The Poem, My Old Mother

There live grandmothers, who are also poets, in Goksung. They have lived illiterate because poverty and sex discrimination prevented them from going to school. 10 years ago, Kim Sun Ja, moved into this village and…

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Granny Poetry Club

9.0

Something's changed in the lives of the 80-something Granny Poetry Club members who do what they want when they want. They act like teenagers, joking, cheating, and laughing their time away. The grannies learn Hangeul…

Film Director Nobuhiko Obayashi: His Promise

7.0

For director Nobuhiko Obayashi, a late-stage cancer diagnosis has not stopped him from making movies. We follow him as he pursues a war film, inspired by his mentor, the legend Akira Kurosawa. (Source: NHK World-Japan)

Forget Me Not: A Letter to My Mother

7.7

The film follows three pregnant, unmarried women at the institution "Aeshuwon" on the South Korean island of Jeju. Paradoxically, the nickname for Jeju Island is "Honeymoon Island" due to its popularity as a destination…

D+B1A4

9.5

Wake Up in America

A Decision

It tells two different stories featuring ventilator-dependent patients in Taiwan and the people around them. Along with nearly 4,000 such cases on our island, these bedridden and mostly unconscious individuals are…

Our Youth in Taiwan

A star of the Taiwanese student movement, a celebrity Chinese student who loves Taiwan, and a Taiwanese documentary filmmaker passionate about politics. Each of them shared dreams of rebellion and building a better…

Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

8.0

A Japanese-American director digs deep into the controversial 'comfort women' issue to settle the debate on whether the women were paid prostitutes or sex slaves, and reveals the motivations and intentions of the main…