This festival set in the former post station town of Shinagawa-juku on the Old Tokaido road offers a program of documentary experiences at venues rooted in the traditional community, including lantern-lit izakayas, book cafes, and 400-year old temples. The documentary is essentially an expressive genre with a close connection to people and society. In the belief that the essence of a documentary cannot properly be conveyed through the one-way medium of television or film, we provide a platform for documentary subject-protagonists and highly-motivated documentary creators to express their stories through images and performance while directly interacting with the audience. The theme for the festival’s third instalment was “listening to voices that are hard to hear,” voices that tend to get buried within society. “Immigrant Karaoke” that opens a window onto the songs of immigrants living in Japan; “Is developmental disability really a problem?” debated by people with developmental disabilities themselves; exchanges with people branded “Terrorists” like Somali pirates and bomb makers: a succession of people confronting diverse social issues took to the stage, laying bare the era of today.