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The 'North Korea Freedom Week' events have been held every year since 2004, but have not garnered that much interest or awareness. There is much talk of the defectors doing a lot of work for reunification, but in reality, many do not how or what work the defector are doing. The purpose is to show through the documentary, what effect the 12th North Korea Freedom Week has had both here and abroad. There was a desire to show what could be accomplished by the defectors who have been training and learning, and preparing. There was a desire to show what we as a society must do first, for reunification.

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.

The documentary Searching for Brodsky by Xie Jiakun, made with Liao Jinfeng, a scholar at the National Taiwan University of Arts (where Xie is a lecturer), is the first to show extensive clips from Brodsky’s well-preserved feature-length documentary – the earliest surviving footage of everyday Chinese life – and dig a little deeper into Brodsky’s past. Typical of early film pioneers, he was basically a showman and businessman, but one with a genuine passion for his subject and for recording life without exoticism or condescension. (One intertitle even sarcastically noted: “The Chinese are fond of tender young bamboo shoots, while the Americans, as usual, prefer the kind of fruits and vegetables that grow in cans.”) He subsequently moved to Japan, where he made the documentary Beautiful Japan, which even included material on minorities.

A documentary that explores the life history of an 84 year old woman.

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.

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.

An analog feast for the senses that first shows how safflower is grown, harvested and processed, before applying its seeds and dye directly on the Super 8 material with results that aspire to a yellow-tinted version of a David Gatten film-nature meditation. - Christoph Huber for CInemascope, 2016

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

China is currently marked by a phase of rapidly growing urbanization. The film in this context deals with two particular cities. Yum en a derelict ghost town and Or dos a mythic city of the future,both are deserted. They exist because of completely different reasons. The film shows through impressive images how these two cities and the relation of inhabitants to these cities are developing in China in times of urban growth.

Wastewater from factories pollutes irrigation networks and contaminates rice fields. The compromised water supplies taints the soil in which rice is grown with dangerous levels of cadmium, chromium and toxic chemicals that then enter the national diet. But it’s more that a problem for Taiwan’s farmers. Can the public rely on our island’s food, water and environment, or ever feel truly safe?

Who is Bill Gates? A software developer? A businessman? A philanthropist? A global health expert? This question, once merely academic, is becoming a very real question for those who are beginning to realize that Gates’ unimaginable wealth has been used to gain control over every corner of the fields of public health, medical research and vaccine development. And now that we are presented with the very problem that Gates has been talking about for years, we will soon find that this software developer with no medical training is going to leverage that wealth into control over the fates of billions of people.

Untitled is an early work by Park Hyunki, shot on 16mm film and presented as a black-and-white silent projection. Set against a stark white wall, the work shows the artist repeatedly jumping in place until his body becomes exhausted and collapses.

Pass Through the City documents a tripartite performance staged by Park Hyunki in Daegu on March 22, 1981. Park fabricated two enormous stones out of resin and embedded mirrors onto their surfaces. One stone was installed on the floor of Maekhyang Gallery, while the other was loaded onto a sixteen-meter truck and driven through downtown Daegu for forty minutes. After the ride, the stone was moved to a busy sidewalk by a bank, where passersby touched its surface, gathered around it, and looked at themselves in the mirror. The work was recorded on 16mm film.

‘I’ am curious as to how my dad came to have such conviction in his support of the conservative party despite his poverty and set off for my hometown of Daegu right before the local elections on June 2nd, 2010. A new kind of ‘Family Documentary’ that takes a sharp jab at the mindset of Korean society’s conservative class and conflict between generations.

This short documentary depicts the experience of Selina Cheung, the producer of “The Road Runners' Spring” (2025), who began working part-time as a delivery walker during the film production. It explores the unique features of three food delivery platforms in Hong Kong and examines which urban landscapes are suitable for these walkers.

In 1943, the Imperial Japanese government announced a work-study program in its colony, Taiwan, to recruit children to work in military factories. 8,419 boys came to Japan... An one-hour documentary, Shonenko reveals the unknown stories of these child laborers (Shonenko), from 12 to 14 years old, who manufactured fighter planes in Japanese Naval Arsenals during the Second World War. They left their families, homeland and childhood with the dream of receiving an education. But their dream was to be shattered - first by the war and again by cruel post-war politics in Taiwan, Japan and China.

After the death of her gentle grandfather—the only protective figure—the filmmaker's mother’s mental state began to unravel. In an attempt to find spiritual grounding and emotional clarity, mother and daughter travel together to Tibet, seeking distance and faith as a way to make sense of their fractured past.

Documentary on "people's teachers", teachers employed by the local people rather than the state, about their lives and difficulties.

A documentary about the vulnerability of a sex trafficking rallying point in Yongjugol, a city threatened with 'forced closure'.

Taoyuan County Magistrate Wu Chih-yang continued to promote the Taoyuan Aerotropolis project despite strong disputes from social movement groups and local residents, leaving expropriated households in constant anxiety. On the day of the local chief election, the incumbent County Magistrate Wu Chih-yang lose the election, the residents were surprised and delighted. After experiencing this dramatic election of "voting with tears," the residents of the Anti-Aerotropolis Eviction Alliance decided to nominate Wang Pao-hsuan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, who has long been involved in anti-eviction issues, to run for legislator to challenge the old political structure of the locality. However, during the campaign, in addition to encountering "external threats" from the original local political factions, the "young social movement activists" and "traditional villagers" in the team also had differences in their ideas about the campaign methods.

Documentary on the couple working as herdsmen on Qilian Mountains.

Recording of film students doing some imitative shooting.

Immigrant children in Japan must find alternative ways to stay in touch with their mother tongue as the country becomes home to approximately 3.41 million foreign residents. Teachers of all kinds run language classes operated on necessity as families learn to navigate children with varying levels of skill with what should come naturally to them. Visa issues and status of residence loom over it all.

The Tokiwadaira Housing Complex was constructed in the 1950s boom for housing complexes. Now, its residents are aging, leaving and diminishing, with the buildings following in their wake. While the structures that housed these people are being rebuilt and demolished across the country, what are the lives of the people that live there now?

This documentary anthropologically records an 80-year-old Horqin shaman's final 3-day initiation ritual, showcasing traditional ceremonies and spiritual trances, with the passing of sacred instruments symbolizing cultural continuity.

Industrialization and scientific advancement have freed most of the world from hunger, and crushed the idea that agriculture is the foundation of a nation. For precious food to reach us, vegetation must be cared for daily. Yet, farming has become a profession to be avoided, causing the aging of farmers and shrinking of farmlands. Will it be okay to lose local farming in our near future?

The earlist Chinese film with confirmed written record, a short film made by the government army, documenting the autumn army manoeuvres in October 1905.

Walking into the historical and cultural block, Liu Xing Street in Yining City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the streets and alleys resemble a hexagonal puzzle. In this community, residents from 13 ethnic groups, including the Uygurs, Kazakhs, Hans, Huis, and others, live together.

Wang Rongyu, founder of Golden Bough Theatre (1993), creates deeply local Taiwanese productions. His works, like "Stage in the Rain," blend folk opera traditions into original musicals, earning acclaim as quintessential "Tai-Ke theater." Overcoming a 2008 crisis, the troupe now completes its 300th outreach performance, touring across Taiwan.

In Taiwan's southernmost Manzhou Township, a group of local women—ordinary homemakers—transform into acclaimed folk artists when they pick up their moon guitars. The documentary Manzhou Ladies chronicles their lives, led by folk treasure Zhang Rigui, depicting their resilience in preserving local ballads across decades. Now, as young apprentices struggle with language and cultural gaps, the future of these timeless tunes hangs in the balance.

Me and my sister. I don't think an answer is needed but the endless feeling spreading.

Documentary on the two generations of the boatmen.

Second part of the Mare Senki (Malaya War Record) series produced by Nihon Eigasha in 1942. While the first installment documented the Japanese advance through Malaya, Birth of Syonan-to portrays Singapore under occupation after its fall in February 1942. The film shows the renaming of the city to Shōnan-tō (“Light of the South”), Japanese victory celebrations, military parades, and efforts to depict the transformation of the colony under Japanese rule. Designed as a propaganda feature, it aimed to legitimize occupation and emphasize Japan’s leadership in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.