Homesick Eyes
Free market capitalism has not only effected the flow of capital but also the global migration of labor. Laborers cross national borders to “developed” or “developing” countries and take on low-...
Travelling Medicine Peddlers(PAO-JIANG-HU)
The Pao-Jaing-Hu are people who roam the night markets around Taiwan. They are said to be numerous in Jiayi and Tainan (in Southern Taiwan) where the old cultures still live on. The Pao-Jaing-Hu...
Shanghai Family Value
Shanghai Family Value is an observational documentary structured around the director’s childhood home in the old French quarter of Shanghai. The central story line unfolds around her ongoing effort...
Beyond the Forest
In the Taurus Mountains of southwest Turkey, peasants recall having been shepherds in their childhood. Their ancestors, who had come from central Asia long ago, eventually settled in their summer...
Give Us Our Skeletons
Locked up in the Anatomical Institute in Oslo, two skeletons are all that is left of Mons Somby and Aslak Hetta, two Sámi men who were hanged for murder in 1854. The descendants and relatives of Mons...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi
Mograbi plays a fictional documentary filmmaker who is hired to produce a film on the celebration of Israel’s 50th anniversary of statehood. He discovers that this date is also his own 42nd birthday...
How Deep is the Ocean
How Deep is the Ocean is a story about self-exploration and re-discovering the essence of being. Director Tang Shiang-chu and his Dawunses friend Mamuno come from vastly different backgrounds, but...