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Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns BlueJia Zhang-Ke, a master of modern Chinese cinema, returns 10 years after I Wish I Knew with a documentary. This is the third film of his documentary trilogy of Chinese art, covering literature, following Dong on painting and Useles...
Flash Forward
The Art of Dying Far AwayIt is a story about an old couple and a turtle. The couple, about to divorce, share things they had together. Finally, one turtle they raised is left and they each claim the turtle is not theirs. This is Julio Alves’ first fiction...
A Window on Asian Cinema
CleanersHigh school students in their prime time are forced to grow up pure, honest, and sexually upright in Catholic high schools. Hypocritically, however, they spend time knowing that the reality they will face is not so. Several large ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Everyday is a LullabyRektra was once recognized as the most promising and best screenwriter, winning continued success. He could work wherever he wanted to work at any time. However, as time goes by, both his talent and passion for the film seem to fa...
Gala Presentation
MinariA film about a Korean-American family in search of hope, Minari won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize for the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The entire cast moves the audience to tears in t...
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MINAMATA MandalaIn the early 1940s, strange symptoms appear in the people of Minamata. People are having convulsions all over their bodies and tongues are eventually made mute. The government treated individuals whose physical functions had colla...
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Mishima: The Last DebateOn May 13, 1969, 1,000 students from Tokyo University await Yukio Mishima. The air in the auditorium is taut with tension. The invitation inciting students belonging to radical movements by the right-wing nationalist writer Mishim...
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Sewing SistersIn the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor Standards Act under the tutelage of Jeon Taeil. On September 9, 1977, they were imprisone...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Salt in Our WatersA sculptor from the city comes to a secluded fishing village with a container carrying his precious works. This is a village of poor fishermen who live on a daily basis, where income is further reduced with increasing debt due to ...
Wide Angle
Where Does the Wind Come From?Yunjeong, currently working on a scenario for a dramatic film, is heading to Gangwon-do Province for a part-time job dealing with supplemental filming for a documentary. Yunjeong arrives at Goseong, which was devastated by a massi...