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In the Amis language, a moment signifies peace and a sense of ‘home’ when the ocean calms. This metaphorically relates to the journey of a group of Amis people who left their coastal homes in the 1970s for city work. In Taipei, they established the “Xizhou Tribe” near a riverbank, contributing to urban development but ultimately facing displacement. This dichotomy highlights the choices they made: some stayed in cities, while others returned to ancestral lands. Decades later, as they completed new houses, their story reflects a deeper narrative of indigenous urbanization—a crossroads of starting anew or enduring broken connections with their past and identity.

A glorified childhood memory: a crispy dessert with a hole in the middle, seen in a Japanese cartoon. The mother corrects: It was a soft doughnut. This cognitive distortion inspired this film, which challenges the boundaries of subjective perception. Images and sounds mix and overlap. Street noise, excerpts of faces, snippets of interviews. Only the people's answers are visible, the questions remain hidden. Once you think about it, consciousness piles up.

A ruined wedding photo sparks a journey through Taiwan’s iconic pre-wedding photographers—uncovering stories of fantasy, rebellion, and pain, and leading to a deeper reflection on femininity, absence, and the unreachable idea of perfection.

In a Yunnan border village, soldiers, police, villagers, and volunteer teachers live parallel lives around a school—until the pandemic intertwines their emotions and routines, creating fleeting, mysterious connections.

The Last Mongolian Horseman follows the life of a nomadic shepherd family across four seasons in the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Through quiet observation and poetic imagery, the film captures the rhythms of traditional Mongolian life amidst growing pressures from industrialization and cultural displacement. As the family tends to their animals and sustains their ancestral way of life, the documentary reveals the ecological and spiritual fragility of a vanishing culture. This intimate portrait becomes a powerful meditation on identity, survival, and the unyielding connection between people and their land.

Grandpa, Daddy, and two sons, Spanning three generations. Embark on a journey to Hungary to reunite with the mother. This road trip documentary captures the diverse natural environments and culturesthey encounter as they travel through various countries to reach their destination.

Educational documentary film produced in 1989.

Artist Som Supaparinya presents the video work Two Sides of the Moon. This film recounts the lives of fishermen and fisherwomen at the beginning and end of the Moon River where it joins the Mekong, on the border between Thailand and Laos. Each place - and its people - is confronted with the modification of the river landscape by the man-made dam, but their stories and the impact on their lives are contrasting. One community has started to learn how to fish, while the other is counting the names of lost fish and tools. The concept of light and darkness derives from the brightness of the moon and its shadows, and the contrast between the two sides of the river reveals the inequality of fates.

Through fragments of everyday speech, this documentary constructs an alternate dimension of portraits for characters featured in earlier films. These previously unused materials—marked by the repetition of certain words—reveal deeper layers of social and environmental context.

Aired as part of People’s Home (百姓家园) program on Beijing Television. Chang Lixin encountered an abandoned child when she was only 24. This is the documentary on how she raised this child and other abandoned children just like her own daughter.

Aired as part of People's Home (百姓家园) program on Beijing Television, about one little shop owned by an elderly couple.

"Have you ever wanted to just leave everything behind and take off to a faraway place?" Here are two people who didn’t just imagine it but actually made it happen. Do-won and Myung-chul left behind their familiar and convenient city life to start anew in an unfamiliar place—Cheongsan (靑山). Cheongsan Island reveals itself only after a six-hour bus ride from Seoul, followed by another hour-long ferry journey. In a place where even those in their sixties are considered young, the arrival of a couple in their thirties was nothing short of astonishing. Wherever they go, their youth stands out. Do-won works as a social worker at a local children’s center, while Myung-chul volunteers at a church café. Though they are still adjusting, little by little, they are building a home for themselves on the island. In Cheongsan, a designated "Slow City" where slowness is considered an art, Do-won and Myung-chul lead surprisingly busy lives.

In the region of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, Palestinians are being subjected to ethnic cleansing. Homes that have been passed down since the days of their grandparents are being reduced to rubble by bulldozers. Families who have lived by farming olive trees are forcibly displaced, and Israeli settlements are built in their place. Under international law, these acts are clear violations, yet they continue unabated. In the space of this grotesque violence—where Palestinian homes are demolished to make way for Israeli settlements—there is a familiar logo affixed to the heavy machinery. It belongs to HD Hyundai, one of South Korea's largest conglomerates. Suddenly, what once felt like a distant geopolitical issue jump-cuts into our lives—right to our doorstep.

Kanchanaburi, Thailand, was a key site during World War II where the Japanese military operated POW camps and military brothels. Cho Moon-sang served as a prison guard, while Noh Su-bok endured suffering as a "comfort woman." Heo Yeong, a propaganda officer for the Japanese army, produced films that distorted the realities of POW camps. After the war ended in 1945, Cho was sentenced to death as a war criminal. Unable to return to Korea due to his collaboration, Heo aided Korean prison guards in their escape. Noh, rather than returning home, chose to remain in Thailand and rebuild her life.

The film chronicles Angel's over-a-year journey striving in Shanghai from another city, during which she navigates three romantic relationships.

Toru Kurihara, who is said to be the creator of the unprecedented ruins boom that covered the whole of Japan, supervised and introduced the unknown charm of the ruins. From hotels, closed schools, abandoned hospitals, and even ghost towns, it covers spots that are unbearable for abandoned fans. You can enjoy each decaying state.

Documentary on a family of Nu ethnic group.

On March 1993, the Daguan Village in Jilin Province started to re-elect the members for the Village Committee. It was the first time for them to use the write-in election process.

When the Korean War ended and my grandfather returned his home. The house was completely burned down and smoking. My grandfather started rebuilding his house with his family. And 70 years have passed..

Documentary on the film Punk Samurai

When my grandfather returned home after exile, he found his house burnt-out and smoldering. He and his family began to rebuild their home, and 70 years have passed.

A stringed instrument workshop in Gyeongju. Dong-joon is a man who has dedicated his entire life to the violin. He has suffered from hearing loss since the age of one, and without a hearing aid he cannot even hear the sound of an airplane passing overhead. Making a sound-sensitive stringed instrument requires extraordinary effort, and Dong-joon's family is worried and concerned about his decision to pursue a career as a musical instrument maker. Meanwhile, Dong-joon prepares to enter an international violin-making competition in Mittenwald, Germany to prove his skills.

An Endless Road

When Director Laway was small, his father began working as crew on fishing boats out of the port of Kaohsiung. All through his youth, Laway's mother took him by Kinmen bus from Taitung to Kaohsiung to visit his father every year or two. Amis people have worked on fishing boats for years, and such family visits were common in the years from 1940 to 1960. With permission granted in April of 2013, Director Laway picked up his camera to film six of the Amis crew members. He boarded a Taiwanese ocean-going ship on Bona Bei island - an American possession in the South Pacific. With this ship he followed a purse seiner for 20 days, filming the crew's hard work and difficult life. To conclude, how was Laway’s father able to get through twenty years of his working career as a crew member? The director's only assistant is the son of a photographer - Mayaw‧Laway

Green Island's link to political prisoners remains indelible despite its modern tourism. To depict the multi-faceted appearance of the island, the film centres on 3 characters: a local islander, a former prisoner’s daughter, and an artist with depression.

The film conveys the theme of love through the life story of a blind-deaf couple. Facing all kinds of dilemma, the couple maintain each other between light and darkness.

Here, we feel the joy of saving lives and the sorrow of omnipresent death. Can we truly coexist with wildlife?

What would it be if anything had bloomed from where everything collapsed? Amid the pouring out of irreducible beings, some endure time and space that are only shattered and torn apart.

All and Nothing explores the intricate life of late conceptual artist Li Yuan-chia, tracing his journey from WWII-era China to Taiwan, 1950s Milan, Bologna, and Swinging Sixties London, culminating in his 1971 establishment of the L.Y.C. Museum & Gallery in rural Cumbria. The film captures his essence as a journeyman and artist.

Focused on the 2018-2020 excavation of Todos los Santos Church on Heping Island, Taiwan, this film delves into maritime exploration and colonisation of Taiwan. The director combines archaeological findings with a cross-disciplinary musical performance, capturing the delicate excavation process. Furthermore, the film traces a creative journey from the site to historical events in Asia.

A healing poem about the companionship of all things in a family garden. A mother gathers crops and cooks with her son in their daily life. The son, while imitating his mother's cooking in the kitchen, chants folk poems with a sense of regret and longing for the distant.

Nanako Kurihara came to the U.S. to escape being trapped as a woman in a repressive Japanese society. In New York she met a woman named Fumiko who had been active in the women's liberation movement in Japan. After the death of Fumiko, Nanako returned to Japan to find out became of the women's movement there

Gunmaker-BaoQiang, a Chinese rock singer, whose musician friend committed suicide a year ago. Since then, he throws his whole being into touring, howling for freedom in an authoritarian state which was rife with Communist ideology—all walks of life are under surveillance by the government. How does an idealist longing for a better country?

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.

History of the Pacific War from the invasion of Manchuria to the Tokyo trials