«Clean Up» 2018
After losing her son, Jungjoo loses all hope in life, drinking and smoking her life away. She tries to overcome the pain by attending church and praying diligently to no avail. Then one day, she meets Mingoo, a convicted criminal, wearing dirty clothes that have not seen a washer in who knows how long. He carries all his belongings in a plastic bag. Seeing him reminds Jungjoo of an event 12 years earlier.
Clean up is a film about a woman coming face to face with a past she wants to forget. She kidnaps a child out of desperation and meets that child again 12 years later. The problem is that the child is now poor, lonely and scorned. She can’t ignore him, and not remembering who she is the boy feels safe with her. Clean up is a film about salvation and forgiveness. Will the two be able to overcome their feelings of guilt, resentment, and anger? Rather than giving a hasty conclusion, the film advances slowly towards a faint glimmer of hope.
Awards:
Winner, Best New Actor, Dae-gun Kim, Buil Film Awards, 2020
Winner, Best Independent Film, Florence Korea Film Fest, 2019
Winner, Best Film, International Film Festival & Awards Macao, 2018
Winner, New Currents Award & KTH Award, Busan International Film Festival, 2018
Directed by Manki Kwon
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Documentary title - A Balloon For Allah
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«Life» 2019
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A privileged woman, whom grew up with everything and nothing to care for, looses her child and realized how much she loved her child and goes on a long journey of praying in prostration to the Buddhist Temple to clear her sins.
Directed by Janchivdorj Sengedorj
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«Miners, Groom, Pneumoconiosis» 2019
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The local economy in the southwest of Hunan province is not active. Therefore, the people either go out to work or work as miners in the mountain. As a result of mining accidents, the government has tried to regulate, but many people still mine illegally in order to make a living. Miners often go down mines without protection, and after many years, many of them develop pneumoconiosis.
Later, with prices plummeting and the government overhauling them, the need for survival is no longer met by illegal mining. Many people have to find other jobs, either farming at home or working south. The miners, suffering from pneumoconiosis, are on their way to misery.
Directed by Jiang Nengjie
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«Bombardier Blood» 2019
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Chris Bombardier is on a mission to become the first person with severe hemophilia to climb the Seven Summits, the highest mountain on each continent. He’s completed five of the climbs already, but he next faces the big one: Everest.
Having trained with his mentor “Crazy Uncle Dave,” under the supervision of his expert doctors, and with the support of adoring wife, Chris is prepared for the mountain. What he’s not as prepared for are the Nepalese children with destroyed joints and the stricken mothers who no longer have their sons, due to lack of medicine.
The Seven Summits climbs will present Chris with an incredible challenge, but not the only one.
Official Selections
Rare Disease Film Festival
Directed by Patrick James Lynch
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«Draupadi Unleashed» 2019
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The story of a young woman, in 1930s British India, seeking an identity of her own against an arranged marriage and the manipulations of a powerful guru. Bringing to life the struggles of 3 generations of women in a male dominated society.
Directed by Tony Stopperan
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Documentary title - In The Name Of Confucius
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«The Rohingya: Workings of a Crime» 2019
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Hundreds of villages burned. Mass rapes and large-scale massacres. 700,000 Rohingya people forced into exile. At first sight, this surge of hate seemed to come from nowhere. But emptying a territory of its population in a few weeks requires a minimum of organization and anticipation. It is a pre-meditated act and must have been planned.
Directed by Gwenlaouen Le Gouil
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«Riders Of Destiny» 2019
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Riders of Destiny follow several child jockeys from the remote Indonesian Island of Sumbawa as they go through a season of racing horses. Child horse racing is a cultural pastime which is primarily undertaken by an impoverished class of rural families whose economic actions are severely limited. The film touches on aspects of class, education, child welfare, and income inequality.
Directed by Michael Niermann
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«Our Time Machine» 2019
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Shaken by the news of his father’s dementia, artist Maleonn creates “Papa’s Time Machine,” a wondrous time-travel adventure performed on stage with life-size mechanical puppets. Through the play’s production, he confronts his own mortality. Maleonn finds grace and unexpected joy in this moving meditation on art, the agonies of love and loss, and the circle of life.
Awards:
Jury Award - Best Documentary, CAAMFest 2019
DocEdge Award - Best International Director, Documentary Edge Festival 2019
Grand Prix Documentary, Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad” 2019
Best Cinematography in a Documentary Film, Tribeca Film Festival 2019
Grand Jury Prize - Best Documentary Feature, VC FilmFest - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2019
Nominations:
IDFA Audience Award, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2019
Cinema Eye Honors Award - Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation, Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US 2020
White Goose Award - International Competition, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2019
Jury Award - Best Documentary, First Youth Film Festival 2019
Audience Award & Gotham Independent Film Award - Best Documentary, Gotham Awards 2021
Golden Kapok Award - Best Art Doc Award, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival (GZDOC) 2019
Golden Coconut - Best Documentary Feature, Hainan International Film Festival 2019
Grand Prix - International Documentary Competition, Sofia International Film Festival 2020
Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca Film Festival 2019
Directed by Yang Sun & S. Leo Chiang
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«A Tiger In Winter» 2019
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On a winter day, when a tiger escapes from the zoo, a man is kicked out of his girlfriend’s house. Having no place to go, he wanders from here to there while working as a substitute driver and meets his old girlfriend.
Award:
Best Film, Asian Film Festival Barcelona, 2018
Festival Selection:
Nominee, Best Film, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, 2018
Directed by Lee Kwang-kuk
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«A French Woman» 2019
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Mira in her mid-forties has been living in Paris for more than twenty years. Having just divorced her French husband, she impulsively decides to visit Korea, and meets her old friends Young-eun and Sung-woo who had lessons of play 20 years ago. While having cheerful times in a bar, Mira goes to a toilet and when returns, the time has reversed twenty years. It is the day of Mira’s farewell party before she sets off for France. Before figuring out whether this is all Mira’s illusion or not, she goes through a series of mysterious reversing time slip.
Award:
Winner, Ten Best Films of the Year, Korean Association of Film Critics Awards, 2020
Official Selections:
Diaspora Film Festival : DIAFF, 2020 - Korean Diaspora
Korea Independent Film Festival, 2020
San Diego Asian Film Festival, 2019 - Discoveries
Women’s Film Festival in Gwangju, 2019
Seoul International Women’s Film Festival : SIWFF, 2019 - New Currents
Jeonju International Film Festival : JIFF, 2019 - Newtro Jeonju
Seoul Independent Film Festival : SIFF, 2019 - Special Invitation - Features
Directed by Kim Hee-jung
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«By Quantum Physics» 2019
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The story is about a night club owner Lee Chan-woo (Park Hae-soo), his club manager Seong Eun-yeong (Seo Yea-ji), and police reporter Park Ki-hum (Kim Sang-ho) that fights with an organized crime which involved alleged drug abuse and police corruption.
Awards
Park Hae-soo as Best New Actor, 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards, 2019
Park Hae-soo as Best New Actor, 25th Chunsa Film Art Awards, 2020
Directed by Seong-Tae Lee
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«Fanfare» 2019
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J, the mysterious woman, may well just be a phenomenon rather than an actual person. A minimal society squeezed within a tight space—this is the stage to express the director’s perspective towards intertwined human interactions and current affairs.
Award:
Winner, Best Low-Budget Genre Film, Wildflower Film Awards, 2021
Directed by Lee Don-ku
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«We Will Have Everything» 2020
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Liu Hao, a patient with mental disability and Down syndrome who is nearly 50 years old, is as innocent as a child. His greatest joy is to buy a bottle of Coca-Cola to drink with the money he earned from housework. Liu Sibo, an autistic patient with mental disability, cannot control his emotions well. It is commonplace for him to break several pieces of glass a day.
According to the census, the number of mentally disabled people in China at the end of 2010 was 5.68 million, but such a large group rarely appears in ordinary people’s vision. Since the government currently lacks a complete guardianship system for special populations, the responsibility of caring for the mentally disabled falls on the shoulders of charity organizations.
This documentary tracked such a philanthropic organization in Beijing and recorded the daily life of the two mentally disabled main characters. With extraordinary patience and love from the staff of the organization, can this special group of people enjoy basic human rights and strive to live independently?
Official Selections
China Academy Awards of Documentary Film, 2020
Directed by Jiang Nengjie
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«Live by One Person» 2020
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Wei Xiaodao, a reputable surgeon, is kidnapped and forced to livestream. As the whole world watches, Wei is pressed into admitting all his professional faults and missteps. To save his own life, Wei must outwit the vengeful kidnapper and confront his own past mistakes.
Directed by Ge Suzhan
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«The Hidden Transcript of Academician Ts’ao» 2020
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This documentary celebrates the life and work of one of Taiwan’s most respected historians, Mr. Ts’ao Yung-ho. An autodidact and polyglot who failed his university entrance examinations, Ts’ao went on to become the preeminent Taiwanese expert on the Dutch and Spanish colonial eras in Taiwan.
Directed by Chen Lih-Kuei
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Delulu is the solulu 🥹
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«Breathe» 2020
Breathe, a biographical documentary about Indian yoga master Iyengar, was produced by Insight Studios. For over two years, the documentary was filmed in different locations of India, like Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, and Bellur. The film includes exclusive interviews with many of his intimate family, friends, and students. Many precious visual documents of his life have been released for the first time. This documentary features a frail child born in a poor Brahman family who, after having a journey of self-discovery, brought health, peace, and wisdom to yoga practitioners around the world.
Directed by Liu Yi & Zhuang Qiushui
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