Some Women

With bracing honesty, filmmaker Quen Wong shares her journey as a transgender woman in Singapore—from her days as a teenage boy coming out to her uncommonly supportive family, to the present as a woman about to marry…

Time To Read Poems

8.0

The warm consolation I give you, the time you face me completely. Five people living in Seoul talk about their anxieties for the first time. Their voices in front of the camera are like reading a poem. A woman in her…

Travel Sauna

The Mockumentaries

Lost Fist

Documentary exploring the reasons why people fight through the stories of Japanese people trying their hand at lethwei, the Myanmar traditional martial art. Imada Tetsushi last directed a documentary 16 years ago with…

Last Days at Sea

“When they grow big, they leave the shells they are in. And then, the shell they’ve left behind … a smaller crab will find it and it will become its home.” Twelve-year-old Reyboy will soon be leaving his home…

Island of Mountains: Believe It or Not. This is Taiwan!!!

This series presents young mountain climbers’ life stories and the mountains that have had a profound influence on them. In it, we see the therapeutic power of nature and the topic of adventure under life-threatening…

Yellow Ribbon

10.0

The five years time since the Sewol Ferry disaster, what did it mean to us? The time is documented in the film and described with the notion of trauma. After people face their trauma, they start to speak of responsibility…

Fukushima Monologue

8.0

Tells the story of a man who chose to stay behind in the no-go zone near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Following the accident in March 2011, everyone within a 20km area was ordered to evacuate. Matsumura…

After You Die

Through interviews with people who knew the young man who lost his life in the First Haneda Struggle of 1967, this documentary sheds light on the "unusually fierce era". Eighteen-year-old Yamazaki Hiroaki lost his…