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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.

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……

In December 1941, the Pacific War broke out. Hundreds of Taiwanese were recruited to join the war. When the war ended, these Taiwanese soldiers were sent to court as prisoners of war and faced identity crisis. Heat Sun intends to record the lives of these soldiers. Through conversations and visual images, the film reveals the issues surrounding humanity and war.

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.

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 story about going fast, wanting to go even faster, and then relaxing after an overly tense lifestyle.

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.

In a shadow play and puppet show inspired by the great tradition of Taiwanese theater, accompany the hero of this documentary narrative as he plunges us into the period of the White Terror.

Ripples Apart is the story of windsurfer Chang Hao, who grew up in the Mountains of Nantou, the only region in Taiwan with no coast. Chang and his Australian coach, Alex Mowday, share a unique and rare bond, two athletes separated by years of age and very different cultures, but who hunt the same Olympic dream. The road to the Olympics is long and difficult. Alex and Chang Hao must beat the odds to qualify, training on the small island of Penghu, off the coast of Taiwan, battling the wind and waves and searching for perfection in the sport of their dreams.

An old camera borrowed from a friend. It's enough to be carried in pocket. Since that day, I can forget to take wallet out, but I can't forget it. We get along day and night, work, eat, hang out and meet friends every time. And, there are also every passenger photographed by it.

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.

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.

Lin Dongliang leads the three-year "Marine Oasis" project, researching spinner and pantropical spotted dolphins. The team aims to secure IMMA designation from IUCN for enhanced conservation. A documentary follows their efforts, exploring their motivations and challenges, highlighting humanity's complex relationship with the ocean.

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.

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.

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.

[thóo-kong-á] is a stop-motion short film centered on the Taiwanese tradition of “bone collecting.” The story follows a boy who was raised by his grandfather, a professional bone collector. Since childhood, he was often asked to help with the ritual, though he never understood its meaning — only finding it exhausting and unpleasant. But through repeated experiences, he gradually comes to see that bone collecting isn’t something taboo — it is a gentle, meaningful practice. It’s a way for the living to say a proper farewell to the dead. In the end, with newfound understanding and respect, he personally performs the final bone collecting for his grandfather.

While conducting research in the deep sea, a scientist makes a terrifying and unforeseen discovery.

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.

It was not just a blazing forest fire, but embers clinging together only for survival... The short film is about the intimate relationship between two young girls. Yet the bond they treasured was veiled under an indescribable shadow…

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

A ruined wedding photo sparks a journey through Taiwan’s iconic pre-wedding photographers—uncovering stories of fantasy, rebellion, and pain, and leading to a deeper reflection on femininity, absence, and the unreachable idea of perfection.

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.

Set in the Taoyuan Aerotropolis expropriation zone, this film traces a home that no longer belongs to us. Before relocation, my mother passed away—her “too late” compelled me to return and document what remains. Through father–daughter dialogue and acts of creation, the film records landscapes on the verge of disappearance, and the fragile traces of “home” that persist in the struggle against erasure.

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.