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A married couple cling to prayers for answers during a series of hardships: the news of the husband's 4th degree stomach cancer on the day the wife gives birth to a daughter; the sudden death of her mother; and the news of the wife's 4th cancer a week after the end of the husband's chemo treatment.

Nine years ago, Liu and her family were asked to move out of the place that they rented for ten years in fifteen days. This documentary examines how they become separated and the importance of home to the family.

“Umbrellas Move” is a long feature documentary capturing scenes from Hong Kong’s city-wide protest, the occupy movement in 2014. This documentary witnessed a critical page of Hong Kong after transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from Britain to China. Around 1200 thousand people have involved in this longest occupation in the history of Hong Kong in 2014. 79 days of occupation, Hong Kong people are fighting for their rights to vote under a fair election in order to be against the political controls from China.

Stories of the people who built the first atomic weapons are well known. But what about those who provided the uranium? We look at a mysterious man who derived huge profits from the business of war.

In the historically most famous ancestral house of the matrilineal Amis tribe in Taiwan, the carved pillars tell legends, such as the great flood, the glowing girl, the descending shaman sent by the Mother Sun, and the father-killing headhunting event. After a strong typhoon toppled the house 40 years ago, the pillars were moved to the Institute of Ethnology Museum. Recently young villagers, with assistance from female shamans, pushed the descendants and village representatives to communicate with ancestors in the pillars. They eventually brought the ancestral souls rather than the pillars back and began reconstructing the house.

Documentary footage capturing a real event of a film student who has just begun hurriedly editing his thesis before the faculty’s screening deadline. Everything seems to be going well, until he realizes that… a crucial audio file for his work has gone missing.

The landscape of a town somewhere emerges on the screen—the riverside, a street, a clothing store, a barbershop, an amusement park, an ally, a graveyard, a cafe—as a woman with a camera appears in the frame, filming.

Street vendors in Korea are almost like a national institution, they are so widespread and relied upon. In Little Pond in Main Street a group of vendors band together to create a community radio station but come into conflict with other groups, as well as the government trying to shut them down.

Malana, a remote village in the Himalayas, isolated from outside civilization for thousands of years has been fostering a primitive existence in harmony with nature and a unique model of democracy of consensus. They have also been producing some of the best quality hashish in the world. A real life story of transition, this ancient civilization being invaded and obliterated by the modern democracy. Narrated in an epic structure, a visual essay from the edge of the world with a message of trust, peace and eternal unity.

A documentary on a conversation between one drug-induced individual with another sober partner.

Military educational film on the training of fighting against the enemy with bayonets.

Eighteen years ago, the Three Gorges Dam was in the building process. The Zhang family, who lived in the old town of Yunyang had to move elsewhere. One day, the grandfather suffered a stroke and lost his memory. The children returned to look after him. The eldest daughter even bought an apartment and new furniture for her old man. Years later, Grandpa Zhang turned better. It is time to consider how the family should go on. The topic is now focused on the eldest grandson. The relatives ought to worry about his marriage, for he is already 28 years old. Facing this urge, the grandson has then considered pretending to marry his best friend to comfort the family, while living a completely different life in Europe.

〈Yangrim-dong Girl〉, which captures the life of director Oh Jae-hyung's co-director's mother (Lim Young-hee), is a combination of narration (documentary) and painting (anime).

This fragmentary documentary was prepared at the request of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by Yoshio Osawa of the J.O. Studios in Kyoto, Japan, to illustrate current progress in Japanese sound picture technique. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

This documentary follows the lives of four elderly Japanese men living in Manila's impoverished districts. Known as "distressed Japanese," they navigate their daily lives with minimal earnings and assistance from others. Despite once having jobs and families in Japan, they find themselves spending their final days in Manila for various reasons. The documentary offers a poignant portrayal of their struggles over seven years.

Three-part documentary on the occupation of the West Bank: 1) Hebron; 2) The Jordan Valley; 3) Southern Hebron

Last performance of Shizuka recorded live at ShowBoat, Tokyo on 30th December, 2008.

Documentary short film capturing a reflection of a grandmother headed towards the end of the autumn years of her life.

In Lengshuijiang, balanced in a space made up of official images, an audiovisual program presents itself as a taciturn witness of rigid, modulated, even aberrant moments in which China constantly tried to demonstrate its success through its own fresco, an atypical form in tone of virtual reality.

A feature documentary about ‘dojinishi’, self-published comics cultures in Tokyo, Japan.

The daily life at the Narathiwat family’s home and the past of Usman, the inmate in the “Budu Explosion case” involving the arrest of teenagers from three southern border provinces at a student dormitory in the Ramkhamhaeng area in 2016, who has been detained for over 3 years.

Momofuku TV employs CG animation to look back at the history of instant ramen and tell the story of how Momofuku Ando overcame great adversity to achieve inventions of worldwide importance. The program presents the six keywords that drove Momofuku’s creative thinking in a fun and easy to understand way.

Toshio Matsumoto articulates his perspective on the creation of Dogra Magra, presented in the supplementary section of the Radiance DVD release.

Scars, which are unfortunate or unexpected results, are also signs of healing. This new connective tissue replaces the process of injured tissues, and at the same time it becomes a metaphor for the pain and frustration of life: the sadness of the body, the union of pain... In short, scars have become a proof, a proof of existence, a proof of alive, a proof of pain, and a proof of a certain age. Beginning in 1949, in this vast land, these various scars, these healing marks, patterns, sad shapes, bring personal memories, collective pains, the marks of history, and come together Gaze, the meaning of the record. This film is the first part of the "Scar" project, the story of 110 Chinese scars.

San Va Hotel—Behind the Scenes is a film on the act of movie making, taking the shooting of a feature as its starting point. Set in Macao’s historical gambling and entertainment street Rua da Felicidade, the story wanders at a crossroad between fiction and “reality”.

A reedited version of the ride seen in Tokyo Vein with a new soundtrack

Bluegrass 45, from Kobe, Japan was one of the most prolific bluegrass bands in the 1960s. Fifty years later, they reunite to retrace their 1971 tour deep in the American South. With infectious joy and humor, CALLED TO THE MOUNTAINS explores their unique musical world, as we get to know the individuals who make up the band and their connection to the music and culture that called them, accepted them, and forever changed their identities––from 5,000 miles away.

After a lifetime of physical challenges and adversity, the world’s tallest woman is ready to fulfil her dream and travel to California, USA. Her mission: to spread awareness for those with visible differences. On her journey, she’ll encounter some of the world's most extraordinary women.

A documentary that chronicles the daily life of Yuzuna Suzuki, a nurse who was diagnosed with stage 4 tongue cancer at 27 years old.

In April of last year, the mother of a child voluntarily reported child abuse to the police. Monitoring for over a year, a mother who confessed her wrongdoing, the film acts not as an investigative agency, but as a disinterested party which records the point where daily discipline turns into abuse.

After running an antiquarian bookshop for 35 years, Kyosuke and Chiseko decide to close down their shop due to the pandemic-induced recession. The elderly couple continues their daily routine even as they prepare for the closure. Kyosuke continues filling in the shelves with a new selection of old books stored in a rented warehouse. Chiseko starts managing an online shop, while Yuki, a staff member, decides to open her own bookshop. POLAN portrays how all three relate to the customers through the books they sell.

This engaging documentary focuses on a group of ‘studying mothers’ who decide to involve themselves in the civic politics of a provincial town, Kunitachi.

Documentary about a tribe of indigenous people in northern China.

Teachers and parents play important roles in children educational processes. The documentary explores and features the perspective from three different education systems and a career-oriented mother, and the different insights to education philosophies. Parents and educators need to find a balance and educate the next generation in a better way.

A snowy landscape flowing outside the Shinkansen window. Miyu is heading to Nagoya to undergo her long-time dream of gender reassignment surgery. Miyu is a third-year student in the fashion design department. When she graduated, she aspired to go out into society as a woman both physically and mentally. Her dream will come true soon. A cafe bar in Kobe half a year ago. She is still chatting with her friends today. Her junior, Nao, and Mimu, who attends another university, are both transgender. “After all, love ends in sex, right? But we can’t have sex…

Beginning with a private, rolling party on board one of Hong Kong's iconic streetcars, travel journalist Rudy Maxa and former chef and now Washington, D.C. restaurateur Daisuke Utagawa lead viewers through on of the worlds most exciting cities. Hong Kong takes cuisine from around the world and makes it its own. Explore the cuisine as well as the mostly unknown, lush side of Hong Kong where hiking trails and beaches rule. Bangkok - In a city where the weather is always hot, it is natural that residents spend so much time eating outside. Street food rules the capital of Thailand, and no visitor should miss the opportunity to follow local custom. Utagawa and Maxa taste their way through the city while exploring the Klongs (canals) and temples that make Bangkok a visitors paradise.

Old ladies who live in San-Bok-Do-Ro, Busan, ought to move out due to Rural Village Redevelopment. With vacated houses more than residents in town, villagers stuck together right until their inevitable separation. The camera gazes old ladies’ moments of parting and what’s left around them.

In Jeongneung Valley, Seoul, where redevelopment is expected, two times intersect: the present, where it has ‘not yet' begun, and the future, where it is ‘already' inevitable. In this overlapping moment, photos left by residents, hand-tended fields, repaired homes, and memories within familiar landscapes merge into stories—proof of life itself.

A moving image captured by the director in 2025 depicts a late afternoon at a Catholic school in Thailand, as children leave for the day, mingling with teachers and parents waiting to pick them up. At a stone bench, two brothers, JAVA and JINO, are seen chatting, the elder being a friend of the director. The footage, originally shot on the director’s mobile phone, was later transformed to evoke the style of a silent film: the visuals were toned to resemble aged black-and-white film and accompanied by music from City Lights (1931) by Charlie Chaplin, enhancing the atmosphere reminiscent of the silent cinema’s final years in the early 1930s.

After "Old Tang Tou", Xu Tong continued to film the family of Old Tang Tou's son, Tang Laosan, in Northeast China. Tang Laosan was sent to prison for a murder case, and Tang Laosan's son, Xiaobao, unexpectedly encountered such a change in the year of his high school entrance exams, which made the fates of father and son both unpredictable.

This is a rare seen film about well known multidisciplinary artist YANG Chin-chih who was born in Taiwan, and has resided for more than 30 years in New York City. YANG is widely remarked as a performance artist in New York visual art world. His performances often dramatize the divided quality of the self such as the most praised piece “Kill Me Or Change” in which he dropped 30 thousand empty aluminum cans over his head within 20 seconds. The main theme of the story tangles in between YANG’s uniquely work which incorporates the actual rhythms and discords of human society and his own facial illness for a long time. Works he made were exhibiting in terms of the waste materials wantonly discarded by industrialized production. Whereas the disease he had suffered ever since his youth causes his face to become twisted for nearly 40 years. But all failed to cure with efforts of five surgical operations in his life.

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational films, and in 60's - 70's, many avant-garde composers composed music for these films.

This is the first non-fiction film to document, through real footage, the stories of children seeking help — and finding self-rescue — amid psychological and emotional struggles. Through intimate, unfiltered moments at schools, in families, and inside hospitals, the film captures the children’s interactions with teachers, parents, and doctors. Over the course of five years, the director — a veteran journalist — immersed herself in classrooms, medical institutions, and social organizations, conducting hundreds of interviews with children, parents, educators, and mental health professionals. Drawing from tens of thousands of real cases and records, she uses documentary cinema to explore the urgent question: how can we better understand and support children in their journeys of growth, care, and education?

Ge Bu, a poet aspiring to write an epic poem; A-Ying, a blind singer who traverses the countryside; Beima Nui, a shaman who recites traditional scribes depicting traditional farming methods. They live in Hani village with poverty and happiness, helping each other achieve their dreams. They connect with their ancient culture and their dreams by singing the songs and reciting epics passed down from their ancestors.

In 1972, Xu Xing wrote the first love letter of his life and sent it to a girl in school, whose parents had been sent to the countryside. Not knowing, what to do with it, she showed the anonymous letter to her teacher. Xu Xing was identified as author through his handwriting, and was detained…In this autobiographical piece, Xu Xing tells the story of his own experiences of the Cultural Revolution by tracing his personal encounters of the past in contemporary China.

This documentary investigates the effects of global warming and air pollution. By showing images of the changes that are gradually eroding the lives of people in Japan, the film raises questions for those who are unfamiliar with the facts about how the future will change as a result of environmental destruction.

35 Great Hero Sentai All Revealed SP was a televised special commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Super Sentai franchise.

A documentary following the filmmaker, Wang Hai'an, who went back to his hometown of Zhanggao Cun, a rural village in Shandong Province. He interviewed the elders in his village who lived through the Great Famine during 1959- 1961. His main purpose was to gather the names of those who suffered and died during the famine and to ask the village to donate money for erecting a monument in their name, but the idea was rejected by the villagers

After learning of the untimely deaths of her father’s siblings, director Aishu asks her to help her translate the poems left behind by one uncle who achieved cult status posthumously. As they work together to break intergenerational silences and taboos, the old apartment expands, connecting them to the world outside.

Haneda employed various cinematic and scientific technic to explore the world of cabbage butterfly, and the result was a completely new type of educational film.