Corydoras

6.0

Park Dong Su is living on his own after leaving the disabled facility where he first started writing poems. While having a hard time writing poems, he buys a fish called “corydoras.” Looking at the fish for a long…

A Long Way to School

Half of the students in special schools across the country face war-like mornings, commuting for 1 to 4 hours a day. Due to unreasonable lack of special schools compared to the number of students with disability, mothers…

Dark Red Forest

8.5

A work of visual awe and matter-of-fact spiritual inquiry, "Dark Red Forest" is a majestic documentary portrait that details the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns to small wooden houses on the vast Tibetan…

Ura Zokki

"ZOKKI" is a unique film directed by Naoto Takenaka, Takayuki Yamada, and Takumi Saitoh. It is a live-action adaptation of a short story collection by manga artist, Hiroyuki Ohashi. The people of Gamagori City, Aichi,…

School of Rock

On top of the the running problem children, I'm the head teacher! The punk head teacher was appointed to a place where students who had no dream or desire to learn gathered! Going to school wearing a strange mask is…

Like a Lion Not Surprised by the Sound

Skin, bones and flesh may melt away, but even if they die, they will never rise! "The moon is my friend in the frost." The great and special 90-day journey of the nine most tranquil monks in the middle of the city…

EPEX: GO

8.5

Behind the scenes of Kpop group EPEX

Ushiku

5.0

The Ushiku immigration center near Tokyo mainly holds people seeking refuge in Japan. Using a hidden camera, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Ash interviewed inmates there from late 2019. His film publicly accuses Japan’s…

Mad Monkey

Rhapsody of Colors

Located in Nishikamata, Tokyo, Colors is a club where people socialize without differentiating between those with or without disabilities. The camera steps into the lives of the club's individualistic members and captures…