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March on, in Defiance of Tyranny

After the 2014 Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong Democrats divided into two groups with differing beliefs and protest methods. ‘Community March’ members, often labelled as leftards, focus on fearless community work and caring for minorities, despite not joining frontline protests. Senior journalists Lo King Wah and Kong King Chu highlight their dedication to community service and democratic ideals, showing how they persist in voicing concerns and promoting democracy despite political repression.

March on, in Defiance of Tyranny

NR 2021
A Nocturnal Roam

At night, the escort girl Muduo and the writer Mianshan stroll in the People's Park. Mianshan tells of a novel he dedicated to his fiancée, which takes place after the end of the world, where a boy travels through an abandoned aquarium to rescue a dying mermaid. As the story progresses, the park seems to gradually become isolated from the world, and Mianshan searches for an exit back to reality, while the clues seem to be hidden in the experiences that Muduo shares with his fiancée.

A Nocturnal Roam

NR 2021
The Bargain

Liu wants to sell his unprofitable travel agency business. One day, when one of his employees falls into a coma for a dubious reason, his family and relatives come to Liu, demanding a settlement. Meanwhile, Liu's ex-wife Tao Qing, a middle school teacher, is troubled by her lover who keeps on delaying their marriage, and his teenage daughter, while her son Yi Fan, who has no experiences or skills to show for or things he wants to do, happens to befriend a group of people who illegally drive cars. Director Wang Qi, who is visiting Busan for the first time with THE BARGAIN, depicts a dense narrative of a dispersed family that is struggling in the rapidly changing modern Chinese society and the wave of capitalism. The occasional handheld camera and close-up shots placed appropriately throughout the film add powerful emotions to the sober narrative.

The Bargain

NR 2021
In-house affair 2: The bathroom of desire

Mingyu, an employee who has been in the company for a long time, is inexperienced in his work. He is full of sweet imaginations with his female employees, but the reality is always broken by the manager ... Meanwhile, one day, a rumor begins to circulate in his man. The fact that the son of the company president is Mingyu! The rumor spreads quickly, and as the attitudes of all the female employees change in one day, Mingyu begins to experience the things he had only dreamed of as a reality!

In-house affair 2: The bathroom of desire

NR 2021
Another Brick On The Wall

With the following motivation: Every brick in the great wall of China was carried up by a man. More than 800,000 men, for more than 20 years. As we follow the reconstruction of a very small part of that old wall, we feel the dimension and Sisyphean effort carried out almost 2000 years ago. At the same time, this small part of the wall portrays the different social classes and transformations of modern China. A society that moves from the collective ideals to the personal capitalist aspirations of individuals.

Another Brick On The Wall

NR 2021
Fukidashi

Chie is in a bad mood with her boyfriend. When she goes to the convenience store, she calls out to him, but he doesn't say anything. On her way home from the convenience store, she hears something fall from somewhere. It was a piece of chalk. The chalk seems to be able to see what people are thinking as if it were a balloon. Chie happens to see a girl who is about to commit suicide after being dumped by her boyfriend, and she quickly writes "I want to live" on the chalk. The girl's suicidal thoughts disappear and she walks away looking happy.

Fukidashi

NR 2021
Dear Moon

This short film depicts the sense of closure of Japan due to COVID-19 through the episodes of three groups of people. A man picks up shards of glass night after night on a moonlit beach. A mysterious girl lies on the edge of the waves. A policeman at a police box along the beach. A young mother searches aimlessly for her missing daughter, and a man works with her. A young man in a rabbit suit who keeps distributing leaflets to find his missing girlfriend. What exactly is the "girl" that each of these people is searching for...?

Dear Moon

NR 2021
4 & 6

Lira, a girl who has moved from Osaka to Manazuru, a port town in Kanagawa, due to family reasons. She despairs in her life and throws her violin which she has dedicated everything, into the sea. Coincidentally, it was Junpei, who picks up the violin. A dreamy boy who was always strumming a tattered guitar with only four strings in the harbor. Junpei finds a video of a transfer student, Lira, playing a violin on the internet, and asks Lira to teach him the guitar because "the stringed instruments are the same." Junpei always talks brightly about the future, but somewhere in his heart he gives up that he has to take over the dried fish shop of the family business eventually. But still, Junpei keeps having passions and desires for music. His passions awakens Lira’s feelings of passions for music even aching in her heart, she feels sympathizes with Junpei, and her feelings for the abandoned violin gets stronger and stronger.

4 & 6

NR 2021
Rubberband Ciao 2021 LIVE

From April 3 to 6, 2021, RubberBand held the Ciao 2021 concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum for four consecutive days. Many of the band's classic songs, such as Guo Huo, "Song Against the Current," "Discovery," "You and Me" and "See You in the Future," were newly rearranged for the tour. Patrick Lui Jazz Orchestra and a cappella group AMuiXis were also invited to perform, creating new musical sparks for the concert. RubberBand especially wrote the new song Ciao to reflect the tour's theme of separation and reunion.

Rubberband Ciao 2021 LIVE

NR 2021
HACHI 1st ONE-MAN LIVE "The Beginning ∞"

HACHI, the artist debuting in 2020, will hold her first long-awaited one-man live concert! This live concert was made possible by the support of over 16 million yen through crowdfunding. The title of the live, “The Beginning ∞”, which was proposed by HACHI herself, contains her own meaning of “beginning” and “infinity”. Please come and watch HACHI's first live performance, where not only her singing voice but also her entire body movements will be performed completely in real time!

HACHI 1st ONE-MAN LIVE "The Beginning ∞"

NR 2021
the House of Horror

A being enters a room, takes out wires, installs them all over the house, and then exits. A being enters, collects the wires installed all over the house, and then exits. The act filmed at regular speed and the act played back in reverse form a decalcomania, creating an uncanny dissonance. A network of power strips, public power outlets, and extension cords connected to the two outlets that are the only power sources in the room undergoes repeated installation and removal.

the House of Horror

3.0 2021
The Day Is Over

‘Where have all the parents gone?’ This haunting film from southern China seems to paraphrase Pete Seeger's famous anti-war song about missing flowers. Three young teenage girls − and one silent little sister who faithfully tags along − are in a small mountain village that would be considered a paradise if it wasn’t so poor, backward and unsafe. Most parents are far away in Shenzhen, or some other industrious metropolis. Left to their own devices, to the care of some unfit teacher or ageing grandparent, they are fighting off bullying classmates, sticking together where possible. The girls have to navigate unknown dangers when they decide to borrow money to pay for the long voyage to the city.

The Day Is Over

6.5 2021