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Abishag is an Indonesian Muslim who tries to make a living in Taiwan. Her job is to look after an old man aboned by his own family. The old man locks himself, Abishag, in his own confined space, watches porn films all day long, trying to feel alive again. Abishag is not used to her work; it requires intimate contacts when doing diaper changing jobs, which makes her very uncomfortable, let alone her religious belief rules the opposite. No one can escape from death; the old man knows it. He tries to feel the energy of life from Abishag but fails in attempt. Day after day, these two reluctant persons manage to constrain their sadness, but the pressure is about to explode. Love may be the best present for the old man, but who is willing to offer that to him? Is Abishag able, willing to give?

There is a mysterious relationship between human and pets. They communicate in a non-verbal way. In the process of communication, they are full of feelings and guesses. This situation also exists in other intimate relationships.

It's Station Master Chen’s last day at work. The last train is sent off. Tomorrow on, he will be a mere Mr. Chen. He looks around the station where he’s worked his whole life, thinking of the people he’s sent off. Some come back, and some don’t. Finally, Chen realized the reason he stayed at the station. He’s been waiting for himself, who missed that train decades ago.

Somewhere in the South China Sea, a Chinese nuclear waste barrel draws a Taiwanese fisherman and his Filipino counterpart into a maritime conflict.

The well-known performance group Baixue Variety Troupe is formed by four students from the National Taipei University of the Arts who love to perform. For five years, they have insisted on creative costume performances.

A camel looking for his missing wife in the desert faces the dilemma of chasing after his treasure or continuing his journey. It's the story of how someone recognises the most important thing in life while suffering from dementia.

An amalgam of colorful shots of chemical pollution superimposed on aerial shots, disturbing images of burning smokestacks, and purposely distorted sounds and images work to portray unconventional industrial sights and the vividness of air pollution that would otherwise be difficult to do.

Inspired by the diaries left by Miao-jin QIU (1969–1995), Taiwan’s most renowned lesbian writer, the story begins with twenty-four hours in the life of Mai, a young expatriate writer. She shuts herself in her apartment while writing the last chapter of her novel Last Words.

CAFÉ TOGO looks at the efforts to change street names with colonial connotations in the so-called Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter) in Berlin-Wedding. According to Berlin’s street law, every street named after a person honors that person. Petersallee, Lüderitzstraße, and Nachtigalplatz bear the names of persons whose biographies are tainted by the blood of the victims of German colonialism. According to the law, streets that do not correspond to today’s understanding of democracy and human rights should be renamed.

This experimental animation made out of multi-techniques, to explore the new possibilities of mixing the stop motion and computer graphic images in animation making.

Kinmen is a group of islands governed by Taiwan and a solid base for the capitalist camp during the Cold War era. Kinmen commenced its construction of military fortifications in 1958, with millions of soldiers stationed on the island. As the USSR communist bloc gradually disintegrated, Kinmen began a large-scale withdrawal of troops in 1988, placing the lives of the island’s 50,000 residents in a predicament after having relied on soldiers to earn a living for so long. With the improvements of cross-strait relations, large amounts of Chinese tourists now flood the very islands they once rained countless bombs on. Tourists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait now take group photos in front of fortifications, but will the future of the cross-strait relations be as fine as the seemly peace?

In Hpakant, Myanmar, poor young people are numerous. Some of them engage in drug trafficking and make a living out of it. Some of them choose to leave Hpakant in pursuit of love. Some of them stay in Hpakant and dream that the jade hidden in the mountains might be the hope of improving their future lives; thus they often sing this song: “…before the best of luck comes, don’t underestimate we, jade miners…”.

On a calm summer day, children want to have a different end of the vacation......

This is a story about the descendants of Takasago Giyutai (Taiwan Indigenous volunteer units during the Pacific War) went back to the battle field of the Pacific War in Papua New Guinea following the footsteps of their grandfathers, and made a monument based on a legend of ‘Amis people who believe the soul would return home by taking the wings of a certain kind of bird. The monument was build up at the Mission Hill in Wewak, where was a Japanese naval base during the War, there are two monuments, one of them was set up by the Japanese in 1969 and the other one was build up by the Australians afterwards. A monument is not only a way to memory the history, but also a cultural representation on the spiritual world, questioning that “do you believe the soul really have returned home by taking the wings?”

The director holds the membership of the current Taiwan Film Institute, the former Chinese Taipei Film Archive and Film Library, for more than 30 years. He interviewed the former and current staffs of this institution hoping to find the meaning of his experience by talking to these old friends. But all the interviewees switched position and become the interviewers after 10 minutes. They could ask any questions to the director. By crosscutting various questions and his wondering around in his motorbike, the director went through a self-reflexive process.

Joe is a young woman who has left Taipei for Paris to forget her ex-girlfriend, Jenny. Unfortunately, even on the other side of the world, she still thinks about her. One day, Jenny's friend Min arrives in Paris. She brings Joe a present from Jenny. Jenny, who has rebuilt her life and recently got married. Joe and Min spend several days visiting the French capital, Min systematically forgetting to bring Joe the gift. When she finally thinks of him, Joe is left with a locked padlock and a missing Min...

To solve the problem of styrofoam, an adventure of beach cleanup in Penghu began. It started with a two-person studio and expanded to include many environmentalists. As they set foot on the small offshore islands to clean up beaches, challenges arose in the process. Is the carbon footprint generated during beach cleanup more environmentally unfriendly? How to deal with the piles of litter? These problems came as a great blow to them, just like waves crashing on the shore.

How do you feel when menstruation is regarded as ‘dirty’? Through various personal experiences of menstruation, the film explores how prejudice and stereotypes impact on the way women deal with their menstrual cycles and bodies.

Here is only one chance in life, and the way of education has a profound impact on the future of children; letting children go to school at home is a challenge and an experiment that does not allow failure... This film visits four families who have completely different backgrounds but also choose to teach themselves. Through the sharing of experiences between their children and their parents, it presents the appearance of the phenomenon of self-study in Taiwan today. Is the pursuit of the happy growth of one's own children contradictory to the hope that the children will become a dragon and a phoenix? What kind of learning environment should we prepare for children? How do families with different backgrounds and children with different qualifications choose appropriate education methods? What is best for children?

On January 23, 2001, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) staged and directed a self-immolation of Falun Gong practitioners to seek success. Through logical reasoning and analysis, the film shows clearly that a government-directed "drama" and self-immolation occurred to resolve a situation in which Jiang Zemin, then leader of the Chinese Communist Party, was "in a difficult position" to suppress Falun Gong. In addition, the film tells the story of how Falun Gong practitioners came out one by one to tell the truth, but were brutally persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party and tortured to death, but they did not give in and insisted on telling people the truth in a peaceful and rational manner. This spirit of perseverance and resilience in spite of life and death shook the audience to their core.

"""Magabahai"" means ""good"" in Taiwan Amis Tribe language. It's a story about the encounter of two different cultures."

During the Chinese Civil War, part of the KMT (Chinese Nationalist) forces retreated to the Thai-Burma border region. Under international pressure, most of the troops were evacuated to Taiwan in 1961, yet some remained. In northern Thailand and in central Taiwan, the two groups shared a similar destiny while they were apart. Now that over 50 years have passed, their differences gradually emerge, and their descendants are struggling with their identity.

We always play as a peeping Tom and the one peeped, releasing ourselves while learning messages from others’. Therefore, we need to have a dialogue with ourselves by recalling past in the end of the journey, in order to sum up the honest self and continue moving forward alone.

Wedding photos are the development of emotions. The unique cultural etiquette and true temperament of the Chinese society are all recorded in the wedding photos. It makes everyone believe that this is a dream factory that can exchange money for concrete happiness. Before entering into marriage, the prince and princess are looking forward to a happy and happy love and future. On the other side, the couple who are already in marriage, what they hear is a frank conversation between them. Looking back at the photo that symbolizes the marriage contract, what kind of form does the "intimacy", "happiness", or "love" between the two transform into?

This short documentary begins with the script. Its author is also the protagonist who works as location scout. The story is about the author himself, his mother who died before her time due to overworking and “that man” who abused his mother.

A series of moving images taken from observing dreams, subconsciousness, thoughts, emotions and personal memories.

On an ordinary morning, she brushes her teeth, but when she looks into her own image in the mirror, she sees totally a stranger. She had required a surgery three years ago to change her jaw. This is a story about a person who dislikes her body and decides to take action.

Following the death of a young girl’s beloved grandmother and pet, she is to relocate to the city with her parents despite their estrangement. While being told how to think, feel and behave by her parents, she reveals love in its rawest form.

Baryon is a science fiction story about teamwork, dreams and saving Earth by piloting giant Robot.In the near future, an unknown force destroys the 10 countries with the most advanced armed forces in the world. A team with scientists from different countries tries to use limited resources to cope with this difficult situation.

His mom promised she would watch and cheer for him at his table tennis match if he made it to the school competition. However, he’s not a good player and his old table tennis paddle broke during training. Most importantly, his father disapproves of him playing table tennis…

It is a visual record of long-lasting open wounds, Chinese medical progress, and the disappearance of memory. This documentary examines the current plight of a small group of elderly Chinese peasants who have been suffering from open wounds for over 70 years. The director visits some elderly surviving soldiers of Unit 731 – a WWII Japanese secret unit devoted to biological warfare.

A group of guerrillas retreated from Burma to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War in 1961. They settled down and lived in virtual seclusion in four villages in the south of Taiwan. Now, fifty years later, excavators are digging uncanny holes on their land for the sake of economic development. To them, the days of forest battles have long gone, but another silent inner war has just begun.

It is difficult to be accustomed to isolation. Yet sometimes people are unwilling to leave where they are, even if they are alone and others are just somewhere close. The fear of facing the new and hesitation stop them leaving their comfort zones. They are waiting for someone else to walk to their front actively and the situation might change.

An animated short where commerce and chaos collide.

Jiang Jun Zhi and Fang Min En is a married couple, but both are gay, and each has his or her own lover. This morning, the guy received a call from his father informing them that he will be dropping by the new flat soon. Caught completely off guard, Jiang Jun Zhi and Fang Min En panicked, hurriedly sent both their lovers away, and started tidying up the room. They could not find their wedding ring, and got into a heated argument. Unexpectedly, the parents showed up at the door.

A story about a man and his girlfriend on a hot summer day.

The crowd follows their desire to pursue a goal that seems beautiful. I express the desire of people through their possession of chair. This film is to think about desire through the contrast of minimalist style and interaction of the person with the chairs.

Tut is a 52-year-old fisherman living in Kampot. In spite of the language barrier, he recounts for the first time and without any words his past during the Khmer Rouge regime, demonstrating the torture he experienced in prison the year he turned fifteen.

The blood red rose up in the east, Yen-si waits for the bus that was going to take her far away from here. Her husband, Wang Zi-wu, call made her stop in her tracks. Despite being treated like a caged bird by Zi-wu she still managed to break away from her shackles.

“My Life Against Taiwan Sotofuku – 1891~1931” is Taiwan’s first biographical animated documentary. The film combines animation, archival photos, footage, and sound theater to recreate the heroic epic of CHIANG Wei-shui, the “the Savior of Taiwanese People,” during Japan’s colonial rule of Taiwan. Through first-person flashback narrations, Taiwan’s pioneer revolutionary CHIANG Wei-shui tells the turbulent tale of the rise and fall of Taiwan’s non-violent anti-Japanese movements, as well as a lifetime of remarkable resistance against Taiwan Sotofuku (Japan’s colonial government). Cast

In an advanced city far into the future, a unique race called “The Human Cannonball Tournament” takes place. Contestants are fired from a series of cannons from a platform, and compete through the circular city hovering high in the sky for the highest honor. Back in the tournament’s maintenance bay, the technician Zazel has a childhood dream of entering the race one day. By an unexpected turn of events, she accidentally gets mistaken for one of the contestants and is thrown into tournament. With no experience and equipment, can she fulfill her dream and reach the finish line?

He is going back to Hong Kong. He wanders in the city, meets with his friends. This is his last day in Taipei, where he has complicated feelings for.

Along with the trans-island family migration, all the closely- linked images, memories, and family letters/photos were intertwined with multiple languages. As far as my family is concerned, the idea of bloodline has served as a trans- geographical connection beyond boundaries in Southeast Asia, becoming like a gaze at my family history, gentle but steady.

Five Taiwanese teenagers, faced with sweeping and untested educational reforms in 1996, revealed their dreams in the CommonWealth Magazine documentary "A Generation Freed." Their lives were then revisited in 2006 in the film "A Generation Freed - 10 Years Later" to see how the more liberal education system had affected them. Now, another decade later, we find out in "A Journey of 35" if indeed they were able to chase their dreams and if their horizons have grown brighter with adulthood or become more cynical.

Sometimes you are the only one that can really see what’s out there.

Sometimes forces greater than the grid forces their way in.

A short film that has a purely core and talks about memory.

An outcast chick teams up with a boy who shares the same name to defeat a plot to infect the world with a virus.

Receiving the news of his brother's death, A-Han, his mother and half-sister who had left home for a long time, meet at the mortuary. The past complicated family relationship has come up again.