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Every piece of dough wants to become a donut. Only donuts are good adults and symbols of greatness! Influenced by this education, little dough Dobby and his classmates long to participate in the "coming-of-age ceremony." However, Dobby accidentally discovers the unknown story behind the donut factory…

A taiwanese sport film

When Director Laway was small, his father began working as crew on fishing boats out of the port of Kaohsiung. All through his youth, Laway's mother took him by Kinmen bus from Taitung to Kaohsiung to visit his father every year or two. Amis people have worked on fishing boats for years, and such family visits were common in the years from 1940 to 1960. With permission granted in April of 2013, Director Laway picked up his camera to film six of the Amis crew members. He boarded a Taiwanese ocean-going ship on Bona Bei island - an American possession in the South Pacific. With this ship he followed a purse seiner for 20 days, filming the crew's hard work and difficult life. To conclude, how was Laway’s father able to get through twenty years of his working career as a crew member? The director's only assistant is the son of a photographer - Mayaw‧Laway

This experimental animated film was created using ink-and-wash painting techniques. Through the transformation of the Chinese characters for "woman" and "child," it depicts the contradictions and struggles of cultural conditioning faced by ethnic Chinese women in the process of developing gender awareness.

Authoritarianism deprives people of their right to live freely: rebellion or escape? We can only fantasize about a better future within the confines of unchanging laws.

Here, we feel the joy of saving lives and the sorrow of omnipresent death. Can we truly coexist with wildlife?

An ex-Red Guard and anti-Communist soldier during the Korean War, started a three-generation family next to Taoyuan Air Base. Despite the base's historical significance during Japanese occupation and the Cold War, the Taoyuan Aerotropolis project will erase its rich history by 2025, marking another loss in Taiwan's disappearing past.

An experimental message to the parents. Or the life in the big city as seen by a homesick young director.

The Tano Bora, meaning ‘The Magnificent Five’ in Swahili, was the famed cheetah coalition here in the Masai Mara—captivating observers with their stealth, strategy, and striking beauty. The artist follows one of the cheetahs from the perspective of a follower, intuitively and visually connecting the traces of movement in the wilderness. The body image is used as a means of creation to extend the habitat of the animals beyond the frame. In this way, the cycle of "life and death" is explored, thus visually touching the traces of the fate of wild animals.

With a container as a motif and a metaphor for a safe place, the story surrounds the protagonist’s self-searching and healing journey, exploring the relationship between emotion and space. The film attempts to construct psychological self-portraits and a poetic narrative through experimentation in 2D animation, stop-motion, and sound. It reflects sensibility, fragility, and fragmentation of identity by applying pottery and clay.

A healing poem about the companionship of all things in a family garden. A mother gathers crops and cooks with her son in their daily life. The son, while imitating his mother's cooking in the kitchen, chants folk poems with a sense of regret and longing for the distant.

Measurement of optical distance collides with psychological proximity. The experience of an eye test retreats to insect visual motion experiment observers. We walk through a camera obscura to a Lacanian anecdote. Interior and exterior space blurs. It’s a process of anchoring yourself from the outside.

Breastmilk comes quietly into the world at the time of birth to raise newborns. Sometimes they go even further and nourish more little lives through milk banks.

An AI project, everything generated by AI.

Reorganize the memories of blood and tears and truly present the historical scars. Over the past three years, re-interviews with the victims’ family members and full DV records. An introductory guide to understanding modern Taiwanese society.

DUAN Chang-wen left his hometown Sichuan, China in 1949, and followed the Government of the Republic of China to Taiwan. DUAN Tsai Tsai-chiung, a young female from Taiwan, worked diligently in a textile factory. For the next forty years, they lived in a military dependents' village and worked in a clothing factory. As the factory closed down and the village being demolished, people started to move away. The DUAN couple, however, continued to live there. Their memories and lives were being captured by their granddaughter in this film.

A building with fifty years of history was once a popular spot in the memory of the locals, but now it is considered to be the cancer of the city because of its shabby exterior and the interior that looks like a ruin. When it was going to be rebuilt due to urban renewal, "Escape Plan," a group of young graffiti artists, sneaked in this twelve-story ruined building. For them, it is a rarely seen wonderful space to create art. They are now planning to challenge themselves to create something they have never thought of.

A Golden Harvest Award Winner short film.

The filmmaker took a trip to Nepal and ended up embarking on a journey of self-discovery through a relationship. In a self-reflexive tone, the film ponders upon the transformation of her position within the relationship. As she resituated herself in geographical terms, she was also on a spiritual quest to her innermost self through destruction and reconstruction.

A proprietor of a video company has racked up many debts due to filming, so he began his bidding life. During this time, he bid on a case which was a continuation of a young artist that he had worked with together before. The artist is full of talent, but he has always been ignored, and his heart is filled with depression. The two intend to expose the enviroment of the artistic world through this shooting so as to relive their sorrows. However, with the production of the film, will the two ease their sorrows, or will they increase them instead?

Legend has it that one can realize their wishes by continuously having sex with unattractive people to accumulate good karma. Ching constantly has sex with unappealing gay men to fulfill his wish of getting close to his handsome crush.

“Historic Exception State” originates from my visiting the pyramid of the legend at Qixing Mountain. Through the stroll and walk, the sense and memory accumulated inside and outside the body and the guidance of many linking prick points, with the images which are born with timeliness and constructiveness of reality and fantasy, the film develops with the creation of exploring memories, history and nature.

The villagers of Longsheng Village, Zaoqiao Township, Miaoli, have persevered through the threat of mob violence to protect their hometown from being polluted by business waste. After 20 years of struggle, victory is now in sight. However, cases of illegal dumping of business waste are still occurring near villages everywhere in Taiwan, and we are all implicit. How will the future of Taiwan look?

Filipinos are frequent winners of global beauty pageants. They craze over pageantry not only in the Philippines, but everywhere the two million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) work. Factory OFWs Robin, John Louie and Raymond are candidates of the Ginoong Taiwan pageant held in Hsinchu. Can they grasp their dreams as they embark on the journey of companion and competition for the crown?

How far does one have to go to get back into the endless stream of a child's imagination, and where does it actually lead?

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by the LGBT+ community that began on June 28, 1969 in the Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village. This was a turning point in the gay liberation movement and is often seen as the start of the modern fight for LGBT+ rights and freedoms in the United States. 50 years on, for many around the world this remains a dream. Filmed in Honduras, Zanzibar, Taiwan and England, the documentary provides unique access to the poignant personal stories of those facing challenges due to their sexuality or gender identity.

A boy takes a girl to his girlfriend's house on a date. My girlfriend felt a little wrong when she got home. The girlfriend and the girl waited together at the girlfriend's house the next day.

Graduate student Yi-wen gets on the wrong train and meets a former classmate from her past, Wei-chiang, who is now a university lecturer. The two alight together at the same station when they both find themselves having boarded the metro headed for the wrong direction. The two end up going to dinner and bumble about in awkward, fair-weather catching up when they both realise something about themselves that they have never openly admitted over the years.

After 30 years of Cold War confrontation between Taiwan and the mainland, people-to-people exchanges began in the 1980s, and the increasingly close economic, trade, and tourism exchanges over the past 30 years have roughly changed the external appearance of the two sides, but the internal alienation and mistrust have never diminished... Lao Ke, a businessman who failed to do business in Taiwan, put down his body and went to the mainland to serve as a Taiwanese officer, wanting to make a comeback. Lili, a working girl from the Mainland to Shenzhen, met her husband in Taiwan through the Internet and wanted to pursue a better life. They landed on the other side full of hope. Unexpectedly, the treacherous and changeable external situation and internal conflicts that appeared from time to time made the road to dream building extremely difficult.

Care home resident, the blunt Mr. Tao secretly admires fellow resident, the elegant Ms. Pai. He finally plucks up the courage to write her a love letter, but it gets mischievously posted on the home’s bulletin board. Two other residents: Mr. Peng and Mr. Wang call each other “son” as a pet name. Mr. Peng misses his grandson whom he dares not see, while Mr. Wang frets over his terminal illness.

The grandma from the country seems to have magical superpowers. As time goes by, the boy gradually discovers...