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Shan's crush is going to move away and they make a promise of exchanging their favorite signed baseballs. His signed ball, however, is lost because of his brother Jia, so the brothers start a journey to find the ball...

Ning was the center of the class but now she's in crisis because of a random prank. And her friendship with Yun is now at stake.

That maritime accident marked the first encounter between Nawei, the son of a fisherman, and the mermaid girl, as well as his meeting with underwater photographer Dapai. To thank Dapai for saving him, Nawei, skilled in free diving, served as her maritime guide. The untouched underwater beauty left Dapai, who hailed from the city, spellbound; The ocean as seen through Dapai's eyes was a completely new perspective for Nawei, who had grown up on Lan Yu Island. They discovered a brand-new world through each other's eyes, and it also revealed to Nawei the future and business opportunities of free diving, giving him the opportunity to leave Lan Yu Island.

Wang confronts his youth. Life is boring and seems to be endless. The only thing he can do is survive each day. On New Year's Eve, he briefly returns to his senses while watching fireworks burst. During these vanishing moments he most strongly feels his own existence.

Xiang’s husband borrowed money from a loan shark and soon disappeared. Millions of debt and the vicious collectors drive Xiang suicidal. The loan shark threatens to sell her son’s organs as an offset. Xiang changes her mind and agrees with the loan shark: accident insurance and staged murder.

Adrian, a young gay guy living in Taipei, falls in love with West, but West is not interested in a real relationship. Adrian, to see him again, begins to pretend that he is pregnant with West's baby. West is startled by Adrian's craziness and they start playing this game until Adrian discovers... He is pregnant for real !

Caring for an autistic adult can be seen as an act of faith. It is unpredictable. A regular interaction can lead to a violent lashing-out. However, due to its lack of exposition and its pure form of observation, the film captures something even more profound: life as a collection of failure, pain, and tragedy as felt by its protagonist, Chen Hung-tung, a father who cares with extraordinary patience for his autistic son Li-fu.

A-Man, an unemployed single mother, and her daughter, Kai-yin depend on each other for life. She suffers from depression because of financial burdens, and wants to escape through suicide in the face of setbacks. She used a variety of methods of suicide, but never succeed.

The story unfolds in "the realm of bears" that is the heart of the Yushan National Park. It is a place brimming with wildlife ecosystems and aboriginal culture. Fascinated by the area, one female ecologist started her journey searching for bears in 1998 while subsequently developing a close companionship with a Bunun hunter in the midst of this wilderness. Together with copious research, the secret of the Taiwan Black Bear is thus revealed.

Filial Piety Award embodies the paradox of filial piety by absurdly depicting a boy who takes part in the competition of "the most considerate student." This film does not presuppose a position nor provide any value judgment. Filial piety is within our heart, and, with no regret, we will become children of filial piety for our parent.

A man who lost his house in a foreclosure sale is forced to live in his truck. A Vietnamese woman with a flight ticket and few belongings gets on the man’s truck. Sitting on the moving truck with their painful memories, they follow the signs all the way to the North.

Yang Yang was born in China, but raised in Taiwan. When his mother encounters financial problems, she sends him back to live with his grand mother for a short while. Gradually, Yang Yang is going to discover another side of his origins, his story...

The film crew is confused and unsure what to do. The director and the producer thus begin a game of power and manipulation in order to complete the film.

26 TAKES FOR HARUN FAROCKI is a film collage made by former students. One minute per take. This film was shot by Arthur Sumereder, Axel Töpfer, Björn Kämmerer, Christoph Kolar, David Pujadas Bosch, Franziska Pflaum, Georg Tiller, Jessyca R. Hauser, Johann Lurf, Josephine Ahnelt, Karo Riha, Mina Lunzer, Michael Poetschko, Monika Rabofsky, Mrova, Nathalie Koger, Patrick Schabus, Peter Muzak, Selma Doborac, and Thomas Lehner.

As the actress arrived, everything about the movie, about the life of director and actress, and about the affection between professor and his student, were revealed and punctured one after another. In the hazy fuzzy afternoon, there is nothing left on the dining table outside the cabin but four-cornered souls; the bandit in the director's movie was also beset in the bank as a trapped beast.

A beautiful female doctor who is well cared for and a gay man raised by a single mother, at the golden age of her career, encounters the impact of her father's need for a liver transplant to renew his life at the same time.

Suffering from dementia, Hsia flees the brand-new apartment where she now lives with her daughter and returns to her old home, only to relive the nightmare that she has long forgotten and buried.

Mr. Chang's life changes dramatically when his home disappears from the face of the Earth. On the quest to find his home, he has to rethink his identity and existence.

After this summer vacation, I'm going to be fourth grade and my young brother will go to elementary school. In this summer vacation, people always telling us to be well prepared but never tell us what to do.

Taiwan movie

Adopting a pseudo-documentary format with a film-within-a-film metacinema approach, it portrays the onsite filming and behind-the-scenes during the making of Spy Love.

A 12-year-old XiaoJing survives a car accident unscathed. She bravely deals with the trepidation alone, until her father rushes to the hospital. She thought that her anxieties and emotional injuries could be alleviated, but is forced to face a more severe difficulty.

Ocean, a boy who was born and raised on a small island, has a taboo relationship with Tide, a sailor whose ship regularly docks at the harbor.

RD is a middle-aged man who has lived with his fiancée, Xin-jie, for seven happy years. But when Xin-jie suffers a sudden occupational injury, their lives are plunged into an entirely new state, one seemingly more dead than alive. Unexpectedly disconnected from the familiar things in life, RD is forced to face newfound contradictions.

The fifteen-year-old Xiao-Yu desires a perfect and happy family, but she actually suffers from domestic violence. One day, her mother disappears. Summer vacation is around the corner. A summer thunderstorm strikes in the afternoon. Xiao-Yu wonders if there is a right and safe way to home.

A man is numbed by being preached by his supervisor and his priest. He doesn't know if God exists in him. One day, a black-clothed man appears and starts to linger around him. The black-clothed man throws eggs at him as a ritual and makes him reborn in front of God. This film is both a fantasy and a mystery and presents the confusion of faith and sexuality.

It’s just the matter of different stage, why look us down?” It’s the question of Dudu and Barbie, the pole dancers. Everyone usually focuses on the gorgeous side of the pole dancer, but ignore the effort they need to pay. Not only the instable income, but the pole dancing is also high-risking. Furthermore, the society stereotypically values the job with pornography.

Kaikai, a 17 year old high schooler, is declared brain dead after an unfortunate car accident. The doctor recommends his parents to give their consent for organ donation. Kaikai’s father thinks it is a moral decision to make since Kaikai is still young and he would be able to contribute himself one last time. But Kaikai’s mother is hesitant about this decision and is unable to make up her mind.

"The very first Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival was held here at Zhongshan Hall. During my university days, I volunteered as a ticket seller in order to watch films for free. Many years later, I received the top award at the Taipei Film Festival in an award ceremony held here as well. I have also run a coffeehouse here and often held small screenings of classic films during that time. Last year, I shot my film, Your Face, inside Guangfu Auditorium. The film was composed of thirteen big close-ups. Each of those thirteen faces was filled with the passage of time. Now, I am given a chance to film Zhongshan Hall again. I switched off all the lights and allowed the warm winter sun to shine on her face."

An industrial film on two kinds of labour: socialist and capitalist. A poetic investigation of human relations with the soil and the Earth. A striking journey from Poland to Taiwan that makes us think, contemplate and dream. Pure film.

Gin, a little girl, wakes up in an abandoned temple which is filled with wretched divine statues. Out of the blue, a dark shadow slides into one of the statues, and the holy goddess, Mazu, starts speaking from above.Following the blockbusters “The Tag-Along 1&2”, Golden Horse Award winning director Wei-Hao CHENG creates a whole new piece in virtual reality. This time, the mysterious creature will go beyond the screen, whispering, fleeting and digging into the horror secret of Gin with you.

They sacrificed their lives fighting for the independence of their country, but their stories remain untold for 60 years. The story begins with a man’s portrait, which has been hanging for more than 30 years in an old wooden house where I was born and grew up in Perak, Malaysia. It’s long become a taboo that my families do not talk about this man, not even to bring up his name or his past. Eventually I found out he is my grandfather, who sacrificed his life fighting for Malaysia’s independence and decolonisation, but his and his comrades’ stories are excluded from history. This documentary set out to unveil the mysteries.

With a large number of factories in the area, the hosiery industry forms the backbone and economic mainstay of a small rural town. One in two of the population makes their living from the production of socks. “Brother Black Dog” is of one of them and has been toiling day and night. However, one day in spring, his overseas orders suddenly disappear. He gets stuck in a midlife crisis.

Sophia, a high-class prostitute, attempts to induce an abortion in a hotel bathroom. When her pimp brother forces her back to work, she must find a way to hide her secret and keep her job at the same time.

As she nears the age of 30, Rina still tries to find, with some difficulty, a path to becoming a film director. This year her father Richard, who she misses dearly, sends his favorite animal and Chinese zodiac sign, the tiger, to silently listen and follow his daughter through her unsteady sound of life. Through the medium of film, we distantly imagine what the world was like in the 1950s, when he himself was 30.

A love letter in collage style, consisting of found footage and a strange reading of Kang-Chien Chui’s work, karaoke and diary videos.

Poet and author Xi Xi is one of Hong Kong's most treasured writers. Though also acclaimed in Taiwan and mainland China for seminal works like the essay Shops, her writings are firmly rooted in the spirit of Hong Kong. Leave it to Fruit Chan, another staunchly grassroots auteur, to make a documentary on Xi Xi's career. Chan sought out renowned critics and writers to discuss Xi Xi's works, starting with 1979's My City. He also juxtaposes photos of a changing Hong Kong with readings of her writings, and even playfully inserts characters from her stories into the film.

A Hawaiian ninja, drawn into a global struggle to control an alien fuel discovered on the moon, is forced to confront the consequences of his life decisions.

A group of Taiwanese who were born before World War II still insist on writing poetry and haiku in Japanese language. Director HUANG Ming-chuan has been documenting them for 22 years since 1994. Unlike Korea, another previous colony of Japan, Taiwan retains emotional and cultural ties with Japan even after the War. Over 40 years, these poets and writers get together discreetly under the ban of speaking and publishing in Japanese. More than half a century later, despite aging, they remain using Japanese in the final years of their lives. This film gathers memories of local Taiwanese who have been ruled by several colonial powers since the Dutch arrived on the island in late 17th century. And the path to obtain their own voice became a long way struggle, and so as the national identity.

On the first National Day after the presidential election in Taiwan, the dazzling red paint on the doorstep of the house celebrated Yun Yun's 18th birthday. Disturbance to the world, Yun Yun doesn't want to continue like this ...

Righteous mountain patrol officer Xin Lan (Esther HUANG) grows tiresome of the stable but repeated boring life, without realizing any of her dreams. She plans to break up with her boy friend Ah De (Ta SU) and leaves this place. But before the discussion of the breakup, Ah De tries to persuade Xin Lan to go up the mountains with his hunter buddy Dumas, in search of the valuable cypress that they stashed away from the wood thieves. The three of them run into artist Patrick Star, who tries to hang himself. To prevent him from committing suicide, they take him along and then rescue a newborn deer on the way. When they finally reach the spot of hidden cypress, Ah De is dumbfounded by what he sees. Xin Lan also feels that, as a patrol officer, she must follow the protocol and stop Ah-de’s illegal activities. The wood thief that stalks them also shows up, trying to take the cypress from them. With all of them fighting one another, how will this journey end?

Doudou, a fifth-grade kid, is indignant when his Dad vents frustration on him after his divorce. One day, Doudou meets a cyber friend named "men killer" on an app, which makes him embark on his project of making his Dad disappear

There is a another soul living in CaCa's body. Just as she decides to come clean with her biological gender, her boyfriend proposes to her. Should she confess, at the risk of losing all the happiness she ever had, or should she keep things the way they are? A phone call then takes her back to her hometown which she had long left behind, where her sister needs her to take care of their mother who is mentally ill.

Chou,Shih-Ching is a senior radio broadcaster. On another side of her, she is a daughter who takes care of her aged mom who suffered from the Alzheimer's disease for years. Shi-Ching feels suffered and suffocated along with her mom’s progressively worsen disease. However, recently she easily forgets things and fails to recall what have happened. She feels she is no longer herself anymore. As her daily life sliding into chaos, her husband Liu, Kuang-Hsuan, who has disappeared for ages and her aggressive daughter suddenly come home, adding various and unpredictable factors into her life. While Shih-Ching confirms her Alzheimer, she plans to get everything ready and settled before her memory fades away….

Actor & Singer Richie Ren personally produce, direct, and starred in this documentary, to showcase the eventful annual nine days Mazu Procession.

Short animation by Po Chou Chi

Cherry identified herself as a drag queen. She just had a fight right before the show, finding out her boyfriend had been cheating sleeping with another girl for a long time. Later, she pulled herself together and walked on her way to work, she met with an abandoned baby. When she was performing sparkly on the stage with her close sister, Lena, they discovered something weird about this baby… The baby that intruded Cherry’s life at the night has given her a short fantasy of having an ordinary family with a child. Yet once again, it reminded her and Lena with a cruel reality of their actual life. This is a journey about a drag queen exploring herself with an abandoned baby at an unconventional night. It is also a story about the searching of one’s the sense of belonging and one’s own.

Tang Guan-guan is a single-minded and ruthless TV producer at the WTV television network. She is charged with creating a unique reality TV program like no other – for fans of horror and suspense. The show involves sending five contestants to spend 72 hours in a house where a terrible murder is supposed to have been committed. The house is notoriously spooky and located in a remote area, far away from other signs of civilisation, and some say that it is haunted by terrifying ghosts. At stake is a large cash prize, and the producer and her long-suffering crew decide to select their contestants from the world of social media and popular entertainment.

May, a single mother, lives with her son, Kuang. Her life is boring. A VIP card, offering a free massage, changes her life. The masseur, Chou, helps her to open up and seems eager to meet her again. May misses Chou and the smell of lemon grass essential oil.

Six dads of terminally ill children form a rock band called "Sleepy Dads". With an average age of 52, they aim to to hit the stage of the highly competititve Sea Music Festival. For this old, amateur band, it is as difficult as the Apollo missions to the moon. Nonetheless, these fathers show no fear because they already lead their daily lives on the edge.

In 1949, the Republic of China suffered a major defeat in the Chinese Civil War, and the Government was forced to relocate to Taiwan. The Government enacted the Declaration of Martial Law in Taiwan, prosecuted anyone who was suspected to be Chinese communists spy. Tin, an innocent farmer, was falsely accused and imprisoned. During the days in jail, Tin got lots of support from his inmate, Kok. With the hope that Kok gave him, Tin gradually found that it is impossible for him to be released from prison.