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In a certain fishing port in Hiroshima Prefecture, a giant red fish carcass is pulled ashore. An old man calls it "Nie" (sacrifice) and senses an ominous event similar to one that occurred 20 years ago.

2022 release

A boy, a question, a pack of lies, and a knock on a half-sister's door for the first time.

In 2012, after my grandfather passed away, my grandmother left the deserted village where she had lived for nearly half a century and moved to a strange county town. The next year, she was shocked to hear that her homeland would be leveled within two days - her "old world" was thus completely destroyed. After that, she spent a long time alone, often accompanied by her sick second daughter, and more often by an old TV and a deck of cards. When the wind blows, she dreams of the sunset, sheep, green grass, and curling smoke in her hometown. Every year, I go back with a camera to record her homesickness that has nowhere to go, listen to her reminiscences, and also take pictures of my childhood hometown that has also disappeared.

Fake Documentary “Q”: Film Inferno

Lei Lei is a female experimental artist. After breaking up with her boyfriend, she visited a sperm bank in order to select the ideal sperm for her IVF baby. This film is about her life in the past two years.

A book on the nightstand - pillow talking - the hands of two lovers. When "she" woke "him" up in the middle of the night, telling him about a dream that was less than pleasant, leading to explosion of an argument, each intending on hurting the other. For how can this relationship progress, when mutual understanding is nowhere to be found, even in their dream.

This film is about the story of an old man who insistently took care of his wife, a paralytic old woman. As her illness increasingly aggravated, finally she couldn’t walk at all. One day, the old woman saw a butterfly flying over their yard. She yearned for freedom while she was helpless. The old man found that and in order to make his wife happy, he decided to make a butterfly shaped kite and fly the kite with her in a special way. This film is full of warmth and hope for all those who yearn for freedom.

A comedian who quietly continues to stand in comedy gigs as a hobby. One day, she receives a job offer from a comedy show producer at ....... She immediately turns down the job, but she has her own reasons for not being able to pursue her dream.

Turn the reel manually. Stop moving to see. The frame burns. I can't face the face in the frame. Continue to spin the reel.

A film about a young man who dies shortly after entering college. his footage, memories, and words are captured in a digital world. was put together to memorize a friend who passed away.

The Kists are Georgian Chechens who live in the Pankisi Gorge. The local men are known for their bravery but also infamous for being ‘terrorists’. The documentary is a multi-threaded story of inhabitants of a little known place in the Caucasus.

Former filmmaker returns to the craft for a PR campaign of a small town, accidentally discovering an environmentalist drug ring.

A documentary about the 10 years of the Hyegwang Blind Orchestra, composed of visually impaired people, founded in 2011. Unlike many films about the disabled which mainly focus on topics of survival and human rights, the documentary focuses more on art and how it brings change to life. The self-esteem and the possibility of communication with the outside world of persons with disability in a tight-knit environment, under the gaze of prejudice gained from encountering music that changed their lives. Rather than focusing on the difficulties of life for people with disabilities, the film narrows the gap between the disabled and non-disabled communities and focuses on the growth of both disabled and non-disabled people through musical exchanges. Music is a great bridge that connects two worlds, and the process of understanding each other's world through art in different physical situations is sometimes solemn and sometimes beautiful.

The ghost I have been possessed by got me a job. I really appreciate it, but she forces me to get closer to other ghosts.

A flower dreams, a room appears, a sun is ticking, a tree says to the flower: "You are in a video game? Wait for the dream to end."

Representative KPOP girl group 'Apink' Let's look back on the 10th anniversary of 'Apink', the group that has always been by our side! What does the preparatory production stage for their 10th anniversary special album look like? The process from the 12/31 performance at the end of the 10th anniversary to the creation of the special album 'Horn' and the title song 'Dilemma'. Also, a commentary film for the fans who have been with us!

A music piece called "finger" is played by anxious people.

The little boy Chenchen wanted to apologize to his good friend Songsong, so he kept looking for Songsong, looking for an opportunity to apologize to him. In the process, he understood a lot of things, had more thoughts, and got growing up.

57th entry in the 'Sealed Video' franchise from the production team of 'Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video'.

With widening wealth disparities between Asian countries and increase in migrant labor, a new social conflict has emerged. The injustices and harsh conditions faced by those who crossed borders to overcome their poverty are now being passed on to their children. They are in Taiwan, in the Philippines, in Thailand, in Malaysia, in Indonesia, somewhere else, but nowhere else. This film is about undocumented immigrant children, a second generation of undocumented immigrants who are living like shadows.​

Government-made hate against foreign schools, technical intern trainees, refugees, immigration authorities, etc. The essence of discrimination against foreigners. In March 2021, a Sri Lankan woman, Wishma Sandamali, 3, died at the Nagoya Immigration Bureau. Her death reveals the darkness of immigration that has been veiled for many years, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is an incident that symbolizes the history of discrimination against foreigners by public authorities. After the war, the Japan government enacted the Alien Registration Law, which was mainly aimed at managing Koreans, who accounted for 9% of the foreigners living in Japan. In later years, as the number of residents from other countries increased, legal and institutional immigration policies for all foreigners were strengthened. Foreigners suffering from human rights violations complain unanimously. "We are not animals, we are humans!"Read less

There is no purpose in life, only a process. The so-called ultimate purpose is nothingness. Create a one-second animation every day and record some of life's current feelings.

Ji-young asks her boyfriend, who has a lot of experience with men, to tutor her on sex.

An animation about animal protection. In a de-anthropocentric view, it shows how the animals living freely in the forest become a feast on the table. By comparing the natural environment before and after, the work emphasizes the goal of striving for a world of peaceful coexistence between humans and the natural environment.

In the first scene of the film, the characters in the story enter a child's dream, trying to return to their childhood by looking for strange and familiar memory images in the dream. The film starts with the director's private memories. The still images come from the images and old films taken by the director back in the village where he lived in his childhood. Through the interpenetration of memories in dreams and the present, it explores how "people" deal with trauma at the psychological level.

In a virtual city of the future, the operating system Wunderkammer 10.0, designed to provide a more stable and fast autonomous driving service, crawls map data and learns by itself. Faced with the limitation of data accessibility within a specific timeline, Wunderkammer finds a long-expired travel blog on the Internet.

2022 release

When Roland Barthes visited China in 1973, he jotted down some notes that would become part of his Travels in China (Carnets du voyage en Chine), an underplot of desire in his imagination of the country. Barthes did not publish these writings during his lifetime. His unsettling judgments about China are refracted in Peng Zuqiang‘s work Sight Leak, as fragments of dialogues on class and looking. The local tourist in the film travels through different spaces and gatherings, seemingly never looking at anyone, yet silently looking at someone, turning towards a certain collectivity in spite of a foreign homoerotic gaze.

Japanese swords fascinate collectors around the world. A special kind of steel called tamahagane is required to make them. This miraculous material is strong, flexible, rust-resistant, and produced through the ancient process of "tatara" ironmaking which takes place over three days and nights. Due to the COVID pandemic, there was only one production run in 2022, which was hit by a series of problems. Did the team meet the challenge? This documentary captures the essence of Japanese craftsmanship.

2022 release

Tik, who was born with ADHD, is meticulously cared for by his single mother diagnosed with cancer. This early summer, he finally musters up his courage to step out of the motherly comfort zone and embarks on a journey of growth.

Set in a coastal city in China, [Frontier] describes the friendship between two kids - a local Han boy and a Uygur boy, who just moved to this city. Their friendship is greatly influenced by social prejudice and cultural differences.

The father, who has been battling a disease for ten years, and the mother, exhausted from caring for him, return home. It looks as though Sujin, who was recently fired and planning to go on a working holiday, would have to stay home. Occasionally she sees a zombie in her father.

Ga-young, who is blind, is learning to live by herself after her father passed away. Then one day, she hears the news that the theater where his father worked as a projectionist will be gone, and so, she visits the theater. As Ga-young heads to the projection room only by following the sound and scent, she reunites with her father in the projection room, which was the biggest universe to her.

A man transporting his prize pig runs out of gas just as the COVID-19 pandemic breaks out.

The eye contacts through the membrane. When the direction of the gaze lies at the boundary of neutrality, the act of seeing develops itself. The time between moving somewhere in the repetition of the background and rising, the image operates on its boundary.

Kingyo, a veteran voice actress working in Tokyo, possesses a unique ability to see the soul in all things, living and inanimate. The voice acting world is changing and she must find a way to reconcile her way of living with the modern industry.

A visual project made from old film negatives discovered in an out-of-business film lab.

Piazza Duomo, the heart of Milan, is transformed into a huge concert hall again. The La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ricardo Shay performs Antonin Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in e minor and a tribute to Nino Rota, one of the most original and genius Italian composers of the 20th century, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death. to play Dvořák's 'Bohemian' symphony is one of the world's most loved repertoires with a thrilling rhythm inspired by American folk music. The OST is the fruit of a long collaboration between directors Federico Fellini and Nino Rota, two world-renowned masters born in Italy.

This is the third in a series of mysterious ghost videos whose contributors are unknown or whose safety is unknown. A child's ride is left forlornly in an unpopular place, probably an amusement park in a rural area. One would think that no one would be seen in the video, but....

2018 release

This documentary follows Ishihara Hitoshi, a Japanese kaiseki chef whose highly acclaimed restaurant in Kyoto has three Michelin stars. This is one year in the life of a chef who pursues perfection but always insists he’s not yet there.

The story of Tawan, an online novelist who is running out of fire. He came into the apartment so he could find a quiet place to write novels, but inside this apartment there is a rule that no love in the apartment is allowed, which is what Tawan thought. However, Tawan's thoughts began to change when he encountered the heavenly maiden who entered his life, forcing him to choose between love that came or the truth that was.

The definitive collection of terrifying images! Over 80 titles in the series! This documentary horror film series has been collabolated with various genres such as TV personalities, magazines, and news sites, and has over 90 titles in total! The contents in this collection are footage of shocking evil spirits.

Self-described “traitor to my male gender,” Da Xi Ge has known herself for some 55 years, but has never possessed the vocabulary to adequately express this knowledge. This documentary short, overlaid with a kaleidoscope of symbols of traditional femininity, follows the day-to-day life of a scavenger, as she prepares for her dream of sitting for a wedding portrait.

An essay film that interweaves meditations on travels with stories of journeys in China across a century: A student expedition into the heart of China in the 1930s, a young traveler's visions of the melancholic landscapes of his homeland, the narratives of movements in early Chinese silent films. Through these fragments of travelogues, the film explores the nature of consciousness in motion and what it means to use archives, images, and cinema as documentations as well as vehicles for travel.

Where the Heart Goes_Poetry Collection is a disorienting film that embodies the fatigue and emptiness of material culture and its blinding optimism. Questioning the fast cycle of cultural production, Choi recycles her exhibition into a context and material for a shapeshifting film in which a group of performers play the spirit medium of the unattended. The resulting film enacts trance like rituals – a dramatic monologue, ghostly rave party and wistful self-affirmation – with an animistic imagination. Colliding references to the horror genre with pop spiritualism, Choi choreographs feelings of disillusionment induced by the pressure to constantly “upload” and “update”.

This portrait of a Chinese family centers on the paterfamilias, who at the age of 85 still works his land by hand every day, his wife, who feeds and slaughters the chickens, and one of their sons, who lives in an apartment in the city and spends his days keeping company with his television and a steady flow of alcohol.

Living in a small town in northeastern China, Wu was once head of the workshop of the town’s wool mill but lost this supposedly life-long job when the mill went bankrupt, and worked as a janitor in his nephew’s bar to make a living. With his wife gone and his son living elsewhere, Wu was gradually despised by people around him as he started drinking his days away.

In a town, which is under the process of being demolition, a young man named Feng Hao tried to find Jian who owed him money in order to give his girlfriend an abortion, but the departure of his girlfriend made his search no longer meaningful. And at last, by the railroad, Hao encountered Jian, and was not aware that the railroad leads to nowhere which was similar to his own life.....