Tag: documentary

For their latest film collaboration, documentarian Huang Wenhai (credited as Wen Hai) and activist Zeng Jinyan as co-directors, alongside Trish McAdams’ animation, present a veritable...

Though Chinese Portrait is his first documentary film, Wang Xiaoshuai is no stranger to what can be called documentary realism. Particularly in his early films...

The alarm was sounded around the middle of the last decade on disinformation campaigns deemed to threaten social institutions founded on managing free-flowing information. It’s...

A sand animation sequence accompanied by a voiceover about a lonely boy who could not help himself from lying opens and closes Kaori Sakagami’s most...

Twenty years separate filmmaker Yoshifumi Tsubota and his father’s cousin Makoto Ohara, but the former finds a kindred spirit in the latter following his diagnosis...

In his latest documentary film, Kazuo Hara shares that he wants to make an entertaining movie. Consequently, early in the film, he asks Reiwa Shinsengumi...

Dreams are the memories of another life – or so the saying goes, whatever that may mean. If one could identify a subject for Lei...

What do people who deal with death in their daily lives dream about? Shehrezad Maher explores the answer to this question in her documentary This...

Tsuchiya Tokachi’s latest documentary work begins with startling details: from 2006 to 2017, it relates in captions, the staggering figure of more than five thousand...

Writer-director Nanako Hirose’s reputation precedes her as she began her career assisting renowned Japanese filmmakers Hirokazu Kore-eda and Miwa Nishikawa. Her directorial debut His Lost Name (2018)...