In this pair of documentaries made for television, Imamura travels to Malaysia and Thailand in search of Japanese soldiers who never returned after the war.

January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier, only to share the unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown.

The programme brings together three of Imamura’s mid-length television documentaries that turn distinctly toward the rural, the regional and the stateless: from the indigenous communities of the Sulu Archipelago, to Japanese soldiers who never returned home after WWII, to a more light-hearted portrait of Yūzō Kawashima, Imamura’s mentor's hometown in the hills of Shimokita.

Three young men cruise through the nocturnal streets of Mexico City, their paths repeatedly crossing as sex and solitude draw them together. As the urban world gives way to Mayan theologies, queer desire takes a mythic turn.

This double bill returns to archival images of Palestine to ask how colonial histories are recorded, remembered and reclaimed. Through found footage and acts of cinematic re-encounter, Partition and The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing challenge inherited ways of seeing and listening, tracing the enduring connections between image, land, displacement and Palestinian presence.