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short experimental animation with light by young artist from Kyoto

Luo Zhangjie is 88 years old. Her son Qi Caizheng has lost his memories due to meningitis, and now he can't even cope with the basic tasks in his daily life. Moreover, he hits whoever gets close to him. Luo has been looking after her son, but as she's getting old, she is training her granddaughter-in-law to take care of her son.

This film depicts daily life at a school for students with hearing and vision disabilities in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. As these girls deal with their everyday teen problems at school, they express themselves in sign language, movement, and the beautiful song Caro Mio Ben, conveying their rebelliousness against the teachers, their feelings for a beloved turtle, their anxieties about the future, and their anger at the unfair gods. As if watching over the growth of these girls, the camera carefully captures their words and gestures, staring deep into their vacillating hearts.

The man got done with work and left the town. He arrived at the unstaffed station and went into the forest in the night with a shovel. “No need for fight.” What does he seek for in the forest? What does he dig for? For movie, language is explanatory and should be the minimum.

A film about a female boss who reveals a young man and his subordinates

a journey of search; a search of journey

A quiet and intimate look at the last moments between a nanny and the child she cares for, before she leaves for an arranged marriage.

Early in the morning, the priest read in the church at the disabled orphanage. At dawn, the villagers entered the funeral ceremony during the prayer ceremony. In disabled orphanages, there are babies in the youngest children. Two children attending school together did not attend the class normally. More children with reduced mobility can only be dazed and crawl on the ground. But they are also God's people and attend worship services in the church. The autumn mist was hazy, and a new cathedral was being built in the village. Insects, kittens, puppies, orphans, villagers who worship, all life is safe. At night, the tired priest went to sleep after finishing writing. In his dream, he reached a graveyard and remained silent with his dying mother. Seasons are changing, rainy days, winter snow, orphans wear thick winter clothes, making movement more difficult. The cathedral was built, and people celebrated the biggest Christmas day of the year.

Xiao Jie, a cheeky Nanyang Primary student, is forced by his mother, an NYGH alumna, to attend her former teacher's birthday celebrations. Over the course of the celebrations, Xiao Jie develops an appreciation for his school’s rich heritage through mini narratives set in the 1930s and 80s. The film also features actual interviews of alumni, who share the highlights of their school lives.

The world is full of flaws; life is far-from-perfect. It is all the more challenging for people with disabilities. Joanna and King are facing their darkness, as they are losing their eyesight bit by bit. Baobao is hearing-impaired since birth, she cannot communicate with the others but her greatest desire is to speak and express herself. Hazel has cerebral palsy and cannot walk; even though wheelchair can replace her legs, she is fed up with the prolonged pain. Life is strenuous, but Joanna, King, Baobao and Hazel rediscovered the passion for life when they embarked on a journey to the theatre stage, making the impossible possible. Light Up is a documentary about the struggle of the four protagonists against their personal restraints in the Hand in Hand Capable Theatre, witnessing how they made their way to the stage after difficult but ultimately positive training and rehearsals.

A Chinese rural girl Chun Hua is forced by her family to marry a man she never met before. After influencing by her cousin -Tong, a modern city girl, she decides to change her life.

Animated short that aired right before the showing of Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru - Makuai Kaisouroku. The film was only shown for two weeks and each manner movie ran for a week.

A high school movie project from Beijing that tells the story of transgender girl Zhang Wangan.

This is the fifth horror documentary featuring OPQ's "Dapom," who enjoys absolute popularity among young people on the Internet video distribution service, and psychic idols Ryua, Shizuku Hoshino, and ZeNrA, who take on terrifying haunted places. The four psychic mavericks use ancient and modern séance techniques to summon spirits.

A married man pretends to go to the office every day but instead he is going fishing.

Situated in Zuoying District of southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City, Xiling Street was once a dining, shopping, and entertainment hotspot for local soldiers because of its proximity to a naval base. This film combines oral history, 360-degree virtual reality videos, and dramatic reenactments to reproduce Xiling Street’s heyday in the 1980s, taking the audience on a 30-year journey transcending time and space.

Scottish photographer John Thomson's trip to Taiwan in 1871 left an important mark in the history. This film reinterprets the event via a photo of a hunter, taking the audience to the Siraya tribe to meet WAN, a tribe elder who knows how to sing and talk. Through his intriguing words and songs, WAN leads us back to the past as he plucks the strings.

Accordion Class explores the under-examined history of the accordion and its legacy in China, as the only permitted western instrument during the cultural revolution. Since then, the accordion’s popularity and influence has risen and fallen over half a century. Looking at accordion classes and competition today, the film presents how the instrument is taught, performed and received by a younger generation in the city of Changsha.

One could think that the 18-year-old Nozomi is a normalstudent in a normal family somewhere in Japan. One day, when she suffers from neck pain, her mother hires "expert" help in the form of a sect master friend who immediately realizes that only an evil spirit can be behind it. Driven by parental love, a cruel exorcism ritual begins for Nozomi.

2017 release

As in #3, Nozokiana, who shows you hidden horrors, reveals startling psychic images gathered by the staff themselves, who met with the owners of the images, their bereaved families, and other related parties. Among them were several cursed video clips that were popular among the same director Uchida's leaked psychic videos! Includes 10 episodes in total.

Experimental short by Kazuhiro Goshima.

Sixth installment in the "Hoso Dekinai Shi no Doga" series.

The BEST version of ghost images that will surely scare anyone! This is a series of haunted images that are said to be unparalleled scary! This is a series of psychic videos that are said to be unparalleled scary! The 4th edition of the BEST version of the scary ghost video series, which is said to be unparalleled scary! It contains many terrifying images that will stay in your mind. This is the fourth edition of the "Super!

On an October evening in Beijing, thirteen people were invited for dinner: Miki (pansexual), Chao Xiaomi (queer), Xiaotie (pansexual), Celine (heterosexual), Pig Head Cat (queer), Male brother (LES), JOAN (LES), Qin Xianqiu (GAY), Hulusi (CD), Qiuqiu (transgender), Bobby (pansexual), An Shao (LES), Jin Zhaoli (transgender). They ate, drank and told eleven love stories about themselves that were funny, weird, savage, or full of humanity.

Breaking 60: Challenging the Impossible is a documentary about the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge, a Fat Ass-style trail running event where there are no race fees, no prizes, no medals, no pats on the back for being super awesome. Just a bunch of slightly left field individuals trying to run all four of Hong Kong’s ultra trails ‐ totaling 298km ‐ non stop, unsupported and in less than 60 hours. Each year a small group of runners are hand selected and Breaking 60 explores the personal challenges facing 4 of them. Since its inception, no one has ever gone sub 60.

On March 11, 2011, Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife in the tsunami.

COPYSHOP accompanies Berlin-Köpenick rapper Romano on a journey of discovery to Hong Kong, where he recalls his time working in a copy shop in his home town. It’s all about megacities, stereotypes, creative spaces, rap music, Romano’s copy shop biography and the copy of the copy of the copy...

CAFÉ TOGO looks at the efforts to change street names with colonial connotations in the so-called Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter) in Berlin-Wedding. According to Berlin’s street law, every street named after a person honors that person. Petersallee, Lüderitzstraße, and Nachtigalplatz bear the names of persons whose biographies are tainted by the blood of the victims of German colonialism. According to the law, streets that do not correspond to today’s understanding of democracy and human rights should be renamed.

One digs beneath the surface of the other to reach the deepest place of his heart during struggles. It lightens up the darkness. They fulfill one another within the sense of oneness.

A man and a film gauge try to survive their own consumption.

Short film by Yang Bo.

This is a psychic documentary that includes a number of unbroadcast videos from TV production companies that have never been shown to the public before. Includes “The Fifth Idol,” “New Program Conference,” and 11 others.

13th entry in the “Jitsuroku!! Shinrei Eizo Kyoufu BEST” series.

A collection of forbidden grudge psychic images that are whispered that you will be cursed when you see it. Contents include; Earthbound spirits in the park, Surprise for friends, Posting to SNS and more.

Tour Documentary

The live tour series “TOUR16-17 FROM DEPRESSION TO ________ ”, announced on February 6th (Sat) 2016 during the “ARCHE” NIPPON BUDOKAN LIVE, started on June of the same year. It has now been announced that the live footages of the first 3 tours of this series, [mode of Vulgar] (Jun.～Jul.), [mode of DUM SPIRO SPERO] (Sep.～Oct.) and [mode of KISOU] (Nov.), will be released simultaneously in March 2017, as the 1st round of DIR EN GREY Official Fan Club 「a knot」 Limited Items＜“TOUR16-17 FROM DEPRESSION TO ________ ” Series＞. The“TOUR16-17 FROM DEPRESSION TO ________ ” series brings DIR EN GREY’s gratitude to their fans, but it is also a tour series that laid the basis for the band’s future, now that the chapter of the 9th ALBUM 『ARCHE』(2014/12/10 Release) ended with the NIPPON BUDOKAN 2 DAYS show.

Home to “The Last Tribe of Gunners,” a rural mountain community faces rapid development and change. Villagers in Basha find new ways to maintain their livelihoods at home, but what unintended consequences threaten their traditions?

Here in The Worldly Cave (Fán Dòng), the Hakka people have all moved away from the place where generations of their families lived. Before the execution of the new development, all the villages on this land will soon be buried into continuous muck dunes. On the open grounds, there stocked huge piles of second-hand machines which would be resold in the southeastern countries. Estate investigation teams gathered in different groups, were talking about the potential prices of the land. After passing some huge muck dunes, between two higher muck dunes, the hunters built their sheltered pits and bird traps in the air. They tied a bee to a transparent string as it would lead them to the beehives hidden in the cracks. Fishermen even found a source of fish in the swamp that connects the groundwater. The men and women in the giant ferroconcrete caves on the clouds were still chattering about the bullfrogs from lunch.

Luke, Jane and their one-year-old daughter Julia perform again in Jecheon market today. Luke sings and plays the keyboard while Jane gives out flyers taking care of Julia. The foreign adoptee Luke met Jane who is also a foreign adoptee when he came to Korea to find his biological parents. The journey to find his parents, as a stranger in his own unfamiliar country, isn’t really going well…​

A carefully selected collection of hair-raising horror stories actually experienced by comedians! A variety of urban truths that can never be broadcast on TV. And then, something happened during the recording!

Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army secretly developed and tested bacteriological weapons on human subjects in Manchuria during the Sino-Japanese War. At the end of the war, evidence was destroyed, and personnel kept silent, concealing the truth for decades. However, NHK recently found more than 20 hours of audio recordings from a 1949 war-crimes tribunal.