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Mitchell and Miles once spoke the language of love fluently, but now even a dream trip can't drown out the silence growing between them.

Yearning to reunite with his father in Kaohsiung city, Manawei joins his elementary school’s dance troupe.

One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jincheng, in the province of Liaoning (North-East China), to re-paint again friends and relatives after several years have gone by. With a soundtrack by famed composer Lim Giong (Millennium Mambo, The Assassin).

27-years-old Da Guang works the night shift every other week, and on this particular night, he encounters something out of the norm. While driving to work in the second-hand car he just purchased, he meets a mysterious man in the tunnel. The mysterious man tells Da Guang a story, which includes a secret that may cost his life.

In Taipei, a rehearsal for Kafka’s Metamorphosis is in full swing as the show’s opening night approaches. Lin’s girlfriend, Julie, is visiting him from Paris. After the rehearsal, he picks her up at the airport and they spend the night together. In the morning, Lin is nowhere to be found and leaves Julie waiting at his apartment

In Taiwan, there is a group of people participating in this race against time. They are hidden inside the film archive of New Taipei City’s “Singapore Industrial Park”, where the 17,000-plus film reels and over a million film artifacts have become their spiritual nourishment. Day after day, they shuttle back and forth inside, carrying their doubts, their learnings, and their faith. What they are doing is awakening these long-neglected film reels, then piecing together the no-longer-existent social atmospheres and lives of distant pasts recorded on them. And spending time in this archive has become everyday life for these film archivists and restorers.

Polar Super Marathon: Chen Yanbo, running for the dream

According to the buttered-cat paradox, cats always land on their feet while buttered toast always lands buttered side down. But if we put a piece of buttered toast on the back of a cat with the buttered side up, and only one will land, which one will that be? Chen Tzu Chen was stood up by his boyfriend Lei-Wang on their third anniversary. While the wedding day of Lei and Hsu Nai Fang is getting closer, Tzu Chen and Lei’s relationship seems to be more tense. However, Tzu Chen can't take it anymore.

Li Qing went to Dongguan, Guangdong with his mother, Xiu-Juan, to look for the disappeared father, who is a Taiwanese businessman. During the days, they met a private chauffeur named Chen. However, their journey wasn't easy under the lead of Chen, and they experienced a journey with endless stories to seek her father.

In the reasoning network , there are seven members who share the common interest of reasoning. One day, they decided to go snorkeling for vacation. Unfortunately, they have an accident and drifted to a desert island. On the island, everyone's cell phones' signals are gone, so they are forced to stay for seven days until the next ship comes. The first night, six of them have received the missing partner's slaughtered video message at 0:10 midnight. The coming week, one person is missing night by night. Can some of them survive from the desert island? Or all of them must die there? Who is the murder? "Killing 7" will have a surprise ending for the audience.

Heartbeat Love is a miniseries that chronicles the love story between two travellers (Show and Rainie) who happen to share a hotel room in Australia by accident. Rainie initially mistakes Show for being gay, but eventually discovers that he is straight, resulting in a very angry Rainie! However, through the whole trip, the two of them grow close and end up confiding their innermost thoughts and emotions to each other.

A detective seeks redemption after taking on an assignment involving the death of a girl.

Right in the afternoon after the graduation ceremony, the boys' plan to celebrate was disturbed by a sudden rain. Xiao-hai rushed to the park and it was already past the time he and Xiao-pan were supposed to meet. The rain had stopped; everything looked brand-new. Summer is on its way, but a sudden death has made everything somewhat different.

Experimental filmmaker, Jack has developed a revolutionary type of film, which induces a euphoric state in the viewer. Needless to say, this rapidly becomes an underground phenomenon in Taipei. The label of these mind-altering screenings? Made In Taiwan... With the help of Amy Lin, organised screenings pop up around the city and crowds of eager MIT fans flood in to see his latest creations. As his films become more popular, Jack fights obsessively to keep complete control of his work. However, he also comes to realise that his films have long-lasting effects on the mind. With his own constant exposure to the films, Jack begins to slip into a dark, dream world of his own creation from which he may never return.

Hsiao-jing truly admires Miss Hui. Zhi-ya, who likes Hsiao-jing knows that. The two girls grow closer as they follow Miss Hui after school. However, their friendship starts to fall apart when they learn about Miss Hui's secret...

Wei’s only son, Yu-Hsi, died in an accident. Yu-His’s broken cellphone still sends reminders for all the schedules that he can no longer follow. Wei follows them all, and opens the piano that he bought for his talented son. The more Wei participates in Yu-Hsi’s life, the more he understands…

Ah Fei, a Vietnamese who left home to work in Taiwan, escapes from his Taiwanese employer in hope to earn more money to send back home to his father. One day, he runs into Ah Hai, a police patrol officer, at the beach. Ah Hai sees Ah Fei in possession of syringes and uses the baton on him without giving him a chance to explain. By the beach, nine shots were eventually fired at Ah Fei. It’s the first time Ah Fei’s father is travelling out of Vietnam, only to be bringing home his son’s lifeless body.

For hundreds of years, Taiwan has been under different colonial rules. From the Dutch, the Spanish, the Japanese, and nowadays Republic of China, each regime left their footprints on this island. Only the indigenous people of this island experienced of the process. They were given different names during different periods of colonisation and their cultures have been changed. Through the life of a Truku elder, we see the history of aboriginal recertification movement.

Inspired by an ancient Chinese ghost story, the tale that goes beyond what viewers usually expect in the ghost movies and further to challenge the traditional story-telling pattern.

Embarrassed by her un-American look, a young girl betrays her younger sister during their first Sunday at a Chinese-American church.

A vast, blue sky. An endless mountain path. This is not an excursion, but the journey of three-year-old Xiao Wu and her lamb to the orphanage where they will be abandoned.

In Taiwan, there are over 36000 foreign workers on the run, hiding in the darkness and making money illegally. The government offers reward for runaways all over the island. Illegal employers, agents and foreign worker are put on alert. A new profession has therefore arisen: bounty hunters who capture illegal foreign workers...

A karaoke-addicted elderly woman (Chen Shu-Fang) lives her life by the Taiwanese saying, “Guo Mie,” which translates to “as long as you devote your life to the creation of one thing, and do whatever you could, everything will turn out.” But her philosophy is seriously put into question as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her estranged husband. She attends the funeral only to encounter his younger lover and then finds out that her children might have kept in touch with her late husband secretly behind her back. Director Joseph Chen-Chieh Hsu said that the story is based on his grandmother, who was forced to raise eight kids by herself after her husband ran away. The student short film was shot in his home country of Taiwan. Selected as a 2017 Student Academy Awards Finalist, the short also appeared in the 2018 Asian American International Film Festival. It’s the first time that lead actress Shu-Fang has sung in a film in over 40 years.

In those boring little games, from guessing names to this-or-that, from competing to see who laughs first to the things we say to each other, many moments reveal our familiarity and deep bond. But what he didn't expect was that, at the end of the games, there would be no next time.

The intercom of the apartment is broken. ZhenZhen goes to the neighbors to collect money for the repair. Some neighbors paid forthrightly, while others thought Zhen Zhen is nosy. Zhen Zhen presses Mr Tsai’s doorbell many times but there is no response, except for some weird dog barking…

In the summer afternoon, the families gathered to the old family home. They surrounded beside grandma to show their love. As people come and go, the television was still replaying and the fan was still turning in the peaceful old house, where grandma living with her maid.

Docked at the port of Kaohsiung, Filipino seaman Arnie buys a ring with the help of his mates, to propose to his girlfriend back home. The supposedly happiest moment of his life soon takes a downward spiral when he finds out she is pregnant - but he is not the father of the child.

In the dead of the night, the impound employee is all prepared to meet his own end. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, hastened poundings on the door interrupted his farewell. The impound employee knew that fate was throwing him his final chance, before he dies, to use his own hands, one by one, to seek revenge. However, where this vengeance takes him is not what he had imagined, and fate once again displays its amazing wonders...

Su Zhengde, a middle-aged policeman who has no hope of promotion, eavesdropped on insider news of professional baseball signing and gambling in his duty. He wanted to raise money to send his daughter to study abroad, and he struggled between love and morality. Ada, a fat little brother who lives opposite Zhengde's house, plays baseball in order to become the real man in his mother's mind, but his real dream is to be a dancer. In order to realize his dream, Ada goes hungry and saves money to participate in dance competitions, hiding from her fierce and strict mother. On this day, Zhengde hesitated whether to give up morality and go all out? Ada is still waiting for her mother to understand how he wants to dance! The dreams of two generations, the middle-aged Zhengde and the young Ada, are waiting for the opportunity on the sunny autumn afternoon...

Limitless lies, betrayals and temptations revealed by an accidental car crash. A huge storm is about to happen in Taipei and we're all inside it!

The movie revolves around the female leads insecurity regarding her flat chest, as she suspects her boyfriend will be lured away by another woman's curves.

Zhu Ge Liang stars as Wang Fu Gui, the 18th generation master of Baoping Temple. Despite his auspicious name, Wang is in reality a hopeless gambler who never wins. After going broke, he moves south in hopes of mooching off his wealthy brother-in-law (Namewee), but as life would have it, his brother-in-law suffers a stroke. Wang's luck takes another turn, however, when he meets female ghost Lin Qing Xia (Amber An), a famous singer who died 30 years ago. Wang utilizes Qing Xia's powers to help others, earning him the reputation of being a living deity. Meanwhile, Qing Xia wants Wang to help resolve her grudge.

Accidently hired by a private investigation firm, two young men are sent on a mission of collecting debt. When they finally get a 10-million-dollar check from the director of an orphanage, they find that they don't feel happy at all. A battle between their real personalities and the harsh reality begins...

42 years old A-Min is a quiet and reserved man. He is a delivery worker in a fish market in Tainan. He is secretly gay and has never been out of the closet. His wife, Xiaohui who was young and already pregnant when they met. She took off after giving birth to her daughter Xiaofeng. A-min and Xiaofeng had been each other’s only family ever since, until one day, when A-Min finds Xiao-feng missing...

The black kite, generally referred to as “the eagle” in Taiwan, used to be very widespread and so common that it is the main character in a well-known Taiwanese children’s game. However, it has now become so rare that very few people ever get to see it. SHEN Zhen-zhong, better known as “Mr. Kite” who vowed to safeguard this endangered bird, is determined that he spent the best 20 years of his life traveling throughout Taiwan to find out why the black kite is disappearing. From 1992 to 2015, the film documentary maker LIANG Chieh-te followed Mr. Kite’s journey. Through his camera lenses, the story of how, one person can cross the species barrier and totally devote himself to a cause with no regrets because of love.

'Wansei' refers to those Japanese who were born in Taiwan during the colonial period. After WWII, they were repatriated to Japan. It took the director 12 years to conduct the interviews and five years to shoot. It tells the stories of not only Wansei themselves but their friendships, family ties and bravery when facing the harsh adversity.

Based on true events, a story about a Taiwan-raised second generation Indonesian and a Taiwanese senior citizen who aren’t from the same bloodline but have intimacy beyond family members.

Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages that explore the progression of life from birth, to death, to birth again. In the end, despite unprecedented challenges and tragedies throughout the world, we are reminded that every day we are alive there is hope and a choice to see a better future together. Founded in 2008, it set out to explore our planet's identity and challenges in an attempt to answer the question: Who are we?

Two Taiwanese girls fly back to their hometown Taipei for an annual family visit. The trip starts out joyful with the embrace of family love; however it becomes unbearable when a disturbing truth is uncovered.

Friday night, a basketball court, ice cream, cooties, two girls and a boy. What's the worst that could happen?

Based on the musical "I Have Not Respected You In A Long Time."

A-Hu, who is born into a small family during an economic crisis. His mother works at recycling with her son A-Hu and his brothers until A-Hu leaves home. Although he has left, he keeps an eye on his mother in order to protect her from a group of people who bully her. During a fight with the bullies, he accidentally kills one and goes to jail. After being released from prison Ahu and his brother join forces with their brother in a gang.

Bong-tshio is your ordinary countryside grandma, raising four kids in an impoverished environment; however, the kids that grew up and started their own families do not respect her, fostering her in turns for one month, while bargaining with each other about the number of days in different months. But the optimistic Bong-tshio always just laughed it off. Until one day, she got lost and wandered into a police station, and then accidentally won the top prize of the lottery. Her children began to look for her desperately, rushing back to their old place in the countryside, and kicked off a ridiculous competition of filial piety.

In order to retrieve his passport back, Tien meets up with his ex-boyfriend Fan in a Japanese bar. After a few drinks, both of them start getting awkward and intense. They both realize that they can never go back like what they used to be.

Just as the young members of the swimming team spend another day training in the pool, the cusp of early puberty threatens to turn innocent friendship and camaraderie into something much more. Sixth-grader Yu-Hsuan has a closely guarded secret, but this tide of feelings inside is brewing into a storm…

Zhang who has never had any work experience, came to work in a tall building to help with family expenses. He encountered various strange scenes, both among colleagues and between the boss and employees. Zhang seemed to gradually integrate into this environment, until his sister suddenly appeared in a panic. This building seemed unusual, and the two tried to escape from the structure.

Haruo, a director, auditions for a film already partially shot in Taiwan. Thus he meets Ma, a young Taiwanese skater just as disoriented as he is.

A loser in life, Nan is infatuated with the animation series, Bobita. He later meets a girl, but he could never expect both the girl and his grandfather end up leaving him.

After learning his mother’s sudden death, a rebellious Hwagyo (Chinese in Korea) teenager sets out on an unknown journey to Taiwan in order to fulfill his mother’s last will, and to seek for his identity…

Uptown girl Michelle arrives in a seaside city in southern Taiwan with her mother's divorce agreement in order to look for her father. Due to her father's injury, Michelle ends up staying there longer than she expected. During her time there, she encounters outgoing lifeguard Ah Yu, who helps her discover another side of her that she didn't even know had existed.

On Chinese New Year Eve, ten-year old Yang Lan anxiously waiting for her singer mother to come home. While the big family is celebrating loudly with Mahjong, fireworks, dinner and laughs, she struggles to reconcile her urge to feel, at least for a brief moment, loved.

Mr. Chang arrives to his 'Spiritual Temple' in the afterworld, a place that represents one's destiny. To solve his marital crisis and financial problems, he summons his guardian- The Thunder God, to modify the temple from the ground up. It turns out to be a big mistake...