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People from different cultures and generations coexist in a dreamy world – Hamasen, once the most prosperous area in Kaohsiung. In this utopia of memories, the intrigue on and under the chess table is blurred and blended into the harmony of the traditional market. A train falls from the sky, arrives at the platform on the screen, like in a movie, and gathers everybody for a journey through time and space.

Five Taiwanese teenagers, faced with sweeping and untested educational reforms in 1996, revealed their dreams in the CommonWealth Magazine documentary "A Generation Freed." Their lives were then revisited in 2006 in the film "A Generation Freed - 10 Years Later" to see how the more liberal education system had affected them. Now, another decade later, we find out in "A Journey of 35" if indeed they were able to chase their dreams and if their horizons have grown brighter with adulthood or become more cynical.

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

“Pressure is what turns rough stones into diamonds.”

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.

Ever since Bo-Yang published his very first book In the Land of The Blind, he has been having trouble writing anything good. He does not believe in himself anymore.

A documentary about a professional Taiwanese basketball team's road to championship.

Hitting 30 and no husband in sight? Forget online dating. In this hugely popular documentary, Wu Wuna seeks out Taipei’s thoroughly modern matchmaker, Chen Hailun. She looks on in amazement as Chen fixes up the most unlikely couples. More therapist for individuals than broker between families, Chen nudges the men – “why not marry her?” – and reassures the women. The stories the couples tell might inspire you to believe in love and romance all over again. But you might also notice that Wu Wuna doesn’t seem quite convinced enough to engage Chen’s services for herself.

In 1962 China, Japanese warlords hold the power and are wielding it with no regard to ethics or propriety. Two private entities, the Nagoa Isam Transportation Company and the Bai Loon Forwarding Agency, have taken competition to the extreme, wreaking havoc and violence as a means to hold onto whatever sovereignty they may have. Loyalty no longer exists as residents watch out only for their own interests.

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

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.

During the creation of the performance Embodying Pasolini in Taipei, curator Olivier Saillard and actress Tilda Swinton revisit the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Through rehearsal, memory, and costume, cinema is reawakened in the living body.

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.

A creepy night with a man and a dead body......

As the mycelium spreads, an undercurrent of desire and arrogance subtly emerges, intertwining and diverging continuously with the passage of time...

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.

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.

Man Mei, a Hakka woman born in a Miaoli farming village during the Japanese colonial era, carries a life that spans a century and traces the shifting currents of Taiwan's transformation.

Graduating in Taipei, Zhang Xiao is soon returning to Shanghai. She and her boyfriend have parted ways, but keep their silence—a long night of hotpot, ice cream, and wandering with friends; a long farewell sealed softly into memory.

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.

The traveler lost his way in the snow and stumbled upon an ancient ritual, leading to an unknown abyss.

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.

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.

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.

Shower and name. Destruction and reconstruction. Over and over. Again and again. This is my body and within my self. Long lays the nature. Nature.