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A couple has been happily married for years. One night, the husband confesses to his wife that he is gay. However, they decide to stick together and live together even after getting divorced. Once after drinking at a night club, they both get lucky. But fate has a final trick up the sleeve. Different relationships in one bed. It is as hilarious as it gets.
Since getting married in Taiwan, Yun, a Vietnamese bride has been grounded all day with her baby. All she can do is watch the shopping channels on TV and imagine that if she puts on those gorgeous clothes, she will be more beautiful than her husband's mistress. One day, she is trapped on the top floor of the townhouse by accident.
A-Yun, a middle-aged woman from Vietnam, remarries an old man in Taiwan, bringing along her little son from her first marriage. Devoted as she is to her new husband, she is not treated as a family member. In their suffocating marriage, there is no love, but rather daily routine. Repressed desire makes her turn to her stepchild, a considerate and amiable young man.
Feature debut by notable film critic Wang Wei. The film takes Taipei’s trendy Ximending district, best known for its mix of alternative lifestyles, youth fashion and the antimony of adolescent life, and provides an upbeat story of damaged young people finding their purpose in life. The film’s upbeat tone may appeal to some, but the complexity of the background is obliterated by rom-com stereotypes.
Following the success of The Long Goodbye, the Taiwan Catholic Foundation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia has embarked on a second documentary film dealing with the plight of elderly people suffering from conditions like Alzheimer’s and other degenerative disorders resulting in memory loss. When Yesterday Comes takes the route of a compendium of four shorts by different directors.
At 26, editor Kazama Aiko has reached dead ends in both her lovelife and career. She visits Taiwan to cover a cycling event, and meets a young Taiwanese woman named Tonton, who dreams of becoming a model. They eventually set off together on a cycling trip through Taiwan.
Sergeant Chen has served in the police service, but his life is in a gray area. He dares to sacrifice his clean feathers to soak into the dark corner; wipes out the criminals like doves flap their wings, but burdened by the collapse of his family, he is unable to break free.
The heart-warming tale of a poor boy turns into a world-class baker, set in southern Taiwan and France. Pao-chun comes from a poor background, and realizes he must acquire a skill to provide for his mother. He leaves for Taipei and becomes an apprentice in a bakery, Finally, Pao-chun overcomes the odds and makes his dream red-bean bun, but disaster strikes when he loses both his childhood love and his mother.
The unscrupulous owner of Crazy TV sets out to lower the channel's ratings so he can sell it to mobster Mr. David for cheap and count his losses. He promotes failing producer Yeh to program director and fires the staff.
Yong Hsiuan is the new teacher of the special education program. She met an autistic female student, Qian Qian, who is known for biting people around her. She accidentally found out that Qian Qian has been sexually abused. Furthermore, all the evidence shows that the suspect might be Director Chen…
Pei-xun, an early university graduate, is eager to take risks, and believes that she can play in the game of love. She soon finds out that in the adult world of love, love is not merely love - it is a war between different generations of women, and it is a war created with business and power struggles.
To celebrate his 11th debut anniversary, Crowd Lu held his Adult Live Tour at the Taipei Arena for three consecutive days in April 2019. The singer-songwriter rearranged the melodies of some of his classic hits, and also performed popular tracks like "All I Have," "Adult," "You Complete Me," "He-R," "Trust Myself" and "Slow Soul" with his heart-melting voice.
The Fan family was already not very good at expressing love. After the loss of their son Wei, they became more emotionally trapped. Then, Lei-Ya, the mother, started to lavishly devote her time on feeding street cats. Qing, the daughter, moved out and rarely came home anymore. Yan-Ming, the father, tried to pretend that nothing happened, and treated everyone around him nicely. Eight years on, the three members of this family, each bearing disappointment and anxiety, gathered up in their old home. The otherwise happy reunion escalated, and they must finally face the old sorrow and pain.
Flying Dragon, Dancing Phoenix is a contemporary comedy based on Taiwanese opera.
Two best friends discover a deeper meaning of life as they grow closer.
An incident brings a mid-aged Taiwanese woman and a young Filipino guy together. Although they can barely communicate with each other in language, she takes care of him out of instinct before her self-consciousness gets in the way to define what that ambiguous instinct is.
Hao, a chubby gay man, works as a janitor at a gay spa. For him, romantic relationships are an unreachable dream. One day, an attractive customer, Kai, walks into the place, and Hao has the opportunity to massage him.
Chi and Ming grew up together. The story begins on an old metal bridge. For the two, the bridge is also the way home where the two boys talk about their lives, dreams, hardships, and of course, trash talk. As young boys, they paint their future with dreams and ambitions.
Wai has been living with her father David ever since her mother abandoned them. Wai always compromises with David in order to deal with the fact that he overly controls her. They rely on each other, but they have a love-hate relationship. David broke his leg from an accident at a construction site. He intentionally concealed his recover details to the social worker, in order to get compensation payments. One day, the social worker paid them a visit. A stormy conflict between the father and the daughter had just begun.
Sheng Enterprise has originated from a famous Mahjong family, and the story of Big Three Dragons begins with the game of Mahjong.
Emma is unmarried and needs someone to be her unborn child’s legal father. Her friends, Abel and Romeo, set the “perfect” trap for a middle-aged man, which fails. They decide to run away to Thailand, but they need to tie up some loose ends before their big escape...
Due to his history of theft in the past, Lin Kuan is falsely accused of stealing from his high school classmate. To prove his innocence, Lin enlists his friend Xiao Bing to make a plan that will clear his name. However, heir seemingly perfect plan takes a turn that pushes Lin to a dangerous edge.
A China-Taiwan cross-cultural rom-com with an excellent, unforced chemistry between its leads, Apolitical Romance follows Mainland girl (Huang Lu) as she visits Taiwan and gets involved with a local guy (Bryan Chang) who helps her track down her grandmother’s first love from 60-odd years ago.
In 2017, in order to deal with the high unemployment rate, the government implements the "Unemployment Clearance Plan."
A dentist in mid-life-crisis who hates his job, finally decides to break away from his kiasu environment and pursue his long repressed childhood dream... Acting.
The story of Li Zhengsen, who was orphaned at a young age and was brought up by his grandmother, a famous Peking Opera actress, and his grandfather, a master of traditional Chinese painting.
The millennium summer was the best days in Ren-jie's life. He met Xiao-ping, walked hand in hand with her through their youth and wrote the opening sentence of his life poem. But a visit by his father in the military changed his life forever. He fell into the uneasy atmosphere of 2006. When he was discharged from the air force, the cruel reality wore away their romantic love. Ren-jie had to leave Xiao-ping. They fell in love under the sun and out of it at sunset. The days tortured them and blurred they clear eyes. When they finally got back together, would they recite again the poem on how beautify life is?
A-Tek is on a quest to find his favorite metal band, Chthonic, and persuade them to play a benefit protest concert in his southern Taiwan hometown. Can music save a Taiwanese homeowner from a Chinese land grab? He sure hopes so.
Li Zhenghong (Zhang Zhehao) is unwilling to be blind and can only be assigned to do word processing work in a law firm. He strives to participate in litigation, but always hits a wall. One day, he finally received a civil claim suit, but did not expect that the defense lawyer in this case was actually Zhao Dingbang (Ban Tiexiang), the boss of his law firm. If he helped the plaintiff, how should he face his boss? What is more difficult is that this case is not a general lawsuit. It is actually a multinational class action with 531 plaintiffs. Li Zhenghong has not even fought a single lawsuit, and is a blind person. How should he win the lawsuit?
In late 2004, 125 Philippines women migrant workers came to the Taiwan International Workers’ Association (TIWA) to file complaints for not receiving their salary. While filming there were sweet scenes of lesbian couples cuddling each other in front of the camera. This documentary of a labor struggle unexpectedly became love stories. These women courageously fight against the state policies while struggling for love!
Through a famous painting "South Street Festival", a Taiwanese college boy unexpectedly travels 100 years back in time, back to the 1920's, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. He is stuck, he panics, he wants to return to 2014 but soon changes his mind, not just because of the prettiest geisha girl in town...
Ashit, young screenwriter struggles to finish his scripts under the pressure to meet the deadline while the characters he creates in the story disturbed him and joked around. Producer keeps denying his scripts, suggesting awful ideas and encouraging him steal ideas from others. Ashit feels frustrated and depressed after compromising himself to the producer's demands. His dream of being a screenwriter is drifting away.
Dan tries to find his lost girlfriend, and he’s deeply obsessed with his memory.
Hanzi is a documentary exploring international design, visual culture, and identity through the lens of modern Chinese typography. The film covers a variety of topics such as how languages shape identity, and what role handwriting plays in the digital age.
Lui is working towards protecting the ocean, promoting plastic-free life, and taking care of every sea turtle on Lamay Island. But her ex-boyfriend, Hui, crushes the dream they had set up and plans to build a resort in Lamay that would destroy the habitat of sea turtles. Lui works with the village chief, Hao, to defend his homeland but it puts them in danger.
Ten years have passed since the discovery of inter-cosmic travel. The existence of three parallel worlds have been confirmed. What happens in one cosmos, even the slightest incident, can create a “butterfly effect” that influences events in the other worlds. In response to these discoveries, the “Dimension Police” and “Space Guardian Academy” are formed. The beautiful female investigator Ai is the Space Guardian Academy’s top agent. Along with her trusted android partner, Bridge, she has been assigned to eliminate the inter-cosmic terrorist group DOUBT. Amidst the struggle, Ai finds herself challenged like she never has been before when allies become enemies, enemies become allies, and the mastermind behind the evil plot is revealed.
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of WWII, this documentary film describes the eight years of dauntless air-force fighting of the republic of China during the Anti-Japanese War, with only 300 combat-capable aircraft from China while Japan had over 2000.
A detective seeks redemption after taking on an assignment involving the death of a girl.
A successful architect, Yi Zhong, learned the bad news that he was suffering from bone cancer while receiving the good news of his wife's pregnancy. Facing a painful turning point in life, physical and psychological suffering, Yi Zhong made a wish to let his child see the most handsome figure of a positive cancer-fighting father. Yi Zhong confronts the disease with humor and head-on while sharing his life through video recordings. However, as the disease deteriorates rapidly, how will he face the people around him and the child he may never meet?
In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving visuals for their exhibit at the Venise Architecture Biennale. Using the space at their preview exhibition in Taiwan, Tsai Ming-Liang made two short films, "Sleepwalk" and "Diamond Sutra", using the "Walker" concept. "Diamond Sutra" was later selected to be the opening short film for the Venise Film Festival. Tsai-Ming Liang said that gazing at the steam rising from a rice cooker reminded him of his mother's face as she laid dying, exhaling her final breath.
'Wansei' refers to those Japanese who were born in Taiwan during the colonial period. After WWII, they were repatriated to Japan. It took the director 12 years to conduct the interviews and five years to shoot. It tells the stories of not only Wansei themselves but their friendships, family ties and bravery when facing the harsh adversity.
University students are assigned to do special research in The Moral Education College during summer vacation. The school has been occupied by the Japanese to do cruel human experiments, they found an alumni records about ghost experience, and also found that some girls was mysterious disappeared. A staff of the school, Miss Fang led them to know the environment, then a chain of strange things happened in that evening, and finally they are forced to flee to a century-old tree, unexpectedly they saw the Principal of the college dig out some bones unconsciously under the tree. Are the bones and all the strange things related? Can the five people go out of the school safely?
Cindy and Joanne are a married lesbian couple expecting their first child. Their relationship is challenged when Cindy discovers that Joanne has agreed to sell their unborn child to another gay couple, their friends Charles and Tim.
Open! Open! 2015
17-year-old Sheng is fascinated by photography. He not only takes photos but makes his own films. In fact, Sheng has been bullied by his schoolmates.
When a single-father mechanic bumps into a pungent massage girl, a buzzard encountering becomes a marginal romance.