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«Why do they stay? » The boss here is crazy. A group of people who have been living here for a long time have no jobs and spend all day teasing female guests... They dislike each other but rely on each other. I'm thirty years old, and I encountered a relationship crisis in my thirties. He wanted to buy an off-road vehicle to start a tourism business in Tibet, but he was very poor and a face-saving person. Raising money to buy a car has become difficult. Finally borrowed money to buy the car. Unable to bear the financial pressure, Bingbing hoped that the hotel could make changes, but a conflict arose.

During Songkran, the director and his family reunite at Grandma’s house where they share heartfelt conversations about their late Grandpa. One night, an enigmatic event unfolds during their sleep.

“To all my dear friends.” In this diary-like record of a year with the family, small glimmering fragments of mundane daily life begin to form a magical and never-before seen landscape.

Director's homecoming to the embrace of home and familiar places.

Chen Xiaomei is an ordinary peasant girl, 17 years old, from Jiale Township, Jiangjin, Chongqing. Unlike other peasant girls, she was abandoned by her mother right after she was born. Xiaomei's adoptive parents are authentic farmers, picked up Xiaomei, they are old, the child died at an early age. According to their words pick up Chen Xiaomei is in order to "old after the tea water have someone ......". Xiao Mei's foster parents did not study, the family lack of labor, the economy has been very difficult. When Xiao Mei was in the third grade of elementary school, her adoptive father became seriously ill, and the family's economy became even more problematic, with no money to pay tuition, Xiao Mei became an out-of-school child. The year was 1994.

The film documents a group of underground conceptual artists and performance artists active in the folk art scene of Chengdu, China. It captures their process of engaging in underground art creation and organizing underground art exhibitions during the summer of 1999, the final summer of the 20th century. The summer of 1999 was a tumultuous period in Chinese politics. It marked the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, the outbreak of the "Falun Gong incident," and the moment when Taiwan's leader, Lee Teng-hui, made the "two-state theory" declaration, almost leading to a war between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. These underground artists used their creations to reflect their understanding and perspectives on Chinese history and contemporary society. However, their actions were constantly under official surveillance.

DUAN Chang-wen left his hometown Sichuan, China in 1949, and followed the Government of the Republic of China to Taiwan. DUAN Tsai Tsai-chiung, a young female from Taiwan, worked diligently in a textile factory. For the next forty years, they lived in a military dependents' village and worked in a clothing factory. As the factory closed down and the village being demolished, people started to move away. The DUAN couple, however, continued to live there. Their memories and lives were being captured by their granddaughter in this film.

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?

This is a film about a daughter’s feelings about losing her father. Like the scenery from a running train, memories are beautiful, blurry, and keep changing. In this experimental animated documentary, the author mixed video footage and analog film with animation techniques and brought through a diary-like atmosphere to immerse the audience in unspeakable feelings of losing a loved one.

A building with fifty years of history was once a popular spot in the memory of the locals, but now it is considered to be the cancer of the city because of its shabby exterior and the interior that looks like a ruin. When it was going to be rebuilt due to urban renewal, "Escape Plan," a group of young graffiti artists, sneaked in this twelve-story ruined building. For them, it is a rarely seen wonderful space to create art. They are now planning to challenge themselves to create something they have never thought of.

The filmmaker took a trip to Nepal and ended up embarking on a journey of self-discovery through a relationship. In a self-reflexive tone, the film ponders upon the transformation of her position within the relationship. As she resituated herself in geographical terms, she was also on a spiritual quest to her innermost self through destruction and reconstruction.

A proprietor of a video company has racked up many debts due to filming, so he began his bidding life. During this time, he bid on a case which was a continuation of a young artist that he had worked with together before. The artist is full of talent, but he has always been ignored, and his heart is filled with depression. The two intend to expose the enviroment of the artistic world through this shooting so as to relive their sorrows. However, with the production of the film, will the two ease their sorrows, or will they increase them instead?

I recorded our time around South Korea in 2020.

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.

“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.

Kitty and Tommy, who live in Korea, and Mia and Emma, who live in Japan, meet and talk in an online space. With national borders closed due to COVID-19 and physical barriers solidified between their real-world lives, these four, who are among “the first generation whose playgrounds are online,” seek new places to meet and have endless conversations about the way they each move through the world. The ground they stand on is connected by their shared experiences of discrimination and oppression as women born and raised in East Asia, but when they walk and talk with each other’s avatars, there is also a sense of the power of friendship and laughter to overcome depression and anxiety.

A group of young boys are going on a pilgrimage. Their journey gradually turns into a mosaic of spiritual pursuit, as well as jokes, games, laugh and moments of daydreaming…

Documentary on asbestos mine workers

The film is about two people with developmental disabilities who are living in Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu after ‘de-institutionalizing' from a residential facility for the disabled where they had stayed for long in 2020. There were frequent incidents and accidents in their independence process although it can be summarized in one sentence. The film attempts to illuminate the value of humane life by allowing their present where they live independently in the community and the past where they lived in the controlled environment of a facility to face.

The daily lives of a group of mentally disabled adults in Chita, Aichi Prefecture. 45 year old Toki strictly observes a daily working routine of simple tasks, straightening books on shelves in a book store, and visiting a regular circuit of pachinko parlors in order to empty their ashtrays. Yanagisawa introduces us to each of the film's subjects in a similar manner: 51 year old Kayo for instance, who fends off everyone with a bamboo stick. The community came into existence quite gradually, inspired by an exchange set up by some of the parents. Overcoming the objections of the local government association, the residents move into a rented building and, working with their guidance staff, they decide to create a facility based on plans they themselves have drawn up. The group then figures out who should be assigned what task as they remodel and finally complete work on the building turning it into a communal work place they dub "Popeye House."

Beixnuengx means compatriot in the Zhuang language. I was born and raised in the city. Although I am Zhuang (China’s ethnic group), am I Beixnuengx? I want to find my identity. So I started with Zhuang folk songs. I set off from Nanning to Wuming, Baise, and then to Mashan, my hometown that I have never been to. I met people singing songs in WeChat groups; I joined the Zhuang song festival at the entrance of the village, I visited 100-year-olds who still make Zhuang brocade... What are the stories of those singing folk songs? What Beixnuengx culture is revealed in folk songs? Along the way, I slowly uncovered the much advertised Zhuang culture and saw her in the most original form. In the end, how did I answer my initial question?

On January 1, 2003,President Chen Hsui-Bian declared:" I have felt the people's anguish and pain, and would like to express my gratitude and best wishes to the hard-working people of Taiwan and their unrelenting strivings."

Geomancy is to say hinding winds to gain water. The earth is mother , burial brings peace to the deceased, symbolizing reincarnation. So the name of this story in English is “Revive”, which means getting into the cycle of reincarnation. The documentary is going to tell a story contains several elements such as Geomancy of compass, Hakka funeral and interment culture, General om teach, Seance. Moreover, it also porse deeply on the floating life with fleeting time- the sanguine life of a wise man in countryside. This is an old man whose life is full of hardships, he possesses real learning and stories, owns peace after overcoming severe difficulties, and has the special graciousness as being in such an age…

As a popular winter-sport, Ice hockey has been professionalized gradually in China since Beijing had successfully bid for the Olympic Winter Games. Qu ruichen (richard), qu lifan (steven), and zhai zinan (jason) are three nine-year-old strikers for a beijing junior ice hockey team. all of them have the dream of becoming a professional. while the three strikers are giving their best on the court, their parents stand at a crossroads: should they support their children to become professional athletes or to force them to forget their dreams?

The rich visual range and fascinating soundtrack of "Faith" invite viewers to travel through the spiritual world of southern Siberia, where shamanism, Orthodoxy and Buddhism coexist side by side, and local residents try to harmoniously coexist with beautiful, but merciless nature.

After 30 years of Cold War confrontation between Taiwan and the mainland, people-to-people exchanges began in the 1980s, and the increasingly close economic, trade, and tourism exchanges over the past 30 years have roughly changed the external appearance of the two sides, but the internal alienation and mistrust have never diminished... Lao Ke, a businessman who failed to do business in Taiwan, put down his body and went to the mainland to serve as a Taiwanese officer, wanting to make a comeback. Lili, a working girl from the Mainland to Shenzhen, met her husband in Taiwan through the Internet and wanted to pursue a better life. They landed on the other side full of hope. Unexpectedly, the treacherous and changeable external situation and internal conflicts that appeared from time to time made the road to dream building extremely difficult.

Xiayao Village, Youyu County, Shanxi ProvinceThe 7-year-old and big-footed Bai Nu and Liu Buhan, both of whom died because of their loved ones, were brought together with their three children more than 40 years ago. (Bai Danu 2 Men 1 Women) (Liu Buhan 3 (Daughter) Nowadays, the children have become grandparents, and most of them are not next to Bai Bainu and Liu Buhan. The children of both sides have differences over the old age of raising the two elderly people ... so despite the two They are all in their eighties, and still need to get up and return to the field to farm in the morning and night, and the old lady Bai is more because of her little feet, she has to stagger in the wind and rain, kneeling in the fields ... A foot-binding old lady faces the camera and talks to her little feet ...

Bai Sanming, a Chinese farmer, plays Mao Zedong for a living. This strange and absurd phenomenon has formed a unique and complete industrial chain in China. This documentary depicts this absurd and realistic behavior. At the same time, the documentary also brings out the special ideological trend that has existed since the last century, based on the crazy personality cult of Mao Zedong.

A cyber-documentary about two men bearing the cross on the brink of ruin. Mr. PBX is a phone enthusiast on the verge of bankruptcy, while his counterpart in the file-sharing world, Urashima Taro, burns thousands of petabytes of files onto tens of thousands of DVDs and finds himself with a full head of grey hair. Standing on the precipice, their eyes sparkle with life!

For years, urban people have seen the mountain country as a pure wonderland. When they get bored with the city, they visit the mountains and enjoy the hospitality of the ethnic minorities there. The director and cameraman go to the mountains with the typical expectations of urban people — that the local ethnic minority people are supposed to prepare meals for them, and that local labor should be cheap. Behind “Foggy Valley” lie the stories of Chinese country villages which are undergoing transformation.

Mother and son who got separated from adoption, decided to live together for the first time in 40 years. This is because his mother is about to die. While his natural appearance and personality are exactly the same, everything else is completely different. In fact, they are foreigners to each other. However, to compensate for the time they lived apart, he goes back to his childhood. On the other hand, resentment towards each other grows because of the pain engraved in each other's hearts. It is uncertain how much time is left between the two, but there are still a lot of things to do while they're together.

A story of a female director who spends a hallucinatory night in quarantine in a hotel. She recalled her former lover and creative partner Liling, out of nowhere. And then, she was surprised to find That Liling is in front in her, they poured out their hearts and past experiences, once the story came into their view. The next morning, the hotel reception calls her……

Dreamland Nature School, located in Mullae-dong, Seoul, provides an environment where children can run and play freely with their friends while taking children from 4 to 7 years old to a forest, vegetable garden, and playground not far from the city. Children of nature school find a play they want to immerse themselves in without any restrictions, and enjoy the time by challenging new play.

Shot over a period of 15 months from April 1969 to July 1970, Motoshinkakarannu captures a tumultuous time in Okinawa’s occupation, offering an unflinching snapshot of Okinawan society that captures the daily lives of sex workers, yakuza, tourists and G.I.s in Koza City.