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- An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
- A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
- Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.
- A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.
- Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.
- From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.
- The Enei district of Minami Soma town lies within the 20 km exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In early April 2011, immediately after the devastating tsunami and nuclear meltdown forced people to evacuate the area, filmmaker Matsubayashi rushed here with relief goods. From a chance meeting with city councillor Tanaka Kyoko, he began making this film. Living together with the evacuees in school classrooms designated as temporary refuge centres, he captured an extraordinary period in the lives of the local people. Interspersed with humorous episodes and deep emotions, the film delves into memories of a local culture that has been taken away by the tragedy.
- In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometres through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges - a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears.
- It is Aichi Prefecture and the story is that of 90-year-old architect Shuichi Tsubata, who has accomplished much professionally, and his 87-year-old wife Hideko. They live in a house designed by Shuichi complete with its nods to nature, vegetable and fruit gardens and the knowledge that it is all but a fleeting endeavour.
- A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.
- Ishibumi is a film about the Hiroshima bombing. It's Hirokazu Koreeda's rework of a classic 1969 TV program produced by Hiroshima Television.
- 'Foreign Parts' portrays a hidden enclave of automobile shops and junk-yards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes this vibrant community of immigrants - where wrecks, refuse, and recycling form a thriving commerce - as it struggles for daily survival and contests New York City's development scheme.
- Arman is 33 and ready to make a change, starting with a run in park. When he literally bumps into Amélie.
- Totonel (10) and his sisters, Andreea (14) and Ana (17), are waiting for their mother to come back home from prison. As they grow up, each of them learns how to survive on their own, hoping that when their mother returns, the family will be reunited.
- After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, Komori Haruka and Seo Natsumi chose to live and film in Rikuzentakata. This work is a visual record of four people who applied for a workshop Komori and Seo devised, showing them visiting the town and getting to know its people and landscape. The opportunity to hear personal experiences of the disaster decreases with time, but this film provides a bridge to new encounters and communication, in addition to including a story written by Seo entitled "Double Layered Town."
- Psychiatrist Masatomo Yamamoto has dedicated his whole life to his patients. Now over 80 years of age, he tries to bid a farewell to them and his work. Soda's sequel to Seishin (2008) is a loving look at care and aging.
- In the Japanese town of Ushimado, the shortage of labor is a serious problem due to its population's rapid decline. Traditionally, oyster shucking has been a job for local men and women, but for a few years now, some of the factories have had to use foreigners in order to keep functioning. Hirano oyster factory has never employed any outsiders but finally decides to bring in two workers from China. Will all the employees get along?
- Marking the return of pinku eiga director Kazuhiro Sano to the chair after close to twenty years, Sasaki Hiroshi, who is stricken by cancer and loss of his vocals and job, is shocked to find that his daughter is not his biological child. His anguish turns to obsession. The story is based on the director's personal experiences.
- Fifteen years after his documentary A, which focused on the dangerous Aum cult and the illegitimate actions of Japanese police, Mori Tatsuya returns to the format and examines the work of composer Samuragochi Mamoru who is reportedly building a reputation and repertoire based on plagiarizing the works of others. The film focuses on the claims against the man, the nature of truth and whether society is too black and white.
- In response to the Fukushima disaster, Yama-san is running an election campaign with an anti-nuclear message. But unlike last time, he has no money, no machine, no nothing. Does he even stand a chance? On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced one of the most calamitous nuclear disasters in history. But in two national elections following the accident, the pro-nuclear Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) achieved landslide victories, gaining control of the two parliaments. Why? 'Campaign 2' by Kazuhiro Soda observes a small local election right after the disaster and gives insight into this difficult question, presenting a microcosm of Japan's political-psychological landscape.
- An elderly woman named Fumiko lived through the battle of Okinawa. Now she is part of the movement protesting the construction of a new American military base in Henoko. This film captures the complex feelings of those who have had to live their lives alongside military bases. It compels us to share in their yearning to bring an end to this battle.
- A documentary about the people of Hirono, a city located 20 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the whole town was forced to evacuate. In 2019, 80% of the population at the time of the earthquake is back in town.
- Animals are not always met with a loving and caring home, and approximately 1000 abandoned cats and dogs are put down each and every day in Japan. The creators of 'Dogs, Cats, & Humans' make it their mission to speak out for the voiceless animals who have no control over their possibly devastating fate.