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"""Magabahai"" means ""good"" in Taiwan Amis Tribe language. It's a story about the encounter of two different cultures."

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…

Focuses on the relationship between an elderly father and his son.

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

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.

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.

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 ...

The tastes of the audience change rapidly, and in the end they are trapped in this trap of human civilization, exhausted, and even forget who they are...

In the 1990s, foreign migrant workers began to occupy the Taiwanese workforce under the government’s new policy. Many indigenous labourers lost their jobs and were forced to return to their homelands, squeezing out a living on odd jobs, frustrated and powerless. Please Give Us a Job records their unheard voices against a backdrop of economic growth, and observes the rivalry and tension between foreign workers and indigenous workers.

The camera zooms in to its ultimate to the sky and catches what we can’t see with our naked-eye: noise, space, moonlight, and waves.

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.

The story of three Latino Chefs in Taiwan, and their motivation to cook Latino food, and share their Latino culture with the local Taiwanese.

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.

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?

People usually don’t put much attention to old news. When the next incident occurs, the focus will soon shift. The unscrupulous company was revealed to manufacture foods with tainted ingredients. Thus, the public protested to the company and comprehensive boycott their goods. After a while, the tainted foods of this unscrupulous company had been repackaged and hit the store shelves again, but the company even claimed that it is new healthy food. What should consumers do when they find out the dark truth? Will their decide make a terrible food supply chain in future？

A young man works out his hostility towards his deceased mother by dressing up as her and asking strangers to scold him.

It's a story about a life being trying to find its name and identity. Through the journey of stray animals, we see the dark side of the city. It traps a lot of creatures, not only animals but also some of us.

“Synthetic Force” The force is tried to manifest a vibration and spectrum as an audible and visible object – audio visual meditation which includes the maximum and minimum point of views between nebulae and cell divisions that reflect science or sense, scotoma or principle, order and border, super-human and non-humanization. Is there any invisible or subliminal field variant of the system?

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.

Professional mourning is a time-honoured tradition that is slowly dying out in Taiwan. Liu Jun-Lin is currently the youngest and one of the best-known professional mourners still working in Taiwan. The Filial Daughter captures her and her band's pre-funeral rituals and elaborate performances, which include acrobatic dance manoeuvres, sombre songs, theatrical elements and detailed choreography. The event is steeped in folkloric tradition yet wholly modern, featuring maximal lighting and pumped up PA systems.

During the Cold War, Americans set the CIA in Huai Mo village. Filming took place at the site of the Intelligence Bureau in Huai Mo village, and Hsu used the left foundation of the demolished Intelligence Bureau office as a stage, which traditional Thai puppeteers were invited to perform and the veterans were invited to watch the performance.

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.

​We used to be close. But somehow, we lost contact afterwards.

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.

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 mysterious fighter is stalking the country, systematically taking out its greatest martial artists. To save their skins, a motley group of kung fu masters must stand against the unstoppable killing force. Their only hope for survival is to come up with a new fighting technique -- one deadly enough to stop their dogged predator. Carter Wong and kung fu legend Lo Leigh star in this martial arts extravaganza from director Lo Chie.

Lan, a stoic counselor, masks her soul's fractures with professional restraint until she meets Zhen-Zhen. The rebellious dropout's fragmented talk of a fatal car accident strikes a terrifying chord—it is the same tragedy that claimed Lan's lover. What begins as therapy spirals into a dangerous obsession.

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…

Taiwanese swinging film.

Recording of film students doing some imitative shooting.

Generally, the family is the first and smallest social group with which each individual comes into contact. The small moments of family life are often unforgettable…

Jay stands at the harbour, waiting for a cargo ship, that is bringing his father home. But he doesn't know if it will be a reunion or a farewell.

In Taiwan's southernmost Manzhou Township, a group of local women—ordinary homemakers—transform into acclaimed folk artists when they pick up their moon guitars. The documentary Manzhou Ladies chronicles their lives, led by folk treasure Zhang Rigui, depicting their resilience in preserving local ballads across decades. Now, as young apprentices struggle with language and cultural gaps, the future of these timeless tunes hangs in the balance.