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After martial law was lifted, decades of industrial pollution ignited social movements across Taiwan. Re-editing material suppressed from broadcast, Lee Daw-ming documents four landmark struggles — from the Hualien pulp mill and Houjin’s fifth naphtha cracker to Tainan pig-farm pollution and the anti-Fourth Nuclear Power Plant campaign — capturing collective resistance and enduring human values of the late 1980s.

Centred on the SaySiyat people’s paSta'ay ritual, this ethnographic documentary records the 1986 Great Ritual in Wufeng, Hsinchu, held once every ten years. Structured around fifteen ritual songs, it explores belief in legendary beings, generational reflection, ambivalence toward tourism, and tensions between tradition and modernisation.

Geographies of Solitude immerses viewers in the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote Atlantic outpost, guided by naturalist Zoe Lucas, who has lived there for over forty years. Shot on 16mm, this playful yet reverent experimental documentary follows wild horses, seals, weather, and tides, while quietly recording a lifetime of care, observation and marine debris collection.

On 26 October 1929, around 300 women converged from across Palestine and organised a silent demonstration in Jerusalem, travelling in convoy to protest the British High Commissioner’s bias during the Buraq Uprising. Retracing their journey through archival photographs and present-day locations, the film attempts to recover a largely forgotten act of anti-colonial resistance.

High above Nepal's mountainous landscape, a cable car carries pilgrims, villagers and tourists to the ancient Hindu temple of the goddess Manakamana. Once a multi-day pilgrimage, the journey now takes minutes. Filmed entirely inside the cars, Manakamana captures intimate conversations, revealing a society suspended between ritual tradition and technological change.