Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city’s magnitude and their father’s daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.

Madoka (FUKAGAWA Mai), a Tokyo-based manga writer newly married into a Kyoto folding-fan family, sets out to celebrate the city’s traditions in a comic essay. But her innocent enthusiasm for the old city soon clashes with local sensibilities, sparking conflict, disapproval, and outright havoc!

This programme brings together a selection of Isiah Medina's short films tracing a variety of formal and narrative evolutions in his work, spanning an entire decade from 2010 to 2020.

Siblings Toshiki (SUZUKI Ryohei) and Fumiko (ARIMURA Kasumi) have relied on each other since losing their parents. When Fumiko announces her marriage, her continued connection to another woman’s memories threatens to upend the life they have built together.

Lana Daher’s archival essay film is a personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory that spans 70 years of film, television, home movies and photography. 

In 19th century Edo, novelist Bakin (YAKUSHO Koji) begins an ambitious mystical tale of good and evil. Three decades later, as his life’s work reaches its climax, he is struck by a tragedy that makes him nearly unable to continue. A film packed with thrilling exploits of eight fictional heroes and Hokusai!

A young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer — ultimately becoming a triumphant teacher, mother and a singular modern writer.

When one of the exhibiting works by renowned artist Shuzo (ISHIZAKA Koji) turns out to be a forgery, the shockwaves reach his talented former rival Ryuji (MOTOKI Masahiro), now exiled from the art world. Ryuji may even be involved in the death of a mysterious tattooed woman…