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Hard Good Life II is a work that comes from the heart. Since the director learned how to hold a camera, she had gazed at her father through the lens all the time. This film is a memory of her father. After her father got cancer, they went through all kinds of treatment together, including loss or gain, hope or sorrow. This unbreakable connection supported them to the very last moment and never faded away.

SLow is a video artwork based on a performance, that shows the defenceless human body surrounded by machines, systems, etc. Karel noticed that in Taiwan, like in other Asian countries, there are strict rules people (have to) live by, and that these rules can not be easily put aside. Slowly but imperturbable the boy in the video follows his own path.

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.

Zhi-jie Li brings his boyfriend Jia-yan Lin home to meet the Li family, who are all very nervous about Lin’s arrival.

Collection of home movies which was shot by Deng Nan-guang, the well-known photographer, during 1930-1940s.

eslite - A Dreamer’s Quest is a biography about Robert Wu, the chairman and founder of Taiwan"s leading bookstore chain, Eslite.

In the 1980s, the small theatre movement took place in Taiwan. Jixing and Wang Mo-lin, the two main characters in the film participated in this non-mainstream, anti-government, and rather a radical movement, and thus memories have stayed deeply in their hearts. They witnessed the historic moment of the end of a long, nearly 40-year martial law.

This 80-year-old mansion is packed with historical memories and traces, yet it gave me a strong sense of disappearance when I was in there. The old lady, who lives alone in the mansion, begins to lose the ability to recognize herself in her wedding photos. As the memory fades away, it seems to make the objects in the house gradually lose their meanings. Facing those objects that have been lost in history, I try to add my own memories as if to give them new souls, and the video itself is the container that contains everything and becomes their new body.

From every November to the following February, indigenous migrant fishermen set up camp along Taiwan's Lanyang River to catch the season's first batch of eel fries. Camaraderie and bonds are forged between them as they survive the hardship together.

Aya has lived a lonely life without an official identity because her mother is an illegal migrant worker. When Aya becomes ill, she meets two playmates in the hospital and discovers they are also Invisible Children, incapable of growing up ...

In the 1920s, a Kavalan family took refuge in Hualien. 70 years later, the filmmaker, a third-generation member of the family, embarked on a self-searching journey to recover his lost identity, producing the first documentary ever made by a Pingpu descendant. Through depiction of traditional Kavalan ceremonies and collective memories, the film asks us to recognise Pingpu peoples’ place in Taiwanese history, as well as their suffering and feelings of inferiority during years of forced migration.

Song of the Wanderer features a group of 'voiceless people', a part of the indigenous community in which the filmmaker resides. Due to frustrations with work, divorce, and life in general, they are often subject to isolation, emotional breakdowns, and even self-harm behaviours. The filmmaker engages them in genuine conversations, while inviting the viewer to listen to these 'voiceless people' sing: In their songs are their true feelings.

In 1949, the Nationalist government safely arrived in Taiwan, but the war between the Nationalists and the Communists continued to ravage the island of Kinmen. Situated between the two coasts, Kinmea was bombed by the Communist Chinese government on every odd-numbered day for over 20 years following the Battle of August 23. This island with an area of 140km^2 endured more than 970,000 bombs. Working with donations from over 300 island residents, local filmmaker Dong Cheng-Liang reveals this hidden history from the residents.

In the Dabao River basin, where the Llyong Topa indigenous community used to be, stands a 'ghost temple' where hundreds of Atayal people were buried. They fell victims to Japanese government's first wave of indigenous genocide during its colonial rule of Taiwan. The massacre occurred much earlier than the Wushe Incident (1930), yet it is still rarely known to the world. The filmmaker visited the mountains over a hundred times, seeking clues to fill in the blanks of history.

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?

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

This is a story of seeking each other, between flesh and soul. As the flesh and soul merge together, does that really form a complete individual?

protest against the government’s indifference to farmers’ rights. Some farmers clashed with the police when trying to enter for restroom. Several were arrested, leading to fiercer clashes. Protesters demanding the release of the arrested were dispersed with baton and water cannon.

A mad intense dream about driving an uncontrollable vehicle for three and a half years.

Without means to put down roots and settle, two migrant workers seek a solution on an island where anchorage is prohibited.

Though same-sex marriage is now legal in her hometown, Xin, resolves to give up her successful career in the U.S. and return home. Xin's parents eagerly await their daughter's return. However, little do they know about Xin's intentions to take advantage of Taiwan's new same-sex marriage laws. Caught between love and family, Xin risks both her family and lover and is forced to own up to her true feelings.

"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.

This experimental documentary explores the boundaries of sexual orientation and body image of four people, each of them dealing with their own anxieties, frustrations and desires.

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.

The factories which were abandoned, the temporaries who were employed on a temporary basis, and the words were painted on the edge of the wall of the city. They were dirty humble but very strong, it reflects the real situation of "workers" in the social class. These factories, workers, and wall were utterly discarded after being used up, without any responsibility and affection. They were "relics" of the modern industrial process, and now left behind in the edge of the city and barren. We try to record the imminent disappearance of these graffiti walls, abandoned factories, are the temporary workers in an atypical way. Because of these images usually remind us that the city hides a group of incomplete consciousness and the body, they are in the search for a possible survival, a possible aesthetic, a desolate before the disappearance.

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 the sandy shore at Yehliu, a headless human figure is beached and beaten by the waves. As the figure rolls along the sand, it takes on a variety of sculpture-like poses in the endless space where sea and sky seem to join as one. The human-like figure flickers in and out of view between the waves, until her arms stretch out from the vast emptiness and are cleansed.

Different moments disappear and reappear, different moments come together to form a new moment. It is a decomposing and recomposing landscape inspired by the cycle of construction and deconstruction in nature.

Once upon a time in a world full of pirate products, we watched monster movies and grew up. But those monsters disappeared when we finally became adults. One day, a teacher told in class that creation came from the past we neglect, that is how I started to contact a monster fan just like me.

a journey of search; a search of journey

A short animated silent film where about a girl who had a kite.

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.

A young woman fights to clear her name after her brother-in-law accuses her of treason during the War of Jiawu.

This is an unfinished [Shaw Brothers] production entitled THE NOCTURNAL KILLER. It's possibly an aka for the above mentioned THE LITTLE POISONOUS DRAGON. It's just one of many unfinished films that were started at Shaw's and abandoned for whatever reason. With between 40 and 50 movies being scheduled throughout 1971 and 1972, some productions were scrapped, or morphed into an entirely different picture. Curiously, the plot and Shi Szu's attire appears similar to HEROES OF SUNG (1973; it was filmed under different titles as well), a film that did starred the actress and Lo Lieh, but not the Taiwanese actor, An Ping. - coolasscinema.com, Dec 2010

The film follows the artist Ciwas Tahos’s journey to rediscover Temahahoi, a queer space from an Atayal oral story. In this story, Temahahoi is a hidden place deep in the mountains inhabited only by women and gender diverse people. They have powers: they can communicate with wild bees, sustain themselves on steam and can get impregnated by the wind.

Follow a performance artist who refuses to be defined, drifting between landscape and memory, responding to identity and belonging through physical action.

In a town devastated and lacking energy, a young adventurer and a mysterious little robot set out on a journey toward a towering structure. Legend says this tower holds an orb of infinite energy. After a series of adventures, they ultimately retrieve the energy orb and save their crumbling hometown.

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.