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Though I'm His Daughter

Shot over six years, this is a personal story of a woman whose father executed for the world famous heinous crimes. Matsumoto Rika’s father was the guru of Aum Shinrikyo, the religious cult responsible for the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 – mass murder that shocked Japan to the core. Rika was brought up with the cult. She has been exposed to discrimination and exclusion from society. Even though her trauma has driven her to the brink of suicide at times, she struggles to carve out her own life and identity. She eventually takes on a new challenge to become recognized not as "his daughter" but as "Matsumoto Rika" herself.

Though I'm His Daughter

NR 2025
Prophetic Dreams

Zhao Hai is a professional painter, but he has hit a creative bottleneck. He hasn't drawn for a long time because he lacks inspiration. Later, he meets a female model named Xiaoling by coincidence. Zhao is preparing to draw a set of works based on Xiaoling, but he keeps procrastinating because he doesn't know where to start. Xiaoling is a nurse, and modelling is just a side job. She has a rich imagination and enjoys dancing in her spare time. She is able to improvise dance based on her daily life experiences. In order to help Zhao find inspiration, Xiaoling tells him stories from her own imagination. After listening to her stories and watching her dance, Zhao finds his creative direction and finally begins to paint.

Prophetic Dreams

NR 2025
Nostalgia or backwards

An art curator is told about a past visit to Searles Lake, a salt desert near California's Mojave Desert, and the nearby town of Trona, while pulling out a burned pharmaceutical encyclopedia. Trona's borax serves as a raw material for film developer, becoming becomes a link between the memory of the place and the act of filmmaking. Long-held memories of conversations with the filmmaker's mentor James Benning, colleagues, and other mentors about the book found in front of a burned house in this borax-mining village are restored as script.

Nostalgia or backwards

NR 2025
The Legend of Phi Ta Khon Mask

Aek and a group of college friends traveled to Northeast (Esan) province to do research about local culture. Unfortunately, they have found out the secret of Diamond-Embedded Phi Ta Khon and where it’s hidden. The elder in the village told Aek about the mystery about the owner of the mask coming back to take his mask back. Aek, his friends and professor had to face a group of bad people led by Ron, who also wanted to own the mask. The fight for the mask has begun. Aek got injured during the fight but got saved by his girlfriend. Fahsai. When Aek got a hand on the mask, he realized it had been cursed. Whoever owns the mask must be a good person and use the power of the mask to help others. Aek’s life changes forever.

The Legend of Phi Ta Khon Mask

NR 2025
Fish Bone

Eighteen-year-old girl Li Qi failed the college entrance examinations. She disobeyed her mother, refusing to return to school to be a returning student. The relationship between Li Qi and her mother worsened. At classmate Xiaowei’s birthday party, Li Qi and Xiaowei had a quarrel. Li Qi smashed Xiaowei’s newly-bought iPhone in a rage. Unexpectedly, her originally peaceful summer life was changed after the quarrel. Facing the crisis of claiming compensation by her classmate, Li Qi chose to hide it from her mother, determined to keep it as her secret and solve the problem alone. And this secret was like a fishbone stuck in her throat, gradually becoming an unspeakable discomfort for her. The bitterness and pains of growing-up come one after another. She began to rethink her relationship with her mother, and her relationship with the world.

Fish Bone

NR 2025
The Hungry God

There has existed a fierce god named "Otokogami" since the Old Stone Age. The god is called "Otokogami (literally translated as Male God)" because he takes young boys as sacrifices. However, no one actually knew what he really was. The story starts when Wada, a guy who works for a construction company, finds a buried cultural asset during construction in the newly developed residential area of Nissei City. A few days later, something strange happened. A deep hole appeared at the construction site, and Wada's son went missing. The hole leads to a mysterious forest where beautiful women in kimonos and shrine maidens perform a mysterious ritual to appease a male deity. When Wada learns that his son has wandered into the forest, he decides to jump into the hole to rescue his son.

The Hungry God

NR 2025
Correct Me If I'm Wrong

In this vulnerable documentary, the filmmaker captures how their family resorts to spiritual interventions in an attempt to rid them of their queer identity. The grandmother believes they must be possessed by a ‘demon girl’ – the unborn girl their mother was forced to abort before she became pregnant with Hao. Undergoing prayers, therapies, treatments and ceremonies, Hao paints a wry portrait of these complex relationships with admirable clarity and compassion.

Correct Me If I'm Wrong

NR 2025
Sky, Wind, Stars and the Island

Documentary filmmaker Kim Myung-yoon, a former member of the Dokdo Police Security Detachment, relocates with his wife and son, Noah, to Kumi, a remote village in Japan’s Oki Islands. A UNESCO Global Geopark, the Oki Islands boast majestic natural beauty, but also serve as a politically charged symbol, with Japan asserting territorial claims over Dokdo, calling it, “Takeshima.” As Kim builds relationships with local residents and engages with their perspectives, he explores the histories, ecologies, and memories surrounding Dokdo and the Oki Islands.

Sky, Wind, Stars and the Island

NR 2025
1980 Sabuk

In April 1980, a massive "disturbance" erupted in Sabuk, a town in Jeongseon County, Gangwon Province. Over 3,000 miners, pushed to the brink by relentless surveillance and exploitation, seized control of the area and clashed with authorities. A last-minute deal was struck, narrowly averting the deployment of martial law forces and a potential bloodbath. Nevertheless, the conflict resulted in numerous casualties. Even now, more than four decades later, the scars of this event remain deeply etched in the community's collective memory.

1980 Sabuk

NR 2025