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A child runs into a forest in a hide-and-seek game and searches for somewhere to hide. As the sun gradually goes down, he encounters an unexpected danger....

Within families, emotions often weave a web—delicate, intricate, and inescapably entwined. This documentary delves into the depths of humanity, the cycle of life and death, love, the complexities of in-law relationships, and the awakening of female consciousness. It sheds light on the lives of the “women who remained,” revealing how they carry on after the passing of their husbands, facing the weight and trials of everyday life. Together, they weather the tides of joy and sorrow. No matter when impermanence arrives, they continue to find quiet direction amidst the rhythms of daily living—a quiet testament to the resilience that life itself holds.

A bold and crazy director, an extraordinary photographer, two vocational film students decided to use real Titan monsters to shoot in order to complete their final project film...

The protagonist and her friend talk via a tin can phone in a flower field. Sensing her friend’s sadness, she searches, hearing confessions of fear and longing. The friend vanishes, leaving only the phone, as the vivid field remains and their dialogue resumes.

The soldier's written words breathe life into the desolate and shell-covered Tong-Sha Island, transforming it into a vivid landscape. It's a place where many men seem symbolically bound, unvisited yet too precious to forsake.

The Stories of Celluloid project consists of multiple chapters that explore the past and present of dataset image through early film production material: camphor.

Zhen Zhen and her single parent mother struggled with livelihood. They had a wish to own, a modest house that they could call home. In a Chinese calligraphy practice occasion, Zhen Zhen met Grandpa Liu, a lonely old man who then became her landlord-to-be by chance. Zhen Zhen started to reside at Grandpa Liu's house and became his finial protégée in Chinese calligraphy. Facilitated by internet communication, Zhen Zhen's help Grandpa Liu's homosexual son to return home and made reconciliation with Grandpa Liu to accept his alternative life. Zhen Zhen and her mother's wish of owning a house still floats in the air for the time being, but they persist to realize it with every little step they strive. The film talks about the true value of the family and the hope in which communication barriers amongst adults were bridged by a youngster's perspective. It is a heart smoothing story entailing how a child's innocence angle the web of complexity within a family.

A 1959 film in Taiwanese Hokkien, featuring Koa-á-hì (traditional Taiwanese opera).

A mother working hard and taking care of her husband while they wait for their son.

An audiovisual perfomance by SABIWA.

Blue Sun reflects on the 1984 mining accidents in Northern Taipei and their enduring impact. Inspired by the works of Taiwanese novelist Tong Wei-Ger, the performance explores how these events continue to shape memory and identity.

The Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu as an economic entity is one of Taiwan’s internationally recognized identities nowadays. Revolving around the economic miracle, Battle City 2 – Economic Miracle depicts Taiwan as a mandate whose reconstruction has been entrusted to the JJ Corporation by the United Nations in the form of BOT (build-operate-transfer) after the nuclear disaster known as The Glory of Taiwan, and the JJ Corporation plans to transform Taiwan into “New Formosa,” a special economic zone for foreign exchange earnings. In this story, the investors also call the “New Formosa” an “economic farm” in the sense of a farming concentration camp, where Formosans are kept as economic animals intend- ed to offer services of all stripes for the investors.

Over the ten years, Ino has been passing down the Atayal culture with real actions, imparting all he learnt from the forest to children in Cinsbu. The audiences can feel his natural philosophy of life in his words and deeds. He makes people realize that there exists genuine, pure and beautiful relationship between human and myriad elements of nature.

Four men enter a bidding match for an everyday item, a pencil. All of them would go to extreme lengths to acquire it.

Two athletes from opposite sides of the world rise above discrimination and pressures of race and nation to stage the greatest duel in Olympic history and forge a lifelong friendship.

Yujin, who comes from a traditional family, has an intense trauma related to heavy rain. As an adult, he has returned home to take care of his family, and the shadow has resurfaced. By depicting his inner journey of evasion when facing pain, the story brings out the complex emotions in family relationships, along with that indescribable love.

Adopted by a Dutch family, a young woman has struggled not to feel like a stranger in a country so far from her birthplace, Taipei, and has always longed for a place to feel truly at home. With this desire, she embarks to Taipei on a journey of self-discovery.

The title of the film, "The Sea Breeze", is about the strong winds flowing from sea to the land. Also, it reflects the living style of people who live in Da-chih village. Over the labor, activities and conversations between the villagers, we can observe the relations between people and the natural environment. The film tries to illustrate the feelings of changing and remaining with long takes. Besides, the ecology and evolution of the old abandoned houses present the trace and texture of time and space, people and memories. Lifeless as they seem to be, they imply great power.

Her father died in a secret military creature experiment 2 years ago. 2 years later, she stole that creature from the laboratory, to induce the murder of his father to come out. But then her action causes a chaos after the new year eve.

The boy was on the terrace and finally encountered that girl. In the girl's mind, this story appeared. Inside the window, with her thoughts wavering, the girl looks outside through a pair of binoculars. Outside the window, the boy collapses onto the girl.

A short film.

This experimental animated film was created using ink-and-wash painting techniques. Through the transformation of the Chinese characters for "woman" and "child," it depicts the contradictions and struggles of cultural conditioning faced by ethnic Chinese women in the process of developing gender awareness.

Beginning with a woman describing traumatic scenes in her family, the film uses a non-linear and mise-en-abyme narrative to make it difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction.

When a boat sets off, passengers may anticipate their destination's appearance. Some believe imagination can transport them, while others need firsthand experience. The story of Keelung Islet documents both a process and a state of consciousness.

According to a 1969 newspaper report, a Taiwanese-language film based on the Western film "Tears of Autumn Frost" was decided to be titled "Where is Mother". The movie was directed by Chung Yi-woo and co-starred Jin Mei, Tian Ming, Zheng Xiaofen, Shi Ying, Ye Qing, Zhuang Li and Wu Fei Song.

The Guardian Lions of Fushun Temple reminisce about the annual Lantern Festival and Budaixi puppet show.

At the ripe age of 102, Chinhua Ho Chen, “Miss Golden Blossom”, takes center stage. In 1938, her voice graced the tracks of “Endless Spring” and “The Camellia Lady”, released by Victory Records, under the stage name “Yingying”. She also stands as the first among renowned female singers of Taiwan’s popular ditties. Through Miss Chinhua, we hear the echoes of the once renowned singer Yingying, preserving the distinct voices of Taiwan in popular music and songs.

An experimental message to the parents. Or the life in the big city as seen by a homesick young director.

Young Mao-Di spends his whole nights sitting at a computer tweaking digital photographs. One day, he meets the girl of his dreams on the metro. follows her and finds out that she lives across the street. the next day, he is followed by an older man, who lives in the same house as the girl. Mao-Di sets out to discover who the two are.

Naboisho, which means “coming together” in the Maasai’s Maa language, is a community response to the challenges of the privatization of group ranches in the Greater Mara Region. Strain was put on the soil, endemic vegetation, and the wildlife because of intensive herding and various tourism activities such as camping and off-road vehicle activity. I use a field diary to record and track the daily tracks of wild animals and their survival status. In this way, I re-learn about the land, the animals, and the ecology. This film is dedicated to all those who work, build, and protect the conservation areas, and all the creatures that run on the land.

Beautiful Treasure Island

It's about my family's self-disclosure. In 2007, I involved in the divorce of parents with holding the camera, from 2008 to 2010, I further explores the reasons.

"We passed an empty field, in which a person was standing motionless, head down, and soaking wet in the pouring rain. The rain and darkness made it impossible to tell if the person was male or female, no less determine why he or she was standing there, but the ambiguous gender and loneliness of this image still drift through my mind from time to time."

Now I understand that the more completely the dinosaurs were annihilated, the wider their domain extended. They not only controlled the forests that covered the continents, but also penetrated into the depths of human thought that remained on Earth. Starting from the ancient, fear and doubt inducing ancestors, they continuously stretched out their necks and raised their claws, expanding their domain.（Calvino "The Dinosaurs."）

Breastmilk comes quietly into the world at the time of birth to raise newborns. Sometimes they go even further and nourish more little lives through milk banks.

A family of traditional film projectionists grapples with generational tensions and shifting traditions as they screen movies for gods and the forgotten at temple courtyards.

Comfort is found lurking in the moonlight in this haunting sand animation.

This film is a montage of the best footage Green Team collected from major social movements, including environmental, political, human rights, indigenous, student, farmer and labour movements, displaying the uproar in the period prior to and after the lifting of martial law. However, right after its completion, the 20th May Incident occurred, preventing it from ever reaching the public.

Following the expansion of urban development, land prices in Taipei’s Shilin District soared exponentially. The Shinkong Textile plant in Shilin became the first to close down. Soon, its laid-off workers gathered for a street protest, singing popular songs with altered lyrics. As the battle wore on, they began a long-term protest in front of the Shinkong headquarters lasting for 76 days.

A poetic documentary that brings the viewer into the household of a Taiwanese mother and daughter who share an apartment, but express their own histories within different Tongzhi (LGBTQ) communities.

The 80-year-old grandfather is suffering from senile dementia and his mental age has degraded to only 5 years old. Sometimes, he groans and talks to the air at home. There’s nothing much we could do. He seems to live only in his dream and gets deeper and deeper….