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The Strangers

On weekends or holidays, the Zhongli train station in Taiwan is always filled with migrant workers who moved to seek out better economic or living conditions. In 1949, millions of Chinese soldiers and civilians migrated to Taiwan; they are regarded as ‘displaced persons’. Yuan’s father was one of these immigrants, a refugee of the civil war, a stranger away from home. For The Strangers, Yuan uses a high-speed camera and a high-lumen spotlight to shoot from the moving passenger car through the window. As the camera captures the face of each person standing on the platform, these strangers transform into sculptures, frozen in time.

The Strangers

NR 2018
To Subdue the Evil

Separated at birth by tragedy, two twin brothers find their lives careening towards a deadly showdown in this action-packed tale of deception and treachery. Two baby boys born of special blood are being tattooed by their parents when a malevolent kung fu clan enters their school and slays the children's parents. While both children are spared, they are soon separated and forced down disparate paths in life. One day, as if by fate, the two brothers come face to face for an ultimate duel to the death.

To Subdue the Evil

8.0 1971
Paparazzo Du Bin

DU Bin was originally a newspaper photographer but was fired from the newspaper due to the mistaken use of photographs. In low spirits, he becomes a freelancer and takes marital affairs pictures for detective agencies. One day, DU Bin starts to follow the political star CHEN Cheng-rong after receiving an anonymous tip. As a result, a series of explosive incidents take place. The political powerhouse tries to suppress it, the media doesn’t dare to report it, the figure involved in a sex scandal insists he’s being framed, and the mafia threatens and demands the file.Then, unexpectedly, the file with the only picture is burned in an accident. No one wants to believe him. DU Bin is eaten alive by his past memories and faces pressure from all sides. Where should the paparazzo who is caught in a whirlwind go?

Paparazzo Du Bin

NR 2022
Love Beside Me

17-year-old Hsiao-nan turned to her best friend, the guitarist Yu-kuang, to help her win the affection of Tzu-Chieh, whom she had a crush on. Together, they participated in a musical audition, and everything seemed to be going smoothly. However, during the audition, Hsiao-nan realized that the person she truly loved was Yu-kuang himself. Despite having beautiful memories together, they missed the chance to be with each other. Now, as time has passed and they are grown-ups, Hsiao-nan is faced with the love of her youth. Will she bury her feelings in memories, or will she muster the courage to listen to her inner voice?

Love Beside Me

NR 2024
Tsunma, Tsunma: My Summer with the Female Monastics of the Himalaya

Tsunma, an honorific term connoting “noble, delicate, and pure”, refers to the Tibetan Buddhist Nuns of the Himalayan Region who have been largely dismissed or forgotten by the traditions they follow and the societies they’ve served. Taiwanese photographer Lin Li-Fang undertook a solo journey up 4,270 meters into the Himalayan Plateau and lived for an entire summer with some of these nuns and recorded life in the unforgiving environment dubbed “The Roof of the World”. There, Li-fang captured a life devoted to hope and faith and a people possessing a unique kind of tolerance, humility, and perseverance. This is a story of the Nuns of the Himalayas, of seeing one’s life through theirs, that is, a life lived in faith and with the spark of a summer eternal.

Tsunma, Tsunma: My Summer with the Female Monastics of the Himalaya

NR 2017
The Best of Times

Although their characters and temperaments couldn't be less alike, 19-year olds Wei and Jie are best friends. They're also neighbours, living with widower fathers and problem siblings in the suburbs of Taipei. When Wei is promoted from the rank of nightclub parking valet to the rank of debt-collector in Brother Gu's gang, he persuades his boss to hire Jie to work alongside him. Things begin to go wrong when they are given a handgun to reward their success in the new job. Always excitable and volatile, Jie becomes reckless and dangerous when he has the gun in his hand. When they try to collect a debt from the boss of a rival gang, a fight erupts and Jie shoots the gang-boss. The boys find themselves on the run. But fate and their youthful dreams still have tricks to play.

The Best of Times

7.0 2002