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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.

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.

Just as the young members of the swimming team spend another day training in the pool, the cusp of early puberty threatens to turn innocent friendship and camaraderie into something much more. Sixth-grader Yu-Hsuan has a closely guarded secret, but this tide of feelings inside is brewing into a storm…

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.

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.

In the afternoon, Zih Sin and Sheng Ya are not interested in the explanation about hundred-year village, so they ignore their tour guide to wandering around here. It’s surprising that everything is fantastic in the ruins for them. Therefore, they decided to leave the group and make an unmanned explorations in this village by themselves...

Ko-Ching, an innocent-wannabe girl suddenly went viral due to the help of her BFF Jia-Ling. The over night sensation pushed Ko-Ching closer to the top streamer Hsiao-Hsuan. The fame Ko-Ching got from streaming grew her vanity, but the price to pay is her bound with Jia-Ling, which causes Ko- Ching gradually loses her life and identity.

* Not to be confused with the 1979 version. Shot in Sucuo Village, in Tainan, Taiwan, by Chang Chao-Tang and Christopher Doyle, “The Boat Burning Festival” (1979) captures a ritual that takes place every two years. In 2019 a new, alternative version titled “The Boat Burning Festival+” featuring original music by Lim Giong was commissioned by M+ museum in Hong Kong.

A boy with a special talent discovers that he may never grow up. Those with power are devouring people's dreams and everyone is destined to be a slave. Can he break the rules and free the people or will people still blindly follow the rule?

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.

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….

It was almost the college entrance exam. Students were cramming til night at school. Zi-Fan, the president of student union, like every model student, he was working on tests while listening to a strange cassette. On the other hand, Zi-Fan's crush, Jie kept sneaking on Zi-Fan without letting him notice. When Zi-Fan saw Jie left the classroom, he followed his steps to the corridor and accidentally bumped into the candidate for the next president campaign. With the power of the magical cassette, Zi-Fan read the broken heart from a victim of domestic violence on this second-grader. The unbearable scream of agony reminded him of how he escape his bullied life by listening to others through the cassette. Zi-Fan ran away to the washroom where he recognized as a safe haven. With panic filled in his mind, he met Jie where he used to spent his darkest moments alone. Sensing his fear, Jie held Zi-Fan's hands and invited him to listen to his heart...

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.

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 ...

This film is based on concepts of panic attacks and ornithophobia. The girl suffers from a feeling of great discomfort that comes without warning, like an uncontrollable disaster. When the panic is accompanied by a flapping of wings, a chaotic, dissociated journey into her unconsciousness begins.

The social impact of gambling affected Taiwanese the mostduring the 80s in Taiwan. The concept of this film is to have audience experience and observe the social values of religion beliefs from a deity statue’s viewpoint through Virtual Reality technology.

Ah Fei, a Vietnamese who left home to work in Taiwan, escapes from his Taiwanese employer in hope to earn more money to send back home to his father. One day, he runs into Ah Hai, a police patrol officer, at the beach. Ah Hai sees Ah Fei in possession of syringes and uses the baton on him without giving him a chance to explain. By the beach, nine shots were eventually fired at Ah Fei. It’s the first time Ah Fei’s father is travelling out of Vietnam, only to be bringing home his son’s lifeless body.

The story is from director’s childhood memories which depicts the reduction of humanity by military government during the martial law, the colonial culture as well as the digital era into a story beyond reality.

After the mass distinction in the Anthropocene epoch, the Homo Sapiens Replacement Project (HSRP) is conducted to reserve human beings. The remaining human are assigned to reincarnate into reborns bio-technologically with formatted memories.

Based on actual events, this human tragedy follows a 12-year-old child soldier, Su Su Myat, and her mute brother, Tin Min, who are imprisoned after deserting their first combat mission. Punished with no food or water, Su Su Myat is forced to choose between killing her seriously ill brother for her own survival, or risk dying with him.

One of "2020 Taiwanese presidential election" short film series by Next Film (一丁目), a short-lived streaming platform by Next Digital (壹傳媒).

Ding-You, who plays the role of civil messenger in his GENERAL CLUB, is greatly troubled by the conflict of his family’s expectation and his own dream after high school. Although he has always wanted to study art but he has never told his father about it because his father expects him to study in a national university. He got a chance to interview for an art school’s admission but it clashed with their procession date. What’s worse was that his disturbed mind has impeded his ability to invoke his god. Despite of his friend’s constant support, he must deal with the problem among his father, his god and himself.

A small village, Xiongtuo, situated in the Tibetan remote region in Sichuan, China. By word of mouth, there is a “boiling-water Lama” resides at the village. The Lama lives in a wooden house built by followers, which is in a mountainous area around 5,000 meters high. Every day, countless people from the major Tibetan regions travel across the mountains to visit him in order to seek for the answer for their own lives. They consult with him regarding the questions, such as “Where did my deceased relatives go?” “What is the cause of my headache?” “What should I do if my son is sent to jail?” “Is it still possible for me to remarry my ex-wife?” Meanwhile, the water on the stove was boiled, and the believers wait outside taking off their shirts one by one, ready to get the unique “answer”from the Lama….

A collection of animated visual poems that illustrate a girl's surreal journey towards facing her fear of intimate relationships and of being touched. She is seen running across the snow, hiding in an apartment and going to the sea, until her pain turns to relief.

When working in Tokyo, Erika embarks on the journey of stepping outside the role prescribed by her biological sex and relieving the suppressed feminine self. This film documents Erika’s life journey of gradually building up her ideal body image, including the sexual reassignment surgery (SRS). Through Erika’s experience moving between Japan and Taiwan, as well as male and female identities, the film sheds light on the unique life experience of transgender people.

When a reporter visits a temple to interview a folklorist about a local legend, strange events begin to occur.

A red flag was plug in the ground and fluttered in the wind. The political prisoner sent his father and son back to the hometown for asylum, but threats are still ubiquitous. It's just like the strong wind of their hometown. "The red" has already penetrated every corner of the country.

The most difficult decision is to end the life of the beloved.

In the 1950s, A-Bao and her friends were women in pants who felt attracted to women. They named themselves the "Thirteen Rogue Girls ". They customize the all black suit , set the fashionable hairstyle, hung around night club. At these places, the clubs became the heterotopia wher they could be lesbians. However, in day, they’re just the decent women in the neighborhood, helping father with the store, or looking after the kids, and cooking at home.

Shao Qui has painted with her close brother Shao Kai all her life, not knowing the hidden secrets of her brothers private life. After her brothers suicidal death, she is forced by fate to live with her brothers male lover Fang Zhou. Through her brother's lover she learns the lesson of the Chinese proverb "The love of the house extends even to the crows perching on the roof".

In 2018, Taiwan was kept busy by noises of the election, among which the process of restarting the coal-fired power plant in Shen’ao was the most controversial and eye-catching. I followed the diving and canoeing instructor, recorded the rose coral reef and searched for a rare species of mollusk, the Epimenia babai Salvini–Plawen, in the waters of the local conservation area, and explored the ecological truth of Silence at the bottom of Deep Shen’ao together.

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.

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.

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.

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

"A Love Letter to Oneself" describes six young men and women who play roles that are 80 years apart from the Japanese rule and the Republic of China era, concatenating the different identities of the 1930s and 2010s, comparing the two The generational differences in occupations, lifestyles, concepts, and political environment profile the influence of the development of Taipei’s West District on Taiwan’s history.

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.

There are always some moments you don’t want to say a word. The world is silent and you turn silent.

Li Jing brings her mother along on a health checkup. However, with every assessment, Li Jing gradually reveals certain aspects that breaks her mother’s image of her as a good daughter. A health checkup ends up assessing the relationship between mother and daughter.

The conception of the work is based largely on prehistoric cave paintings on Sulawesi Island, as well as fossils and remains undiscovered or still undergoing excavation in East Asia, Southeast Asia and other regions. The creation of cave paintings marks the dawn of the intelligent creature discovering images for immersive experience. Species of different lineages can develop similar functions because of being in similar environments— what we call convergent evolution; different ethnicity groups, too, are able to develop consistent cognitive ability in similar spaces. As one of the oldest cave paintings, the painting at Leang-Leang cave had witnessed the beginning of consciousness, which happened across different locations in human history. It illustrates the common ground of humans and how they gradually evolve to share more similarities.

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.