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Memories Frozen in Time

Eighty years after World War II, memory clings like frost to glass-blurred, fractured, yet never fully fading. Filmmaker Ming Chun retraces the forgotten journey of Taiwanese soldiers conscripted by Japan, captured by the Soviets, and exiled to Siberia. From departure and defeat to captivity and return, he follows a path of war and displacement-toward a home that no longer felt like home. Across Taiwan, Japan, and Russia, he searches for traces of their lives-abandoned camps, fading photographs, fragments of memory-while opening a dialogue across three generations: elders whose recollections falter, children burdened with unanswered questions, grandchildren confronting fractured identities. When history falls silent, what do we hear? And where do restless souls finally belong?

Memories Frozen in Time

NR 2025
Cotton is the Clouds in the Sky

Around the year 2000 AD, it was reported in the news that about two million cotton pickers rush to the vast land of Xinjiang every year, just like migratory birds, arriving in September and leaving in November. With curiosity, I also joined this "migratory bird" team and headed straight to the Xinjiang farm thousands of miles away. The train was very crowded, and among the cotton pickers who were mostly female workers, the vast and beautiful Xinjiang surprised these "migratory birds" for the first time. The hardships and joy in Xinjiang's cotton fields were also their first experiences. This film is the memory of me joining the migratory bird team as a cotton picker.

Cotton is the Clouds in the Sky

NR 2025
At the Triangle Intersection

A couple and the husband’s mother have been living away from the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture since they were evacuated after the nuclear accident. As they make the decision to build a new house, their feelings as husband and wife, parent and child, and daughter-in-law and mother-in-law intersect. The film depicts their emotional struggle to live as their true selves, amidst elderly caregiving of the elderly and complex family relationships—issues brought to the surface by the disaster.

At the Triangle Intersection

NR 2025
Frolicking and Chasing

Late August, 2022, an unprecedented heatwave engulfed the historic city of Xiaoshan in southern China, which was undergoing a major transformation in anticipation of the upcoming Asian Games. Young boys Yu Jiajia and Zhou Chengcheng had just started middle school that year. On the final three days of summer vacation, their homework answers and electronic devices were suddenly confiscated. Faced with an overwhelming amount of summer homework they hadn’t even begun, they had no choice but to pack their backpacks, brave the scorching heat and sunlight, and traverse the streets, bridges, parks, and rivers of Xiaoshan. Along the way, they played and laughed, searching the streets and alleys of the water town for classmates and friends who could offer assistance.

Frolicking and Chasing

NR 2025
Echoes of the Forgotten

Dark, unusual clouds gathered in the sky, slowly drifting toward the memory-laden hillside. With the typhoon approaching, people made their way to the cemetery atop Jian Mountain, hoping to reclaim the fading fragments of the past before the storm arrived. From deep within the mountains came the occasional sound of dogs barking—whispers, almost, of buried stories: ancestors who were relocated, stray dogs that were driven away, a woman still waiting for her husband’s return, and myself, trying to find a connection to my father in the cracks of memory—and perhaps, to find myself as well.

Echoes of the Forgotten

NR 2025