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A portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

The rise and fall of the Habsburg Empire, one of the most powerful European empires in history, which lasted throughout the second millennium and had a major impact on Europe's cultural boom and ethnic cohesion.

Ishibumi is a film about the Hiroshima bombing. It's Hirokazu Koreeda's rework of a classic 1969 TV program produced by Hiroshima Television.

In April 2017 Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto made a guest appearance in the Veteran's Room at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Stephen Nomura Schible recorded this concert with his camera.

Filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki follows a coach and his team as they try to win Japan's national high school baseball championship.

In the 1990s, fearing persecution from the Turkish government, about 2,000 Kurdish refugees of Turkish nationality came to settle in a suburb of Tokyo. Here live Ohzan (18), Ramazan (19) and Memet (38). This documentary focuses on these three young Kurds in Japan.

Documentary centers on the life of transgender Filipino singer Jake Zyrus.

Three years filled with Daisuke's challenges, suffering, and love for his family.

A documentary chronicling the lives of Japanese refugees displaced by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi.

Dancesport has been big in Cebu since the year 2000, and especially for kids from unprivileged families, becoming dancesport athletes means opening doors to their future. This documentary features kids training to win at world-class dance competitions, sharing tears and laughter while learning about survival, defeat and victory.

The film features legendary photojournalist Kikujiro FUKUSHIMA, aged 90. Since the end of the Second World War, FUKUSHIMA has been documenting the darker and more troubling side of Japan's success story, creating an impressive oeuvre of political documentary photography that does not shun taking a close and critical look at human suffering and injustice.

Shu Hin, a four year old panda, narrates her and her twin brother's story as they move from a Japanese zoo to a panda reserve in China and make new panda friends.

Fifteen years after his documentary A, which focused on the dangerous Aum cult and the illegitimate actions of Japanese police, Mori Tatsuya returns to the format and examines the work of composer Samuragochi Mamoru who is reportedly building a reputation and repertoire based on plagiarizing the works of others. The film focuses on the claims against the man, the nature of truth and whether society is too black and white.

A group of productive elderly Viennese artists, who live in the same retiree commune, goes on their annual bus ride to see an exhibition, this time in Prague. This introspective journey explores their views on art, life and happiness.

Many people have forgotten what happened in Fukushima. Four years later, for 130 000 residents, temporary housing became a modern-day refugee camp.

Hong Kong is home to 190,000 Filipino maids. On Sundays, the maids congregate in a square and reminisce about their families back home. A beauty contest for maids is held each June where they dress in their finest in the hopes of winning the crown. But what really lies in the hearts of these Filipino maids?