The Movies That Made Us

'Lonely Swallows' is a documentary film which follows the struggles of Japanese-Brazilian kids living in Japan. In Hamamatsu, the city of automobile factories, there are over hundred thousand young Japanese-Brazilians who came to Japan when they were very young with their immigrant parents. Many of them drop out after junior high school, and start working at factories. Due to economic recession, many of their families lose their jobs, and they are now forced to return to Brazil. The film follows five Japanese-Brazilian kids struggling to realize their dreams while they are torn apart from families, friends and lovers over the course of two and half years.

Passing Poston is a portrait of four Japanese-Americans whose lives were shaped, defined and impacted on by the time they spent forcibly interned during World War II. A character driven documentary of several former internees of the Poston Relocation Center, who, in the last chapter of their lives, are still trying to find meaning in the inexplicable, and trying to come to terms with the tragic events of a past that continues to haunt them.

A journey to seek the traces of women's lives in Seoul and present the women's point of view.

Sei anni nella vita di un pugile documentandone il sacrificio, le delusioni e le rivincite.

Dahling Nick is a docu-drama exploring the life and works of National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin, who only accepted the National Artist Award on the condition that the Marcos administration release a well-known writer who was being unjustly detained during Martial Law.