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The artist Mucun’s interest is to collect antiques and old objects. He likes to hang out in flea markets and second-hand junk stalls to hunt for treasure. To him, the tens of thousands of old things piled up at home are just the epitome of people's life history and life memory. The film "Dream is not a residual image" reflects Mu Can's inner artistic ideal, a strong surreal style, and a high standard pointing out the "incomplete" aesthetics.
An elderly Taiwanese farmer faces new struggles when his children attempt to put him into aged care.
Little Scissors, a little young girl always dreaming of becoming a space hero. Today is her first day of preschool. Surprisingly, she met the alien attack. Will she fight with them bravely? An incredible and fantasy story is keep going!
Five years after participating in a failed government protest in 2009, Sheng-han and his friends storm the Executive Yuan as members of the Sunflower Student Movement. Through failures and choices, these young activists on the cusp of adulthood seek to affirm their self-identity.
A sweet potato, on the way back...
Jin-Hua and Jin-Tien are twin sisters. Quiet and shy Jin-tien is an animal trainer at an aquarium. When her sister suddenly goes missing, Jin-tien must stand for her in a magic show. While inside the box, she is confronted with the childhood Jin-tien, Jin-hua and their mother. A very lyrical film about memories of loved ones.
'Peng! Snowman' is a feature length documentary about a farmer's son who became one of the worldwide best martial artists. Just forget what you know about martial arts master. Peng will redefine the term: He's a funny, crazy genius! At the age of 60, Peng Wu-Chi was willing to share his incredible story for the first and last time - before he disappeared.
A non-typical story about immigration—a Taiwanese student in Brussels investigates his identity crisis through a personal documentary essay.
Taiwan is overrun by zombies. A-Huo along with his wife, Gui-Chun, runs to a fishing harbor but misses the ferry they want to take. They decide to hide in an office of Fishermen's Association and get some rest. Gui-Chun is so exhausted. It is not until the moment when she asks him, 'what will you do if I am bitten by a zombie?' that A-Huo notices a bleeding bite on her arm.
Taipei in the 70's, a small village, with people from different backgrounds whom are tightly connected with each other. The Liu's daughter - Liang Liang is seven years old, she is a naive and lively child. One day, she bravely save her little friends from a fire in a car accident, unfortunately she fell into a coma. In her coma, she dreamed of participating in the nation's first marathon...
Somewhere in Myanmar is a forest rich in amber and controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Most of its inhabitants work in a mine, digging the earth night and days in the hope of finding the precious ore that will get them out of poverty. But on top of the excruciating hardship of the work, they also have to fear an attack from the army.
Selfie is a comedy of revenge, redemption, and smartphones, about a man who is coerced into donning a silly-looking superhero costume and forced to 'fight crime'. The story is told entirely via video chat.
Zhe stole money from Wei, and pinned it on borderline man in class, Kang. They deceive the others and struggled in bullying on campus. At night, Zhe comes across a woman seriously wounded by an accident. Still, he chooses to flee on the spot. Will he confess his mistake, or getaway with the consequences of his wrongdoing?
80 years ago, Seediq people living in the mountains of Taiwan organized an uprising against the Japanese colonial rulers: the rebellion known as the "Wushe Incident". In this documentary, the descendants of the Wushe survivors talk about that history from their point of view, and lead us to the places where the tragedies took place.
A documentary on King Hu.
In the midst of a passionate affair with a married woman, arts teacher Ariel must choose between sating her sexual desires or living an open life free of broken promises.
Apin returns to the forgotten village, a place that has long been abandoned. At night, he steps on to a sacred spot, clad in the traditional Pangcah attire. He starts a lonely dance and song, with no-one there to hold his hands.
On the rooftop, a little boy, Zai-Zai, finds his cousin, Hsio-Fei, who is avoiding a family funeral ceremony. He notices that Hsio-Fei has a new cellphone and wonders how he got it. He accidentally uncovers an unspeakable secret hidden deep inside Hsio-Fei’s heart.
At its narrative heart is a ‘neo-noir’ thriller: a genre exploring the darker aspects of the modern world. A young woman on the margins of society is desperate enough to sell her own blood. But when her rare blood type is sought after for a high-level political figure, a game of cat and mouse ensues between her, the buyer, and the black market forces that would happily kill the girl for her valuable lifeblood.
In this short documentary, actor Shih Chun addresses his longtime collaboration with director King Hu and his performance as Gu Sheng-zhai in A Touch of Zen.
30 years after the Taiwanese New Wave first emerged, the veterans such as Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang remain active in their careers. Ten of Edward Yang's former assistants have become directors. The filmmakers of the younger generation are facing a Taiwanese audience hungry for films that link them with Taiwanese society, whether they are fictional or not.
Look at Me is a romantic melodrama, taking place in the near future where everyone relies on VR technology. Zhang suffers VR addiction and so do the people around him. He is depressed because his girlfriend doesn' t look at him anymore during their dates and, as a result, their sex life turns cold. Zhang is frustrated until he discovers a world where people crave for "real interaction."
The film explores Lin Hai-yin’s unique perspective of having “two homelands,” narrated by her daughter Julie Chang. It highlights her life, work as an editor, and her role in overcoming censorship. Lin Hai-yin’s novels, known for their inclusiveness, remain a shared memory for cross-strait readers. She was a friend to writers and a courageous mother, nurturing Taiwanese literature post-war. As editor of the United Daily News, she supported writers like Lin Hwai-min and founded the Belles-Lettres Publishing House. Her living room was a literary hub, and she is fondly remembered as “Ms. Lin Hai-yin.” Her novel Memories of Peking: South Side Stories was published in 1960.
New Year's Eve, 16-year-old boy fell in love with girls half a head taller than him, he was determined to be desperate and want in the coming year is 10 cm long to pull her hand. This seems simple wish affects the entire family, divorced father, mother, grandparents each side to help him seek medical attention, and asked the Buddha, to find secret; a relative accused personally. After a day the amount of that dream of one day after the height of a step back, but one day may not grow the fate of the force step before the finish this year's 365 steps, 16-year-old boy how to face their own and that hand is less than love? Hot-sensitive youth and family involved entanglement and date are used to measure height of the cold numbers continue to puncture, the interval; the world the joy of New Year's countdown, hip-hop Fight radiant, seems humorous plot and fiddled with adolescents struggling with arms stand up, that's like a boulder rolling down hill like a heavy fate.
It’s difficult making the transition from being single to starting a relationship. So how should we cope? Echo Each Other abandons spoken dialogue, instead using sign and body language to silently communicate with the audience.
Time can dilute sexual desire, but will it arouse the emotions between them?
Despite harsh condemnation and denunciation from society, a heterosexual female pastor founded Taiwan's first LGBT-affirming church in May 1996. For LGBT Christians, who had been rejected by the Christian community for a long time, they finally have a church that offers them a safe haven. Though the founder has passed away, the church members continue to make their voice heard, confronting the unjust social institutions while struggling with religious conflict at the same time. Come hell or high water, they strive to make a difference in the lives of others by telling their own life stories, in hope that love will eventually trump hate and solve misunderstanding someday.
2013 chinese traditional new years special film filmed by Taiwan PTS(Public Television Service).
Photography that captures the past turns into a photo lost in somewhere, she disappears yet I feel relieved to lose everything.
As a young boy, Fa'aye spent his days alongside his father deep in their lands, surrounded by towering bamboo and learning the ways of Atayal culture and knowledge. Now an elder, Fa'aye is caught between the trappings of the present day and trying to maintain a meaningful connection to his traditional territory, which has now been privatized by the state. With his young grandson in tow, Fa'aye is determined to return to the forest and reassert his duty to care for the bamboo despite the serious legal ramifications of his actions. The Crying Bamboo Forest is a remarkable first feature film that reflects the struggles and challenges currently faced by many Indigenous people living in Taiwan.
Meet four Taiwanese women, the actual "leftover ladies" fighting to stay breathing in a somewhat stifling society. Since 2012, their friend in common, Chou Tung-yen, has been "stalking" them, capturing on film moments of these women's daily lives.
劇中人物由菱，身為禮儀師， 深知死亡帶來的悲傷， 除了「不捨」，更多是「遺憾」。 由菱藉著己身特殊的感應能力， 傳達死者來不及說出口的話， 彌補了生者的遺憾，得到慰藉。 但由菱對自己母親卻因誤會， 早已不再往來， 直到由菱發生車禍， 一連串的後續影響揭開了當年的真相， 由菱這才知道自己錯怪了媽媽， 無奈這時的由菱， 已是一縷幽魂， 在行往另個世界的旅途中了…… 由菱沒想到，她看盡人生無常的悔憾， 最後同樣的事也發生在了自己身上。 人常說，生命短暫，所以值得珍惜； 而「當下」，瞬間即成「過往」， 因此更顯把握不易。 但願每個靈魂在跨越生死界線時， 都是一個美麗旅程的結束， 也是另一個美麗旅程的開始。
It’s a single-parent family, but there is always laughter coming through the door. Their house is like an aquarium; the ray surrounding the fluorescent light and the delicate oxygen bubbles from the air pumps are like the mother's arms, shielding them from the outside world.
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A documentary on the maker movement and its impact on society, culture and economy in the U.S.
Mr. Grey struggling with his delusions fails to see the basic needs of his family. When he lies on his sickbed in the hospital, he remembers his long-forgotten wish is to build ““a house with a toilet”” for his Granny…
A film director interviews Burmese refugees about their experiences encountering oppression and cruelty in their homeland, and reads aloud poetry about the destruction of Hiroshima by atomic bomb.
In order to take care of his old mother, who has amnesia and is disabled, Xia Changming remains unemployed at home. A family of four have been relying on the wife Xiaoling for many years. Finally, when the police brought the mother back, and his wife took his son away, Changming decided to take his mother to on a trip...
It's a simple story of how a blind person uses his own way to take care of a 6 yrs old little girl. The movie shows a colorful and sporty blind people's world through this little girl's eyes.
In this film, the idea of the iron rabbit is used as a metaphor for bisexuals’ situation. Something that looks like a rabbit is not necessarily a rabbit. When a straight couple appears, people often consider them to be ordinary heterosexuals. And when two gay people get together, people simply think of them as homosexuals. In this instinctive view, which holds that people are either homo or hetero, bisexuals seem to fade out. This film is a real reflection of the lives of bisexual people in Taiwan. We hope that through the film, people can understand more about bisexuals.
Andy is a novelist who works from home. One day, a girl mysteriously appears in his toilet. She claims to be from the future and needs his help. Her name is Pomegranate.
The film is based on the Founder of Causeway Bay Books - LAM Wing-kee’s experience after he was temporarily released back to Hong Kong after 8 months of detention in Mainland China. LAM was demanded by the authorities to retrieve his computer in the bookstore in Hong Kong, alongside with the information of his customers. Only when he found out that his colleague handed over to him the wrong computer, should he start to think about possibilities besides submitting to authorities from Mainland China. The film re-enacts the events happened in the two days he was allowed to return to Hong Kong and explores LAM’s decision to defy, and refuse to leave his homeland.
On the vernal equinox, teachers of the fifth and sixth graders ask for a temporary leave. The school asks everyone to study on their own.
A pioneer in Taiwan’s contemporary dance scene, Lo Man-fei receives a beautiful tribute from director En Chen, a decade after her passing. Three years in the making, Manfei traces the life and work of the dance legend, including her early days at the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, her studies at New York’s most prestigious dance schools, and the founding of her Taipei Crossover Dance Company. Featuring rare footage of Lo’s graceful performances as well as candid conversations with her closest friends and collaborators, Manfei is a stirring journey into the heart of a true artist and a moving remembrance for a dearly missed member of the Taiwan art world.
This "site-specific" animation works in "Eslite Book Art Studio" and "Fuzhou Art Village" ,made during the creation of in-store,Used 26 days in the bookstore collect 26 clues, randomly selected 13, and accord- ing to in-store shop in the observed period of readers, the occurrence of the phenomenon, reading books and articles, continuous painting images presented in writing to the store Kinks, made into 13 very short mini-drama unit and situations to concatenate dynamic way of painting their records and fantasy, and finally concentrated in store logs written to the image to become one of the units on theater happening here.
This animated film presents the journey of a queer person, exploring sexuality and the queer community. It illustrates an observation of the modern queer society and fantasies toward the freedom of gender fluidity, reflecting the real situation of the community where discriminations, freedom, and love coexist.
Jessie is going to be 18, a grown-up. After Jessie's father left them, her mom wants to start a new life and ends the gas service store they own. Mom wants to erase anything about her husband. She even wants to throw away the motorcycle which helped them carrying the gas tank. To Jessie, gas service store is not only a gas service but the whole picture of family. Motorcycle carries not only gas tanks but also the memories. Jessie's dad becomes her secret coach, teaching her how to ride motorcycle behind her mom. When Jessie rides the motorcycle with her head down, her dad always encourages her to head up and to look forward. On the runway of the motorcycle test, Jessie tries to keep the balance between parents, motorcycle and herself. Does the 7 seconds mean the starting bell of her life or the final?
A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a screenwriting collaborator, a script supervisor, and a companion.