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If infants were born asexual, they could choose their sex organs: breasts, genitals, or phalluses, according to their wishes. Proposes a new imagination for the human body and reflects the phenomenon of modern society. Nowadays, people have multiple roles and enjoy the right to choose the gender they prefer.

Director CHAN Chia-Lung spent several years running through the forest, mountains and the sea to record the butterflies. This documentary is with delicate and affectionate narration, cute and funny animations, amusing soundtrack, and immersive sound design, it leads the audience into the microscopic world of the purple crow butterfly, and experience the amazing life of a purple crow butterfly together.

During Taiwan’s long colonization history, the difficult-to-survey mountainous areas, which were not described until late in the history of cartography, have been feared by some regimes as they hid rebels. Folded and wrinkled, they are the common “homeland” of people who have encountered diaspora due to the arrangements of regimes. After withdrawing from the tasks of extraction of resources and expansion of governance. It is a Zone that used to be inhabited by wild animals, Negrito people, the Truku tribe in search of hunting grounds, Japanese military explorers, soldiers evacuated from Myanmar who settled their colonies in the high mountains to reclaim and escaped migrant workers who had been displaced at current moment roaming here. Their ghost-like nomadism and migration have led to the drawing of a map of wandering within an area of Blank Zone.

Connect with the charming children of Dongshi, Taiwan, a coastline township famous for its oysters.

A voice from the ocean floor awakens the forgotten protagonist. All creatures in the ocean current carry a mark resembling a black hole. In an instant, they are swept to an unknown place — the deepest part of the North Sea.

Step into the world of an aged farmer engaged in a relentless battle against the Malaysian government to protect his cherished durian orchard. This heartfelt tale explores the courage and resilience of a man determined to preserve what is rightfully his.

Hura is ready to leave her boyfriend for good. On her way out the door, she discovers a 30 foot penis chaining her to her soon-to-be ex.

At Grandpa's funeral, the granddaughter is overwhelmed by her memories of the old days with Grandpa. From her viewpoint, a glimpse is taken into the past when a young man went to Taipei struggling for a living under the changes in the early era in Taiwan.

In the short span of half a century after World War II, the remote island of Kinmen has witnessed numerous battles. Its people once supported the national army, enduring the battles and gunfire. Today, memories have faded, and those who personally experienced the fires of war, the Kinmen residents who walked through fearful and sorrowful times, are gradually passing away. For the post-war new generation, the memories of billowing smoke may be fading, but the island's shadows have never disappeared.

Taiwan’s Central Mountain Range features 138 peaks with altitudes exceeding 3,000m, stretching over 300 km from north to south. KU Ming-cheng and CHOU Ching, two trail runners with very different temperaments and a 30-year age gap, spend three years training and exploring with the aim of traversing the Central Mountain Range on foot. This documentary captures their record-breaking eight-day, 16-hour feat from the very beginning, traversing self-doubt and disagreements, to finally achieving their goal, every step resembling a peak of life marked by unwavering determination.

This is a story about the soul’s farewell. Inspired by children whose lives have ended and the words they wish to say to their mothers, contemplates whether they continue to exist somewhere, quietly experiencing and observing the world.

A group of elderly living alone in damp, dim underground dwellings in Taipei. They take care of themselves and form a community . They come out of the underground dwellings , searching for comfort and happiness in the city. At night, they return to the dwellings neglected by the city.

As farmland vanishes and neighbors sell their land, one family faces the same fate. Through conversations with an elder left farming alone, the filmmaker explores the quiet struggle of letting go and the deep values rooted in the land, seeking to preserve something before it inevitably disappears.

Over the ten years, Ino has been passing down the Atayal culture with real actions, imparting all he learnt from the forest to children in Cinsbu. The audiences can feel his natural philosophy of life in his words and deeds. He makes people realize that there exists genuine, pure and beautiful relationship between human and myriad elements of nature.

The boy was on the terrace and finally encountered that girl. In the girl's mind, this story appeared. Inside the window, with her thoughts wavering, the girl looks outside through a pair of binoculars. Outside the window, the boy collapses onto the girl.

At the ripe age of 102, Chinhua Ho Chen, “Miss Golden Blossom”, takes center stage. In 1938, her voice graced the tracks of “Endless Spring” and “The Camellia Lady”, released by Victory Records, under the stage name “Yingying”. She also stands as the first among renowned female singers of Taiwan’s popular ditties. Through Miss Chinhua, we hear the echoes of the once renowned singer Yingying, preserving the distinct voices of Taiwan in popular music and songs.

"We passed an empty field, in which a person was standing motionless, head down, and soaking wet in the pouring rain. The rain and darkness made it impossible to tell if the person was male or female, no less determine why he or she was standing there, but the ambiguous gender and loneliness of this image still drift through my mind from time to time."

Now I understand that the more completely the dinosaurs were annihilated, the wider their domain extended. They not only controlled the forests that covered the continents, but also penetrated into the depths of human thought that remained on Earth. Starting from the ancient, fear and doubt inducing ancestors, they continuously stretched out their necks and raised their claws, expanding their domain.（Calvino "The Dinosaurs."）

A family of traditional film projectionists grapples with generational tensions and shifting traditions as they screen movies for gods and the forgotten at temple courtyards.

A runaway tomb on its journey represents a nomadic existence. Life is like a road trip that eventually leads to rebirth for all. Have a good death.

“One Day I Will Return Home" is the story of Taiwanese veteran, Lai Xing-yang and his imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp. Although the story contains nothing that pushed the events along or heroics of any kind, his 96 years of life were still filled with shocking moments!

A man did obscene things to a bunch of shoes in a gay sauna.

Conceived by new media artist and choreographer Su Wen-Chi, this film is an experimental project on how to imagine and perceive the abstract gravity in astronomy with dance, sound and light.

The vigorous development of modern folk religion in Chiayi, combined with the lumber industry chain in the area, created an era where the art of crafting shrine tables flourished. However, times are constantly changing. How can Daxin Woodworking Co., which makes exquisite shrine tables, pass on the traditional art of crafting shrine tables and adapt to the declining market caused by the changing times? Learn about the perspectives and stories of Daxin Woodworking’s three generations of craftsmen, see the development of shrine tables in Chiayi City, and observe how they deal with the challenges of the modern era.

Years after playing on the same pitch, a filmmaker returns to document his former captain, Hou Pei-hung, who now coaches the new generation. Footprints captures the raw sweat and tears of high schoolers in their final season, witnessing a profound story of legacy, youth, and a passion that never fades.

Taoyuan County Magistrate Wu Chih-yang continued to promote the Taoyuan Aerotropolis project despite strong disputes from social movement groups and local residents, leaving expropriated households in constant anxiety. On the day of the local chief election, the incumbent County Magistrate Wu Chih-yang lose the election, the residents were surprised and delighted. After experiencing this dramatic election of "voting with tears," the residents of the Anti-Aerotropolis Eviction Alliance decided to nominate Wang Pao-hsuan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, who has long been involved in anti-eviction issues, to run for legislator to challenge the old political structure of the locality. However, during the campaign, in addition to encountering "external threats" from the original local political factions, the "young social movement activists" and "traditional villagers" in the team also had differences in their ideas about the campaign methods.

Lin Dongliang leads the three-year "Marine Oasis" project, researching spinner and pantropical spotted dolphins. The team aims to secure IMMA designation from IUCN for enhanced conservation. A documentary follows their efforts, exploring their motivations and challenges, highlighting humanity's complex relationship with the ocean.

It was not just a blazing forest fire, but embers clinging together only for survival... The short film is about the intimate relationship between two young girls. Yet the bond they treasured was veiled under an indescribable shadow…

During the Chinese Civil War, Taiwan was seen as the terminal destination for a unit fleeing themainland. However, while crossing the Sino-Vietnamese border, they were detained on an islandcalled “Phú Quốc” by the French authorities, who were colonizing Vietnam at that time. Unawareof how long this temporary detention would last, they began transforming this primitive island into abase for a future counterattack on the mainland. Four years later, they finally managed to sail to Tai-wan — an island they had never been to but regarded as their homeland. Years later, in Kaohsiung’s Chengcing Lake, there is also an artificial island named “Phú Quốc” built to commemorate this unit,effectively becoming Phú Quốc 2.0.

A land acquisition has disturbed the peace of Shezidao for years. With the new mayor taking office at the end of 2022, the residents are once again confronted with the uncertainty brought by development. Behind the struggles, what is life like on this "trapped island"?

Dao-Shun Zhang began to study magic with his magician father, Qing-Zhou Zhang, at the age of 3. He is a child with moderate to severe hearing impairment. His father led him into the world of magic. At the age of 15, he has participated in magic competitions all over the world, but Dao-Shun said that he has lost his passion for magic. He does not want to continue to make a living as a magician in the future, but his magician father expects him to inherit the family business. Now Dao-Shun is faced with the career choice of the junior high school entrance examination. How should Daoshun face his future?

The film depicts a corporatocracy dystopia in which a neoliberal regime of multinational corporations govern society, bringing suffering. Under the rule of this globe-wide empire, the unemployed, psychiatric patients, as well as those who have either little faith in society or advocate views contrary to the mainstream, are increasingly excluded and are brought to a place called the Transit Area via the Biofunction Optimization Support Program. These outcasts are trapped in a labyrinthine space created by the system where they can only wait to be expended in biological experiments. These supposedly worthless people slowly commence to dismantle reality and the system’s lie of a bright future through both inner monologues and vocal utterances.

There are many "street barber stalls" under Hutoushan. Most of these stalls serve senior citizens and working people, and have become a traditional part of ordinary people's lives. The stall holder and the customer are separated by mesh nets, while friendships and a feeling of warmth and humanity flow between them.

This is a film about a daughter’s feelings about losing her father. Like the scenery from a running train, memories are beautiful, blurry, and keep changing. In this experimental animated documentary, the author mixed video footage and analog film with animation techniques and brought through a diary-like atmosphere to immerse the audience in unspeakable feelings of losing a loved one.

In this 3D animated horror film, the protagonist is on their way home from work when the train they're on suddenly overturns, leading to a catastrophic accident. As they teeter on the edge of death, they are relentlessly pursued and ultimately killed by the train's driver, who has transformed into a god of death. Despite the characters are cute, they feel weird and tense during the escape.

Hsin-yu said he wanted to be himself. In order to alter her ID card registration from female to male, Hsin-yu began to go to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation in accordance with the law, and also prepared to undergo gender reassignment surgery. At the same time, he must also ask for the acceptance and recognition from his parents and siblings. It is extremely difficult to confront with his parents' worries and the doubts of his brother and sisters, however, Hsin-yu still persists in being himself...