Set amid the remote hills of Eastern Bosnia, THEN COMES THE EVENING provides a quiet meditation on the seemingly uncomplicated pastoral lives of two women. Through simple and precise composition with attention to light and texture, the mundane details of their lives are rendered with the tactile richness of an oil painting. Their every action and word is infused with ceremony, ritual, and Intangib...
In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a handful of residents refuse to move away from their beloved and almost completely abandoned village.
I have been living and working in Europe since 2002. In 2016, I went to see my parents in South Korea with my one-year old son for he could meet them for the first time. During the stay, I had to decide that my mother, suffering Parkinson’s Syndrome should go for a nursing home to relieve my father. It is a story of generations at its crossing moment, the very moment when my son began to lea...
Her day begins at daybreak with the full of darkness before the moon goes down. As the night and the daytime permeate into and out of the threads, the moon gets woven by her fork.
Bircan has decided to learn Kurdish, her once-forbidden mothertongue, with all the words her grandmother has forgotten and all the stories that have remained unspoken.
A Remembering of Disremembering
Told through the tales of love of a retiring film projectionist and a late-blooming actress, the short documentary delves into the journey of Manila’s oldest movie theater from grandiosity to obsolescence.
Looking at the clock, eat, long for something, and wait. A similar but different day of two female housemates. It was a usual early morning until Ho-Kyung discovered the grass of the plant on top of the microwave next to the fishbowl had withered away. Upon the discovery, Ho-Kyung falls into the trail of thought…
In Japanese, there’s a specific word for an unborn life. Mizuko, which means “water child,” is used to refer to both miscarried and aborted pregnancies. In addition to this word, there’s a ritual of grief that allows women to metaphorically return their water children to the sea. Narrated by a Japanese American woman, Mizuko tells the story of her abortion in the US against...