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A phenomenon wherein people of different races sing a Filipino song in spite of being unfamiliar with the language in a Catholic church in Taiwan. Discover the spectacle of how a community has been unified that breaks cultural and language differences through music and religion.
In the 1970s, the wave of modernisation hit the Orchid Island (Lanyu). Warship Rock, Double Lion Rock, Lover’s Cave, the wisely and artistically designed tatala (traditional fishing boat), along with the Tao people’s amazing fishing skills were well-known by the public through the growing tourism, yet the small island of Lanyu and Tao people’s indigenous ways of life still remained a ‘spectacle’. When the documentary film crew arrived with curiosity and good intentions, what stories would they tell together?
Chinese herbal medicines have a long and venerated history. We follow the forays of a "barefoot doctor" to the mountains to collect herbs in central Taiwan, and observe his religious practices to cure his patients using these herbal medicines as well as summoning spiritual forces. This film reveals the cultural and religious context of Chinese medicines—the intertwined dimensions of physical and spiritual energy that relate to human fate.
A young man works out his hostility towards his deceased mother by dressing up as her and asking strangers to scold him.
In an ancient Eastern Kingdom, an emperor was controlled by the ministers. The emperor could not stand it and escaped from the palace
A mad intense dream about driving an uncontrollable vehicle for three and a half years.
The Pangcah people living in the urban area used to compete and win the dragon boat race every year, but only as hired agents in a festival event of the Han Taiwanese. In 1995, a team of Pangcah contestants decided to compete in the race under the names of their community and homeland, 'C'roh of Yuli, Hualien', striving for glory to honour their true origin.
This is a story on human desire and acrid smoke. When Myanmar opened its borders in 2010, there was an incursion of foreign capital into these unclaimed lands, with China the most aggressive of them all. Determined to also stake their claim within this fever rush of Chinese cash, Yung-heung and his comrades have set ablaze large swathes of forest alongside northern Myanmar to be turned into farmland.
The first public gay wedding in Taiwan has stirred up considerable controversy, including a local campaign to ban this film. It tells the story of Yosheng and Gary, the first gay couple to have a public wedding in Taiwan. Their wedding was held in conventional Taiwanese fashion: a wedding banquet with friends and family and even the mayor of Taipei as the promised wedding moderator.
"An Introduction to the Actual Condition of Taiwan" is the first film ever made in Taiwan. It was commissioned by the Japanese authorities to director Toyojirō Takamatsu (1872–1952) in 1907, twelve years after Japan occupied Taiwan, as a propaganda movie showing the progress of Taiwan under Japanese rule. The film is lost, but it is known from reviews in local newspapers that it featured a long staged scene of Japanese military repressing a revolt by Taiwanese indigenous people. The aboriginal theme reportedly occupied the longer part of the film. Others were devoted to depicting scenic locations, and the production of "exotic" goods such as bananas and coconuts. The film was criticized for presenting a romantic, exotic, and colonial view of Taiwan, ignoring its more modern industrial products and social problems.
On an ordinary morning, she brushes her teeth, but when she looks into her own image in the mirror, she sees totally a stranger. She had required a surgery three years ago to change her jaw. This is a story about a person who dislikes her body and decides to take action.
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.
When a middle-aged couple went to the mall, they heard the sound of the wind chime at the store and bought it. They want to feel the sound of the wind chimes in the mountains, so they left the workplace and went to the mountains to live off the grid. In nature, they hear the sound of the wind and like to share the sound of the wind chimes.
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.
A mysterious sculpture which is a remnant of the bygone political order hidden in the bushes on the square. One day the sculpture begins to communicate with the passers-by. It hums silently at first and its beautiful voice becomes a source of pleasure. Soon, however, it begins to sing louder and louder. The lyrics of the sculpture’s song gradually become clearer: “I’d like to ask you a question.” To avoid facing difficult issues, it causes the community’s complaints, misunderstandings and anger.
Baryon is a science fiction story about teamwork, dreams and saving Earth by piloting giant Robot.In the near future, an unknown force destroys the 10 countries with the most advanced armed forces in the world. A team with scientists from different countries tries to use limited resources to cope with this difficult situation.
His mom promised she would watch and cheer for him at his table tennis match if he made it to the school competition. However, he’s not a good player and his old table tennis paddle broke during training. Most importantly, his father disapproves of him playing table tennis…
It is a visual record of long-lasting open wounds, Chinese medical progress, and the disappearance of memory. This documentary examines the current plight of a small group of elderly Chinese peasants who have been suffering from open wounds for over 70 years. The director visits some elderly surviving soldiers of Unit 731 – a WWII Japanese secret unit devoted to biological warfare.
The abandoned farmhouse beside Shuangxi outside Taipei seems to be wandering on the edge of the city. This is the base of Ruiming Band. During the day, these people have their own identities. The lead guitarist Zheng Zhaoting (Abo) is in the daycare class, the bassist Yang Dongliang (Dong Niang) is a photojournalist, the drummer Han Ligang has no specific job, and the rhythm guitar player Dai Chongyuan (Senior) drives a taxi. Every night on holiday, they come here to rehearse. With their dreams of music, they relieve their discomfort with society. Can music be a meal? Is there any other meaning to life besides making money? The director fell into this fog with them, revealing nihilistic yet true confessions.
This animated short film examines the injury of rigid religious upbringing to a teenager who discovers the strange and terrifying reality behind fundamentalism.
There’s a new super-hero on the streets and she’ll take on anything the city throws at her
On a morning in 1966, as requested by the director, artist Shiy De-jinn ran around the Renai Road Roundabout, while an 8mm camera tagged along. The runner, wearing a striped outfit, keeps striding forward to some unknown finish line, his eyes looking around from time to time; suddenly, a crowd of motorcycles appears and engulfs him.
a journey of search; a search of journey
For more than two decades, internationally acclaimed artist Chen Chieh-jen has illuminated the deep impact of power on bodies and architecture. Here he explores a pair of sites built by the Japanese colonial government in the early 20th century: the Losheng Leprosy Sanatorium and the Taipei Prison. The first was on the outskirts of Taipei, the second in the heart of the city. Both were used for controlling marginal populations; both continued to operate long after the Japanese left; and both were eventually torn down for urban redevelopment. Across its four sections linking different times, places and people, Realm of Reverberations reveals cycles of construction and destruction, and the ironies of emotional attachment and historical detachment.-UCLAFilm&TV
It is difficult to be accustomed to isolation. Yet sometimes people are unwilling to leave where they are, even if they are alone and others are just somewhere close. The fear of facing the new and hesitation stop them leaving their comfort zones. They are waiting for someone else to walk to their front actively and the situation might change.
A short animated silent film where about a girl who had a kite.
Lin Huizong often drives north to see his wife, Xu Yu'e, at the Medical College of Fuzhou University. Xu Yu'e is a "dissection teacher", that is, a deceased person who donated his body to be used as anatomy class teaching materials. In Asia, which attaches great importance to the burial of the deceased's body, doing so often requires facing the reluctance of relatives. And what changes will this dedication bring to the family, teachers and students of the medical school? What does "alive" mean? When the end of life is not physical destruction, but the impact left on future generations, how will people decide the color of their lives?
Set in the near future. An unexpected nuclear disaster strikes and changes everyone’s fate. As the law and order are destroyed, the world descends into chaos. Chiu-Meng, a military officer, has been looking for her missing son since the catastrophe happened. Driven by desperation, she turns herself into a cold-blooded swordswoman indifferent to people around her. Only when she runs into a man and a boy who insist on doing good deeds does she realize that there is still hope in the world. Nevertheless, they soon get trapped by a group of cannibals. Chiu-Meng now has to fight to protect this dim ray of hope.
Focusing on Yunlin County, we see the area covered in smog and the Jhuoshushi River drying up. The film can be seen as a chronicle of the environmental disasters resulted from industrial development, which ends with the Tianjin explosions in 2015.
Kuo Hsiang (Kaori), daughter of a tea merchant in 1947 Twatiutia, appears in 2014 modern Taipei. Having no idea what brought her here, Kaori only knows that it is the day when Guangdong Yi-Jen Yuan Chinese Opera Troupe reunited for a local Chinese Opera in Yung-Le-Tso Theatre after Taiwan Restoration.
Follow a performance artist who refuses to be defined, drifting between landscape and memory, responding to identity and belonging through physical action.
Years after playing on the same pitch, a filmmaker returns to document his former captain, Hou Pei-hung, who now coaches the new generation. Footprints captures the raw sweat and tears of high schoolers in their final season, witnessing a profound story of legacy, youth, and a passion that never fades.
Within a dance class, an overweight girl named Badi, driven by her aspiration to perform on stage, resolves to emulate the exemplary student Bidi, seeking to attain her slender physique and aesthetic ideal. However, her resort to extreme dieting precipitates a pathological cycle of anorexia and binge eating, ultimately bringing her to the brink of psychological collapse. It is not until a critical moment of realization that she discovers there is, in fact, no “Badi” at all—she herself is Bidi.
Taiwanese softcore work.
The story of Tanpopo (Dandelion) is about the search of his best friend, Little Bee, and making new friends with Beggar-ticks and Little Dog. The animation covers issues such as nature, environmental protection, pollution, quit farming, eco-friendly farming, climate change, and teamwork by bringing these animals, plants, and nature to daily life.
The story follows Chen Keran, a young man from the countryside who, due to a family crisis, moves to the city and falls in love with Xiao Lan, the daughter of a landlord, leading to a series of events filled with both joy and sorrow.
When words pass from one person to another, whose do they become? Revisiting a post-war plague on Quemoy, memories of a survivor gather drifting fragments: a 16mm travelogue, charcoal drawings, electronic sound, and spoken testimony, forming a layered meditation on transmission and the unstable ownership of stories.
Suspended Duty - Taiwan Military Training Regiment delivers the story of some 4,000 young Taiwanese men who volunteered for the army established by General Sun Lijen in 1949. Receiving a short period of basic military training, they were informed they could return home to wait for reentering active service. However, They have never been officially discharged up to this day……
The entire world was thrown into war in the 1940s. Taiwan, still a Japanese possession, was swept into the war when Japan started the War of the Pacific. Hundreds of thousands of youth from Taiwan were conscripted into the army, and sent to the South Pacific. The cruel experiences of war are unforgettable in all their life.
N, who has long yearned for the Meteor Festival, comes for the first time to help on the host world of the festival—the “Main Star, Planet R.” The residents here are full of enthusiasm, diligently preparing for the celebration. Just as N is swept up in the lively, joyful atmosphere, he catches sight of another, very different side of the Meteor Festival…
As the mycelium spreads, an undercurrent of desire and arrogance subtly emerges, intertwining and diverging continuously with the passage of time...
The film replicates one of the 7cm Mountain Gun which were used during Japan's 'Pacification' campaign against Indigenous peoples. During this trip, Kao invites Atayal youth to return to the original mountain location shelled by Japanese police in 1906. They fire towards a distant hotel, now located on the site of a village once occupied by the Japanese. With a tone of playfulness and irony, the film subverts colonial aggression while exploring the possibilities of artistic action.
A young, indefatigable office worker deals with an overwhelming workload. After all, he faints and falls beside a pile of trash on the street and accidentally meets a lazy, alcoholic street child who is living in the pile of trash. They stare at each other. The film raises a question: which one exactly do we drink? Coffee or caffeine, whisky or alcohol?
"Ground Me More" focuses the ignored details of main roads, sidewalks, ground objects, and billboards of major cities across Taiwan to seek commonalities, differences, and trends. Thus, the current state of aesthetics of Taiwanese and the politician policies could be revealed.