The documentary entails an interesting story regarding its release, since it was initially shot by Shinsuke Ogawa in the 1980s, in an effort to depict the...
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J. P Sniadecki collected footage from 2011 to 2013 on China's humongous railway system, in order to present a film that uses everyday life inside the wagons to...
With the serene backdrop of China's Loess Plateau, “Of Shadows” follows a troupe of shadow play performers, who honed their skills in the remote area. Within a...
The fact that a Russian director would shoot a documentary about North Korea was very intriguing by itself, to start with, but the way the film ended up being...
Robin Weng's debut was produced by several independent companies in China and abroad, and features mostly non-professional actors. The film screened in a...
Kurosawa’s long-awaited return to his psychological J-horror roots, since his latest films were mostly art-house (“Journey to the Shore”...
How people survive a disaster? And why do we want to see images of it? These are the questions invoked by Chinese director Haibin Du's award-winning...
Kenichi Watanabe's debut is a documentary as it should be. An elaborate concession of events, stripped of any artistic additions, through actual footage of the...
Sandhya Suri skillfully weaves together archival footage – including hand-colored sequences – with a new score by Soumik Datta to create an emotionally...
“If you discover the truth, if you reveal the truth,then you will suffer.” One of the pillars of exercising thought control has always been to control a...