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In a shadow play and puppet show inspired by the great tradition of Taiwanese theater, accompany the hero of this documentary narrative as he plunges us into the period of the White Terror.

Documentary on the couple working as herdsmen on Qilian Mountains.

This Summer, I took a solo trip to Tokyo. It was a blend of rush and silence. Mornings were quiet and soft, and evenings were quite chaotic. This is a compilation of what my eyes witnessed when I was there.

A woman searches for her birth father in Taiwan.

An eighty year old man eats alone and walks alone for twenty years after he served his time in prison. Only his nephew and niece-in-law, ethnic Korean migrants from China, stop by to see him time to time. There are no pictures to look back on, so he writes letters to his deceased wife when he feels lonely and explains why he had to flee to the South leaving behind their 100 day-old baby daughter. The nephew’s wife goes to Pyeongyang to see Ok-hee, the daughter of the old man, and returns while the man wishes to go to the border for one last time. At the border where he could see the North, he has something to say to his only daughter. Would he succeed in going there?

Immigrant children in Japan must find alternative ways to stay in touch with their mother tongue as the country becomes home to approximately 3.41 million foreign residents. Teachers of all kinds run language classes operated on necessity as families learn to navigate children with varying levels of skill with what should come naturally to them. Visa issues and status of residence loom over it all.

An essay film based on the images and sounds I collected from various places between 2014 and 2017. A woman is looking for the traces of someone she once knew. How can she find absence in the presence and presence in the absence? This film is a musing on time - exploring how the past, present, and future are inextricably and mysteriously connected.

In 2017, a large-scale urban renewal project displaced Grandma, a woman nearing ninety years old, from her home. She is forced to live with each of her three children on a rotating monthly basis. This situation leads to numerous adjustments, discomfort, and misunderstandings between Grandma and her children.

The film takes Guangzhou-based independent music label "Qiii SnacksRecords" as a lens to show how this mosquito-sized label stirs up the city’s indie music scene through DIY music practices, rebuilding connections between people and with the "nearby."

Industrialization and scientific advancement have freed most of the world from hunger, and crushed the idea that agriculture is the foundation of a nation. For precious food to reach us, vegetation must be cared for daily. Yet, farming has become a profession to be avoided, causing the aging of farmers and shrinking of farmlands. Will it be okay to lose local farming in our near future?

Walking into the historical and cultural block, Liu Xing Street in Yining City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the streets and alleys resemble a hexagonal puzzle. In this community, residents from 13 ethnic groups, including the Uygurs, Kazakhs, Hans, Huis, and others, live together.

A man's loving memories of tending to his acerbic mother weave together remembrance, routine, and artistry in a lyrical reflection on familial bonds, loss, and generational connections.

In this documentary, 90 percent of the film was shoot by the director‘s cellphone. It depicts the ordinary and fragmentary life in such a materialisticmetropolis as Shanghai. In the film, Humphrey lives with his girlfriend (Olivia)in a rental in Shikumen, central Shanghai. Their story begins with a separation…

A middle-aged couple living in Suzhou played a "divorce" at home, recalling the sweetness of having met each other, and the triviality of life now seems to contrast, but it is the inevitable trend of life. A man who loves playing cards and does not care about his family but has a good temper, also walked into the kitchen after his wife fell ill and picked up POTS and pans; A woman who is worse than her word and takes care of her family, even if she is dissatisfied with her husband, will be aroused again by a missing letter from her youth. They face each other's gaps and problems, and finally choose to tolerate and continue, life is riddled with holes, but they do not give up life.

I spent my childhood in Gangneung, Gangwon Province—a small city where the shadow of division permeated daily life. Witnessing the armed infiltrator incident in the 1990s taught me the meaning of ‘boundaries’ through lived experience. From that day onward, peace became not merely an ideal, but a ‘question of survival’ for me. Returning to Gangwon Province to seek answers, I began studying the theme of ‘peace’ and embarked on a peace field trip along Germany's former border zones with Professor Lee Dong-ki, a historian and peace scholar. Traversing the German border and Gangwon Province's borders, I began to understand the identity of the region where I lived and the ‘border city’ as a frontier of the Cold War and division. How can we transform it into a ‘space in-between’?

After the Formosan clouded leopard was declared extinct in 2015, CHEN Mei-ting and CHIANG Po-jen set out to rescue leopard cats and restore clouded leopards, fostering ecological and cultural revival.

A rare video capturing the legendary human-faced fish craze that had everyone going wild. The video's highlight? A fleeting glimpse of the human-faced fish (just a koi carp) appearing on the water's surface

An elderly man tries to support a railway in the mountains of Japan that is facing closure due to huge deficits, using his own unconventional methods.

Documentary about people fighting against cancer.

Documentary on the two generations of the boatmen.

Documentary about the Mosuo people, an ethnic group living in China's Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces.

Shower and name. Destruction and reconstruction. Over and over. Again and again. This is my body and within my self. Long lays the nature. Nature.

A personal documentary about finding yourself in the photos you took

In the Amis language, a moment signifies peace and a sense of ‘home’ when the ocean calms. This metaphorically relates to the journey of a group of Amis people who left their coastal homes in the 1970s for city work. In Taipei, they established the “Xizhou Tribe” near a riverbank, contributing to urban development but ultimately facing displacement. This dichotomy highlights the choices they made: some stayed in cities, while others returned to ancestral lands. Decades later, as they completed new houses, their story reflects a deeper narrative of indigenous urbanization—a crossroads of starting anew or enduring broken connections with their past and identity.

Fukushima experienced the earthquake, the nuclear power plant incident, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The lives of people who have been living in Fukushima since before the earthquake, people who moved to the area after the reconstruction project, and Chinese people who live in various parts of the prefecture. A story of people living in Fukushima, who, though buffeted by many hardships, live with strength and, at times, with humor.

A glorified childhood memory: a crispy dessert with a hole in the middle, seen in a Japanese cartoon. The mother corrects: It was a soft doughnut. This cognitive distortion inspired this film, which challenges the boundaries of subjective perception. Images and sounds mix and overlap. Street noise, excerpts of faces, snippets of interviews. Only the people's answers are visible, the questions remain hidden. Once you think about it, consciousness piles up.

In the deserted village of Haje, a 600-year-old pagoda tree stands as a solitary sentinel. Once a thriving fishing community of over 2,000 residents near the U.S. military base in Gunsan, Haje fell victim to forced relocation and demolition. The Ministry of Defense seized the land due to its proximity to the base's ammunition depot, transforming it into a military zone. If Haje becomes a military base, centuries of history and the village's remnants will vanish. The ancient pagoda tree, deeply rooted and sacred to the village, has long served as a 'microcosm'—a sanctuary for butterflies, insects, birds, and other small creatures. Around this living monument, a group has united to protect the peace and life it symbolizes.

Yang Young-sam, a 77-year-old haenyeo (female freediver) battling dementia, prepares for a final ritual goodbye.

A ruined wedding photo sparks a journey through Taiwan’s iconic pre-wedding photographers—uncovering stories of fantasy, rebellion, and pain, and leading to a deeper reflection on femininity, absence, and the unreachable idea of perfection.

Set in the Taoyuan Aerotropolis expropriation zone, this film traces a home that no longer belongs to us. Before relocation, my mother passed away—her “too late” compelled me to return and document what remains. Through father–daughter dialogue and acts of creation, the film records landscapes on the verge of disappearance, and the fragile traces of “home” that persist in the struggle against erasure.

A group of elderly living alone in damp, dim underground dwellings in Taipei. They take care of themselves and form a community . They come out of the underground dwellings , searching for comfort and happiness in the city. At night, they return to the dwellings neglected by the city.

“It Must Be” is a collaborative project between the filmmaker and his girlfriend, documenting their everyday life as international graduate students. Through the use of a handheld DV camcorder, they each film the shared spaces they inhabit, gradually exploring and redefining their understanding of “home.” The work also serves as a reflective summary of the filmmaker’s three years in graduate school.

In Jecheon, South Korea, there's a vocational high school for multicultural youth, where about 70% of students were born overseas. This documentary follows three students—Moses, Yushin, and Shakhzoda—as they navigate life as teenage immigrants in Korea, facing challenges with language, family, and visa status while pursuing their dreams.

For 23 years, Hu has served as an interpreter in Taiwan, assisting over a thousand migrant workers and new residents. This film highlights how interpreters support law enforcement, ensuring justice and protecting linguistic minorities in a system once lacking proper translation for foreign-related cases.

Five years ago, a group of form-six girls from a local all-girls school made a graduation video together. Now, the director picks up her camera again to document the friendships they shared back then. Can they keep the promise they made - to stay best friends forever?