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Every piece of dough wants to become a donut. Only donuts are good adults and symbols of greatness! Influenced by this education, little dough Dobby and his classmates long to participate in the "coming-of-age ceremony." However, Dobby accidentally discovers the unknown story behind the donut factory…

The desire for laughter cannot break free from reality, and the imagination of home cannot be realized. Go out the door and run around to challenge; a small stream in the backyard, tolerant and self-healing. A female high school student wants to change her family's current situation through her own efforts, but an unexpected event happens on the way to finding a job. How should she face the next phase of her life?

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.

"Separation" is an essay documentary that delves into the intricate relationship and conflicts between contemporary Taiwanese society and European and American values. This exploration takes place through the lens of three millennial Taiwanese artists who share their overseas experiences during the pandemic and post-pandemic era. Hsiao-Chu resides in New York, Shou-An in London, and Chen-Yi in Philadelphia, each offering a unique perspective on the evolving immigrant status, personal exploration of sexuality, and the artist's profound understanding of self and community.

When Director Laway was small, his father began working as crew on fishing boats out of the port of Kaohsiung. All through his youth, Laway's mother took him by Kinmen bus from Taitung to Kaohsiung to visit his father every year or two. Amis people have worked on fishing boats for years, and such family visits were common in the years from 1940 to 1960. With permission granted in April of 2013, Director Laway picked up his camera to film six of the Amis crew members. He boarded a Taiwanese ocean-going ship on Bona Bei island - an American possession in the South Pacific. With this ship he followed a purse seiner for 20 days, filming the crew's hard work and difficult life. To conclude, how was Laway’s father able to get through twenty years of his working career as a crew member? The director's only assistant is the son of a photographer - Mayaw‧Laway

Child Portrait is a mirror that presents life from multiple perspectives, reflecting the various relationships between the self and others, and the issues that come with different emotions. Painting is not simply a thinlayered medium presenting one's skills, but an art of deep understanding and acceptance. The painting throws out questions, and I walk into the world of the painting with my camera to find answers with the painter across time and space.

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.

Muay Thai was introduced to Taiwan when Thai migrant laborers came here to work. Han Reng-ding, a Taiwanese who for a long time had no fixed address, joined Li-Chin muay thai at age 22 and, for the first time, found a sense of belonging as he was learning the martial art. The boxing gym’s Thai head coach, Sonsumrit, took special care of him, and the migrant Thai workers taught him everything they knew about boxing and life. They were as close as family members for six years. However, Han’s life will unfold differently due to a new plan.

What would it be if anything had bloomed from where everything collapsed? Amid the pouring out of irreducible beings, some endure time and space that are only shattered and torn apart.

A super-8mm Maya Deren-inspired queer experimental film shot in San Francisco, exploring queer desire through surrealism.

Nominee of the 15th Golden Horse Awards

An ex-Red Guard and anti-Communist soldier during the Korean War, started a three-generation family next to Taoyuan Air Base. Despite the base's historical significance during Japanese occupation and the Cold War, the Taoyuan Aerotropolis project will erase its rich history by 2025, marking another loss in Taiwan's disappearing past.

The Tano Bora, meaning ‘The Magnificent Five’ in Swahili, was the famed cheetah coalition here in the Masai Mara—captivating observers with their stealth, strategy, and striking beauty. The artist follows one of the cheetahs from the perspective of a follower, intuitively and visually connecting the traces of movement in the wilderness. The body image is used as a means of creation to extend the habitat of the animals beyond the frame. In this way, the cycle of "life and death" is explored, thus visually touching the traces of the fate of wild animals.

With a container as a motif and a metaphor for a safe place, the story surrounds the protagonist’s self-searching and healing journey, exploring the relationship between emotion and space. The film attempts to construct psychological self-portraits and a poetic narrative through experimentation in 2D animation, stop-motion, and sound. It reflects sensibility, fragility, and fragmentation of identity by applying pottery and clay.

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.

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.

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….

A short documentary about Jimmy, a black Taiwanese drag queen. The film considers the socio-cultural complexities of the protagonists's mixed parentage. With a contemporary urban narrative, it incorporates animation to create an affectionately comical insight.

The film depicts a corporatocracy dystopia in which a neoliberal regime of multinational corporations govern society, bringing suffering. Under the rule of this globe-wide empire, the unemployed, psychiatric patients, as well as those who have either little faith in society or advocate views contrary to the mainstream, are increasingly excluded and are brought to a place called the Transit Area via the Biofunction Optimization Support Program. These outcasts are trapped in a labyrinthine space created by the system where they can only wait to be expended in biological experiments. These supposedly worthless people slowly commence to dismantle reality and the system’s lie of a bright future through both inner monologues and vocal utterances.

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.

“One Day I Will Return Home" is the story of Taiwanese veteran, Lai Xing-yang and his imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp. Although the story contains nothing that pushed the events along or heroics of any kind, his 96 years of life were still filled with shocking moments!

Ring of Fire, Annular Solar Eclipse, June 21, 2020. The covid-19 Pandemic is still changing the world. The Queen said, "Better days will return. We will meet again."

"Nan Xia the Tramping Tiger" used to be the favorite show of Zhu, Ching-Quei, the founder and first-generation director of Shinergy Puppet Show Theatre, as it has been a renowned masterpiece of this theatre for years. When Zhu Ching-Quei died from disease in 2015, his eldest son Zhu, Sheng-Chueh started to take the helm of theatre, but was faced with a dire crisis in the fast-changing world. Then his younger brother proffered an idea of using projection mapping to create the best ever Golden Light Puppet Show. Hence the two brothers are faced with a tug-of-war between tradition and innovation.

In Hpakant, Myanmar, poor young people are numerous. Some of them engage in drug trafficking and make a living out of it. Some of them choose to leave Hpakant in pursuit of love. Some of them stay in Hpakant and dream that the jade hidden in the mountains might be the hope of improving their future lives; thus they often sing this song: “…before the best of luck comes, don’t underestimate we, jade miners…”.

That old street is no longer flourish. The walls have fallen and houses were abandoned. But still living for those who were forgotten by times. Grandpas playing cards, chatting and drinking tea, Grandmas doing laundries…. They slept inside the old house, but doing everything outside the house. They helped each other, day by days, year by years.

A proprietor of a video company has racked up many debts due to filming, so he began his bidding life. During this time, he bid on a case which was a continuation of a young artist that he had worked with together before. The artist is full of talent, but he has always been ignored, and his heart is filled with depression. The two intend to expose the enviroment of the artistic world through this shooting so as to relive their sorrows. However, with the production of the film, will the two ease their sorrows, or will they increase them instead?

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

A same-sex couple, He Jie and He Yun, deeply in love, face the challenges of living together. Their differing personalities and habits create tensions, with He Jie being more reserved and rational, while He Yun is expressive and spontaneous. As they navigate cohabitation, the couple struggles with communication, compromise, and emotional growth. The series explores how they learn to adjust to each other, balancing their love with the realities of daily life, and how living together tests their emotional bond while revealing the complexities of modern relationships.

In this 3D animated horror film, the protagonist is on their way home from work when the train they're on suddenly overturns, leading to a catastrophic accident. As they teeter on the edge of death, they are relentlessly pursued and ultimately killed by the train's driver, who has transformed into a god of death. Despite the characters are cute, they feel weird and tense during the escape.

Filipinos are frequent winners of global beauty pageants. They craze over pageantry not only in the Philippines, but everywhere the two million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) work. Factory OFWs Robin, John Louie and Raymond are candidates of the Ginoong Taiwan pageant held in Hsinchu. Can they grasp their dreams as they embark on the journey of companion and competition for the crown?

To the dearest all who always gets messed up in life, no matter by your own self or by others. Whisper to your heart, even at the most desperate moment, GANBATE (Keep going on)!

A boy struggles in the middle of an art exam while others are working on their masterpieces. His mind starts wandering as time flies by, and he realises that as long as he enjoys the process, no-one else's opinion matters.

In the Third World War, many countries have used nuclear weapons excessively, which has almost destroyed the world. Nuclear radiation has affected almost all organisms, resulting in fusion and mutation, and only a very small number of people have survived.

A character who thinks he's a good person runs a gas station supplying happy energy.