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Set against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic, this documentary chronicles the journey of Michelin-star chef Toba Shusaku and his unwavering ambitions to spread happiness during challenging times. As the driving force behind the "sio" restaurant chain, Chef Toba envisions building a culinary empire with the potential to endure for a century, offering delectable cuisine and happiness to all. Yet, this ambition carries a heavy price: As his enterprise swiftly expands, tensions arise among his staff, and the estrangement from his family gradually exacts its toll.

A Jian, Zhang Chiand Gou Zi took the train from Beijing to Tongliao. They made a promise that no one could speak during the trip, and who broke the rules should be punished. But it's still necessary to pick up some phone call, ask the way after you get off the train...For educated decadents, life is as if always in a state of intoxication, without goal or objective.

In the later stages of the epidemic, a young couple who constantly argued over work, a partner who had a conflict, a friend who didn't show up for a long time, their video chats were interwoven and recorded on a computer screen with anxiety, boredom, and hope.

In order to pursue a life different from the past, two musicians with different backgrounds leave Taipei. One is Tz-Fan Hsu, the head of the band, The Last Wave, and the other is Thomas, the driving force behind Sheng-Xiang & Band. The two landed in Kaohsiung to start a new musical life.

The village of Haiyang on the Liaodong peninsula boasts 1,200 hectares of beaches rich in clams. At low tide, thousands of people walk nine kilometers there and back to collect clams. This documentary records their labor.

Fragmented coastal scenes scattered across the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area: a security guard on duty at a Shenzhen beach, a woman posing for bridal photos along the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, children playing in the shallows beneath a bridge, the transparent glass interior of the M+ Museum, the rooftop of Sky100, the upper reaches of the Pearl River, and the waterfront of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, among others. Most of these filming locations were chosen from lists of photogenic sites popular on Xiaohongshu (RedNotes), i.e. places that have become “internet-famous” through a single viral post, attracting waves of photographers and tourists. Yet the artist deliberately diverges from these original images, turning away from the sharply defined details and edges of these celebrated sites. Instead, the camera retreats into marginalized zones at the limits of visibility, areas suffused with blinding halos of light.

On a film set where reality blurs into fiction, there is no clear protagonist-only a fluid network of characters who drift between roles as actors and crew. "Chunhee's Wet Dream of Loving a Pig" is a meta-cinematic, carnivalesque experiment born from unfiltered passion, exploring the raw desire for art and the porous boundary between life and cinema.

A documentary film produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Iwanami Shoten's founding. It depicts the history of Iwanami Shoten over a 50-year period from its founding in 1913 to 1963, using films, publications, photographs, etc. from that time.

A ordinary village in Jiangxi Province, is the hometown of the director. The youth are heading for the city, the author is anxious of his hometown to be changed too dramatically in the coming days. He records down the precious shots of the villages in its four seasons, and then turns to those youth struggling in the city: their worries, their joys and their missing of the hometown. In the film, the author tries to explore the meaning of hometown for those being forced to look for new chance in the city by the market, although his story is not ending......

"Birds would fly, China caged at all." Unlike the West, China and its economic activities fend for themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic. The exports have been halted overall due to the Chinese CCP's confidence in the totalitarian control and the mirage of domestic economic resurgence throughout the socio-political regime. The countless factories and plants like I recorded this time were scraped by the stress. China re-enters a dilemma of self-consuming, selling at home and being like the rest part of the world as well as enclosed again, similar as the circling laborers in this documentary film. The impacts spread to at least millions of manufacturing are as such as the Shangyu, Wufu plant in Zhejiang Province.

Issara has 2 highest dreams in his life, making his own movie and being in love with someone (he is gay and never had a boyfriend), then he brings both of his dreams leading him to join the documentary project of BIOSCOPE film magazine, his project My First Boyfriend was selected. So he went to the internet to announce someone who is going to date him in this movie (he said this is a director-actor relationship) Issara's rule is he will use the camera to record this date but his face will never be shown, so the audience will see only the actor's face and will know the director by hearing his voice.

A documentary about a person forgotten by the society Mr.Roj, trying to find places in which he can find peace. He chose Bangkhama as his sanctuary while it was being taken away from him as the world progress. A inspection about hopes and dreams of a forgotten people.

The story revolves around an elderly farmer tending her fields on the border between the two Koreas. Living on the other side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), she struggles to reclaim the land that was taken from her by the local government. The aged protagonist has already experienced the heartache of losing her homeland to the ravages of war. A poignant memory from seventy years ago resurfaces - during the Korean War, American soldiers suddenly entered her village. The subsequent division of the Korean peninsula and the course of development took away everything she held dear.

An intimate portrait of three Chinese women in different stage of their marriage, representing 16 million other women who are deceived into marriage by their gay husbands.

A documentary film about the tidal flat ecosystem directed by ornithologist Shimomura Kenji. It is also said to be the original form of Japanese ecological documentary films. We took two years of long-term photography at Gyotoku Coast in Chiba Prefecture and Ariake Bay in Saga Prefecture, and carefully observed the ecology of tidal flat creatures such as crabs and muddy sparrows using telephoto lenses.

Eight pastoral vignettes make up this leisurely and benevolent stroll through Thailand’s rural north country, where time slows down and the changing seasons dictate the day’s chores from dawn to dead of night.

Documentary film of Zhou Enlai's life.

Documentary about Li Ying's film FLYING FLYING.

Kyogen performer Mansai Nomura is taking on the challenge of various attempts to convey the appeal of Kyogen, a traditional art form with a 600-year history, to the modern age. While carrying the weight of the Nomura family's legacy, which was spun out by his father Mansaku, a living national treasure, and others, he has been lightly expanding his field of activity to appear in films and dramas and stage productions. These various activities are nothing other than the path of Mansai Nomura, a kyogen performer who conveys the appeal of kyogen with its profound expressive power to the present day. Through the figure of Mansai, who is always creating new challenges, this programme introduces the appeal of the "traditional Japanese performing arts" in the "present".

A tiny, hole-in-the-wall club founded by aging punk Lee Kyou-Young, who moved back home to Incheon after accidentally getting his girlfriend pregnant, Ruby Salon is the seed that sprouts two bands: Galaxy Express, a tight, ambitious outfit that dreams of stardom; and Tobacco Juice, a band whose members are so lazy they can't even be bothered to show up for gigs.

Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was created as a tribute to Michiko Kamba, a student victim of the riots.

Eerie images of landscapes after the Fukushima nuclear disaster shot on black and white 8mm.

A photograph of someone. They are emptied, replaced by something else. I discover the vertical side of 8mm fits with the empty screen.

In a tiny, six-square-meter room, a young Chinese man named Eryang envisions a republic of his own.

In a nursing home in the northeast of China, the last stages of the lives of the elderly are dramatized. At the same time, the director, as the filmmaker, becomes an actor in this life drama.

This short film tells a story in the form of a poem that calls for equality for children who lack opportunities. It was created by Surapong Pinijkhar, who submitted it to the Bangkok Bank Documentary Film Festival in 1977. Despite exceeding the standards of traditional Thai documentary films, the judges were too afraid to give it the top prize, but they also couldn't deny its brilliance, so they awarded it a special prize. This documentary film is a creative masterpiece of the nation. This film has been registered as part of the National Film Heritage, first edition, in the year 2011 (B.E. 2554).

A small but sturdy farmer called Sanghee Ahn and passionate young farmers surrounded me, farming. When even I am having a hard time here, will the farmers be able to protect the seeds and take care of the small plant lives?

"Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress" (1971) chronicles a decisive phase in the struggle against the construction of the Narita International Airport, as farmers in Sanrizuka adopted new defensive tactics, including the construction of fortified towers and underground shelters. As police forces moved to dismantle these structures, confrontations intensified. The film combines scenes of direct conflict with extended conversations between Ogawa and the farmers, documenting both the physical resistance and the sustained community organizing that defined this stage of the protest.

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Conversations took place inside and outside the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre between an art student and an elder lottery seller regarding their perspective on Bangkok in 2030.

Poet and author Xi Xi is one of Hong Kong's most treasured writers. Though also acclaimed in Taiwan and mainland China for seminal works like the essay Shops, her writings are firmly rooted in the spirit of Hong Kong. Leave it to Fruit Chan, another staunchly grassroots auteur, to make a documentary on Xi Xi's career. Chan sought out renowned critics and writers to discuss Xi Xi's works, starting with 1979's My City. He also juxtaposes photos of a changing Hong Kong with readings of her writings, and even playfully inserts characters from her stories into the film.

"Huangyangchuan, Gansu province, China. It's an arid mountain area with poor roads. Ma Bingcheng is well-respected local doctor, so many patients (most of them farmers) come to see him every day. In his small clinic, people chat with each other about their lives, local conditions, or the people they know. The clinic seems to open up like a microcosm, the information and experiences of different people intertwine, revealing the conditions of typical Chinese farmers, and the typical fates of both young and old--"

The late Kim Dong-il, a Jeju April 3 refugee in Japan, left behind over 2,000 crocheted items and pieces of clothing that preserved her memories, identity, and history. As the film traces the redistribution of her belongings, it illuminates the still-unhealed lives of various Zainichi Koreans who lived through the same era, sharing and connecting their intertwined memories.

Born from the feelings I experienced throughout 2023 – a year filled with moments of mixed emotions. It is a collection of footage I've captured, blended with other videos that resonate deeply with my emotions.

In the man-made waterways of rice paddies, the water in nature must follow artificial rules. In that way, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a new form of beauty distinct from the natural state. The theme of this work is the liveliness of water as it follows the man-made course.

On Green Island’s Human Rights Memorial, a poem by Bo Yang mourns the mothers who wept through long nights for children imprisoned there during Taiwan’s White Terror. In Cries in the Dark, the filmmaker turns that line into family history. In 1950, their parents were arrested in the Yu Fei espionage case, convicted of rebellion, and sentenced to 13 and 10 years in prison. Their grandmother, desperate to save her newly married daughter and son-in-law, cried for help until she lost sight in one eye. Decades later, the case was officially recognized as a wrongful conviction: 34 people were implicated, four unrelated defendants were executed, and the rest received heavy sentences. Born while their mother was briefly released from prison, the filmmaker spent early childhood behind bars before being separated when she was sent to Green Island. The film records the intimate cost of political persecution across prison, family, and memory.

Eighty years after World War II, memory clings like frost to glass-blurred, fractured, yet never fully fading. Filmmaker Ming Chun retraces the forgotten journey of Taiwanese soldiers conscripted by Japan, captured by the Soviets, and exiled to Siberia. From departure and defeat to captivity and return, he follows a path of war and displacement-toward a home that no longer felt like home. Across Taiwan, Japan, and Russia, he searches for traces of their lives-abandoned camps, fading photographs, fragments of memory-while opening a dialogue across three generations: elders whose recollections falter, children burdened with unanswered questions, grandchildren confronting fractured identities. When history falls silent, what do we hear? And where do restless souls finally belong?

In the midst of old days and nights, strangers gather and disperse.

On the Way Home follows a man on his way home on a rainy night, while cross-cutting the happenings after he returns home: doing laundry in a flooded bathroom, drinking tea, reading, and repeatedly opening and closing the door.

In a confined section of a psychiatric ward in Northeast China, patients of schizophrenia, mania, depression, compulsive sexual behaviour and alcohol addition receive the mandatory treatment. As soon as their heads are cleared, they try to break free but always fail. Under the control of drugs and unquestionable discipline, they begin to reflect on their souls, will, desire and thoughts.

Liu Bocheng’s short but impactful time as the first mayor of Nanjing in 1949 where he showcases his dedication to the city's development and his strong bond with the people during a crucial period in history.

KIM Haneuldameun is a young girl who dreams of becoming an underwater photographer. One day in 2013, she encounters a wrecked ship underneaththe water. For some time, she feared of entering the water after the Sewol Ferry disaster. However, she continues her task of capturing images of the wrecked ship on camera. She decides to open an exhibition of her underwater photo works with an underwater photographer. She offers her photos of the sky and clouds as a present to the wrecked ship that cannot see the sky from beneath the water it has sunken into.

Class 172 is a key class for their excellent students of an ordinary secondary school in Hunan province, from which the kids’ main goal is to upgrade into one of the best province-level high school – No.1 high school of the county. In the recent few years, the school’s enrollment rate to high school was not quite satisfying, and this year, the newly promoted class in charge teacher – Mr. Xiang, who’s only graduated a few years ago, became their brightest hope to teach the students and raise the enrollment rate for school.

With an 8mm camera on-hand, the filmmaker travels around mainland Southeast Asia, off the tourist beaten path, without concrete plans. In the process, she makes unexpected friends, and her camera reveals how her journey is the very destination of her documentary.

Documentary about the idol group Aqours, depicting the nine members' feelings and experiences over their whole 10-year run, through historical footages and exclusive three-month close-up coverage leading up to their final live concert.

Chinese poet Xiuhua Yu, who has cerebral palsy, became instantly famous when her poems went viral on social media. When it happened she was stuck in a violent and loveless marriage in rural China. Director Jian Fan’s award-winning 2016 documentary Still Tomorrow followed her throughout her breakthrough year, when she gained the financial freedom to end her marriage. All that was missing was love.

This work was started in 1967 as a documentation of Nakajima’s life. The footage was edited into a single piece for the first time in 1974, in time to show the work to the curator Barbara London, who was visiting Japan. Generations of his family were lost and gained that year, with Nakajima's mother passing away, and then his child was born. The piece is an installation with two monitors; the left presents his mother and himself, and the right, his child and himself. Nakajima continues to work on the sequels of "My Life" with his grandchild.

On February 14, 2007, Valentine's Day, eight people who support gay relationships and marriage went to SOHO Modern City and various bus stops to give roses and cards to passersby, wish them a happy Valentine’s Day, and ask their support for gay rights. Upon seeing the words in the cards, everybody reacted differently. When they were asked their opinion of homosexuality, or what they would think if a family member were gay, their answers were all different and interesting, and even blackly humorous.

A journey to find the beauty of the body I wrote my question about aesthetics. Pretending to be great, Why is Idea hiding in shabby? Pretending to exist separately, Why is beauty parasitic to pain? Is there no ldea of ​​beauty? Why does it only appear like this? Why.

A personal transgender documentary. From the time of coming out to the time of having sex reassignment surgery.

A documentary about writer and novelist Liu Yichang.

In 2010, while he was filming "Three Sisters" in the mountain of Yunnan province, Wang Bing met two teenagers, Yonggao and Yongjin, whose father, a stonemason, had gone to the city in the hope of finding work. Wang Bing met up with them again in 2014, when they had been reunited with their father after four years in Fumin. For about a month, Wang Bing filmed their daily lives in the single squalid room that was their home. The fixed camera recorded the micro-events that punctuated their days : their father leaving for work, the youngsters themselves waking up, breakfast time, in front of the television, etc.

2016 Auntie Li's 16-year-old daughter was raped and killed at the New Oriental Foreign Language School in Beijing. in February 2018, the murderer filed an appeal and she came to Beijing to seek justice for her daughter. Finding her daughter's belongings lost at the school, she was turned away from the school. She hated the murderer and couldn't forgive herself or let go of her daughter