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To the people of Paiwan, one of Taiwan's indigenous tribes, Shamanism is an important part of their culture. However, a decline in the number of shamans has raised concerns that this old tradition is dying. Two childhood friends of the Paiwan tribe return to where they grew up and start a shamanism school, hoping to pass on the rituals to a new generation. But in order to train new shamans, they will have to convince the old ones first.
Three mothers became friends because of their kids with autism. They learn, encourage, and support each other. Although they live in different regions of Taiwan, they form a strong relationship and connection. The tough moms arrange trips and visit each other with their kids, helping these Asperger syndrome kids to experience different family lifestyles, learn social skills, build and maintain relationships.
Puppeteer Chen Hsi-huang establishes his own troupe and moves out from under the shadow of his father, the legendary Li Tien-lu.
Tensions between society’s expectations and true happiness are explored in this compelling short film that tells the story of three gay men who are entangled in doomed romances.
After graduation from colleague, Jing must pack all stuff in the dormitory before her parents coming to drive her home.Her boyfriend Kevin try to help her clean the room but only mess it up.They get quarrel before separation, even have no time to say goodbye.
In a world where the "Rememory" device allows people to relive fragments of their past memories, many choose to escape reality and immerse themselves in nostalgic reverie. This widespread addiction prompts the government to ban the device. Unable to let go of her past, Alexia decides to relive her cherished memories one last time before the system is shut down. But as she embarks on her nostalgic journey, she encounters an unexpected guest in her memories, leading to unforeseen revelations and a confrontation with reality.
Late at night, there are animals minding their own business beside a lake. Some of them meet at the end, and then they drink tea and making sticky rice happily together ever since. This is a film about metaphors, view with a caution.
After being fired from her previous job, Qin-Qin, a 30-year-old beer girl, feels lost and tries to get drunk. Wandering through the darkened lanes of a fish market, she ponders the meaning of life. There she discovers a late night seafood stand, where she finds what she has been longed for…
As the aftermath of World War II and the Chinese Civil War morphed into the Cold War, Taiwan was ruled under martial law from 1949 to 1987. During the height of the White Terror in the 1950s, thousands of suspected Communists and subversives were arrested; many of them simply disappeared forever. In 1993 a forgotten graveyard of 201 unclaimed victims was rediscovered at Liuzhangli on the outskirts of Taipei. Experimental filmmaker Lin Hsin-I’s Letter #69 explores the violence and injustice that still haunt Taiwan today through the letters of Shi Shui Huan, a political prisoner during the White Terror—all the way up to her last letter before being executed, a blank piece of paper.-UCLAFilm&TV
Although Tsi-an and Yi-rui are an invincible duo in table tennis doubles, Tsi-an’s technique is in no comparison to Yi-rui’s. Tsi-an, frustrated by her sense of inferiority, beseeches the coach, Yi-rui’s father to give her additional drill. During an one-on-one training session, she develops a crush on the coach. Ping Pong Coach adopts Tsi-an’s point-of-view to narrate her romantic fantasy in an understated manner, which in the event gives rise to her bewilderment, joy, disappointment and growth. LIN Yen-chen, who plays Tsi-an, captures the capricious behaviour of the teenagers in her delicate performance, Yi-rui and Tsi-an’s grandmother also leave behind a vivid impression during a brief screen time.
The film peers through the conditions of different social groups and their accusation, compromization, and pondering over their lives from the perspective of a taxi driver Huang and presents different issues in his daily family life; describing the disturbance from his wife’s point of view about the money and the marriage and all the absurd but real situation like how she turned to friend and god when facing difficulties; depicting his daughter’s troubles from the school, her boyfriend, her pregnancy and how she dealt with them in a seemingly mature but actually naive way. The driver, his wife, and his daughter held their own secrets until he came across a robbery, smashing the peaceful illusion of his family and tempting the improper thought inside him.
CONTRAPELO is the story of a proud Mexican barber who is forced to shave the leader of a drug cartel. As he faces the man who is destroying his country, he is confronted by a difficult.
In an intimate and exciting journey to the root, the film follows a family based in Okinawa, Japan, that visits Taiwan to rediscover their family origins.
In 2067, the population in Taiwan declines fast and the proportion of elderly people weighs heavily on the scale.
Thirty-year-old Zhihong, who is still living with his sister, is a useless young man in the eyes of everyone. His daily pleasure is to peek at his sister's girlfriend Li Yifan through the crack of the curtain. A turmoil about Yifan's relocation gave the two a chance to spend time alone. As their relationship progressed, Zhihong gradually released his long suppressed desire
The film consists of four stories about four different dogs and their owners' lives, reflecting love, life and departure.
A story, between father and son, happened round dinner table in the kitchen. "Bland lunch, day after day. the father who lives in the fridge. Discontented son. Inside the kitchen. Repast. Communication. Genes. On the verge of breaking out." Father and son came into a conflict because of a decision made by the son. To indicate the relationship between them through their reaction on that circumstances. We are all have some dissatisfaction with our parent’s personality,but meanwhile,we will gradually find them in yourself when you are growing up. The trepidation and the contradictory state.
Chu Liuxiang robs from the rich to help the poor and upholds justice in the jianghu.
A new style musical documentary that tells the biography of Yi-Feng Hung, the King of Taiwanese songs. The story begins in 2010 when the three sons of Hung promised to perform a concert for their father. In search of their father, the brothers discovered the missing pieces of their lives and gradually pieced together the life of the legendary music master they loved.
A father with a wife and child who wears lipstick and dresses in women's clothing, hoping to become a woman; A graceful and beautiful woman who has an unspeakable secret when facing marriage; A teenage girl who is about to learn how to become a woman. What does it mean to be 100% female?
Oriental Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) is one of the raptors in Taiwan that specifically builds their nests in “ferns”. While other buzzards migrate between cold northern continent and warm southern islands, they prefer to propagate in Taiwan. Ninety-nine Peaks is their major habitat. With different feather colors, this species can only be distinguished from other birds by their long narrow beak and sharp claws. However, it is certain that all oriental honey buzzards love to eat pupa of bees. The Oriental Honey Buzzard of Ninety-nine Peaks is a documentary produced by Raptor Research Group of Taiwan and published by Forestry Bureau, Council of Agriculture Executive Yuan in 2011. This film not only was nominated in the 34th Montana International Wildlife Film Festival but also won the first –run film in the National Ecological Film Festival and the Best Animal Behavior Award at the 2011 Japanese Wildlife Film Festival.
A night-year-old kid's divorced parents are both having new families. He leaves his father's house in Taipei and goes on a road trip to seek shelter at his mother's B&B in Hualien but only finds out there's no such place for him to call home.
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The financial problems of a Jewish community are a nightmare for their leader, Rabbi Aaron. Cornered and overwhelmed, Aaron tries a last resort: embark on a trip to the Far East to get donations.
This film uses a humorous way to present the spirit of Taiwanese. A little green bean named as Kao Hsiung NO.9, a doctor of bean a young farmer, they are going to find a new path for Taiwan’s Agriculture. Those people are keeping learning adapting the world trends.
Everyday Maneuver is a video that presents the viewer with an unrealistic scenery. Shot from a drone, it shows a city at daytime, but there isn't a single human being in it. What seems disconnected from everyday life, and as artificial as a landscape created with computer graphics, is in fact a recording that was made during one of the annual "Wanan Air Raid Drills" that have been implemented in Taiwan since 1978.
This father was a loser, who abandoned his wife and children and finally wandered and fooled around as a taxi driver.
Kai wants to become a pastor, following his father's footsteps, which causes a misunderstanding between Kai and his closeted boyfriend Jay. On the other hand, Jay is thinking about going abroad for his training in the soccer team. They find themselves struggling with each other's choice.
On the rooftop a girl plans to jump from a building but bumps into a gangster cook who tries to persuade her not to commit suicide. Nevertheless, the two are not really on the same page.
The humid and lonely winter in Taipei still cannot even stop a person's footstep. Blurry illusions are the hidden rule for the relationships of modern people. Shu Yu is obsessed with scarlet red, and Ying Ru is cynical. They are both strolling down in this noisy city like an eel. They are on the way to discover themselves but also escaping from it.
The old man goes to mend window screens by his bike. He passes through busy streets, buildings, a night market and the Mazu Temple. Could all the ups and downs in his life attribute to his calm today?
Jitze, a young professional video game player who travels the world competing in tournaments, unexpectedly witnesses an accident in Taipei.
Sam has OCD. After he broke up with his girlfriend, Yu Ting, his OCD got more serious. When Sam tried to overcome his OCD, Sam's brother, Ken, took Sam to jogging. One day, they met a girl when they were jogging.
A man's real estate investment begins to take a serious toll on him when he tries to flip the property for a profit.
Due to his rebellious personality, Hao gets fired from his work. He takes all his belongings to stay at Tod's place. Unsatisfied with the current situation but remaining hopeful to the future, they try to do something to get back against the world and get what they deserve, even they have to go separate ways.
A-Juan and A-Jin, an old couple in Taiwan, hope for their son to return home from Mainland China as they go through difficult times while everything seems to get worse...
In November, 2008, Chen Yun-lin visited Taiwan, a critical moment in history where the first official Chinese envoy to ever step on Taiwan soil in 60 years. Meanwhile, Taiwan people's freedom of speech and personal liberty were severely suppressed by the state apparatus. Student protesters assembled via internet networking all over the place, to voice their anger at the abuse of their common value. In the course of the struggle, suspicion arises among members of the movement due to ideological differences and distrust. They are engrossed in activism, schoolwork, active citizenship, politics, passion and self-reflection. Here in Taipei, in this square, in their twenties.
It's almost been one year since his boyfriend committed suicide on the day of the Moon Festival, in their own home. Wei, left alone, struggles to leave his memory behind and isolates himself in the apartment that torments him.
High in the mountains of Taiwan, is the remote village of Smangus. Inhabited by a unique group of indigenous people called the Tayal, Smangus is the only place in Taiwan that now practices common ownership of land and property. This is a place where nature and man have found balance. Now, witness every part of the lives of these people, through pain and joy, and experience the unique bonds formed with the ancient trees around them, in a film that documents A Year In The Clouds - a year amongst the sacred forests of this tribe.
A star of the Taiwanese student movement, a celebrity Chinese student who loves Taiwan, and a Taiwanese documentary filmmaker passionate about politics. Each of them shared dreams of rebellion and building a better country. In the wake of the biggest social movement in Taiwan in recent years, they reflect on how close they came to realising their goals, how they were let down, and whether it is still possible to continue fighting for ideals.
Lin, a young boy bullied in school. Classmates accuse Lin's father of being a serial killer since he caused a hit-and-run accident several years ago. Lin turned to meat pie peddler who used to be a gangster. Lin stole his mother's money and asked the peddler to kill four of his classmates. But the peddler didn't take revenge for Lin; he ran away. Because of this, Lin transfers to a new school, a transformed person. From the scrawny boy bullied around, he has become the ring leader of a gang of bullies.
An enchanting fusion of choreography and cinema, IMMORTELLE is a broken-love story that creatively envisions the trials of separation. Having just split, the protagonists try to go about their daily lives, but lingering feelings materialize into the outside world. Their bare and unwelcoming interiors, echoing the emptiness within, are invaded by cadaveric doubles of the former lovers. These figments of the characters' minds struggle as if in a battle for life and death, the relationship’s dying breath. A deeply emotional experience, this is a film about feelings so strong that, in their quest for closure, they overpower reality.
失業二年多的吳發達謀職四處碰壁，開計程車突槌，連當小偷都失敗的被困在冰櫃裡讓警察救出來。還被房東趕出去，落得以車為家。阿達妻受不了，終於在一次夫妻衝突後拋家棄子而去。受到妻子的刺激，阿達挺而走險，戴著米老鼠面具去搶銀行，卻晚了一步碰到另二名搶匪在搶銀行，二名搶匪得手逃逸而去，阿達卻因為面具被搶匪打落而被銀行監視器拍到。 阿達逃出銀行時在門口迎面撞上因經濟風暴被資遣的電子公司高級主管余樂天。這一撞把阿達的皮匣撞落在樂天身上，樂天為了將皮匣還給阿達，跟在阿達後面追跑，而被誤會是搶匪集團的一夥。阿達因為在警局有案底，又不忍兒子阿吉啦無所依靠拒絕為樂天到警局澄清。而樂天也因潛藏回家時聽到妻兒間的對話，知道女兒對他的不諒解與怨恨而覺得心灰意冷。二人於是決定逃避通緝，帶著阿吉啦展開一場逃亡之旅。 三人一行來到南部，樂天到夜市的一家牛排攤問路，卻被老闆牛排王誤以為是朋友介紹來工作的幫工阿慶。樂天在百口莫辯的情況下被指使去作他一向拉不下面子做"粗鄙"的工作，當牛排王知道認錯人時，樂天覺得繼續逃亡下去也不是辦法，而且"粗鄙"的工作也不是想像中那麼不堪，因此拜託牛排王留用他，隱姓埋名留在牛排攤繼續跑桌。 這兩老一小的落跑三人組，租了一間老式公寓展開了它們的同居生涯。阿達在樂天的「以身作則」下了解責任的意義，也開始思考他為人父的責任，開始認真找工作。在一連串的碰壁後，阿達來到萬祥開的機車行，吳發達也就成了機車達。 牛排攤的工作讓樂天改變他的價值觀，放下他的虛榮心，讓他更加謙卑地重新認識生命的價值也更能體會快樂幸福的真諦。另一方面，因為在牛排攤工作常接觸到年輕人，樂天似乎比較能了解年輕人的生活與心態，這對因為過度投入工作而不知道如何與孩子溝通互動的樂天不啻是個意外收穫。 日子一天一天過去，這落跑三人組最終將會面對什麼樣的命運呢？他們的人生還有再次重來的機會嗎？
Wang Wen-xin, a revered novelist, is known for his deep appreciation of words and slow, deliberate writing style. He co-founded the literary magazine Modern Literature with classmates from National Taiwan University. His notable work, “Family Catastrophe,” published in 1973, was praised for its innovative language and realistic portrayal of interpersonal relationships. Another significant work, “Backed against the Sea,” took 25 years to complete and is celebrated for its modernist beauty. Wang is currently working on a new book, though its release date is unconfirmed.
How have one poet and his single book of poetry from the last century continued to inspire people today? A Life That Sings follows the legendary poet Ya Hsien from Vancouver to Nanyan, to the mobile library from his childhood and to the basement of his current home. Through his collection of books and love letters, the film unearths the treasure trove abound with stories of Ya Hsien's life.
A fascinating documentary, shot in the mountainous north of Burma. No filmmaker is welcome there, because, against the background of a civil war, the jade miners enter the deserted mines illegally. With the aid of filming locals, however, Midi Z was able to compile this portrait. Getting rich quick turns out to be hard and risky work Jade has always been a valuable commodity in Asia. In the mountains in the north of Burma there are valuable deposits of jade. The area forms part of Kachin State, inhabited by many ethnic groups which found themselves embroiled in the Civil War in 2010 with the Burmese government. Jade mining was halted because of the conflict. Thousands of workers, however, went to the war zone in order to dig for illegal jade. It turned the region into a no-go area and the filmmaker Midi Z, who had so far made feature films in Burma, saw no opportunity to go and film there. It was far too dangerous. © iffr.com