades have set ablaze large swathes of forest alongside northern Myanmar to be turned into farmland.

Born, Unborn and Born Again revolves around my struggle to embody the White Horse, a zodiac sign which occurs every 60-year cycle in East Asian Countries. This film explores the transnational nature of governmental control over reproductive systems, and how this oppression manifests in our bodies and perceptions of self. I use the structure of my mother tongue, Korean, and my second language, English, to contemplate ruptures, repetition of time, and violence against women. An untold history resurfaces in the present, and re-orients us towards the future.

A film that documents the actual story regarding the inheritance of the Battle of Okinawa, as filmed by filmmaker Jun Kawada. Kawada met a man who has been collecting the remains of the war dead and other artifacts in Okinawa Prefecture for over fifty years, and he begins to help him with the process. One day, the man shows Kawada a piece of property left behind that has the names engraved on it and asks him to find this person's family with the names on it.

The messaging. The infinite social media scrolling. People are multitasking between games and the stock market, watching movies whilst skipping continuously 15 seconds ahead — all of this while even crossing the street.

The graffiti of a cat is seen everywhere in the small town in Tamsui. The artist is a middle-aged man always dressed in volunteer firefighter uniform. Driving a van, he delivers gas cylinders to the residents while maintaining the vivid colours in the graffiti.

Yu Iwasaki's short film.

Light, time, and landscape in Porto, August 2016. Filmed during the massive forest fires in Northern Portugal, a thick pall of smoke has gathered ominously over the Douro river. Kevin Dong: “As a medium capable of representing time in different ways, cinema is a vital tool which allows us to perceive the Anthropocene differently.

Short film of an infant's first bath based on amateur footage found in an antiques gallery in Japan. The photographer is unknown, but the material is thought to date to the early-to-mid Showa era, a period marked by the disastrous consequences of militarism. Music by Tomoko Sauvage.

A single shot, taken during a confrontation between police and demonstrators in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po neighbourhood, transforms a street confrontation into something transcendently beautiful. The voice of Louis Armstrong adds a level of almost unbearable irony.

A rural eye doctor helps underserved villagers in China regain their sight and their lives.

When a middle-aged couple went to the mall, they heard the sound of the wind chime at the store and bought it. They want to feel the sound of the wind chimes in the mountains, so they left the workplace and went to the mountains to live off the grid. In nature, they hear the sound of the wind and like to share the sound of the wind chimes.

The documentary is set in the backgroud that the government replaced rural primary schools with town schools. It tells a story about the teacher Wu Zhisi and four students in Luming Primary School of Luming Village, Zuoquan County, Shanxi Province and recorded the choice made by teachers and students in this background. This work shows the disappearing process of a rural elementary school hidden in the mountains and the passive choices of this five families influenced by this event.

A four-square-metre box with a screen and computer. This is what Japanese cyber-cafes offer, around the clock. Most customers just spend an hour or two here. But there are thousands who spend their lives in them. The Manboo in Tokyo has its own permanent residents: Masata and Hitomi. It is a home for them, even though they sleep on the floor.

Simply start recording the niece grow up, mother in the process accidentally into the shot, watching his mother take care of nieces look, as if I saw my childhood, in the lens of the mother, suddenly became very different from her in the impression and saw her anxiety, irritability, weakness, fear, but often are niece intrusion becomes funny, witty.

Yang is a 30-year-old itinerant singer with a complicated love life, illegally busking in China's big cities, trying to evade the authorities. Which he does, for a while...

The filmmaker's mother relays her experience of getting her tubes tied after giving birth in Los Angeles in the '90s. An intergenerational story around birth control unfolds.

"Idol" is China's first independent music series documentary, produced and produced by Beijing Maichao Film. The "Idol" documentary focuses on Chinese independent music practitioners, presenting their relationship with the world and telling how they use independent attitudes to prove that music is still alive. The plot revolves around the popularization of individual types, the restoration of objective records and the story emotions. Through "Idol", more people know and understand Chinese independent music and independent music circles, making "Chinese independent musicians" no longer just thin. The literal meaning of the word, let more people see the life and stories behind the "Chinese independent musicians" works. The documentary will be available for exclusive broadcast on the Youku Documentary Channel on January 10, 2019.

On the making of Studio Trigger's "Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade" (2015).

Memories of a village sunk in a dam.

Guo Zequan went on a journey into the southern part of China.

This film is about Japanese traditional bamboo craft.

"Yongwangung was a Gutdang (shaman’s shrine) where first generation Korean women who crossed the seas from Jeju to Japan use to go before the Second World War. In 2009, I heard that the shrine was about to be demolished by the Osaka city government. My childhood memory of my mother praying in the kitchen came back when I was filming elderly women in Jeju and I felt the urge to have a shamanistic ritual for my mother who had been hospitalized."

My name is HER Yoon-soo and Iminm 25 years old. Iminve somehow managed to graduate from a film school, and now my dream is to stand on my own two feet while making films. Yet in reality, I still flit from one part-time job to another, working at cafes and restaurants. I turn to some of the alumni from my film school in search of success stories. But the reality they face is far different from my expectations.

A filmmaker embeds himself with an anti-smuggling task force but is eventually compelled to examine himself instead.

“To see a girl I fell in love with at the first sight, I imitated my idol Herzog to start a journey on foot.”

An exposé on how millennials are changing North Korea, featuring interviews with defectors and footage shot in the country itself.

Short by UMMMI.