A Rifle and a Bag

2022 / 03 / 21
Films

Somi and her husband are striving to build a new life after fighting for a decade alongside the Naxalites, a Maoist guerrilla group from India. In the aftermath of surrendering to the police, the...

A Silent Gaze

2022 / 03 / 21
Films

Since 2009, the filmmaker has spent 12 years documenting the ever-changing times of three townships along the coast of Tainan County, namely Beimen, Jiangjun and Qigu. Through the lenses, human...

Blue Island

2022 / 03 / 21
Films

One risked rushing against raging waves to escape being involved in the Cultural Revolution; one resisted colonialism and was imprisoned due to participating in printing patriotic periodicals; one...

The Burrows

2022 / 03 / 21
Films

In the town where the filmmaker was born, he and his family are following an age-old tradition by building a tomb for his grandparents. This carefully composed portrait of a village, interspersed...

Children of the Mist

2022 / 03 / 21
Films

Di is a 12-year-old girl living in a village in the mist of Northwest Vietnamese mountains. She belongs to the Hmong ethnic minority where women get married very young, enduring the controversial...

How to Improve the World

2022 / 03 / 21
Films

Resisting the westernised reliance on images for creating narratives and experiencing the world, the film turns to music and sound as a way of perceiving through listening. While observing the loss...

Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege

2022 / 03 / 21
Films

The district of Yarmouk in Syria sheltered the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018. When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime saw Yarmouk as a refuge of rebels and...

Odoriko

2022 / 03 / 21
Films

Odoriko are dancers of the dying art of Japanese strip theatre. Once a popular form of entertainment, today all but 20 strip clubs have closed nationwide. Like dancers' bodies disappearing into...

Pink Mao

2022 / 03 / 21
Films

Why do we see certain colours even when they aren't there? The filmmaker meticulously analyzes the one hundred CNY bill, which carries a portrait of MAO Zedong, and finds that – despite official...

Ploy

2022 / 03 / 21
Films

Inspired by the diary of a migrant worker, the film weaves several social and artistic threads together: the life a Thai migrant sex worker named Ploy who works in Singapore's 'jungle brothel'; the...

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