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The summer holidays are over: time for the students to present their self-selected research projects. But besides lemon lamps and sea clocks, some of the students have bigger plans. So also Kiyoshi, who wants to make up for his failure from last summer...

One day a girl who lives in a southern island dropped her precious anklet in the sea. A boy picked it up is having magical power. It is a warm and nostalgic story of a friendship between them depicted through an anklet in the beautiful and harsh ocean.

A woman who came down to her hometown to clean up her mother's ashes after an unwelcome tragedy. Everything about her looks tired because of her poor life. The hometown she didn't want to come to due to her childhood she doesn't have such good memories. Due to the huge dam project, the village where I lived as a child is submerged and vaguely shakes. A woman who has to clean up her mother's grave, which will soon be submerged due to water level adjustments in the dam. In the reality that not only the living person's place but also her dead have to move, the woman has to arrange her mother's place.

Some of the events themselves are forgotten, and they are excluded from copyright, and they are the co-creation and the word-of-mouth of people in a certain region. These events, which have little value but are attached to the landscape and time and space, should have a reserved meaning. When the scene of the event is gradually changing, will the event itself die? As an individual, I may be able to record something.

A daisy or a lion’s tooth or a bright pixel, spinning like a disc in the dark cosmos. Now; rhythm. Whatever is at the center of everything is turning into a burning wheel; imploding, stretching and multiplying. Patterns vibrate to a pulse. Clusters of organic and geometric matter disintegrate and gather. The beat goes on.

A story of two friends who grew up in the same housing complex in Tokyo but drifted apart after 3/11/2011.

Dear, Can I Give You a Hand? explores the erotic obsessions and existential panic of a senior citizen with a deadpan narration as touching as it is disturbing.

A Japanese indie short film by Motoki Nagahama.

A whale is being neglected and decayed since it has been drifted on the shore of Han River. Such strange things happened but no one in the city cares, only a dog and birds are around the whale. These sceneries are a remembrance of the depression which has been hanging over South Korea quite a while.

Sparky likes to gaze out of the window, to see every possible or impossible thing.

In the man-made waterways of rice paddies, the water in nature must follow artificial rules. In that way, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a new form of beauty distinct from the natural state. This work is a ballet using the sound and the movement of the algae and water. With the waterway as the theatre, I filmed the choreography of the algae that flows in the water.

In the summer of 2017, two Chinese filmmakers start their journey with four mobile phones, and they go through 16 countries from France to Damascus. As far as their concerned, they are trying to present the current situation of refugees’ life in the “post-refugee era” in Syria. It gives rise to reflection to the right and wrong in the “refugee crisis.” It is also lead people to find out a different Syria and a different Muslim World.

How would monkeys behave if they had access to social media and the internet? A black monolith falls into the Stone Age world and wakes up a monkey. Through the monolithic screen, will he discover how his species colonized the Earth in a parallel world?

People say what happened in dreams is opposite to that in reality; however, sometimes, reality is like a dream, as well as a mirror image: although it can present a reversed reflection, it cannot reverse time. Like an island where its time and space are stagnating, a current moment may seem familiar in dreams.

Everyone has childhood memories of a zoo. The 1950s were a paradise with monkeys riding bicycles and lions jumping through rings of fire. Animals of today are placed in an artificial, ‘virtual’ natural environment, and are subjugated as ‘humanised’ animals. They lose their natural habits and become physically and mentally warped. As we see elephants dancing, does this signify happiness, anxiety, or a bottomless pit?

The ancient man conveys the emperor's will to the cherry blossom prince and asks him to go to the Seonocheonhoe, but he refuses because he can't. Man Su-san orders the head of the family to send her a letter to Si-woo, so he removes her bing-ok and finds the two women who are in a hurry and brings them to his house. On the way, the monk and his party run into the enemy's subordinates in front of the royal tomb, and eventually fight with their captain, Geum Si-woo. Meanwhile, Shi-Woo rushes out with his weapon, the Beopgi, and the monks hide in the valley again. While the classmates and the monks were exchanging hostages, the horseman suddenly dies, and the two fight again. In the end, in this fight, his leg was crushed by a large rock, and the monks who saw it released him and started to slow down again.

A woman who annoys the man next door with her husband's affair, the couple's relationship, and the accumulating dissatisfaction. The man next door, who fights with the woman next door, ends up with a criminal record, and uses her revenge to dig a trap that induces the woman next door to have an affair and makes him his own woman.

Welcome to my Hometown! This film is not meant to be interpreted but rather experienced visually and audibly, as if you were in a slow car ride back to your childhood home. Take a journey through the nostalgic, yet bizarre visual landscape of my memories and imagination.

An artist welcomes his friends to an exhibition of his work, but finds himself unable to leave when it closes.

Raised by a mother who was a cabaret hostess, Kiriko runs a barbershop for the second generation after her father's death. But her playful mother, Yoko Toh, is busy going out, far from working at her barbershop, until she finally brings her man along while she's in her business to share her love aloud. By the way, Kiriko also seems to have inherited Toyoko's such lewd blood, so when her guests aren't around, she often secretly masturbates with her barber shop tools. But she stopped showing her this appearance to her mother's man, her uncle next door, and rolled it up...

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One day, Eriko, a woman kept as a concubine, falls in love with a young man. Although he has a vague suspicion that Eriko is a concubine, they continue to have secret meetings and their relationship becomes passionate. However, when a villager informs them, their relationship becomes known, and the man who kept her becomes enraged and seeks retaliation.

This harrowing tale follows a university student who escapes his impoverished mountain village, only to grapple with destitution that forces him into part-time jobs to fund his education. Amidst this struggle, he encounters a man who ignites an all-consuming love—a connection so electric it consumes them both. Yet, their respite is fleeting. In a society hostile to their love, they endure vicious mockery from peers and societal condemnation, culminating in the student's expulsion. His aging parents, heartbroken and disillusioned, grudgingly acquiesce, their hopes frayed but clinging to a thread. Tragedy compounds as the lovers, desperate to survive cascading calamities, begin withholding painful truths and even resort to selling their bodies. Each betrayal deepens their despair, eroding their bond until they teeter on the edge of oblivion—casualties of a world that weaponizes love into a death sentence.

In human history, the only person to complete the Tor Des Geants with 8mm film was Shibata Kanta, wearing bib number 1416, in 2018.

A primary school in Qingyang City, Gansu Province, China. Third-grader Mao Chengzhi, a cheerful and outgoing boy, is a "latchkey child," feeling lonely without his parents around. Sixth-grader Mao Zhengfa, a shy boy, lives with his disabled parents and younger sister in poverty. Despite their hardships, these children continue to look forward, and their heartfelt wish unexpectedly slips out.