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First short color animation from Linus CHAO (趙澤修), who is a famous painter. Some called Linus CHAO the father of Taiwan animation or Walt Disney of Taiwan. He had joined Disney's crew on the making of The Flintstones and Marry Poppins before returning to Taiwan. 台灣省政府出品，光啟動畫製作。本片以動畫形式介紹「省政信箱」的免費服務以及功能。 村民們開心慶祝光復節，石頭伯卻因買田過戶等等問題，不知如何解決而煩惱。經友人告知，只要寫信到「省政信箱」詢問，很快地就可以得到解答。不久，在台灣省政府新聞處主辦的「省政信箱」服務是免費的，解答既正確又可靠，歡迎大家多利用。
Yong-shun, in order to pay off his debts when he was young, he started a life of driving a ready-mix truck during the day and working as a logistics truck driver at night. He has a not-so-mentioned twin brother, Yong-ho. In the early years, he and his brother became partners and engaged in driving logistics trucks together, but everything ended in 1998 due to a traumatic accident. The accident also caused his mother to stop seeing him. Yu-xuan, since he was a child, his father and uncle would take him with them when they drove the logistics truck. His father died at work when he was in junior high school, and now he has chosen the same job as his father, intending to continue his father's unfinished drive.
In a locked room, three men are held captive. To survive, they must piece together the mystery that brought them there—and find a way out.
In 2004, the Taiwan International Workers Association (TIWA) came to support the protest of hundreds of Pilipino migrant laborers in their strike against their employer, Fametech Electronics. During this process they discovered that many of the workers were homosexual partners (who were featured in the documentary Lesbian Factory). 6-7 years have passed since then, what happened to those star crossed lovers in their pursuit for a way of life, have they found what they were looking for? The TIWA film crew set out to continue following their footsteps across the world. Documenting their love stories, battling gender identity and crossing social boundaries with their changing lives. As lesbian migrant workers, circumstances in their social environments are constantly shifting.
Wa-wa was my college classmate and we were in love. She dreamt about opening a shop at that time, so we returned to Guishan after graduation to fulfil her dream. I began to document the process with my camera. In the end, the dream was fulfilled and yet the dreamer was forever gone.
The once closely bounded two, Rochee and Wildee, begin their long distant relationship as Rochee got dispatched abroad and left their intimate cohabitation life behind. The sudden lose of focus of life left Wildee’s life a mess and she even find herself weightlessness, floats off the ground physically! Wildee struggles to lead normal life by finding ways to bring herself back to the ground, however, only realizing her relationship with Rochee gradually grows into a tangle of fraying one…
Rainy days, parks, girls, secrets emerged quietly in her heart.
Focuses on the relationship between an elderly father and his son.
The pandemic-born “emo rave”-categorised “Change, Reset ft. PRINCI” portrays how distressed human beings lean on their desire for intimacy and connection on chat apps, without any physical interaction. The personality-training AI chatbot app “Replika” and dating app “Tinder” specifically, became the inspiration for this music video. The First-Person point of view coupled with a “Pokémon GO”-like AR interface fills this journey with sorrow and uncertainty. As the story starts with a user (Sonia Calico) who refuses to update her AI chatbot (PRINCI), she desperately ventures to find the AI partner’s crystal avatar in limited time as the obsolete-version of the world around them starts to fall apart.
A story about bullying. Someone will be chosen as a scapegoat for no reason.
The deserted street in this city. A stalled train crashed into an abandoned apartment. A lot of girls rush out of the train and shamelessly destroy the rooms in this apartment. They interrupt the boys' serenity and look like a deer in the headlights. The different rooms symbolize different thoughts and construct the building looks like a boy. Come back down to earth, the boy is obsessed with the girl. (The moment while I saw you just like a train rushed into my brain.)
The chest medals represent not only the prestigious and righteous decorations but also the heavy guilt. A veteran chased the stealing medals and started recalling the life with getting these medals. It reveals the ambiguous righteous under the medals.
Mrs. Lin has thousands of photos of herself and has photoshopped herself since half a century ago. She is Lien Lin, the Retoucher. This film is about her life as a female crafter as well as the vanishing art of retouching.
The children are having a frolic with the insects on the lawn. Inspired from the director’s memories of chasing locusts in her childhood.
The conception of the work is based largely on prehistoric cave paintings on Sulawesi Island, as well as fossils and remains undiscovered or still undergoing excavation in East Asia, Southeast Asia and other regions. The creation of cave paintings marks the dawn of the intelligent creature discovering images for immersive experience. Species of different lineages can develop similar functions because of being in similar environments— what we call convergent evolution; different ethnicity groups, too, are able to develop consistent cognitive ability in similar spaces. As one of the oldest cave paintings, the painting at Leang-Leang cave had witnessed the beginning of consciousness, which happened across different locations in human history. It illustrates the common ground of humans and how they gradually evolve to share more similarities.
Six o'clock in the morning was the time when Taiwan's executions of death row criminals was executed in the early years
Single channel video installation A Field of Non-Field conveys the concept that the relationship between technological development and capitalism has formed a new concept of technology capitalism, imposing control over technology and even the desires, perception, and thinking of individuals. This condition forms a situation of “global imprisonment, at-home exile.” What are our options of survival under circumstances such as these?
Shivering Wall discovers solitude in a crowd; a moment of lucidity in a hubbub. A house party is paired down to somnolent bodies and throbbing noise and in the midst a person gains an indefinite and individual experience.
The Pangcah people living in the urban area used to compete and win the dragon boat race every year, but only as hired agents in a festival event of the Han Taiwanese. In 1995, a team of Pangcah contestants decided to compete in the race under the names of their community and homeland, 'C'roh of Yuli, Hualien', striving for glory to honour their true origin.
This is a story on human desire and acrid smoke. When Myanmar opened its borders in 2010, there was an incursion of foreign capital into these unclaimed lands, with China the most aggressive of them all. Determined to also stake their claim within this fever rush of Chinese cash, Yung-heung and his comrades have set ablaze large swathes of forest alongside northern Myanmar to be turned into farmland.
A mysterious sculpture which is a remnant of the bygone political order hidden in the bushes on the square. One day the sculpture begins to communicate with the passers-by. It hums silently at first and its beautiful voice becomes a source of pleasure. Soon, however, it begins to sing louder and louder. The lyrics of the sculpture’s song gradually become clearer: “I’d like to ask you a question.” To avoid facing difficult issues, it causes the community’s complaints, misunderstandings and anger.
Yen-Chao Lin travelled along the east coast of Taiwan – an area characterized by its wild nature, colonization and population exodus. The Amis is the largest of many ethnic minorities in Taiwan officially recognised as indigenous peoples. In search of different spiritual practices belonging to the indigenous people of Makuta’ay, Yen-Chao Lin places the memories of the old Amis spirit keepers on an equal footing with the practices of Daoist rituals and Presbyterian burials, allowing personal prayers to resound and collective resistance to emerge. The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay was shot on Super 8 film and developed by the director by hand. The effects created during the development process add an additional layer of spiritual interpretation. A miniature, an essay, an impressionistic painting.
A series of emails that the filmmaker wrote to her late mentor, the renowned American documentary filmmaker Robert KRAMER (1939- 1999), are woven throughout the plot of a story as the boundaries of life, distance, language, identity and nationality are re-examined from the perspective of Elodie, her daughter.
“Pressure is what turns rough stones into diamonds.”
For a long time the KMT government has held a monopoly over Taiwan’s TV channels, using the lack of channel bandwidth as an excuse for its stranglehold. During the build-up to the elections at the end of 1989, Green Team set up a satellite transmission channel on its own, poking a hole in the KMT’s argument.
In these freckled, disjointed montages of everyday life, we see a faint hint of an upcoming festival as the theatre troupe sound its drums; the children either sit and gaze, or clamber to see the lead actress. This 8mm roll of film was found after LONG Sih-liang passed away in 2012 and is now shown for the first time in 51 years.
The documentary Searching for Brodsky by Xie Jiakun, made with Liao Jinfeng, a scholar at the National Taiwan University of Arts (where Xie is a lecturer), is the first to show extensive clips from Brodsky’s well-preserved feature-length documentary – the earliest surviving footage of everyday Chinese life – and dig a little deeper into Brodsky’s past. Typical of early film pioneers, he was basically a showman and businessman, but one with a genuine passion for his subject and for recording life without exoticism or condescension. (One intertitle even sarcastically noted: “The Chinese are fond of tender young bamboo shoots, while the Americans, as usual, prefer the kind of fruits and vegetables that grow in cans.”) He subsequently moved to Japan, where he made the documentary Beautiful Japan, which even included material on minorities.
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.
Death of a Dying Dog is a guerrilla, no-budget experimental film following an aimless youth in his early 20s, who accepts a job from a family friend to look after her dog while she’s away from Taipei. While initially believing the task to be a casual endeavor, he quickly realizes the dog is on the brink of death. As the dog’s sole companion for one long night, he is captive to the intense and intimate experience of hospice care. The film follows an awakening to his own alienation, navigating both the diurnal rhythms of an apathetic Taipei, and the need for empathy when caring for another.
Within a dance class, an overweight girl named Badi, driven by her aspiration to perform on stage, resolves to emulate the exemplary student Bidi, seeking to attain her slender physique and aesthetic ideal. However, her resort to extreme dieting precipitates a pathological cycle of anorexia and binge eating, ultimately bringing her to the brink of psychological collapse. It is not until a critical moment of realization that she discovers there is, in fact, no “Badi” at all—she herself is Bidi.
Two swordsmen seek for the rare glowing golden fish in a desolate frozen land, yet they ignore the changing environment around them, which puts them in great danger...
In a future world, artificial intelligence has become the core of order. Efficiency and stability are the only standards by which everything is measured, and any deviation may be regarded as an error. During what seems to be a routine delivery, courier D-503 unexpectedly triggers an absurd parable.
In the total darkness, the land is barren and full of potholes. Someone accidently bumps into a vending machine when wandering alone. However, the vending machine quickly ignites people’s desire for consumption.
The story follows Chen Keran, a young man from the countryside who, due to a family crisis, moves to the city and falls in love with Xiao Lan, the daughter of a landlord, leading to a series of events filled with both joy and sorrow.
In 1943, the Imperial Japanese government announced a work-study program in its colony, Taiwan, to recruit children to work in military factories. 8,419 boys came to Japan... An one-hour documentary, Shonenko reveals the unknown stories of these child laborers (Shonenko), from 12 to 14 years old, who manufactured fighter planes in Japanese Naval Arsenals during the Second World War. They left their families, homeland and childhood with the dream of receiving an education. But their dream was to be shattered - first by the war and again by cruel post-war politics in Taiwan, Japan and China.
N, who has long yearned for the Meteor Festival, comes for the first time to help on the host world of the festival—the “Main Star, Planet R.” The residents here are full of enthusiasm, diligently preparing for the celebration. Just as N is swept up in the lively, joyful atmosphere, he catches sight of another, very different side of the Meteor Festival…
A creepy night with a man and a dead body......
Taiwanese swinging film.