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When Shing Chi Tat got fired by his school, he luckily got into a primary school to continue his teaching career. He was assigned to manage the campus TV while teaching visual arts. But this new environment wasn’t as wonderful as he thought. This time, he has to face complains from parents, and got no support from his superior. Not to mention all the difficulties he has to face during the campus TV shooting process. But this time, he chooses to face the problems together with his students. And this time, he got to rethink what education really means.

It's Chinese New Year's Eve. A father of three is preparing a nice dinner for his kids. But his hopes were in tatters when all of the kids suddenly turned down on him.

Pretty ladies, pulsing lights, and electronic dance music set the stage for the world of a Thai disco in Singapore, where partying the night away is a full-time job for three of its inhabitants.

A sumptuous meal for an unspoken love.

Routh, an elderly indigenous Lun Bawang woman from Brunei Darussalam, returns to her ancestral village Selapon with her family after many years living in the city to celebrate the Christmas season in their newly built house.

A story about a woman who attempts to research and document the many diversed ceramic tiles from a historical cemetery before it may cease to exist due to threats of development plans.

A creative young girl who fights to pursue her dreams.

Ziyu, a 25-year-old undergraduate, grew up seeing her ah gong’s apartment as it is; merely just a venue for her family’s yearly Chinese New Year gatherings. Through a fresh new perspective of her friend Azmir, they both explored the land and attempts to understand what it means to be in the footsteps of her grandfather through decades of owning a horticulture business in hopes that she may one day leave a legacy for the future generation.

A day in a life of a kind-hearted shop owner, Alan, carry out his routined-activities from setting up the shop to making trips to meet his customers for second-hand furniture deals and repairs, before bringing it back to his shop. This documentary will show how he deals with a difficult customer who wants to the old furnitures that she bought from him to send for repair, and tries to bargain for unreasonable rates with Alan.

A story about a photographer that lost his eye when he was young, and how he overcomes it by experimental photography.

A grandma finds inner fulfilment when her granddaughter begins to like her paper folding hobby.

A female adventurer has to find her courage within her to defeat a boss monster.