Documentary Screening in Collaboration with Kyoto International Film Festival

Invitation to watch documentaries from Southeast Asia!

Since 2012, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies has been coordinating the Visual Documentary Project.

As of this year the project has teamed up with the Kyoto International Film Festival to screen 10 documentaries at the Audio-Visual, Research Resource Archive on the first floor of the Inamori building.

Between Oct 15th (Thurs) to 24 (Sat) the following documentaries are available to watch for free.

Program 15th, 17th, 21st, 23rd

Entries to the 2013 Visual Documentary under the theme “Plural Co-existence”

    The Burmese in Thailand (Thailand)
    Consider (Thailand)
    Lives under the Red Lights (Cambodia)
    On the Streets (Vietnam)
    Panama (Heritage)
    Ucihna-guchi (5th Okinawa International Movie Festival). Japanese Language only

Program 16th, 20th, 22nd, 24th

Entries to the 2014 Visual Documentary under the theme “People and Nature”

    The Last Generation (Indonesia)
    More than a Tree (Myanmar)
    Echoes from the Hill (Thailand)
    Silence of the Summer (Vietnam)
    My Grandfather’s Route has been Forever Blocked (Thailand)



A Grain of Seed: The Island Chorus under the Sun (3rd Okinawa International Movie Festival). Japanese language only

Organizer: CSEAS
Co-organizers: Yoshimoto Kogyo “Kyoto International Film Festival,” “Okinawa Interantiona Film Festival”
Collaborator: Audio-Visual Station at the Research Resource Archive, Kyoto University