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Taoyuan County Magistrate Wu Chih-yang continued to promote the Taoyuan Aerotropolis project despite strong disputes from social movement groups and local residents, leaving expropriated households in constant anxiety. On the day of the local chief election, the incumbent County Magistrate Wu Chih-yang lose the election, the residents were surprised and delighted. After experiencing this dramatic election of "voting with tears," the residents of the Anti-Aerotropolis Eviction Alliance decided to nominate Wang Pao-hsuan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, who has long been involved in anti-eviction issues, to run for legislator to challenge the old political structure of the locality. However, during the campaign, in addition to encountering "external threats" from the original local political factions, the "young social movement activists" and "traditional villagers" in the team also had differences in their ideas about the campaign methods.

Receiving the news of his brother's death, A-Han, his mother and half-sister who had left home for a long time, meet at the mortuary. The past complicated family relationship has come up again.

In 1995 in Malaysia, Lily faced the burden of her husband's funeral and the enormous cost of healing Xiong's heart. In addition to work in the rubber plantations, she had to take care of two children, Xiong and Feng. Under all kinds of burdens, in an arrangement with her boss, Lily decides to sell one of the children.

The moon and stars rising from the east, people entering their sound sleep, it is the end of the day for most ones, but the start of the day for a few. The film records various types of night workers in Taiwan’s metropolis. The Night Carnival is about to begin. Get ready for the pure immersion in cinematography and music. And remember to show up on time because it is a MIDNIGHT SCREENING only.

A woman searches for her birth father in Taiwan.

Chronotopia is a film featuring dual English and Taiwanese narrations. Linking disparate twentieth-century Taiwanese histories, it employs an architectural framework to invoke Lee Guang-Hui, an Indigenous Taiwanese soldier who fought for the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and lived in isolation on Indonesia’s Morotai island until 1974, believing the war had never ended. His return after three decades to a transformed Taiwan—whose language he no longer spoke—casts him as a figure seemingly outside history. His multiple names—Teruo Nakamura in Japanese and Attun Palalin in Ami—mark the shifting spaces, identities, and temporalities that structure Chronotopia.

A sculptor with Alzheimer’s goes on a self-healing voyage on the river Lethe after his death, experiencing a cycle of remembering and forgetting as he seeks the memories of himself and his daughter.

In spring 2021, after a 30-year hiatus, Taiwanese music avant-garde Blacklist Production reunited four veteran musicians and 63-year-old Paiwan chieftain Ngerenger Darusakiv as lead vocalist to blend indigenous Old Tunes with Western blues. They rehearsed under the pandemic’s shadow, navigating through difficulties and confusion. Each note became a fragment of memory, with the ancestral spirit lingering in the melodies. How would they find their way home?

A man fell.

Ever since her younger sister went missing, the main character has been drowning in grief every night. However, she finds her younger sister's book tonight. When she opens it, she discovers some terror in the drawings.

This is a tale of tomatoes and desire: In the 17th century, tomatoes were feared as poisonous across Europe. It wasn’t until a French painter dared to face death that the world was finally able to taste the tomato’s beauty. After twelve hours of anxiety and fear, the painter emerged not only unharmed but found the flavor of the tomato exquisite, his appetite awakened. One evening, a woman prepared a delightful dish of tomato pasta with red sauce, waiting in both anxiety and anticipation for the return of a man.

Little Red and Little Green stood on opposite sides of the street, tending to their traffic lights every day. As time went by, through countless glances and silent exchanges, they gradually fell for each other.

Growing is such a miserable illusion.

Recording the way things are.

This documentary is all about nationality, race, identity, trust, culture, and media contact between Taiwan and China, and the chaotic mind-changing of the author during the shooting. The team interviewed some young people who were born in the early 80’s, and conducted various questionnaires in order to find out how the new generation in Taiwan is thinking about this ambiguous political situation, and even how they think it should be solved. The most important and remaining question is about to be answered…or will it?

Treasure Island opens with an animated fairy tale about a beautiful island filled with hidden treasures. As the tale unfolds, a parallel story takes place in reality—following two young women from Vietnam and Indonesia who are stranded in Taiwan, victims of human trafficking. They once believed coming to this treasure island for work would let them support their families and build a better life back home. But that fairy-tale dream soon collapses, overwhelmed by the harsh realities they must face.

After the Formosan clouded leopard was declared extinct in 2015, CHEN Mei-ting and CHIANG Po-jen set out to rescue leopard cats and restore clouded leopards, fostering ecological and cultural revival.

A woman from Chiang Mai speaks in Thai, Mandarin, and Yunnanese. That is the voice I am the most familiar with, the one I first sensed and heard from within her womb. It is also my mother tongue. I chat with my mother about her family of origin and childhood memories. When we are not talking, I wander around the house, touching light and air. Those scents and traces of where my mother resides, along with the fleeting images of her presence, are my intimate gaze of her.

In a small village in Tainan, the ritual dance-music tradition “Seven Echoes” survives as both spiritual offering and cultural memory. Through voice-over narration and archival detail, the film traces how this art form is woven into temple festivals, agrarian life, and communal identity — even as modernity threatens its continuity.

One ordinary day, a sudden visit disrupted the routine of the whole family. The youngest bunny, bursting with excitement and curiosity, bounced through the house—she simply couldn’t wait! However, when the mysterious visitor arrived, the once noisy house instantly fell silent.

This is a story about a group of losers. In the real world, they are men without a sense of achievement, and in their boring lives, they choose to step into the wrestling ring, playing terrifying and dangerous roles. In the ring world, their twisted values turn them into villains. Amid scattered applause, they stand on the wrestling ring, searching for their final dignity in that moment.

People live. Fractions of life continue to happen every single second. Kinds of relationship embody the individuals' hearts.

A woman goes on nightly trips, in search of someone who has departed. One night, she has an unusual encounter. This film delicately explores cultural differences and the universality of the unspeakable grief, from Taiwan to Sweden.

The story of an unlikely friendship between Chief Aliman of the Bunun clan (Taiwan's Aborigines) and Japanese anthropologist MORI Ushinosuke during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. The immersive experience leads viewers along the path of these two extraordinary characters, revealing the deep mutual respect they shared for Jade Mountain – and how it forged their lasting bond.

A glorified childhood memory: a crispy dessert with a hole in the middle, seen in a Japanese cartoon. The mother corrects: It was a soft doughnut. This cognitive distortion inspired this film, which challenges the boundaries of subjective perception. Images and sounds mix and overlap. Street noise, excerpts of faces, snippets of interviews. Only the people's answers are visible, the questions remain hidden. Once you think about it, consciousness piles up.

Feel the ground beneath you. We are constantly supported by the earth.

In a dystopian future, exiled Kung Fu master Big Sister 13 leads a gang of trans and queer fighters who reclaim a forgotten zone and transform it into the Martial Forest—a secret training ground where care is as powerful as combat. Together, they fight to survive rising violence and build a future rooted in chosen family and trans resistance.

This film records my father’s daily life after my grandmother’s passing, exploring memory as a form of the soul’s continuation.

A group of elderly living alone in damp, dim underground dwellings in Taipei. They take care of themselves and form a community . They come out of the underground dwellings , searching for comfort and happiness in the city. At night, they return to the dwellings neglected by the city.

“It Must Be” is a collaborative project between the filmmaker and his girlfriend, documenting their everyday life as international graduate students. Through the use of a handheld DV camcorder, they each film the shared spaces they inhabit, gradually exploring and redefining their understanding of “home.” The work also serves as a reflective summary of the filmmaker’s three years in graduate school.

Laura moved to Taiwan to study traditional Chinese. After some time, she had to make a choice — either to go back to Spain or to keep memorizing words in the island.

For 23 years, Hu has served as an interpreter in Taiwan, assisting over a thousand migrant workers and new residents. This film highlights how interpreters support law enforcement, ensuring justice and protecting linguistic minorities in a system once lacking proper translation for foreign-related cases.

A grieving teenage girl embarks on a moonlit scooter journey with a stranger. As memories and doubts surface, they navigate night streets together, searching for answers about her past, present, and future.

Rye Green Berry is a code for RGB. This film summons our memories of light and color through film screens. It then intentionally rewrites the slowly disappearing color worlds - historical paintings, vintage movies, videotapes - in digital space, transforming them into a new color palette. Taking its cue from Roland BARTHES' S/Z, the film overcodes found materials, liberates characters from their original stories and builds an operatic fable from their signifiers.