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Known as ‘Pa Nana’, a celebrated Latin singer in 1950s–60s Taiwan, Kao Chu-hua supported her family through nightclub performances after her father’s execution during the White Terror. Drawing on family testimonies and newly declassified archives, the film reconstructs her life under state surveillance, revealing survival beneath authoritarian rule and enforced silence.
A bizarre hitman with a soft spot for animals and a taste for cowboy gear gets handed an outrageous assignment. A gambler and a jockey have cooked up a scheme: rig the race, push a sluggish long shot to a shocking win, and walk away with a fortune from the racetrack owner’s pocket. But the owner gets wise to the plan. Determined to shut it down before it starts, he brings in the killer to clean house. Now faced with a fat payday and a moral dilemma, the hitman stands at a crossroads — stick to the job, or help the poor sap escape the crosshairs? One horse sets off a chain reaction that lays bare the greed and humanity buried in every heart.
Bus driver Chuang spends the entire day at work with his lively young daughter, Evonne. Their interactions reveal the deep bond they share, while also hinting at an issue that Chuang is reluctant to confront.
Back in his old family home, a couple expecting their first child is thrown into a standoff when a pipe bursts—fix it with money, or hold on to something harder to let go.
Once a top waterskiing prodigy, a young man alienates his three godfathers and shuts out the world after a career-ending injury. His life finds light again when he meets a mysterious girl, but his desperate need to prove his worth leads him to pawn his late father’s keepsake for a luxury car. Consumed by vanity, he allows materialism to erode their pure love, eventually driving her away. Now hitting rock bottom in a desolate reality, he must decide whether to remain in despair or find the strength to face his past and seek the redemption he so desperately needs.
The iris, resembling a butterfly, symbolizes the freedom of living with the wind. Among them, the blue iris conveys the message, "I miss you." This work is adapted from a true story, where two souls placed in the wrong vessels find and rely on each other in the world, yet cannot escape the fate of separation. The one left behind reminisces about the past but eventually takes a step forward.
In Singapore, executions take place at dawn. Years after her brother’s death sentencing for drug trafficking, a sister duo continues their early-morning journeys, carrying the quiet aftermath of a punishment the city no longer sees.
A Liang a timid rookie hearse driver accidentally kisses a corpse on his first job awakening the amnesiac ghost Zhang Wenshan who begins to haunt him Seeking help he receives a bizarre time limited mission from an eccentric priestess As troubles and police pressure grow an unexpected bond forms When the mission fails he escorts the ghost home only to discover it is his long lost father. The spirit fades leaving him to face a long overdue goodbye.
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Though Taiwan's rainfall is three times the global average, its uneven distribution creates striking scarcity. Water gives and takes; it sustains life yet brings destruction. Following the sound of currents, the film reflects on water's shifting states, capturing the emotional and spiritual ties woven between people, memory and the surrounding tides.
The artist, who never met her grandfather, traces his presence through a photograph and images from Yasukuni Shrine. Guided by her father’s fragmented memories, she reconstructs an absent figure. Through reversals of images, bodies, and landscapes, the film explores shifting perspectives, revealing hidden layers of time, history, and memory.
This film traces Arizona’s desert as it is reshaped into a hub for data centres and semiconductor manufacturing. Moving through altered waterways, the film exposes tensions between technoutopian visions and drought-stricken ecologies. Guided by offscreen voices and Tohono O’odham poet Ofelia Zepeda’s ‘Cloud Song’, ancestral knowledge counters the rise of industrial ‘cloud’ infrastructures.
Once a rising star in Taiwan's mountaineering boom, A-Gong fell into debt and went on the run, hiding on Yushan before surrendering. After prison, he returned to the mountains, rebuilding his life step by step. Now, he's a living legend among Taiwan's high-altitude trails.
A young filmmaker, once skeptical of incense rituals, sets out to explore faith through his lens. From street vendors to temple youth groups, his journey captures how belief quietly answers life's questions. A heartfelt documentary bridging gods and people, offering hope and reflection in a post-pandemic world.
An office worker’s encounters with a caterpillar unlock childhood memories, looping through time, blending the mundane and the magical.
Combining Riverbed’s three award-winning 360VR films (All That Remains, Over the Rainbow, and A Simple Silence) into a single experience, the Just for You Trilogy immerses the audience in a surreal meditation on memory, death, and desire.
Zun-Tou Elementary School stood adjacent to Taoyuan International Airport. Everything on campus seemed to revolve around airplanes and the airport... yet it was precisely this proximity that ultimately led to the school’s disappearance. Through the interplay of sound and image, the film reconstructs a single day at the elementary school, piecing together the contours of childhood within its grounds. At the same time, the school serves as a microcosm, reflecting the broader erasure of landscapes under the Taoyuan Aerotropolis development.
The pastor of the church asked believers to sign a petition opposing the same-sex marriage referendum. A young church member with rainbow-dyed hair, raging with anger and resentment, sought to prove his own existence.
Using Malaysia’s national flower, the big red flower (the red hibiscus), alongside non-native plants in Taiwan as characters, this collage illustrates the experience of Malaysian Chinese living in Taiwan. Trapped between dual identities and the language of others, they search for self-definition and a sense of belonging. Through the perspective of plants, the work reflects personal life experiences, with the hope of breaking down the boundaries between individual, national, and identity definitions.
The refracted gaze on Mianhua Islet, Taiwan's eastern de facto border, turns the concrete landscape of physical territory into a mirage of topography and politics. The fragmented image of the frontier reflects the ambivalent state of Taiwanese subjectivity. The camera slowly sweeps over the contour of the islet as if touching the country's body to ensure its existence. The ever-imaginary border that eludes, obscures, and fictionalizes the construction of a nation confronts us with its external mirrored image, as a subject and as a site, where the process and paradox of forming national subjectivity are materialized, embodied, and caught in a liminal space.
Before the family home in Shalun, Taoyuan, was demolished under the Taoyuan Aerotropolis redevelopment project, the director's mother passed away unexpectedly. Yet in her absence, the family's long-fragile order seemed to stabilize, even appearing strangely "happy." This subtle and difficult truth compels the director to repeatedly return to the old house on the verge of disappearance, insisting on bringing back her father and brothers, who are trying to move on. As the boundaries between filming and being filmed blur, differing attitudes toward farewell gradually emerge, and long-suppressed memories begin to seep through. The director is left asking herself: Is this an attempt to preserve memory, or a way of trapping herself in a cycle of loss from which she cannot find closure.
Li Ze-yang's journey in music was bumpy yet full of colors. His musical collection serves as a historic witness to ethnic communities. His relentless editorial commitment proved a quintessential scarcity in the history of Taiwanese music.
On her city balcony, Audrey delights in the flutter of tiny birds—fluffing their feathers, chattering, and sneaking tangerine bites. Their chirps sound like cheerful hellos and playful spats, inspiring her to invent a bird-language translator that unlocks their secret conversations.
The physical and mental journey of young girls during menstruation. Menstruation is a metaphor for this cycle by the train. Flowers that show a bud state will regenerate countless times, each time. Flower picking is a sign that the girl is ready for the start of her period. The cycle of the girl's physical and mental state will be repeated every month. They all will come again, the monsters of pain's embodiment, the fear of self, and external pressure.
Tao litterateur Syaman Rapongan bridges the bond between father and son through the Tatala and his writing, preserving the memory of his people. Spanning seventy years, the film interweaves footage from different eras, evoking the spirit of the language and culture rooted in the sea and the body. Along this journey, Syaman Rapongan learned and borrowed a foreign language to tell the story of his own people.
The final chapter of the Taiwan trilogy, exploring the long-term effects of cultural education during Taiwan's military dictatorship.
"In the Making: An Australia–Taiwan Indigenous Art Exchange" is a 43-minute bilingual documentary co-produced by Australia and Taiwan. It explores a five-year exchange program between Indigenous artists from both regions. Filmed mainly in Taiwan in late 2024, the artists' first in-person meeting reveals the depth and transformative potential of cross-cultural collaboration through interviews, shared creative processes, and the creation of new collaborative artworks.
As a Taiwanese in France, I have learnt a few things. There are three things I would like to share with you the most. French is difficult… but there are certain things more difficult than French.
This documentary examines Taiwan's role within the war machinery of East Asia, and how air-raid shelters have transformed from military defense structures into part of the everyday landscape. By guiding audiences through the often-overlooked landscapes of Chiayi, the film calls for renewed attention to historical sites and explores how war has shaped urban structures and collective memory. It also invites reflection on the lasting impact of war, reminding us that war is never as distant as it seems.
The film explores the informal architectures of Taipei, seeing them as a representation of an Autistic Architectural Approach, which calls for disabled people to be—not included—embedded.
Adult Diary explores how new media can shape gender and identity through nine virtual alter-egos. Starting from a diary of how a non-human becomes human, I created cinemagraphs of self-portraits and let one AI infer prompts, then passed them to another AI for expansion—like a back-and-forth game with the machine. The video, blending V8 camcorder texture and 360° language, unfolds in nine roles: a thought abortionist, a gender designer, a blockchain pet-communicator, and more. It reflects on identity, gender politics, and AI ethics beyond life and death.
As a long-term migrant caregiver, Fidati shapes Indonesian stories with Taiwanese paper clay. After years of separation during the pandemic, she returns to Central Java in 2024. Laughter and tears intertwine, yet family duty keeps her moving between two lands, where the taste of mangoes bridges emotions across the sea.
Stones in Chiayi's streams bear the marks of time and the land's memory. Seventy years ago, Zhan Long began carving tombstones, turning cold stone into living art and founding Chiayi's stone monkey tradition. The second-generation sculptor infused family memory and cultural sentiment, making the stone monkey a city symbol. Today, new self-taught artists reinterpret the craft, letting tradition endure and be reborn, bearing witness to the warmth and vitality of culture.
This is a common phenomenon in Taiwanese daily life. Although it may seem funny, it's a regular occurrence in our daily news broadcasts.
Built in 1969, this former staff quarters of the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation bears witness to Chiayi's postwar housing development and urban memory. Today, its walls are cracked, concrete eroded, timber decayed, tiles shattered, and the entrance hall is entirely gone. Yet traces of past daily life still linger. Drawing on experimental methods, the film seeks to construct a visually dislocated narrative in which past and present coexist out of sync, offering an alternative perspective on the act of gazing.
Chiayi's City Center Fountain is deeply embedded in everyday life, layering a rich cultural foundation. In the "post-roundabout era," youth creativity injects new energy to reimagine the old town. From a traffic circle to multidimensional revitalization, how does this new generation bring fresh trends to the century-old landmark and traditional trades? The film captures this dialogue across time, exploring the fusion of old and new. More than a landmark, the fountain symbolizes the heart of Chiayi, where collective memories come full circle.