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Revolving around the First Guangzhou Uprising, Sun Yat-sen's detainment in London, the Second Guangzhou Uprising and the Wuchang Uprising, this work interweaves one man's regret of causing a friend's death with the rivalries and cooperation between different revolutionary camps. These brave young people fight for the common good unto their last breath, paving this saga of toppling the millennia-old empire with their courage and blood.
A printmaker, who was killed in the 228 Incident, falls into an unknown square space, in which he imagines the life he should have had…
In a factory driven by endless ambition, a mysterious wooden idol grants every wish for success. A young worker devotes himself to it - until a hidden room reveals a different world and sparks a desire for change.
Willy Fog, the most famous British gentleman, faces the depths of the sea when many ships mysteriously disappear.
If you had only three hours a day, what kind of life would you want to live? A comet has disrupted humanity's biological clock, limiting people to three waking hours a day. On his journey, Ian meets families with distinctive views on time, exploring different life choices along the way.
On a secluded island, a chair has fallen down.
At a train station floating in the cloud, a mysterious red tail catches the boy’s attention. Chasing the red tail, the boy travels through countless magical places, runs into bizarre creatures, and finally he meets the gentleman, who seems to know his secrets more than he does. When the red tail reminds the boy of his own memory and sadness, what are the secrets hidden behind, and where will they lead him next? Inspired by Wang’s same named comic story, the mysterious red tail leads viewers on a magical journey, creating a poetic metaphor of people’s childhood memories.
A mermaid receives the legs she longed for, but the gender is not quite what she expected. How will she navigate this unexpected transformation?
In a small town, a glamorous hairdresser from Shanghai makes all the men crazy for her, and arouses the jealousy of the local women. Only a little boy notices her unknown past.
Of the many unrealized projects Yang developed in the wake of Yi Yi, the one that came the closest to fruition was an ambitious animated martial arts movie inspired by his lifelong love of graphic novels and his friendship with Jackie Chan. Though production on The Wind was halted after Yang’s death, this brief assembly of completed scenes offers a glimpse of what might have been. Courtesy of the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute. – Film at Lincoln Center
The story is about an old women with a drawer on her body. This drawer is full of the memory of her passed husband. She puts things into the drawer every day to look for the shadow of him.
In a cozy burrow, a mole lives with his daughter. He often peers through a narrow window, dreaming of the world beyond. Though he longs to venture out with her, his fear of sunlight keeps him confined. How can he overcome this and explore the vast, beautiful world?
Somewhere midst this rain-pouring city, there is a tiny hotel with one counter staff. On this day, three sets of guests came by, along with some annoying ants that never go away.
The film is inspired by the costumes of folk art performers at Taiwan's ceremonial festivals. Adapted from the Southeast Asian folktale The Mousedeer Crosses River, it integrates similar folktale narratives from different countries to create animated puppet dancers.
The story depicts a young man who is banished for questioning the state machinery and embarks on an unknown adventure in order to protect his love.
Life flourishes under the nourishment of sunlight, air, and water, surrounded by blue skies, white clouds, solid and rich earth, and oceans. The 21st century is enjoying the most stable and secure era in human history, but is this what we deserve? Do we often ignore the most basic questions?
The film consists of four stories about four different dogs and their owners' lives, reflecting love, life and departure.
A hand-drawn animation of the Chinese folktale “Houyi Shoots Down the Suns.”
Short animation by Po Chou Chi
The girl Nian has a secret: she can’t see herself as everybody does. The portrait of her mother, Mei-Hung, is the only way for Nian to imagine her true look. The Tomato Girl represents Nian’s journey of honesty and confession, composed through mixed media.
This is a story about communicating, relying and eventually growing up. Say "bye bye" to the past me.
Can a living person dream of a ghost's dreams and assume ghosts can dream? This VR project reveals a forgotten Indochinese refugee camp in Asia and tells a story about a dream within another. The narrative is based on an unknown Vietnamese refugee camp in Penghu, Taiwan, and includes a dream about an unidentified female victim from the Khmer Rouge period. Phuong, the protagonist, was a 13-year-old Vietnamese refugee born in Cambodia. In those dreams, an unidentified Cambodian girl reveals the story of Phuong's family by asking, "HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE"? But what does she mean by "THERE"?
This animated film presents the journey of a queer person, exploring sexuality and the queer community. It illustrates an observation of the modern queer society and fantasies toward the freedom of gender fluidity, reflecting the real situation of the community where discriminations, freedom, and love coexist.
Among the tall buildings of the city, the lonely security guard David hides a beautiful field that no one knows, and meets an egret there; but the expansion of the city never stops. One day, the field is destroyed, the egret disappears without a trace, and David begins to see mysterious illusions…
A sweet potato, on the way back...
Welcome to our room! It's a monodrama about someone with depression. Let us enter this eerie and mysterious world together. Finally uncover the deep secrets of the room in the sound of heavy footsteps.
Annie and her family are spending the holidays with an old aunt at a remote mountain village. For this city girl, the big adventure begins at The Ching-Hsiow Villa! Here she learns of the old aunt\'s love story during the Japanese colonial era, meets a magic raccoon, and makes friends with the local Native Taiwanese. Full of surprises - and some minor dangers, too! - this is an unforgettable vacation for Annie and her family. One of the few outstanding Taiwanese animation productions in recent years and a nominee for Best Animated Features at the Golden Horse Award in 1997, ANNIE\'S MAGIC RACCOON is a simple and yet profound tale about the heart. It also reflects the emerging awareness of environmental and political issues in Taiwan in the early nineties.
The Rubbings of Trajectories is an intimate documentation about space and memory. Drawing inspiration from travelling around the globe, the film invites the viewers to slip into a person’s consciousness and experience the relationship between one’s inner and outer worlds.
The social impact of gambling affected Taiwanese the mostduring the 80s in Taiwan. The concept of this film is to have audience experience and observe the social values of religion beliefs from a deity statue’s viewpoint through Virtual Reality technology.
Lying quietly in a cine-camera, a film awaits to fulfill its responsibility of projecting 24 frames of images per second after exposure. Nonetheless, I prefer rolling out films outright and fiddling with them by pigments application, collage, scratch, cut-and-mix, etc. Since these are camera-less measures, the projection is unpredictable, surprising, and often so astonishing that I would be mesmerized.
Blüte explores from the female perspective a woman’s first tinge of love which colors her teenage heart. Every woman has the right to love and be loved, so please be proud of your courage to chase after love!
Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.
Son and father are driving on the highway. The son keeps asking questions until he finally notices the changes in his father's body. The dialogue in the animation is taken from a recording of a real conversation between the filmmaker and his father.
A tie-dye fabric animation that narrates the beginning of life from a microscopic perspective.
In 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Despite all the conspiracy theories around it, The US successfully showed the world what a powerful country can accomplish. 50 years later, people in Taiwan are struggling between an identity crisis and economic fluctuations, hoping for something or someone that would save the day. This desire is why you are hired to be a national hero – the very first Taiwanese who lands on the moon.
Mr. Grey struggling with his delusions fails to see the basic needs of his family. When he lies on his sickbed in the hospital, he remembers his long-forgotten wish is to build ““a house with a toilet”” for his Granny…
Based on the story of “Pangu Separates Heaven and Earth,” The Beginning of the Universe starts with the time when the universe was a chaotic mass of air. After the great divide, Pangu’s body becomes the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, rivers, trees and grass.
Abi is a cockroach who hates his own kind. He views humans as the most elegant beings and hence begins to observe and mimic their way of life and actions. One day,he was caught and got flushed down the toilet bowl, where he ended up in a foreign place. He thus began on this lonely journey, where he tried to find his place in this world yet only to face countless disappointments...
Returning to a house that holds nothing, a mother misses her own mother.
From emptiness, a gentle breeze stirs, gathering grasses and leaves to form a creature. Grass turns to feathers, leaves to body. As It catch sight of itself, the world echoes into being, stirred by the wind. Feeling others, It is felt in return, in a rhythm where all boundaries blur into a seamless dance of harmony...
After invasion of black particles, siblings Alvin and Ariel inadvertently save the legendary Cloud Leopard,having the power to purify the world. They must evade pursuit by conspiracy factions and embark on an adventure to return it home to save world
A grandmother, who once dreamed of becoming a dancer, spent her youth clipping tickets, bound by duty. Marriage promised freedom, yet life wove tighter threads. Facing her own frailty, she casts off the past, rowing toward the unknown — refusing to let her daughter inherit her cage, vowing to dance forever.
A seed who can’t get under the sun and the shadow who needs light to exist are each other’s meaning of life. The seed makes up her mind to find a way to be with the shadow, kicking off a journey to explore this strange world.
Gui Kingdom is in crisis: the Demon Society has long desired the Kingdom’s treasured Dragon and Phoenix swords. Entrusted with the task to protect the sword and princess, Jhuge-Shiro (Shiro) rises to fight against the Demon Society but must also deal with the vengeful Zhen Ping (Ping).
Late at night, there are animals minding their own business beside a lake. Some of them meet at the end, and then they drink tea and making sticky rice happily together ever since. This is a film about metaphors, view with a caution.
The protagonist escapes Earth after a global nuclear destruction to find a new planet to live on but finds that he/she always returns to it to learn life's profound lesson.
A car crash test dummy makes a flipbook to express the existence of itself.
A story about two volleyballs. No genders, merely two objects and souls falling in love. Both were solitude until an encounter breaks their desire to be each other’s loved one.
A dark comedy that follows the adventures of the protagonist, a gay man in a long-term relationship whose life takes an unexpected turn when he falls in love with a mysterious neon blue cracked egg.
An animated tale of how a family moved to Taiwan over a 5000 year journey.
Step into the body of a young Taiwanese man to roam the steamy rooms and red-lit corridors of a surreal gay sauna—with thin mattresses, shared showers and lockers holding secrets.
A story, between father and son, happened round dinner table in the kitchen. "Bland lunch, day after day. the father who lives in the fridge. Discontented son. Inside the kitchen. Repast. Communication. Genes. On the verge of breaking out." Father and son came into a conflict because of a decision made by the son. To indicate the relationship between them through their reaction on that circumstances. We are all have some dissatisfaction with our parent’s personality,but meanwhile,we will gradually find them in yourself when you are growing up. The trepidation and the contradictory state.
A boy with a special talent discovers that he may never grow up. Those with power are devouring people's dreams and everyone is destined to be a slave. Can he break the rules and free the people or will people still blindly follow the rule?
Dream Land is a one-year ink painting project by GAO Chun-fu. Every night, in the late hours, GAO captures the busy and chaotic state with ink painting. Applying the flowing technique, he paints the images and illusions emerging from deep within. The spontaneous gathering and scattering of water and ink reflect the artist’s internal breathing as well as the passing of time.