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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.

A mother of two sons, one with piano talent, and one with illness. The talented son’s piano recital day is a trip and a task for all of them.

Originally designed as a multi-channel video installation, the film The Walker ingeniously deconstructed the background stories and the plays of the legendary Taiwan Walker Theatre which pretty much represents some underground culture scenes of 1990's Taipei. Based on a multi-character narrative structure, the film re-interprets the velocity, prime-time, rebellion, physical pleasure and ethical minefield referred to in these plays. With its Dream-like images, The Walker reminds us of the utopia pictured previously by the Taiwan Walker Theatre, indicating a polysemous, hybridized art world whose components range from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Poetry, literature, painting and old film clips converge in this lyrical, unusually designed film essay about Le Moulin, the Taiwanese poets’ collective which protested in the 1930s against the cultural superiority of the Japanese occupier and the domination of realism in poetry.

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...

A-Tsui, the owner of an old grocery store, is always bored with the dull life with his wife. One day, A-Tsui happens to make a call for a prostitute. He seems to be a little clumsy in the city with the young prostitute before they get caught by the prostitute’s boyfriend.

To compensate the loss of Lu’s brother, Lu, the captain of judo team at school, has been brought up by her mother as a substitute of her brother in Beijing. In the seemingly masculine appearance, she secretly falls in love with Nicole, the internet celebrity girl from Taiwan. Lu and Nicole meet each other in a judo competition of which the winner would have the chance to become the leading actress in an action film. Nicole wins the competition, but she disappears right before the movie start shooting. As Nicole’s substitute, Lu then has the chance to play the leading actress of the action movie. But the thing is, is Lu able to find her own self-identity and be the real her in one’s life?

Futing, who returns to the tribe on vacation, is suddenly told to replace his grandfather to participate in Sacepo' (sea festival). However, as it's already difficult for Futing to speak his own mother tongue, how could he catch fish in the sea? Just when he is about to escape, he meets Lisin, a lovely girl who stays in the tribe to work in exchange for board and lodging. Her eyes are full of admiration immediately when she hears that Futing is going to participate in the sea festival. In order to win the hearts of Lisin, Futing tries his best to learn how to fish in the sea.

Is it possible that a group of people share our culture and fate, but are drifting in another part of the ocean? Taiwanese aboriginal musicians, Suming and Baobu, are invited to New Caledonia for a month of musical exchange. They lived with local Kanak musicians, playing music and sometimes composing together. In the end, they all found that the secret to innovation and globalization is to re-discover one’s own cultural roots.

San is the owner of an old watch and clock shop that has past its prime. He never leaves his store, until an old friend passed away. San finally decides to go hiking, yet ends up with a broken leg. The monkeys in the mountains are making fun of him.

A cancer patient who is looking for redemption forms an unexpected bond with a nurse who is questioning her life choices

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.

In the village, the boy offers help but is turned down by everyone. Later his friend asks him to help on their fish farm and take the motor to the neighbouring village afterwards. But he loses the key and is determined to find it although the tide is coming in.

A monk must come home to take care of his dying mother. The problem is his mother is still mad at him for leaving home years ago, so she does not want to see him again. However, since the moment the monk stepped into home, everything around here has triggered his deepest memory...

LIN is the captain of a Starship “Lucretius.” Their mission is to explore the scale of the universe. However, the endless journey makes the crew’s mind twisted. Engineer John ordering LIN to return to Earth. LIN tries to fight back and in the process is stabbed by John. The trauma forces LIN to fall into deep sense of unconsciousness…

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.

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…

A brother and a sister, a picture thrown away by mom. The way back to grandpa's house is 133 kilometers long. The two decide to bring the picture with them and start a road trip.

La Camera Insabbiata is a virtual reality work by the legendary artist Laurie Anderson, and Taiwanese new media artist Hsin-chien Huang. The work recently won the Best VR Experience Award at the 74th Venice Film Festival and the two artists have been approached by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for a new VR production . La Camera Insabbiata consists of eight unique rooms, where the viewers enter a virtual world made of blackboards symbolizing “memory,” and freely fly around to explore words, drawings, symbols, sounds, and memories.

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.

A beautiful young girl intrudes into the life of a married couple and while seducing each of them, she brings pleasures they have never experienced before. To her, it's all a game and doesn't realize the grave consequences it ensues.

Truku elder Temu continues to work in the field after he has passed the land down to his sons. One day, the family is holding a ritual, but Halong, Temu's second son is late. Soon after the ritual begins, Siqay, Temu's eldest son, asks Halong to talk to the land developer.

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!

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.

Lee Wang is the most hard-working member of the volleyball team, but she hadn't got any chance to be on court. Finally, she got the opportunity to be on court because of the absence of Yu Shao, the ace on the team. However, this is also a turning point of their friendship...

Tsunma, an honorific term connoting “noble, delicate, and pure”, refers to the Tibetan Buddhist Nuns of the Himalayan Region who have been largely dismissed or forgotten by the traditions they follow and the societies they’ve served. Taiwanese photographer Lin Li-Fang undertook a solo journey up 4,270 meters into the Himalayan Plateau and lived for an entire summer with some of these nuns and recorded life in the unforgiving environment dubbed “The Roof of the World”. There, Li-fang captured a life devoted to hope and faith and a people possessing a unique kind of tolerance, humility, and perseverance. This is a story of the Nuns of the Himalayas, of seeing one’s life through theirs, that is, a life lived in faith and with the spark of a summer eternal.

Ranko and Shuhei both arrived in New York 3 years ago. One is a hairdresser, the other, a Jazz singer; both hoped to make it in city. 3 Years later, Shuhei tells Ranko that he is leaving New York and returning to Japan so he can make a better living, leaving Ranko to reflect on their relationship and say goodbye to the once passionate dreams of making it in the big city.

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.

This is more than a family affair... Jie was divorced and had part-time job to make a living. However, his life was majorly relying on her mother's pension for the financial support. After the death of his mother, Jie's life was in a chaos. In order to raise his son, Guang, and make ends meet, Jie took an absurd decision - trying to hide his mother's dead body. Suddenly, the polices came to visit. What would Jie and Guang react for the unexpected condition?

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 little kite breaks its tether, running away in its own odyssey of self-discovery.

Yu-Yin is a math teacher in a junior high school, She plays a very important role in both her students and her family's lives. However she receives the trickiest question in life just when she was about to go on a relaxing trip. Jun-ho, an adolescent boy in 9th grade, is going through the chaos of his parents divorce and the great pressure of going to high school. With a perfect coincidence, The two desperate souls met in a gas station at midnight. They were going to look at the cows at first, but then a very heart to heart conversation began while they walked into the night. The night is still dark and full of unknown incidents, a life that is stuck may be stuck forever, but with warm company, we might regain the courage once more...

This documentary turns the spotlight on an overlooked component of filmmaking: the art of foley through the perspective of Taiwan’s most experienced master, Hu Ding-yi. Hu has worked tirelessly for decades in his studio, manually recreating diegetic sounds (sounds whose source are visible on screen) using his large collection of everyday objects. Through the artisan’s eyes, Wang Wan-jo’s timely documentary looks back at the golden age of Taiwanese cinema and examines the new dynamics of the Greater China film industry. Hu received the Lifetime Achievement prize at the 2017 Golden Horse Awards.

Director Tso-chi Chang made this film with his fellow inmates in prison. It tells the stories of eight prisoners, whose sentences together add up to more than a hundred years. What kind of incidents will touch their hearts and help them find direction in life?

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.

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.

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.

Yunlin, literally "the cloud forest", is named for its dense forest and cloudy landscape in past time. This wonderland relies mainly on agriculture and fishery. As the time passes, the forest gradually disappears but the beautiful cloud remains. The cloud forest looks the same in a different way.

HSU Tzu-chiang was pronounced guilty and sentenced to death in a 1995 kidnap and murder case despite the lack of forensic evidence. After a 16-year effort by NGOs, HSU was released with a life sentence in 2016. Now he continues to fight to prove his innocence. Director Chi has been documenting Hsu's story since 2012. The journey brought Chi face-to-face with the shortcomings of human society and inspired his investigation into why the judicial system failed HSU.

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.

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.

In a dystopian world, the power of speech is the bond between a man and his daughter.

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.

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.

About the past , my memory are fading and The past "I" is also vanishing . Considering the question of the relation between "I" and its image and death.

The story of two girls, Alice Zhang and Fan Chung Graham, who grew up together in Taiwan in the 60s and dreamt of pursuing math.

The film consists of four stories about four different dogs and their owners' lives, reflecting love, life and departure.

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...

Wenya's parents separated when she was two, and after that she lived with her father and stepmother. Her stepmother couldn't stand her and was always arguing with her father. He had little choice-he had to send Wenya to her mother's house, but her mother was fully focused on running her business and didn't have any time to take care of Wenya, so she was often shuttled off to her relatives' and friends' homes to be fostered. After so many years of a life of foster care, young Wenya felt lonely and helpless, and longed for the warmth of a home.