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A Taiwanese grandma (Ahma) has to travel from a rural town in central Taiwan to the capital city of Taipei in the north to pull Alan, her American-born grandson, out of jail before he gets deported by a vindictive police officer.

A Hong Kong girl went to Kaohsiung in agony to search for her friend who was supposedly kidnapped.

Yao-Wei takes his girlfriend home to Malaysia for the first time. In the midst of a monsoon, he tries to find the right time to tell his parents of his engagement.

When he was a child, Junya promised his maternal grandfather that as the eldest grandson, he would take over the family Shinto shrine. However, this did not come to pass as Junya did not share the same family name and he grew estranged from his family over time. To escape this tension, Junya ventured overseas to pursue other dreams and distanced himself from the hometown where he grew up. One day, while working in an izakaya, he meets a foreigner with the same birthday researching a new dance piece for a film. His fateful encounter leads him to confront a family history that he has left behind and gives the dancer inspiration for her work. Together in the midst of winter, they revisit Junya's hometown to reconnect with his childhood and let go of a promise he cannot fulfil.

An author helps her boyfriend commit his memories of a childhood sexual assault to paper. When he refuses to publish the book shortly before the editorial deadline, she must find a balance between her love for him and her own job as an author.

A story of two best friends with very different personalities. They're an indispensable existence in each other's lives, but the lines are blurred between dependency and a genuine liking. These indescribable feelings are built up for 10 years, and it all comes crashing down on a drunken night. Now, can the two finally face their true feelings?

Four college students wanted to shoot Hollywood videos and finally persuaded the driver of the shuttle bus, Little Wolf Dog, to participate in the show. In order to seize the time to rehearse with the busy driver, they crowded in the car and staggered around to rehearse with the little wolf dog when they went out to rehearse. Unexpectedly, an accident occurred during the filming, which made them reflect on the overworked work style of large truck drivers, the salary system of basic salary plus bonus, and driving on dangerous roads day after day... Real life is indeed more real than movies. It seems that he is at a critical moment at any time.

In 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Despite all the conspiracy theories around it, The US successfully showed the world what a powerful country can accomplish. 50 years later, people in Taiwan are struggling between an identity crisis and economic fluctuations, hoping for something or someone that would save the day. This desire is why you are hired to be a national hero – the very first Taiwanese who lands on the moon.

On a secluded island, a chair has fallen down.

In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a handful of residents refuse to move away from their beloved and almost completely abandoned village.

On the Matsu Islands, young wrestlers enjoy the moment of victory or defeat and use wrestling to fight against their boring life. But "finding a way out" is always the most difficult issue just like Matsu in the middle of the troubled strait.

In this futuristic world of 204X, everyone has the chance to freely choose their gender when they come of age. Yi An, a young person on the edge of seventeen, likes and prefers girly and feminine aesthetics. He feels that he isn't masculine enough, but he doesn't feel like a woman either. Yi An is in love with his classmate Zhou Yang Kai, but she expects him to become a girl. Yi An questions whether his attraction to Zhou Yang Kai is based on a gender preference or a connection of souls.

Dremedrema is the chief heir of her tribe. Being the eldest, she therefore, must accept her inheritance of the position and status according to the tradition.Though her mother and children hope that she would disavow the obligation. Even Dremedrema had run away from her tribe once, her ancestral spirits has never given up on her. She is a tribal chief who doesn’t speak the native tongue. At the same time she is a devoted single mother of three. She is a chief without her traditional tribal family house, unable to live within the tribe. She misses home. But despite ten years’ effort, it is a home that she cannot easily return to.

Kwang, who is moving from Chiayi to Taichung, met the mistress of his father. At the last night in Chaiyi, two people not knowing any thing about each other started a journey together and tried to search answers of their hearts.

The Good Daughter is a portrait of the fraught marriage between a Taiwanese man and his Vietnamese bride. Born out of a disabled man's wish to obey his mother and a woman's effort to help her family escape poverty, the marriage has produced two daughters and a complicated drama. The film takes us inside a household simmering with tensions.

This is a story about indigenous people's land rights. In order to learn more about the history of the Atayal people’s migration, the director traces the journey of the Atayal ancestors.

Using black-and-white images ranging from African statues to contemporary film posters and political meetings, Chihying considers aesthetic dynamics between the West, China and Africa. How did so many African artefacts end up in European museums? And what if this Western power of selection were replaced by Chinese control?

Untitled is a collage film that combines the image and sound of Takashi Makino, the music of Lawrence English and the automatic writing text of Esperanza Collado, produced between March and June 2020, when the first attack of the coronavirus shook the world.

Takashi, who studies abroad in Taiwan, finds every day is full of fun in friendship and love that he can't find in Japan. However, he feels the difficulty of conveying his feelings frankly while the time goes by.

On a hot summer day, a car is stuck in a traffic jam. The kids are sleepy in the backseat. They seem to feel something cool when they’re half awake. All of a sudden, they’re riding the waves with their feet on surfing boards, surfing in the gridlock. The streets in a big city are like rivers and their branches, and they’re racing each other. Cars, vans, trucks and buses are surging like sea waves. Suddenly, a super big wave comes and knocks them off their surfing boards! To their surprise, a bucket of water is splashed over the windshield. It turns out that their mom has driven the car into a car wash! It was just their imagination. They exchange a glance and smile.

In order to explore the new space, a red bird try to overcome its fear and jump from the cliff.

This documentary chronicles a strike of a computer memory due to the human needs for images. The automatic generated images by a mac and Davinci Resolve reflects the reciprocal relationship between the value of human labor and the so-called professional equipment, as if the work could be done without human involvement, it really is bullshit jobs.

A graduate student of History Department meets a hooligan who works in Taiwanese parade formation in temple fairs when the student is doing field studies. They are completely different in character. One is composed and calm but the other one is aggressive and bold. After they spend a summer together, the chemistey gradually develops between them…

Faced with a looming exhumation of a loved one, a father and son contemplate their mortality. But in land-scarce Singapore, even the dead must make way for the living.

Today in the 21st century, "singing" is no longer just a purely musical act. It can represent the pulse of society and put contemporary ideas into practice. To raise awareness about energy issues, we adopted a documentary-style cinematic approach to follow musicians recording an album close to nature. Eleven Meinong Conversations invites music producer and singer-songwriter Wing Lo to return to his sunny hometown of Meinong, a historic Hakka settlement in Taiwan, and fulfil a ten-year musical dream. Lo transforms a solar-powered wooden guest house into a recording studio to record his dream album in his Hakka mother tongue. The film conveys the passion of Lo’s Hakka music and his love of living life close to nature. Through eleven seemingly daily conversations with different characters, Lo’s pure and carefree rural childhood, his nostalgia of leaving home, and his loss of a beloved family member, are transformed into timeless, radiant melodies that touch the heart.

An experimental documentary which opens with a story of my family: my American aunt found a painting of my grandmother by chance, in a random Chinese restaurant in the middle of nowhere - she said she cried. By tracing this story and reproducing its meaning, the film wonders through different topics: the construction of the Cold War, USA and Taiwan relations, different generations of Chinese diaspora since the 1950s, contemporary immigration and cross-nation fluidity, family romances, religion, and ancestors...

Her bright world became dark after losing sight. One day, She met him, the person she had loved when she still could see…During the short conversation, she could feel the temperature, smell, vision and state of mind, in this extravagantly ordinary night.

Eight years in the making, the film focuses mostly on Ming Chuan University’s alumni cheerleading team preparing for their alma mater’s 60th anniversary celebration in 2017, capturing their practices, team building exercises, meetings and other activities with endless playful banter.

A man dives into his subliminal mind, for all about his future.

Claude, the cloud maker, drops his tool and it gets picked up by Yin. While trying to retrieve his tool, the broken gadget turns into a horrifying storm monster. Claude must team up with Yin to stop it from becoming a disaster.

Having lived an entire life in an exitless building of unknown height, a girl undergoes a ritualistic ascension by a religious sect allowing for her escape.

In 2020, the LGBTQ+ community in Taipei decided to host a pride parade during the COVID-19 pandemic, celebrating and marching for those who could not do it in their own countries.

A-He, a 70-year-old film projectionist, has worked for 37 years in Shin-Rung theater in which just shut down recently. To make a living, he went to other theaters in Chiayi to look for a job. However, he was rejected due to his age. Suddenly, he felt he has lost something that has always been the majority in his life. Idling, he still went to Shin-Rung theater to clean up the projection equipment and tidy up the reels every day while waiting for the new investor to reopen the theater. One day, A-He returned to the theater and played a film. A long-awaited reunion is presenting through the image with movies.

“Lio-ma-gou” is the only fresh water in Green Island, In the 1950s, in a political prison concentration camp, held nearly 100 female political prisoners. With the film, let us follow the pursuit and inquiries of the young generation, and approach the two “former female political prisoner.”

At midnight, two kids who don’t sleep start to play. Talking about the present and future, they travel to lots of fantasy imaginary worlds, becoming animals, flying into the sky, and having fun with their beloved blanket.

If the fire nearby is already hard to rescue; how can you extinguish the flames that last forever? What you can do is let them be, and try to find things left in the ashes.

Chinese herbal medicines have a long and venerated history. We follow the forays of a "barefoot doctor" to the mountains to collect herbs in central Taiwan, and observe his religious practices to cure his patients using these herbal medicines as well as summoning spiritual forces. This film reveals the cultural and religious context of Chinese medicines—the intertwined dimensions of physical and spiritual energy that relate to human fate.

"I love you not because of who you are, but because of who l can be in front of you." Because of an accident when he was five years old, Yu Shi developed a second personality named Noah. Noah is a quiet and emotionless persona. For years, Noah has protected Yu Shi as he grew up. But that was until he met Wu Zheng. Yu Shi wanted to be with Wu Zheng, but Noah didn't trust Wu Zheng. Although Wu Zheng likes Yu Shi as well, his relationship with Shaojie, the woman he’s been set up with, continues to disturb Yu Shi. Despite having a tragic childhood, Wu Zheng restores Yu Shi’s faith in this turbulent world. Now the question is, can Wu Zheng, a straight man, break through the constraints of the world and face his feelings for Yu Shi bravely?

Between Mount Kavulungan and the Gaoping River, history streams across the wilderness, coalescing the values and identities of different peoples. So begins the Pakedavai family ritual. As an 11th-generation descendant of the Pakedavai ruler family, Dabiliyan Alifu grew up in a family slate house in the Sandimen tribe. For him, the family is a constant source of education about how to live with the forest and what kind of person to become. Of Pakedavai’s 12th generation, Kang Yuan-Jin grew up in a traditional Chinese community with a Paiwan grandmother and a Chinese grandfather. Only in adulthood did he start to explore the meanings of family and personal identity.

On the eve of the exam, Yuan You found Mu Hong and skipped class together, trying to escape from all the annoyance of the exam. Under the bridge pier, the two people's imagination and confusion about the future are intertwined...

The maritime life and the complexity of matters, which include conflicts of interest, in one of the busiest waters in Asia, the Strait of Malacca, are accumulated through bodies. The other side of stories from archipelago was assembled and retold by Irwan and Tita after they conducted visits to several islands in Riau Archipelago, especially to Batam Island, a region that was once planned to be converted into an industrial area in 70s but now is facing the most serious challenges created by social problems.The region is tangling with interests and power centralized in Java Island which has created uncontrolled distortion.

PRISCILLA'S DREAM is a film about a cat's dream journey. The original film footage comes from the American director Carroll Ballard's 1969 film THE PERILS OF PRISCILLA. In PRISCILLA'S DREAM, real danger turns into an adventure in a dream. In the original film, Priscilla shuttles through the human home environment, and in PRISCILLA'S DREAM, she dreams of breaking away from human society, into the dream, into the state of flight in the dream, and finally out of the dream and into nature, and gaining complete freedom. This film removes the dangerous encounters and restrictions in the original film, changing the situation in which cats cannot escape from the human living environment.

From every November to the following February, indigenous migrant fishermen set up camp along Taiwan's Lanyang River to catch the season's first batch of eel fries. Camaraderie and bonds are forged between them as they survive the hardship together.

In the Dabao River basin, where the Llyong Topa indigenous community used to be, stands a 'ghost temple' where hundreds of Atayal people were buried. They fell victims to Japanese government's first wave of indigenous genocide during its colonial rule of Taiwan. The massacre occurred much earlier than the Wushe Incident (1930), yet it is still rarely known to the world. The filmmaker visited the mountains over a hundred times, seeking clues to fill in the blanks of history.

In an ancient Eastern Kingdom, an emperor was controlled by the ministers. The emperor could not stand it and escaped from the palace

Though same-sex marriage is now legal in her hometown, Xin, resolves to give up her successful career in the U.S. and return home. Xin's parents eagerly await their daughter's return. However, little do they know about Xin's intentions to take advantage of Taiwan's new same-sex marriage laws. Caught between love and family, Xin risks both her family and lover and is forced to own up to her true feelings.

A boy named Ting-an experiences trouble at home and bullying at school. Out of fear, he forces himself to hide his feelings from others. The only thing that still interests him is a pet zebrafish he keeps in his room. On the eve of presenting his school report, Ting-an is about to overcome his fears — he just doesn’t know it yet.

Wang Hao is a gay man who has been sure of his sexuality ever since he was a child. Since childhood, he loved to look beautiful, which set him apart from the other boys in his grade. In his life his mother has been his biggest support, allowing him to be himself and to not feel the pressure from other people.

Mrs. Lin has thousands of photos of herself and has photoshopped herself since half a century ago. She is Lien Lin, the Retoucher. This film is about her life as a female crafter as well as the vanishing art of retouching.

The children are having a frolic with the insects on the lawn. Inspired from the director’s memories of chasing locusts in her childhood.

This is a story on human desire and acrid smoke. When Myanmar opened its borders in 2010, there was an incursion of foreign capital into these unclaimed lands, with China the most aggressive of them all. Determined to also stake their claim within this fever rush of Chinese cash, Yung-heung and his comrades have set ablaze large swathes of forest alongside northern Myanmar to be turned into farmland.

The tastes of the audience change rapidly, and in the end they are trapped in this trap of human civilization, exhausted, and even forget who they are...