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An animated short where commerce and chaos collide.

Jiang Jun Zhi and Fang Min En is a married couple, but both are gay, and each has his or her own lover. This morning, the guy received a call from his father informing them that he will be dropping by the new flat soon. Caught completely off guard, Jiang Jun Zhi and Fang Min En panicked, hurriedly sent both their lovers away, and started tidying up the room. They could not find their wedding ring, and got into a heated argument. Unexpectedly, the parents showed up at the door.

A story about a man and his girlfriend on a hot summer day.

The main character refuses to read a comic recommended by a friend, only to regret it later.

What is the origin of life? I boarded a bamboo raft, drifting into the unknown. Along the journey, the line between reality and imagination grew increasingly blurred.

The crowd follows their desire to pursue a goal that seems beautiful. I express the desire of people through their possession of chair. This film is to think about desire through the contrast of minimalist style and interaction of the person with the chairs.

Tut is a 52-year-old fisherman living in Kampot. In spite of the language barrier, he recounts for the first time and without any words his past during the Khmer Rouge regime, demonstrating the torture he experienced in prison the year he turned fifteen.

OUR NON-UNDERSTANDING OF EVERYTHING is a daily practice, where we observe and speculate how our personal tech devices and their building parts exist in a possible future, shared between the architecture of circuitry, political thought and the wild and programmed parts of our natural environments.

On the eighth floor of a run-down motel, through the door of room 817, a janitor quietly goes about her chores, blending unassumingly into the backdrop. In the room next door, a prostitute is lying in bed next to a stranger, turning her back to him in order to feel alive.

The blood red rose up in the east, Yen-si waits for the bus that was going to take her far away from here. Her husband, Wang Zi-wu, call made her stop in her tracks. Despite being treated like a caged bird by Zi-wu she still managed to break away from her shackles.

A noir action comedy about a detective trying to retrieve a missing videotape.

The girl arranged to meet the boy at the familiar sports field. The two of them walked along the lanes, talking about the blurry present and the past, trying to untangle the faint, almost intangible tension between them…

At the end of 2023, my sister, living with schizophrenia for fifteen years, received her first electroconvulsive therapy. Watching her in the ambulance, I wondered: as she and I drift apart and our parents age, how long can I keep turning away—and how should I see her now?

A road home from work stretches from the bustling city alleys to a desolate industrial road, passing through a railway crossing along the way. As I cross the tracks, the thick fog rolling in makes me contemplate the end of life and a deep reverence for the living beings of nature.

An island, isolated yet sovereign, where humans and nature coexist between the ebb and flow of the tides — rising and falling, supporting one another in quiet balance. Through the beauty and sorrow of an island, we reflect on the gendered dynamics of power in contemporary island life. What does it truly mean to live freely? And how do we know which choices in life are the right ones?

A story about a money machine, a poor man, and cat food.

Nominee of the 15th Golden Horse Awards

The cat I don't own runs through windows between different spaces and times, and it disappears before finishing a sentence. Using outtakes and rushes (what "fur film" means in Mandarin) to redeem the affects in these images we produced for. The film is the first volume of an ongoing exchange diary project between Erica SHEU and Tzuan WU. From the filming exercises and hand processing from the very beginning, we collaborate and experiment with different workflows of audio and visual between Taiwan and USA.

One major focus of philosophical inquiry has been: how can individuals determine that their existence is not an illusion? However, for those enduring chronic immune diseases, reliance on life might paradoxically hinge on whether the pain is merely a dream. Inspired by the concept of khan-bông(a traditional taiwanese ritual) likening immune diseases to a prolonged battle against one's own body, the spirits of those who die in this war revisit fragments of their memories to re-examine and explore how life and existence coexist and find balance amid perpetual flux and instability.

Since the seventeenth century, Taiwan’s indigenous peoples have endured waves of colonisation until they were finally left with almost no land of their own. The 1984 formation of the Association for Taiwanese Indigenous Rights launched the struggle to regain their rights and initiated the ‘Return Our Land’ movement. This film documents the march on 27 September 1989.

Hura is ready to leave her boyfriend for good. On her way out the door, she discovers a 30 foot penis chaining her to her soon-to-be ex.

At Grandpa's funeral, the granddaughter is overwhelmed by her memories of the old days with Grandpa. From her viewpoint, a glimpse is taken into the past when a young man went to Taipei struggling for a living under the changes in the early era in Taiwan.

In the short span of half a century after World War II, the remote island of Kinmen has witnessed numerous battles. Its people once supported the national army, enduring the battles and gunfire. Today, memories have faded, and those who personally experienced the fires of war, the Kinmen residents who walked through fearful and sorrowful times, are gradually passing away. For the post-war new generation, the memories of billowing smoke may be fading, but the island's shadows have never disappeared.

Taiwan’s Central Mountain Range features 138 peaks with altitudes exceeding 3,000m, stretching over 300 km from north to south. KU Ming-cheng and CHOU Ching, two trail runners with very different temperaments and a 30-year age gap, spend three years training and exploring with the aim of traversing the Central Mountain Range on foot. This documentary captures their record-breaking eight-day, 16-hour feat from the very beginning, traversing self-doubt and disagreements, to finally achieving their goal, every step resembling a peak of life marked by unwavering determination.

Between Mount Kavulungan and the Gaoping River, history streams across the wilderness, coalescing the values and identities of different peoples. So begins the Pakedavai family ritual. As an 11th-generation descendant of the Pakedavai ruler family, Dabiliyan Alifu grew up in a family slate house in the Sandimen tribe. For him, the family is a constant source of education about how to live with the forest and what kind of person to become. Of Pakedavai’s 12th generation, Kang Yuan-Jin grew up in a traditional Chinese community with a Paiwan grandmother and a Chinese grandfather. Only in adulthood did he start to explore the meanings of family and personal identity.

“My Life Against Taiwan Sotofuku – 1891~1931” is Taiwan’s first biographical animated documentary. The film combines animation, archival photos, footage, and sound theater to recreate the heroic epic of CHIANG Wei-shui, the “the Savior of Taiwanese People,” during Japan’s colonial rule of Taiwan. Through first-person flashback narrations, Taiwan’s pioneer revolutionary CHIANG Wei-shui tells the turbulent tale of the rise and fall of Taiwan’s non-violent anti-Japanese movements, as well as a lifetime of remarkable resistance against Taiwan Sotofuku (Japan’s colonial government). Cast

On the eve of the exam, Yuan You found Mu Hong and skipped class together, trying to escape from all the annoyance of the exam. Under the bridge pier, the two people's imagination and confusion about the future are intertwined...

When I first heard the word "puffer fish," I asked Dad to draw one for me. He took a piece of paper and drew a small one. In retrospect, he was like this piece of paper, always leaving me with a big, blank space.

According to the Tao people’s traditional beliefs, illness was a sign of supernatural possession by evil spirits. Many patients thus became isolated, unable to receive any medical care. A native of the Orchid Island (Lanyu) where she worked as a nurse, the filmmaker initiated a program in 1997, recruiting some 40 volunteers to visit and care for homebound elderly patients against considerable social pressure. This documentary captures the powerful dilemma when traditional values clash with compassion.

A group of Pangcah people left their homeland in the eastern Taiwan to seek jobs on the western coast. They drifted from one construction site to another, until they finally settled on a temporarily unclaimed clearing behind a university, building a community far away from home. Despite the instability of work and earnings, they lived life to the fullest catching fish, growing vegetables, singing and dancing, even electing leaders of their community in this 'new paradise'.

In an advanced city far into the future, a unique race called “The Human Cannonball Tournament” takes place. Contestants are fired from a series of cannons from a platform, and compete through the circular city hovering high in the sky for the highest honor. Back in the tournament’s maintenance bay, the technician Zazel has a childhood dream of entering the race one day. By an unexpected turn of events, she accidentally gets mistaken for one of the contestants and is thrown into tournament. With no experience and equipment, can she fulfill her dream and reach the finish line?

The story of three Latino Chefs in Taiwan, and their motivation to cook Latino food, and share their Latino culture with the local Taiwanese.

“Synthetic Force” The force is tried to manifest a vibration and spectrum as an audible and visible object – audio visual meditation which includes the maximum and minimum point of views between nebulae and cell divisions that reflect science or sense, scotoma or principle, order and border, super-human and non-humanization. Is there any invisible or subliminal field variant of the system?

Professional mourning is a time-honoured tradition that is slowly dying out in Taiwan. Liu Jun-Lin is currently the youngest and one of the best-known professional mourners still working in Taiwan. The Filial Daughter captures her and her band's pre-funeral rituals and elaborate performances, which include acrobatic dance manoeuvres, sombre songs, theatrical elements and detailed choreography. The event is steeped in folkloric tradition yet wholly modern, featuring maximal lighting and pumped up PA systems.

A frank and candid portrait of the lives and family relations of three gay teenagers in Taipei. One breaks up with his boyfriend before going abroad to study, the other craves for love, and the third one moonlights as a crossdresser. A bold statement against norms in a Confucean society.

Voices of Orchid Island focuses on the Yami on Orchid Island, a small island located 45 miles off the southeast coast of Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean.

He is going back to Hong Kong. He wanders in the city, meets with his friends. This is his last day in Taipei, where he has complicated feelings for.

Along with the trans-island family migration, all the closely- linked images, memories, and family letters/photos were intertwined with multiple languages. As far as my family is concerned, the idea of bloodline has served as a trans- geographical connection beyond boundaries in Southeast Asia, becoming like a gaze at my family history, gentle but steady.

Five Taiwanese teenagers, faced with sweeping and untested educational reforms in 1996, revealed their dreams in the CommonWealth Magazine documentary "A Generation Freed." Their lives were then revisited in 2006 in the film "A Generation Freed - 10 Years Later" to see how the more liberal education system had affected them. Now, another decade later, we find out in "A Journey of 35" if indeed they were able to chase their dreams and if their horizons have grown brighter with adulthood or become more cynical.

Sometimes you are the only one that can really see what’s out there.

Sometimes forces greater than the grid forces their way in.

A short film that has a purely core and talks about memory.