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No English overview available now. This film was nominated for the Golden Harvest Award.

A sex worker falls into a coma. Bailan's work has provided solace to many, supported her family, and cared for a group of stray cats. What happened to her and her sisters after the licensed prostitutes were banned? We go on a journey to accompany Bailan's recovery and to see the struggle of the marginalized community.

Rebellious girl Lan leaves home at a young age, and the cruel reality forces her to sell her body in order to get by. Her hope of happiness and freedom vanishes the moment she stabs her priest husband. After being released from prison, she meets Blackie, her live-in boyfriend who is a gambler, and Xiu Xiu, a kind-hearted girl who intends to help her lead a normal life. But Lan makes the same mistake again and is back in jail...

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.

Billy is queer and depressed. He self-harms and is constantly bullied for his feminine appearance. After his biological father came out, he left an old camera to Billy. Billy’s mother remarried three times and moved to the United States with her current stepfather. After Billy’s younger sister drowned, the family was abandoned by their stepfather and had to return to Taiwan. One day, after taking a bath, Billy muttered to himself, “I promise to accompany you,” with several medicine jars beside him. He then sat on the toilet and fantasized about having sex with a snail, feeling both pleasure and disgust.

The 'scalper' is a cinema ticket-tout skirting the law and police harassment to make a living for herself and her three children in downtown Taipei.

A historical thriller directed by Cheng Kang.

In the 1980s, Taiwanese families arrived in Argentina; years later, many who felt Argentinean ended up in Taiwan. Parents leaving, their children returning; identities and memories divided, worlds we build to find each other.

A creature with a pig head and a human body is born. As it becomes more human-like, it is ready to make over the inequality between humans and pigs.

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.

A theft of a scroll from a kung fu-society leads to Pai Yu-Cheng getting accused for the theft and most avoid many attacks from heroes trying to regain the scroll.

Lily, a seemingly popular live streamer, faces relentless bullying from her classmates at school. Her world crumbles further when she discovers her boyfriend is cheating with her best friend. Just as everything spirals out of control, she stumbles upon a stolen phone harboring a mysterious female ghost named Xiao Ya. With Xiao Ya’s uncanny help, Lily’s cheating boyfriend gets what he deserves, and her livestream viewership begins to soar. But what Lily doesn’t realize is that Xiao Ya’s help comes at a chilling price...

Taiwanese crime film.

In order to take care of his old mother, who has amnesia and is disabled, Xia Changming remains unemployed at home. A family of four have been relying on the wife Xiaoling for many years. Finally, when the police brought the mother back, and his wife took his son away, Changming decided to take his mother to on a trip...

Married couple shares their new home with a family of friendly vampires.

Taiwanese ghost comedy film.

Taiwanese action film.

As a child, Fong Lin I witnesses the murder of her lawman father at the hand of 4 outlaws. She devotes her life to Martial Arts, with the aim of taking revenge years later.

Little Flying Dragon finds himself responsible for protecting a small child named Golden Boy, who reluctantly plays an important role in the ongoing battle between good and evil forces. Golden Boy is a product of an unholy union between one of heaven's warrior and a daughter of the king of evil. Since Golden Boy is in possession of a map with information about where the only weapon that can kill the king, he is of great interest to many of the warriors in fantasy world.

After a flat tire leaves her stranded in the woods, a woman revisits haunting memories of her self-destructive tendencies on the finger nails. As she peels the skin from her fingers, each strip draws her deeper into the past. With every layer, she steps closer to the hidden child within herself.

Chen Cheng-Tsai works primarily in video art, photography, and mixed media installations. This work was created during his postgraduate studies in Germany. The trees rotate 360 degrees, and the artit's face reflected in the water, distorted by the ripples, iss overlapped by the trees. The sound of a bell also plays a continuous rythm.

Half-brothers Yan Jun and Yan Qing share a bond of deep respect and affection, yet their mother openly favors Yan Jun. Following a matchmaker's advice, a "joy-bringing" marriage is arranged for sickly Yan Jun. To spare his brother, Yan Qing steps in as the groom. This remarkable film unites two legendary performers of Chinese opera cinema: Ling Po and Yang Li-hua, both are celebrated for their iconic male roles played by women. It also marked Yang Li-hua's final film performance and represents the last traditional Huangmei opera film ever made, closing a significant chapter in Chinese cinema history.

A massive gold forture is hidden somewhere in the hills surrounding Hong Kong, and 12 kung fu masters are in pursuit of the loot. Through a series of head-to-head confrontations, the pool of treasure hunters dwindles until there's one left.

1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February Incident.

After training in the United States, instructor Yu Da-peng comes back to Taiwan to train the first batch of pilots to receive new fighter jets.

A boy named Noddy, who likes to play games very much. His favorite is hide and seek because everyone likes it. But Noddy is always the first one to get caught. Every time he gets caught, he puts up a long face. Because once he gets caught, he can only stand aside and look at everyone else playing. Noddy hates to lose so he tries to observe carefully every time. Learn to run like everyone else, to cheat like everyone else, to fool around like everyone else and not to get caught. Gradually, Noddy plays hide and seek better and better. One day, he finds the safest place and hides inside quietly and patiently without making any noise. He sees other kids getting caught one by one. Noddy finally succeeds; no one can find him.

This animated film presents the journey of a queer person, exploring sexuality and the queer community. It illustrates an observation of the modern queer society and fantasies toward the freedom of gender fluidity, reflecting the real situation of the community where discriminations, freedom, and love coexist.​

The sudden arrival of Han provides a diversion from Ching's monotonous life as the proprietor of the family clock shop. She quickly falls in love with the young man who claims to be her high school classmate, but her bliss proves short-lived as he disappears just as abruptly. Worried, Ching calls Han's parents, only to be told that he died many years ago.

Raye’s devastating documentary follows the plight of some 450 dogs brought through a single animal shelter during the winter of 2013. Policy dictates that any animal not adopted within 12 nights will be destroyed. Only around 10% of residents will be so lucky as to survive. As they wait, their time in the shelter is fraught with anguish, disease, and only the slimmest possibility of a better life. Executive produced by novelist and filmmaker Giddens Ko (You Are The Apple Of My Eye).

The old man goes to mend window screens by his bike. He passes through busy streets, buildings, a night market and the Mazu Temple. Could all the ups and downs in his life attribute to his calm today?

David a young Ninja is recruited by his master to steal the formula for a viral weapon. He is pilled against two wily opponents - a KGB operative and Martin who has kidnapped the scientist who destroyed millions of lives through his bacterial experimentation in World War II and has developed the new lethal serum. Martin's intentions are not honest he wants the virus for himself in his bid to dominate the world.

A gongfu feature about the mysterious deaths that keep occurring at an inn in the forest.

In Chinese folklore a white snake symbolizes a woman, especially an evil type of woman, while a black bull typifies a man, robust, strong and virile. "Black Bull and White Snake", a film version of Young Nien-ts'u's best-selling novel of the same title, is exactly about a white snake-woman, having been sold into prostitution at an early age, is rescued by a black bull of a man only to fall back into the gutter again. A production from the Grand Motion Picture Company, "Black Bull and White Snake" stars Chiang Ching and newcomer Tien Yeh.

A thriller by Karen Yang Chia-Yun

The true story of a small group of Chinese flying aces in 1937 at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War, specifically the Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanking.

17 riders with avarage age 81 decide to follow the dream of their youth and start their journey to ride around Taiwan island.

Between 1979 and 1983, 117 violent and gritty social realist pictures were produced in Taiwan. Many of these found their way around the world courtesy of Hong Kong's IFD films.

Upon their invasion of Taiwan in 1874, the Japanese team up with a sinister tong to hold a martial arts tournament in a plot to root out and assassinate the region's top resistance fighters, thereby breaking the spirit of Chinese patriotism. Two local kung-fu masters prove more than a match for the invaders.

The story of Lao Mo, a Taiwanese veteran who does not want to live a lonely life as an old man.

An enchanting fusion of choreography and cinema, IMMORTELLE is a broken-love story that creatively envisions the trials of separation. Having just split, the protagonists try to go about their daily lives, but lingering feelings materialize into the outside world. Their bare and unwelcoming interiors, echoing the emptiness within, are invaded by cadaveric doubles of the former lovers. These figments of the characters' minds struggle as if in a battle for life and death, the relationship’s dying breath. A deeply emotional experience, this is a film about feelings so strong that, in their quest for closure, they overpower reality.

There is a young man squeezed by life and work, he feels that life is meaningless. Until he came across that painting. In that painting, there is a woman enjoying her breakfast peacefully. Every night, after the heavy work, the young man came here to admire the painting. However, unexpectedly, one day, when the young man came to the gallery again, the woman in the painting disappeared...

Year of 2399, after 300 years of drifting in the space, the spaceship STS Eternal is reactivated to return to the now deserted homeland – Earth. Inside STS Eternal, Adam awakes, too. As a vinyl floats up, spins up and begins to play the music, Adam's memory as a human being gets clearer and clearer... Will he meet the girl again? Is there still a paradise to be rediscovered?

Taiwanese movie production

A sweet potato, on the way back...

Hong Kong comedy film.

The story begins with a feud between two families in the early days of the Republic of China. One family side’s with the Japanese and the other is totally wiped out. Enter our hero who resolves to wreak revenge on the murderous traitors — its furious kung fu fighting all the way!

A down and out man and his daughter live in an illegal hovel. The two live a happy peaceful life until the authorities intervene when the child reaches school age.

Fire Ball is a 2005 Taiwanese animated feature film made by Wang Film Productions and directed by Wong Tung.

Taiwanese comedy film.

After losing contact with each other for years, the son finds out that his father is homeless. During the night of their reunion, the two try to figure out their relationship and their opposing identities.

France, 17th century. As a secret plot is on motion to overthrow King Louis XIII, the little daughter of Dogtanian, the brave muskehound of the Royal Guard, is kidnapped. (Edited version of the 1991 animated television series The Return of Dogtanian.)