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- Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.
- A Japanese-American director digs deep into the controversial 'comfort women' issue to settle the debate on whether the women were paid prostitutes or sex slaves, and reveals the motivations and intentions of the main actors pushing to revise history in Japan.
- 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.
- Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
- With the ratification and implementation of an Anti-Organized Crime law in Japan the number of yakuza gangs and its members is shrinking. The chairman of an Osaka-based yakuza gang claims this is a human rights violation against the organizations and its members. The daily life of the average yakuza is brought into focus.
- The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed large parts of the small town of Rikuzentakata. Here, Hiromi ABE hosts a radio show in which she reports on local events and interviews the residents. She focuses not only on the time after the disaster and the ongoing rebuilding of the community, but also on recording personal stories.
- Mujo is a Buddhist concept meaning transience and impermanence and a way to alleviate the pain and sadness of catastrophes. Although this includes forgetting as a self-protection, it means there is place for reconstruction. OMIYA sketches a glimpse of this moment in this first documentary after the disaster of 3-11 before it will be forgotten.