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Working as a “teahouse lady”, Gin desperately needs money. A regular of the teahouse brings his virgin apprentice, Nan, on an adventure into manhood. Mama Shiu gives the business to Gin. She takes Nan to the hotel. A secret connection between the two is about to be revealed, leading their fates in a new direction...
Wu Zheng meets a stranger and finds himself drawn to him. He gradually realises that this stranger has a dissociative identity disorder. His name is Yu Shi, but he is also Noah, whose psyche emerges when he senses that Yu Shi is in danger. Not only does Wu Zheng struggle to understand his feelings for Yu Shi/Noah, he also finds himself grappling with the two personalities of this man.
This documentary explores the reason why people in Chiayi have an everlasting passion for music—is it the vibe of the city, or is it mere illusion? In this film, Chiayi-native musicians and musicians who have migrated to Chiayi were both actively engaged in a reality show in which they tried to fulfill their calling as musicians. Even faced with a dilemma, they have not hesitated for a second—music, for them, is the best choice in life.
A journey in the forest near Taipei without a certain destination, a nomadic speculation on relationships and processes that occur among species and dimensions beyond the human.
Hong has stayed in the mainland for years. At the beginning of 2020, he closes up his company and came back to Taiwan, where he meets again his estranged daughter, Xiao-Yue, at his ex-wife’s funeral. Hong doesn’t know where else to go. In perplexity, he hears the hoofbeats. The horse turns back to look at him under the moon...
In 2010, director Lin Cheng-sheng made Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, a documentary about autistic children and their teacher Han Shu-hua, who taught her young charges to express themselves through art. In this moving follow-up, Lin once again follows Han, who has since founded a shelter institute where autistic children can nurture their talents in painting and music. Because of their inability to effectively communicate their emotions and thoughts, people with autism can often be treated like outsiders. To inspire empathy for them, Lin made this moving documentary that embraces the diversity that these talented individuals and their stirring works of art bring to our lives.
By accepting Mander's invitation, Rinka joins the evil cult group "Bad Bunny" to become a follower and begin the journey of selling purses. After the initiation ceremony, she accidently finds out about the secret behind the scam of Bad Bunny.
"Relationships" is a documentary that explores modern relationships, including relationships, family, self, residence and technology. The film begins with a 51-year-old gay marriage from two countries. We interview sociologists about their views on marriage and bring out the possibilities of relationships, including LAT, open relationships, Norway's Sambo With Särbo and others, these challenge our imaginations of modern relationships. It further explores reconciliation with family, self-exploration, emotional education, co-living, and the interpersonal impact of technology.
Inside every taxi driver’s heart, there is a wild cowboy. Da-wei doesn’t want to be confined at home during the pandemic, so he tries every possible way to get back on the road with his taxi. Can he eventually overcome all the obstacles to finish this knightly trip that no one witnesses?
The boy’s father devoted his whole life to this old movie theatre, and now it’s about to be destroyed.On the eve of the destruction, the boy crosses the demolition zone barriers and walks into the abandoned and desolate movie theater that was once so full of voices. For this one last time, the son and his father watch a film together in this cinema that holds so many memories.
In Ximending, the vampire meets the magician. The vampire can't see herself in the mirror, but she wants to learn to laugh. The flightless magician is always laughing, and his blood seems to be the antidote for vampires. They run and laugg in the city, and even fly into the sky. They hope to enjoy a night of fun before the magic wears off.
At the age of thirty, Lin got tired of the secure and yet repetitive life within the system. Therefore, she decided to leave her comfort zone and went to Nepal, firmly believing that what she wanted was to establish long-term collaboration with a local group in some place. Lin’s sensitivity and thoughtfulness led her to discover the difficulties and mistreatment brought upon the Nepalese women by menstruation, the local environment and the culture. As a result, Lin aimed to make changes by promoting cloth menstrual pads, the menstrual education and the environmental protection. She set up a workshop and hired the women in the village to produce cloth menstrual pads. By doing so, Lin has provided the local women with work and established a social enterprise of cloth menstrual pads.
An elderly mother who spends her life taking care of her intellectually-disabled son finally reaches her breaking point and decides to take her son on one last ride, towards the sea and towards the end of their lives.
No English overview available now. This film was nominated for the Golden Harvest Award.
Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.
One after another, female Vietnamese laborers arrive, suitcases in hand, at a dormitory from another dimension, cluttered with bunk beds and clothes. Here, they exchange their experiences, culminating in a unique upheaval.
Middle-aged woman Melody is in love. Though Charlie is 5878km away, and they don’t speak same language. This Charlie from the screen writes songs, cares her so much. The relationship is amazing, except for that it’s very likely Charlie is a scammer. If you don't try, how would you know this is true love?
The island is about to be submerged by the flood, but Jiao refuses to leave. She is still waiting for Guo, waiting for his promise of marrying her years ago. Jiao’s son, Xiong, has no choice but to come to bring her away from this drowning place. However, Jiao’s hopeless infatuation for Guo evokes Xiong’s memories of the old days...
If you are a woman who wants to have children, you are not allowed to have any assisted reproductive treatments in Taiwan unless you are married to a man. In 2019, Mota and City “were allowed” to become each other’s wives but they are still “not allowed” to have children. Despite the fact, they refuse to bow down to the law and have found a route not regulated by any laws just to fulfill their longing to become mothers.
On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman falls down. Is it a suicide or accidental death? The man asks a friend to call an ambulance, but the woman dies. The man and his friend are imprisoned for murder when an eyewitness reverses her original statement and says that she saw the two men throwing the woman from the bridge. After more than a decade, director Shih Yu-Lun collaborates with the ‘Taiwan Innocence Project’, a private organization that helps innocent people who have been unjustly convicted, to re-investigate the case.
A feature film that reveals the love and lust between two women, the conflicts between gay family and traditional stereotypes. It finds back the forgotten love with a romantic touch.
After the divorce lawsuit, Jia Ting and Ming Kai want to have brain surgery to completely forget each other. While preparing the materials for the surgery, which include the objects representing their love, hatred, relatives and friends, they realize that the difference between them is this increasingly divided memory...
Legend has it that the forest that makes noise in the morning is the home of monsters. When the demented old woman (played by Wang Yan) and the monsters were distressed about the forgotten way home, the old woman met university classmate Wang Xin (played by Xie Qiongnuan). She accidentally opened up the inextricable past, but also quietly unravels the mystery of the monsters' origins, and clues emerge as to the mysterious location of the forest.
A depressed young man, an enthusiastic local and a koi embark on a journey.
While the Covid-19 pandemic spread quickly across the globe, a man returned to Taiwan after several years doing business in Hong Kong. However, the reason he came back is his ex-wife became critically ill. According to the rules, he'd have to stay in quarantine for 14 days. But it doesn’t matter. He has already separated from his family for 20 years. The day before the quarantine period ended, he was hesitant to face his family.
At the end of WWII, the Nationalist party of Republic of China, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), took control of Taiwan and imposed martial law for 38 years. This period is known as the White Terror, where anyone suspected go being a Communist agent was hunted down. Through a 7-year-old girl’s point of view, The Black Kite brings us back to the innocent, yet high-handed time of the 1960s Taiwan.
With the absence of his parents and his drunken grandfather, Jay’s dream of a life far away from the village begins to fade. One day, a beautiful girl from the big city enters Jay's life....
Camera, Rolling, action! Than they act, sing and cry.However, how many people realize that the earlier film base was actually made of Taiwan's camphor tree and the story behind it?
Huang Ming-chuan interviews female poets from Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, inviting them to speak about feminism, their social context and the role of poetry today.
A Music Video made for Lucky Old Sun’s song ‘马马虎虎‘ (Ma Ma Hu Hu) from their new album ‘‘うすらい“. A group of young girls and boys having their summer fantasy with a few daydreams, romance and kungfu actions!
A Lean Soul examines the life and works of Taiwanese novelist Qi Deng Sheng. The filmmakers were able to have in-depth interviews with not only the writer's closest friends and relatives but also the notoriously camera-shy protagonist himself. The film vividly dramatizes many passages from his intensely autobiographical works of fiction. The result is an intimate and candid portrait of one of the most important and controversial Taiwanese writers.
In Taiwan Zhi-Wei, a married man, meets Amanda again, an old lover, for a night.
The story of "Monsters" begins with an expert surgeon seeking help from a psychologist. To solve the nightmare that has haunted him for 20 years, Liu Hao comes to the private house of the secret doctor Lee for assistance. But, with Lee getting closer to Liu's darkest soul, he is getting a diagnosis that he can't even control.
Yu Ting, a 16-year-old high school student, comes home one day to find a "sister" of her age, her cousin from Vietnam, her mother’s hometown. Yu Ting's mother has promised to get the underage girl to work in Taiwan under the disguise of her "adopted" daughter Yu Lan.
Dance educator LIN Ssu-tuan is the first professional nude model in Taiwan in the 1950s and the 1960s, the muse for painters and sculptors in the art world, and the face for photographers’ salons around the world; in the end, she reversed the dynamics of the subject vs. the object and went on to perform her first solo modern dance in 1975, turning herself from the state of passiveness to an active educator of the art of dance. LIN is over 80 years old, but she still fervently pursues her ideals and passions with her body; her path of life is indeed a book of female art history that communicates with the society in Taiwan.
Faires decay with self-irrrtation. Sweltering heat, sweats pour from their armpits.
Taking place in the 1930s on one island of the Japanese Empire, a few Pinginumu or the ‘escapees,’ attempt to flee from the infamous Green Jail coal mine but lose their way. They suffer from starvation, risk a brutal beat-up if caught, or if lucky, they swim to regain freedom. They become the hungry wandering living-ghosts. After the war, locals have more or less witnessed the miners’ ghosts that remain wandering about, as if they were still the poor souls that lost direction.
Inspired by Taiwan's Municipal Banqiao High School Skirt Event, "Rose Skirt" depicts a high school boy named Xiao Yan who realises his desire for women's clothing but is afraid of revealing his secret, a vague sense of guilt and shame that has become a part of his everyday life.
The fierce and domineering Lee Volcano specializes in animal rescue and has lynched animal cruelty offenders. Some activists hate his style, but some supporters believe he has done justice to the ineffective animal protection laws.
’Being fat’ often has negative connotations and is seen as a state that needs to be changed. Amy and Mallie suffered much frustration before learning to live in harmony with their bodies and advocating for body equality.
A homeless woman, a loitering housekeeper, a man who lost his key and the children hiding in the suitcase-hiding, seeking and chasing in the castle. "I'm going to meet the king. If you don't stay in the room and run out. Beasts will eat you up." In the empty castle. A loitering housekeeper looking for the body day and night. Woman chasing the king who lost the key. The kids who playing hide and seek in order to find the mother, regardless beasts outside and walk into deeper darkness.
As her mother’s dementia gets worse, Wei Ling decides to take her mother out of the house they have always been living in. The people and things that once surrounded us like air, eventually fade away like a distant light.
A rookie filmmaker on a TV production set tries to survive a constraining environment where people don't respect her boundaries. During the wrap party, she begins to process what she experienced.
Chi Chia-wei used to give away condoms during the 80s while dressing as Snow White, Jesus or the mummy. His activism received attention from the media and suffered discrimination from the general public. As a volunteer striving to make more people understand AIDS, he organized a press conference at which he came out, becoming the first person in Taiwan to do it. In 2017, a constitutional ruling made him a hero in the gay community. A 30-year struggle seemed to reach its final destination or a new starting point
Introduction：“Xià hǎi” (go to the sea) is often used to describe women who are involved in hospitality industry, falling into a socially unrespectable profession, namely, be drawn into the dangerous sea, which is defined by society for these mistresses. In the social frame, these mistresses are seen as aphasiac. The Hostess recorded the authentic faces of the three mistresses while working, and how they provoke destigmatization and organize a union, in terms of communicating with society. However, the denial and derecognition from the family and society turn out to be the biggest challenge. How are they going to face it?
A half-moon on the blue sky. A quiet offering connects the unreachable world with the physical ground. An elegy for the filmmaker's grandma.
A documentary short about a man attending WorldSkills.
He has to leave the tribe for entering the next grade. This is a must challenge for the kids at the tribe. For YUKAN, besides this challenge. He still has to leave from his favorite mountain life. YUKAN’s ambition is to be a hunter from his childhood. Can he achieve his dream? The old spirits inside his heart will be obliterated gradually in the city life?
This is an 8mm and 16mm experimental film made during the year of Covid-19 around the time I moved back to Taiwan from Japan. I shot 8mm footage during the state of emergency in Japan and just after moving back to Taiwan. I then spent several months cutting and pasting each 8mm frame onto 16mm film. Sometimes the daily fragments were too sentimental, but the film gave me shelter.
Day after day, bars of sunset pass the kitchen. Lamps carry on when the sky gets dark. The frame finds its balance. Life in work and work in life.
Mr. Lai, an extra in a film, wakes up coughing on the set and gets notified he is going to play a dead body lying in a coffin. Teased by other background actors and mistreated by the film crew, he finds a perfect way to lie in the coffin.
He has tattoos. He writes poems. He paints. He has done a few dirty jobs. When he was in prison for the second time, he received a literary award. He always looks for work, friends, love, but gets lost again and again... He is Weiming, a pen name he adopted when he was in junior high school.
A documentary of the life story of a violent and bloodthirsty young man from Kachin, Myanmar, who casually discusses killing as if it were not his own story. His past of a non-voluntary, military life has cost him a great deal and completely changed his post-military life. With all the wounds and experiences, he is now considering which path to take for the future.
Money, money! In an ordinary funeral, driven by the peculiar request of the deceased's son, Ah-Min and Birdie, a pair of friends, choose to cremate the body late at night. To their surprise, the deceased suddenly comes back to life. Was he never genuinely dead to begin with? Or is it something more sinister? No one knows for sure, but all they see is the awakened demented old man, and wealth pouring in.