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The truth hurts. However, sometimes it inspires inspiration, fear, sadness, humor, or whatever emotions in between.
Documentary is based on real life, real people and events as the object of expression. With the truth it makes people think. The birth of film began with the creation of documentary. In 1895, Louis Lumière from France shot Exiting the Factory and The Arrival of a Train. He also shot other experimental films, and all of these films belong to documentary.
Documentary, news reel film, and non-fiction film share some basic characteristics: authenticity and objectivity. However, there is in fact no absolute objectivity in the creation of all documentary films. They are rather a representation of the historical world. Depending on the purpose of shooting, the film can highlight the function of “recording” and emphasize the connection with the real world. It can also highlight the form and style as a director’s personal artistic creation.
However, regardless of the purpose and function of documentary filming, “documentary ethics” is the norm that all documentary workers abide by. Because documentaries take the real world as the basic material, they have an unavoidable responsibility for the real people and objects recorded in the camera.
Note: There may be other kinds of documentary contents about Asia such as TV series or web series in this category.
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Ballad of Roaming Spirits – Li Xiaofeng / Jia Kai
- $299.00
- Yajun, the temple keeper in northern Shaanxi, has the ability to cure the sick and save people, but he can't cure his own illness or eliminate his own suffering.
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- Documentary, Experimental
Just an Alien – Hua Weicheng
- $299.00
- In the early morning, the madman awakened the magical copycat amusement park, the Foreigners’ Street, like a wizard. Then, during the day's tour, he seemed to have experienced its changes from prosperity to decline.
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- Documentary, Experimental
The One Who Runs Away Is the Ghost – Lei Qinyuan
- $299.00
- Two girls spend their childhood in a huge electronics market in Shenzhen. This place, Huaqiangbei, once famous for its counterfeit products, is now the center of electronics production in China.
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- Documentary, Experimental
Hei Qi (Black Paint) – Zhang Ping
- $229.00
- The director's father returns to Hei Qi Village to meet the end of his life. The shadow of death reveals the other side of life.
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Before the Flood – Li Yifan
- $299.00
- A city is about to be flooded by rivers, and the houses people have lived in for many years are about to be demolished. How should they face it?
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Chronicle of Longwang – Li Yifan
- $299.00
- The poetic calm of life and farming follows the 24 solar terms. What lies behind is the most primitive governance and collision of rural rights and religions.
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We Were Smart (Shamate I Love You) – Li Yifan
- $299.00
- The post-90s migrant workers living in China's cities have developed a culture of expressing stress with exaggerated hairstyles, known as the Shamate group. This film chronicles Shamate's emergence and its disintegration over the years.
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- Documentary
The Lucky Woman – Tseng Wen-Chen
- $4.99 – $299.00
- Why do they run away? This film tells the stories of undocumented Vietnamese laborers in Taiwan after being forced to flee their employers. How will this lifestyle for over a decade shape their lives?
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Ants Dynamics – Xu Ruotao
- $2.99 – $299.00
- A number of artists participated in the rights protection activities of workers of China Telecom in the form of performance art to support their decade-long struggle. As the investigation went on, various contradictions began to appear.
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Karbala Memoirs (Karbala Katha) – Sourav Sarangi
- $4.49 – $229.00
- From a different perspective, a filmmaker from India traces his participation in Arbaeen, one of the largest pilgrimage gatherings on earth carrying a childhood memory.
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We Will Have Everything – Jiang Nengjie
- $2.99 – $199.00
- Mentally disabled group is large in China, but they rarely appear in ordinary people's vision. With extraordinary patience and love from the charity, can these special people enjoy basic human rights and strive to live independently?
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Maid for Sale – Dima Al-Joundi
- Sri Lankan women used to be the largest single group of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon. This film chronicles three women and their stories that intertwine charged with hope and despair.
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