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Through an intricately hand-drawn ink wash animation created frame-by-frame, Liu Yi explores the concept of dreams as a blend of personal memories and parallel universes. She delves into the recurring theme of parting with one's grandmother, symbolizing a cycle of sorrow. This reflects on the idea that dreams are shaped by our past, mirroring the 'information cocoon' effect seen in reality
Nueng is the victim of school bullying. Every day he faces harsh words and abuse from his classmates which makes him lose value in his life. His only solace is his best friend and crush, Tong, who is always protecting him. But the bullying and lack of care from those around him, intensifies to the point where there seems to be no one that would miss him if he were gone.
Ha Ru, a young professional at the start of her career, goes on a business trip with her supervisor, Han Byeol, whom she secretly has a crush on. For the first time in her life, Ha Ru finds herself attracted to another woman. She enlists the help of her lesbian friend, Ju Hyeon, to determine whether Han Byeol is butch or not.
China at the end of the 1990s, lunch in an extended family. The father works in distant Shenzhen and is rarely home. The grandmother cooks and keeps an eye on the children. The air is filled with levity, longing and exhaustion.
A young Chinese woman living in the United States is waiting for the results of the visa lottery. This time becomes a period of reflection for her, as she is visited by the memories of family banquets prepared by her grandmother, together with the ghosts of the past. In this enchanting journey through time, noodles take on a Proustian flavour.
A timid but secretly strong girl and a boy who looks normal on the outside but is a bit peculiar on the inside appear.
Zhou, who enjoys growing flowers and playing the accordion, living in the same nursing home as Hui Zhen in their golden years, who has never seen Epiphyllum oxypetalum before. Their intimate daily act of admiring flowers and listening to music together captivated the attention and igniting conversations among the elder residents in nursing home. As the day of Epiphyllum oxypetalum bloom approached, Zhou determined to fulfill his promise to Huizhen, setting out to invite her to witness this spectacle. The distance seemed short, but Zhou was struggling to reach destination.
Exclusive broadcast of live and documentary programs of the music event “Kaze to Rock Saisho De Saigo no Super Arena “FURUSATO” held in March 2024!
The 90th installment and collection of horror videos that carefully select and introduce psychic images that are being born from darkness and are about to be buried in the darkness!
Late at night, a flight attendant takes a taxi to the airport, feeling uneasy about the unfamiliar route the driver is taking. Neither the usual path nor the GPS and driver's phone seem to be functioning. Amidst the tension between the suspicious attendant and the driver, something unidentified collides with the taxi. In the dark highway, at night, inside the taxi, with an unknown presence...
2024 release
A man is washing a large window, but something is not satisfactory.
Beyond the TV screen, one day, as the speaker observes women in a distant land struggling for their lives, he decides to be reborn together in a land of freedom where the risk of contamination by anyone's gaze is eliminated, after dedicating his hair to his remains.
The office, as an everyday space, holds subtle tension and creative potential even within its monotony. This work reconstructs such a space, weaving the latent movements and sounds of office supplies into a rhythmic flow. The photogram technique explores the boundary between materiality and immateriality, creating moments where familiar objects feel unfamiliar. Through this, the audience discovers new expressions of everyday objects that often go unnoticed.
A man goes on a journey to search for something he feels inside his heart, until he finds some truths.
aiko's Love Like Aloha summer concert series returned for its seventh edition, held on August 30, 2024, at Southern Beach, Chigasaki, after a six-year hiatus.
Although the little girl-Min Ru and her cousin had never met,but she read letters what he sent for years . One day, Min Ru reads the unfamiliar words “ released on parole “ in the letter. The message of her cousin's parole caused arguments among relatives. Face with relatives who try to drive a wedge, and mother defended her point of view. With curiosity and doubt, she embarks on adventure, experience a time when she didn't exist. Spring follows winter. Also, Min Ru writes a letter to her cousin…
Ten years after a heartbreaking separation, Ryunhwa reconnects with her ex-lover Sua and asks if she'd be willing to be her surrogate.
There is a strange, handsome, but pathetic man in her house.
After experiencing the destruction and brainwashing during the Cultural Revolution, an old farmer, Lin Zhongshu, tries to reverse-brainwash the experts, media, and government officials to preserve a local musical tradition through a thirty-year long journey. Lin tries every means possible to protect this ancient culture and the affiliated organization: Qujiaying Music Society.
A man and a woman don't find their place in their world, a world which a giant work office.
The rebellious mermaid girl Xiao Ai runs away from home and accidentally enters the human world, embarking on a fantastical, heartwarming, and adventurous journey.
2024 release
Can a feeling be explained? Two embark on a motorcycle journey in pursuit of an elusive feeling. On a dark night of hunger and winding roads, the convenience store becomes an illuminated oasis.
A 26-year-old breakdance champion risks losing everything to chase her dream. Battling family rejection, she questions if dance is her true passion, or just a way to escape reality and be seen.
This film looks at the process of two children who have lost their mother's love with a tender look and realize their dreams in an innocent and even whimsical way.
Late at night, roaring sounds echo at the poultry farms full of chickens. Soon after, tractors begin to carry chickens. As the day dawns, Jae-cheol, the owner of "The Revial Farm," prepares to receive chicks by managing the empty poultry farms and doing his daily life.
Before and after the lifting of martial law in Taiwan, there was a group of photographers who remained steadfast in their beliefs. Undeterred by the pressures of the mainstream market or government interference, they boldly ventured across the country, presenting firsthand material to the public, regardless of whether their perspective was objective or not.
In the hilly city of Chongqing, a painter searches for the old apartment where he and his parents used to live. He asks local residents for directions, walks through narrow passages between buildings, and calls his 90-year-old mother for confirmation. But the city has changed beyond recognition. Behind the camera, his daughter documents his journey.
A disturbing story set in the near future. People are holed up in their small dwellings and live in a virtual world. Everyone films and streams various videos. They don’t have a clue that they’re not free until one of them goes outside. But the discovery of the outer reality is something their virtual masters aren’t happy to see.
17-year-old girl Tianyue is about to leave her home and her father to go to school in the city where her mother lives. Before leaving, she and her father came to the river where they often went as children.
Divine Intervention explores the journey of a woman tormented by the entanglement of her hair, seeking solace through a spiritual guide. Together, they employ a unique technique to enter her consciousness, aiming to uncover the root of her distress. The Yuan Shen Palace, also known as the House of the Mind, is depicted as a virtual world constructed by the brain. If it truly exists, it might function like a vast organic hard drive, recording the intricate details of one’s life. The film strives to rationalize magic and symbolize the process of spiritual healing.
Save the Game meticulously and ingeniously documents the history of Korean PC games from the rise of personal computers in the 1980s to the present.
In her sophomore year of high school, Maggie lives a simple and boring repetitive life in order to fight against boredom, she holds a search for bad ice cream competition with friends every thursday, or eavesdrops on her mother’s phone...
Amid a pandemic, the chance meeting of byebyesea and crew sparks a vow to tour the U.S. coast to coast after the pandemic. The spontaneous journey, concerts in every city, from California to New York―will they safely navigate it all? Experience the adventure infused with byebyesea's music, challenges, and friendship.
Before the mother of the 10-year-old girl ShuYan disappeared, she told her that once she had been capable, her mother would come back. She searched everywhere for “capable” until she saw the children in her village snatching the pink flag at the wedding and was praised by everyone for being “capable”. She then rampaged, fearless and competed for the pink flag, but waiting for her was even greater confusion…
Somi, a third grader in elementary school, cleans the house every morning. The bruises and scars are clear on the face as if they had been assaulted by someone. In the morning, Somi, who is in fear after seeing the text and text that arrive, suddenly becomes busy. Will "Somi" be able to escape the day's of hellos violence.
A group of friends gather at a lakeside for a party. Mao stands alone, observing as Kenta flies a drone over the lake. He suddenly drowns but returns, exhausted. The others party in the cottage, unconcerned. At night, Kenta and others start obsessively drinking water, losing their will.
"TK," a new student, managed to expose and thwart the deceptive plans of "Yuri," a fake medium in the same school. This caused Yuri to seek revenge on TK, which led to unexpected consequences.
In 2021, an orchestrated coup d’état in Myanmar shuts down the country. Gao Gao, who can no longer go to school, spends his days with his friends in the village, passing the time by playing with toy guns, going through life as if nothing has changed despite the unrest around him.
Minji wanted to do something with the priest's robe—to hear the voice of her deceased father.
"A-Da-Sao" is a term used by the people of Southern Fujian to describe women who enjoy joining in the fun, are kind-hearted, willing to fight for justice, and are carefree. Ata Sao, after rescuing an injured notary and returning a lost child, becomes embroiled in a child kidnapping case, unfolding a comedic yet heartwarming and touching urban story.
The film tells the story of a little boy who loves motorcycles but has never seen a real one, who meets his dream motorcycle rider through a "magical piece of glass" and cleverly encounters the dream.
Facing the threat of losing her job, Jung-soon, despite her aching back, pushes herself to carry the heavy box the manager requested and starts walking.
In a Manhattan apartment in New York, there lived a 96-year-old solitary elderly person, Gao Yaojie. Seen as the first grassroots AIDS activist in China, Gao was forced to flee to the United States from China at the age of 82. The elderly woman’s long and tumultuous life mirrors the turbulent modern history of China. The film documents the lonely last three months of Gao Yaojie’s life. On 10 December 2023, Gao Yaojie passed away in New York.
"The Yang Notes" records a legend about a mythical creature known as the "Shahuadu" (shark-deer). It is said that in western Taiwan, residents often share tales of this bizarre creature that can switch between the form of a deer and a shark; when on land, it appears as a deer, but when it enters the water, it transforms into a shark, retaining a One day, a half-fish, half-deer creature with antlers crawled out from a fish pond filled with black water, slowly making its way towards a town that continuously discharges waste. Is it the manifestation of the mythical creature from legend, or a "fish pond monster" conjured up by the local residents
Yoonjae is about to transfer to another school. Yoonjae has a short conversation with Minseo, who she encountered on her way to school. Even after the conversation, the afterimage of each other is not easily erased in their minds. After school, the two head somewhere.
This is the 115th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.
Starting from the children’s party where Zhang Shengjia celebrated his ninth birthday at a KFC fast food restaurant in 2006, the Chinese artist and filmmaker’s essayistic archive film unfolds a cheerful cultural history of the birthday cake from a Chinese perspective. The convention reached China from Western Europe and North America in the early 20th century and merged with local birthday traditions. The constantly growing influence of Western consumer culture since Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms of the 1980s was exemplified in 1990 when almost 13,000 customers were registered on the opening day of the country’s very first McDonald’s restaurant in Shenzhen.