When the Dust Blows Through

Over the last hundred years, while the mystery of the ruins of ancient Kingdom Loulan, in the Lop Nor desert in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have attracted lots of researchers and expeditionists, countless…

Yield

A documentary that offers an unsentimental glimpse of the lives of nine working-class children from across the Philippines. Some children live with the condition of hydrocephalus, while others risk their lives in labour…

Song of the Silenced

Beijing performance artist Brother Nut attempts to organize a heavy metal show in a small town in southern China to raise awareness of industrial pollution and government inaction. What happens when art confronts political…

Onigawara

Origami

Atsushi Suwa, a painter, is offered a contract to paint a portrait of a couple’s deceased son. In order to learn about him, he studies photos of him and draws the faces of his family and a friend, who talk about…

Nagasaki Tsuiso: Chichi Inoue Hisashi e no Tabi

A documentary about the work of writer and playwright Inoue Hisashi told via the journey of Inoue Maya. Upon his death, he had an unrealized idea for a play which was turned into a film called "Nagasaki: Memories of…

Chocolatena Hitobito

Since being started by Koji Natsume in 2003, Kyuon Chocolate has grown from a bakery in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, to a chain of 52 stores spanning Japan. Over its 19 years of existence it has grown in size…

Nature of Mother

This is the end of the world, the end, and the beginning. Ten years ago, together with Liu Bai Yuan, Lin Yi Jie and Chen Yan Bo, I went to the North Pole and embarked on a polar expedition of more than 500 kilometers.…

Getore Yugure Dai Abare

-25℃ Simple Life

This documentary looks at the trend of people living in “Tiny Houses,” small houses that can be moved around. It was filmed in locations all around Asahikawa, Hokkaido, and even documents a Tiny House hotel that…