Why Did the Carabao Cross the Carayan?

Thunder rumbling as heavy rain pours. Objects clashing and a breath drowning. Oyo, 23, returns to visit his grandparents in Cagayan before he migrates to Canada. He seeks a carabao, a lasting memento of his younger…

Circle, Circle, Circle

Thom repeatedly discarded the jacket, like the moment when Cora was saying goodbye downstairs to Thom on a loop. Just like Thom in Yuen Long late at night, he encountered strangers one after another wearing the same…

The Teachers: Pink, Nature Trail, Ridge Between Rice Paddies, Plum

In Seongsan-dong, Mapo-gu, there is a 25-year community village after-school program created by teachers, children, and parents. There are 60 children and five teachers living together from the first to sixth graders.…

Qinling Sheng Quan

Three young people come to a mountain village deep in the Qinling Mountains to explore the legend of the sacred spring, but find that people who enter the village will develop some kind of hysteria. After a series…

Huaxin: Amorous Butterfly

Yuji found his photographer grandfather Tetsuro an inspirational man. He taught the lad about the art of cameras, their use, and their power. Yuji comes to regret taking Tetsuro’s picture after being warned that…

The Write One

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Liam is an unsuccessful writer in a failing marriage with Joyce, a former starlet who became pregnant with his child before she could become a household name. Liam’s priority is to produce his dream TV series. Joyce,…

Winter Chants

Continuing her career-spanning contemplation of home and reunion, Tsang Tsui Shan once again turns the camera on her home village of Ho Chung. This time, she documents her village’s Tai Ping Ching Chiu Festival,…

Weed People

"He comes when it's worth the work. Weed extract works. So I heard." "There is a legendary farmer who grows the greatest tree ever." Jo Joon, a third-class serviceman, suffers severe epileptic seizures during a fight.…

Alone Together

COVID-19 shook the whole world. In Japan, a state of emergency was declared for the first time on April 7, 2020, and our lives changed forever. On her birthday, April 22nd, Director Yukiko Mishima came up with the…

Pain of Silence

“Pain of Silence” is a powerful documentary that gives voice to five masters of Thai traditional arts, whose lives and crafts stand on the verge of disappearance. Through a series of intimate, revealing interviews,…