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As Silili looks for balance, she uses the power of frequency and resonance to begin a magical journey. She dreams of becoming a tree spirit one day. After leaving her mother tree, Silili—just like the other elves—sets out to discover who she wants to be. Along the way, she doesn't realize that her adventure harms a tree, but helps all the plants of an entire island.
2025 release
Ko Naing flees Myanmar to avoid the military service law and settles in Bangkok, a city known as a paradise for foreigners. But for him, life is far from ideal. As a Myanmar national, he struggles with prejudice and the irresponsible actions of his own people abroad. The rising inflation of Myanmar’s currency adds to his worries, while homesickness and loneliness begin to take their toll. His sense of reality starts to fade as he questions how long he can endure this uncertain and isolated life in a foreign land.
In Tōei, a small mountain town in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, a sacred ritual called Hana Matsuri ("Flower Festival") has been passed down for over 700 years. Widely respected by folklorists and ritual enthusiasts both in Japan and abroad, Hana Matsuri is not only a spiritual tradition, but also the cultural core of the local community—an embodied memory of who they are. Like many rural areas in Japan, Tōei faces rapid population decline and shifting social structures. This film gently follows those who sustain the festival amid such changes.
In a shadow play and puppet show inspired by the great tradition of Taiwanese theater, accompany the hero of this documentary narrative as he plunges us into the period of the White Terror.
Arita, Saga prefecture: While working at a pottery studio, Okubo continues to search for clay to use in his own creations. Fumi listens to the townspeople, records them, and draws an "invisible map" of the town. Seitaro rides around town on his fixed-gear bike, carrying a camera. Okubo's sister, Miu, has returned to town after wandering the world. Hands that dig the soil. Ears that listen to voices. Eyes that capture the light. Feet returning. Following the presence of "something that was once there but can no longer return," gazing at the glittering shapes of shadows, the artist depicts the figures of people who are certainly alive in this very moment.
This Summer, I took a solo trip to Tokyo. It was a blend of rush and silence. Mornings were quiet and soft, and evenings were quite chaotic. This is a compilation of what my eyes witnessed when I was there.
2025 release
Man Mei, a Hakka woman born in a Miaoli farming village during the Japanese colonial era, carries a life that spans a century and traces the shifting currents of Taiwan's transformation.
The smudged and overlapping green hues sway back and forth, creating a visual rhythm.
Woojin works night shifts at a convenience store while preparing for the police exam. One quiet morning, while studying and cleaning, he sees a man attempting to steal the bag of a drunken, sleeping female student.
A sound recordist attempts to rediscover the memories he shared with his grandfather before they are forgotten forever.
A silent experimental film shot on expired Fuji Single-8 R25N. It captures the quiet presence of a Monday that unfolds outside our awareness.
A bestselling novelist who practiced polygamy dies on New Year’s Eve. His five acknowledged children reunite after 12 years, and across five intersecting lives the “inheritance” dispute gradually exposes the family’s real truth.
Graduating in Taipei, Zhang Xiao is soon returning to Shanghai. She and her boyfriend have parted ways, but keep their silence—a long night of hotpot, ice cream, and wandering with friends; a long farewell sealed softly into memory.
Adi, a ballet major, meets Hwi and plays basketball for the first time in her life.
One moment, Ye-eun is laughing and chatting with her girlfriend Mu-je, and the next, she has vanished—leaving behind no name, no face, no memory. Chasing after clues to recover her name, Ye-eun desperately reaches out. She must complete the garment.
Peaceful Namcheon-ri town. The killer, ‘Yong-shin’, who has been living undercover, is tasked with the mission of killing the neighbor ‘Ji-ae‘.
Yoon-seok only wishes to live an ordinary life between his unyielding father and his inscrutable son, Yul. But events take a turn against his hopes, and cornered by circumstances, Yoon-seok is driven to commit an irreversible act.
Su-ho, an aspiring actor preparing for an audition for a queer film, asks his friend Gyu-beom, who is gay, to teach him “Way to be gay” for the sake of method acting.
In a town corroded by rust and mold, a girl’s silence becomes her crime. Home and school collapse into an absurd dream that resists awakening.
Walking into the historical and cultural block, Liu Xing Street in Yining City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the streets and alleys resemble a hexagonal puzzle. In this community, residents from 13 ethnic groups, including the Uygurs, Kazakhs, Hans, Huis, and others, live together.
This is a tale of tomatoes and desire: In the 17th century, tomatoes were feared as poisonous across Europe. It wasn’t until a French painter dared to face death that the world was finally able to taste the tomato’s beauty. After twelve hours of anxiety and fear, the painter emerged not only unharmed but found the flavor of the tomato exquisite, his appetite awakened. One evening, a woman prepared a delightful dish of tomato pasta with red sauce, waiting in both anxiety and anticipation for the return of a man.
A person in charge of a major incident is under the protection of the Wooden Law Police. He has no memory of anything before the incident.
And then it all stops. After years of repetitive daily work, a woman retires. She would like to seize this opportunity and give herself a second life, richer and more beautiful, but the days pass and are all the same. Her family, her flat... One job replaces another.
On the score of the world, the music has sped up. Is it still possible to slow down?
2025 release
The short film tells a mythical story set in Dunhuang, where the bird god Kalaviuka awakens from the ruins of a time of nuniversal extinction. She still hears the chirping of birds and walks on the lake of tears, where she sees a door in the wilderness. There is a hole in the door, and the old god with a broken hand looks at her through it.
The traveler lost his way in the snow and stumbled upon an ancient ritual, leading to an unknown abyss.
Little Red and Little Green stood on opposite sides of the street, tending to their traffic lights every day. As time went by, through countless glances and silent exchanges, they gradually fell for each other.
A couple's quarrel over petty grievances escalates into a gender debate – with a surrealistic dissection as each line was paused and deconstructed.
A man's loving memories of tending to his acerbic mother weave together remembrance, routine, and artistry in a lyrical reflection on familial bonds, loss, and generational connections.
The story of a very busy man.
In the rural landscape of Zhejiang, a simple bamboo hat becomes the centrepiece of this work. Casually placed on the grass, its slightly curled edges and faded bamboo strips bear the marks of time and daily use. This is an ordinary object, presented in its natural state, without the need for excessive explanation.
One summer, when the weather was unusually fickle, there was a sudden shower. heritage consolidator Dojun and babysitter Yeonsook have different days than usual.
I spent my childhood in Gangneung, Gangwon Province—a small city where the shadow of division permeated daily life. Witnessing the armed infiltrator incident in the 1990s taught me the meaning of ‘boundaries’ through lived experience. From that day onward, peace became not merely an ideal, but a ‘question of survival’ for me. Returning to Gangwon Province to seek answers, I began studying the theme of ‘peace’ and embarked on a peace field trip along Germany's former border zones with Professor Lee Dong-ki, a historian and peace scholar. Traversing the German border and Gangwon Province's borders, I began to understand the identity of the region where I lived and the ‘border city’ as a frontier of the Cold War and division. How can we transform it into a ‘space in-between’?
Strangers have started calling him by his name. What on earth is happening? Young-joon feels like he has forgotten something important.
Entering puberty, Jun-hee is consumed by resentment: she hates the school's strict hair restrictions that force her to cut her hair, her cold-hearted mother, and her cheeky younger brother. Her boiling frustration finds its only outlet in tormenting her younger brother.
Four children from Tin Wah Estate roamed and explored together, weaving four unique childhoods from the same shared experiences.
STARDOM in KORAKUEN 2025 Dec. was a professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom that took place on December 8, 2025, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
Each day, she defecates into the toilet. Each day, the toilet swallows it up. But over the course of seven days, this ritual falls apart.
Having married young and secured a stable job, 'I' one day feel a strange sense of nostalgia and visit the school from the past days. On the way home, ‘I’ receive a peculiar phone call. Late one night while returning from work, 'I' encounter a doppelgänger who looks exactly alike ‘I’.
An empty street. Smokers gather in their usual spot. Behind them stands a pale blue figure - human or ghost, no one can tell.
In the near future, an infectious disease of unknown origin spreads across the globe. This disease, known as "FrAg," is transmitted through aggressive biting behavior. Even the sisters, Hyein and Sumin, who had been living a quiet life in a rural village, are not spared from this misfortune.