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In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.

Hearing-impaired teenager Chang Cheng transfers to a school for children with special needs. However, the world of the hearing-impaired doesn’t seem quiet at all. When Chang witnesses the game taking place in the last row on the school bus, his excitement about blending into a new environment immediately turns into fear.

16-year-old Allen lives a chaotic and underprivileged life. Defeated by life from the start, Allen finds joy and hope in hurdling, his favourite sport which he often wins in competitions during middle school. A cruel fate awaits him when he enters high school. Because of his height, his performance is suddenly hampered and he cannot even handle the basic 3-step hurdle. His hope of being in the school team is dashed, let alone winning over his teammates. The more desperately he tries, the more he realises his goal is beyond reach. Can Allen overcome this challenge before high school ends?

Since Six was 18, he no longer knows what freedom is. He’s trapped in a wheelchair. His father, a taxi driver, drives him every day out to the streets to sell chewing gum. That’s how Six spends his days. Till he gets to meet a quiet girl, Noodles, who always shuts herself away in a small stationery store. Six barges into her world. He adds a touch of pheromone to the colorful but icy stationery store. Suddenly, everything becomes interesting.

A story about a karaoke-addicted old woman struggling with her self-worth and a sense of betrayal at her long-lost husband's funeral where she encounters his younger and more sophisticated girlfriend while she finds out her kids might have been secretly in touch with her late husband all these years.

At a birthday party, a sex video is filmed without consent and Ren Li-cha is the girl in the video. The clip circulates among the students and Li-cha is mocked and bullied as a result. Wu Yun-heng, a transfer student, went to the party with Li-cha. As she cannot stand how much Li-cha is suffering' she is determined to find out about the truth behind the incident, fighting for her best friend. However, as she gets closer to the truth, she is about to shatter the peace in school.

Mickey is a twenty-something Taiwanese woman: sporting short hair, a baseball cap, and impressive tattoos, she’s both tough and depressed. Her best friend, Gin Gin, is an ultra-femme bleached blonde go-go dancer. Gin discovers she’s pregnant while her boyfriend is ghosting her. Since he’s also in Guangzhou, Micky and Gin Gin decide to head out on the road together. After their luggage is stolen, they’re taken in by a stranger and introduced to a glitzy, bizarrely otherworldly urban metropolis, and their road trip takes several strange and frightening turns.

A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can’t decide if she wants to live or die.

The Spiral Cage is a TV film about a girl finding her way to deal with her childhood trauma and obsession with heels associated with Tourette syndrome.

Four school buddies — a director, a temp worker, an insurance salesman and a paper craftsman — grapple with unfulfilled dreams amid middle age ennui.

A boy lives with his Grandma and Mr. Lin, the tenant who looks after him and Grandma. But when Grandma passes away, the boy's uncle returns to Taiwan and discovers that ownership of the apartment was transferred to other people.

Every summer, Hsuan, Yei, and Chi jump into the pool together. Yei is always faster than Hsuan, but Hsuan doesn't care about winning or losing. All she wants is to stay with Chi, slowly, naturally, till they reach Taipei.

Short film from Taiwan.

In this deliciously dark comedy, a woman desperately attempts to reunite her husband's amputated leg with his body before his funeral, leading her on a wild goose chase across Taipei and through multiple encounters with bureaucracy, ineptitude, and her own recent past.

A high school student who has lost his father is bullied at school while also being misunderstood by his mother. He decides to return to his father’s hometown to find the tobacco field that was painted in the torn painting he takes along on the journey.

Little Han lives in the mountains with his great-grandmother, Auntie Han-hsiao. In rainy days, Little Han sits in front of the fireplace listening to Auntie Han-hsiao’s colorful and mysterious tales. One day he sees an injured and dying sparrow. With sadness, he digs a small cave and buries it.

What Mei wants is a simple relationship with someone who loves her dearly. However, fate decides otherwise. After a failed marriage and an immoral affair with a married man, she gives up on life because of one setback after another. For the past decade, she has barely survived with her mentally disabled son, Diku, and her dementia mother. But when she bumps again into her ex-husband, Zhi-yuan, her life is no longer quiet. His glove puppetry saves her show. She feels as if she is about to get the happiness that she wants. However the success of her show has incurred her rival’s displeasure. The show is forced to be canceled. In the meantime, an accident kills Zhi-yuan, which makes her so depressed that she intends to end her miserable life. While Standing by the sea, Mei finally realizes that she has in fact got what she has been searching for. Therefore, she runs back home to try to prevent an imminent tragedy from happening.

When sixth-grader boy Qiu is bullied in school for having gay dads, his stepfather Howard, a flamboyant Jazz trumpet player, must confront his own nightmares of childhood bulling before he can provide his son a feeling of security.

Tien Xiao-Xiang is a fan of author Si-Yi and Tarot cards. But deep down, she has another love, childhood sweetheart Li Zhu-Hao. Just when she sees the perfect opportunity to reveal her love to him from fortunetelling, Li Zhu-Hao confesses his feelings to her best friend Song Yi-Jing! But Song Yi-Jing has a condition for Li Zhu-Hao, that is to help three couples to date. They are: aloof and misandric art professor Stone and lovesick gym owner Liu Zhi-Liang; the most unpopular weirdo in school, Ah-Yu, and the subject of her nonstop public displays of love, campus hunk Danny Lo; mob boss lady Yu and philosophy student Ah-Shan. To make it happen for these three unlikely couples is almost like mission impossible.

This romantic comedy is about a loser practicing how to “LOVE”.

The last bus has already left the station. Frustrated, the young man reluctantly gets into a nearby illegal taxi with a grandma, a migrant worker, and a talkative driver, and they drive from Changhua City along Zhangshui Road all the way to Erlin. The wheels roll forward, and the scenery of the hometown is reflected on the windshield and constantly receding. Where does the fleeting light in the young man's eyes come from?

Ting-Wei spends his entire summer vacation helping his dad make deliveries on condition that his dad takes him to the beach before school starts. Will his dad, who never keeps his word, remember to fulfill his promise this time?

Several migrant workers carry stolen wood through a small winding trail. An accident happens when the police try to arrest them. The night coming, the injured worker, Đoàn, has a strange interaction with the man who wants to find him.

Ken works night shifts at the local gas station. One night when he is reminiscing about his childhood in this once-thriving town at work, Long Foot, one of his close childhood friends, shows up. What should have been a happy reunion turns into a melancholic self-examination as Ken is reminded of an unpleasant memory that he never wants to face again.

Chuan never have more thought aside from working, eating, and his empty dorm room. One day, his junior high school classmate who had never contact after graduate, Yu Hsiang, appeared. He told Chuan he could take him to see Bau-Wen, the girl he once had a crash on. Even all those came in sudden, making he confused, he still wanted to see Bau-Wen again.

Guards looking after ships usually turn a blind eye to troubles as long as ships remain safe. Chuang, involved in disputes between foreign fishers, shelters the intellectually-challenged prostitute, Neko, in a dilapidated ship. But the ship-owner is selling the ship.

Pei-Hsuan is extremely looking forward to her 15th birthday dinner that her parents who live abroad will join it , and the trouble-maker Ya-Ting who is lodging in their house will be taken home by her dad. It is going to be a perfect dinner without any trouble happening. However,it seems that everything is out of control in the beginning of a day……

High schooler You Cheng fumbles a hookup with Wen Ting, making him panic. To solve this issue, he spies on others, but Jing Hao’s nude shocks him.

Kuang, a student, was flagged by the school’s security system for posting unsafe phrases on the Internet, and as a penalty, his face was covered by mosaic. Most of his friends made fun of it, but reasonably refused to support his right, except his girlfriend.

The night before Wei-Kai's best friend went to study abroad, Wei-Kai couldn't sleep, and his desires turned into fantasies.

Bin Bin is a beautiful fearless boy. He enjoys his friendship with his confidante An An until You Jen, a handsome mixed-race boy, appears in their lives. While pursuing An An, You Jen awakens something in Bin-Bin's heart.

From Taiwan, a story of two young friends trying to figure out their relationship as one struggles with his sexual identity and the fear of coming out.

A-Jun, who lives by himself, is gradually slipping away from normal growth development. During this period of his life, there’s many perplexities around his world. Isn’t it just one way off going down the stream to Jia Jiu Liao and set him free?

An unemployed son visits his mother who lives alone. Having been away from home for a while, a sense of distance and alienation is all that is left between them. Nevertheless, they keep saying, ‘I’m fine’, to each other as neither wants to worry the other.

An indigenous construction worker has led a distasteful life, until he meets a young hooker, and starts a poetic journey of love⋯ Postcard is Cheng's first short film, which elegantly presents the situation of the lower class with songs and poems.

Tin On moves from Hong Kong to Taiwan suddenly in January 2020. She finds out the light in the apartment seems to be broken. The landlord asks her neighbor, Yi Ming, to fix it. Tin On seems far away from her reality. Yi Ming gets closer to her to uncover the mystery of her presence.

A man tracks dowm his missing father, looking for the ancient memory of a last dish.

As the world teeters on the brink of collapse, a weary office worker encounters a strange, heartbroken girl. After a wild night together, they brace themselves for the end — and for a new beginning.

Yuan and Zhong are friends, their teacher wants Yuan to keep Zhong from bullying Chun. However, Chun doesn’t look grateful to Yuan. Yuan decided to do something.

In order to find the missing father, the main character of the story,Chiang Chen, came to the "Can house" where washed away the memory in the famine generations. He met Ni An who came to defrauded the consolation money of the Can house. In the process of mutual benefit, they also discovered here is an unknown conspiracy under the beautiful tricks.

Freelance taxi driver A-Tien fights against a tyrannical taxi union to protect the taxi industry.

In the remotest corner of southern Taiwan, the sinking fisherman´s village prepares for another carnival for the god. Sheng, a man reaching his 30s, returns in disguise as an established urban elite. As the carnival escalates, Sheng confronts his persistent father who farms oysters throughout his life and the childhood buddy who always envies his fragile “successfulness.”

In an ordinary morning after glass eeling all night, an old fisher finds himself left alone in this desolate world. He wanders around in search of the spiritual trace of his deceased wife, seeking a way out in the endless cycle of the nature and human world.

Lin-Han and Jian-Fu are competing to become chair of the music club. This high school election turns buddies into rivals. Youth is cruel. Even music seems to fail to bring liberation to these young souls. This heartfelt coming-of-age story depicts all the embarrassments and excitements, beauty and brutality of juvenescence. Instead of focusing on peer competition and teenage crush, the film sheds light to the importance of self-identity, the need to feel included, and the power of friendship.

Yao-Wei takes his girlfriend home to Malaysia for the first time. In the midst of a monsoon, he tries to find the right time to tell his parents of his engagement.

One night, Deng's favorite live streamer Annie announces she would quit the streaming. At the same moment, the Internet is mysteriously disconnected around the world. To see Annie again, Deng starts his journey searching for signals in the dark city.

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.

An old father living in the past, a hard-working wife who doesn't know how to express love and a grown-up son struggling with the relationship with his father. An emotionally separated family who has lived decades as if it was one day.

On a winter evening in 1979, the arrest of anti-government protesters is underway. The city is under curfew, but a teenage student, out of curiosity, follows a mysterious young man from a riverside path into an abandoned hut. Living in Taiwan under martial law, are men constantly escaping from government, society, or the affection buried in their hearts?

A Taiwanese grandma (Ahma) has to travel from a rural town in central Taiwan to the capital city of Taipei in the north to pull Alan, her American-born grandson, out of jail before he gets deported by a vindictive police officer.

In this futuristic world of 204X, everyone has the chance to freely choose their gender when they come of age. Yi An, a young person on the edge of seventeen, likes and prefers girly and feminine aesthetics. He feels that he isn't masculine enough, but he doesn't feel like a woman either. Yi An is in love with his classmate Zhou Yang Kai, but she expects him to become a girl. Yi An questions whether his attraction to Zhou Yang Kai is based on a gender preference or a connection of souls.

In the mist room, in the dim light, the steaming heat is floating and overflowing. The flickering male bodies, sucking each other's desire and loneliness, the more squeezed, the thirsty. You seem to have entered the forbidden area by mistake in formal attire, falling between dream and waking, staring, and being stared at. You can't remember how you came here or how to get out. Theater and video director Zhou Dongyan once again touched the life experience of gay men’s community culture that is hard to articulate but difficult to cut. This time, he moved the poetic lens language into VR, taking you and me to the male sauna, peeling off the layered desires, and exploring the hidden love in some kind of lovelessness.

In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a handful of residents refuse to move away from their beloved and almost completely abandoned village.

A Hong Kong girl went to Kaohsiung in agony to search for her friend who was supposedly kidnapped.

Takashi, who studies abroad in Taiwan, finds every day is full of fun in friendship and love that he can't find in Japan. However, he feels the difficulty of conveying his feelings frankly while the time goes by.

Kwang, who is moving from Chiayi to Taichung, met the mistress of his father. At the last night in Chaiyi, two people not knowing any thing about each other started a journey together and tried to search answers of their hearts.