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Also known as White Jasmine.

Crime drama.

Brother Vincent is a successful young Christian man. He seems to have everything going for him with a deep involvement in church, a gorgeous young fiancé, and a flashy new car at his disposal. Unknown to him, his mom Dufie is involved with spirits from the dark underworld and she has promised to deliver them her son's soul. However, penetrating Vincent's faith and succeeding with her evil deeds turns out to be much harder than she thought. It seems as though the only way to get to Vincent is to make him break up with his fiancé and get him involved with an evil spirit in human shape. With her son dating the evil but attractive Natasha, will he fall to Dufie and her spirit companions? His father and the local priest bravely put up a fight to save his soul.

The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his most trusted aides who is the general of all the armies. He attacks the palace to establish himself as the new emperor. The real emperor is killed and his daughter commits suicide rather than be taken prisoner.

After losing loved ones in a disaster, Xingru clashes with her practical brother. When she secretly brings home a mysterious cat, tensions erupt. Facing another looming disaster, Xingru chooses freedom, following the cat to a moonlit forest where she finds peace amid chaos.

This is more than a family affair... Jie was divorced and had part-time job to make a living. However, his life was majorly relying on her mother's pension for the financial support. After the death of his mother, Jie's life was in a chaos. In order to raise his son, Guang, and make ends meet, Jie took an absurd decision - trying to hide his mother's dead body. Suddenly, the polices came to visit. What would Jie and Guang react for the unexpected condition?

Zhi Xiang, new to Rome, resented his brother Zhi Yuan's arrangements and grew close to the Gao family. Zhi Yuan, once a singer, now worked as a porter after a skiing accident ruined his voice. Zhi Xiang, burdened by debts, considered quitting school, but Zhi Yuan urged him to keep studying. Zhi Xiang met Zhu Dan Li, a wealthy girl, and spent time with her despite his financial struggles. She insisted on accompanying him, but he refused to skip classes. Zhu Dan Li later returned to Rome, and Zhi Xiang, unable to arrange anything for her, realized his limitations. Zhi Xiang, immersed in art in Switzerland, forgot his studies. Zhi Yuan, thinking Zhi Xiang was in love with Yi Hua, tried to guide him. Zhi Xiang returned to Rome after feeling guilty, but his art failed. Zhi Yuan fell ill from overwork and was hospitalized. Zhi Xiang took his brother’s job. Eventually, Zhi Yuan recovered, married Yi Hua, and they prepared to return home.

Reality is a perception and it changes with perspective. Every individual who falls victim to a fatal accident is a character in their own right, but reduced to a mere number in the media! Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’, ‘Testimony of a Thread’ is a monologue collage in search of a face behind the numbers of the deadliest structural failure accident in modern human history.

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.

Ah Sheng, released after 25 years in prison for murder, faced uncertainty about life and his elderly father. At a welcome-back party thrown by his boss, Long Ge, Ah Sheng witnessed the boss attacking his child. He took the child to the hospital, discovering abuse, and decided to care for both the child and the old man, realising they had no home to return to.

Middle-aged woman Melody is in love. Though Charlie is 5878km away, and they don’t speak same language. This Charlie from the screen writes songs, cares her so much. The relationship is amazing, except for that it’s very likely Charlie is a scammer. If you don't try, how would you know this is true love?

To get his team to play a clean game, a high school baseball coach must put his life at stake.

The plot of Golden King is not currently known, which is partially because the film's poster describes the plot only as "Hot stunt action! Heart-wrenching plot!! Innovative ideas! Fantastic story!!" with not even a basic synopsis of the plot included.

Bong-tshio is your ordinary countryside grandma, raising four kids in an impoverished environment; however, the kids that grew up and started their own families do not respect her, fostering her in turns for one month, while bargaining with each other about the number of days in different months. But the optimistic Bong-tshio always just laughed it off. Until one day, she got lost and wandered into a police station, and then accidentally won the top prize of the lottery. Her children began to look for her desperately, rushing back to their old place in the countryside, and kicked off a ridiculous competition of filial piety.

The daughter looked through the viewfinder of the camera and gazed upon her father's appearance before he passed away. Then she realized this estranged and absurd father had been influencing her all along. The one she had once run away from was also the one she missed the most.

Located in Taipei, the Xinhai Tunnel connects the bustling Da’an District with the culturally rich Wenshan District. However, due to its proximity to a funeral home and cemetery, it has earned the infamous title of ‘Most Haunted Road,’ with ghost stories emerging from every corner. Among the chilling tales, the most well-known are the eerie ‘Ghost Wall’ encounters. Stories include taxi drivers who unknowingly pick up ghostly passengers and are unable to exit the tunnel, and motorcyclists who, after seeing a long-haired woman by the roadside, find themselves trapped in the tunnel. Often referred to as the ‘Tunnel of the Dead,’ it has become one of Taiwan’s most famous urban legends. After years of research and preparation, the haunting story of the Xinhai Tunnel is finally being brought to the screen, revealing the chilling origins behind its supernatural phenomena.

In 1989, Jun-Jieh Wang enrolled in Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, a year when the Berlin Wall was pulled down and the fall of Communism in the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. He was astonished by these dramatic events. Several issues concerning politics, ideologies, aesthetics as well as the forms, market and power of art had been preying on his mind for so long that he lost the ability to make artworks and even questioned the value of the existence of art. His passively reactionary state of mind in this period was clearly reflected in the works simulating low-quality B-movies or TV programs, such as Killer Girl, Odyssey III (1990), Love, Die, Daredevil, Odyssey IV (1991).

“Chopin” tells the story of Chopin Wu (played by Liu), who returns home to small-town America where he grew up to amend an estranged relationship with his workaholic father (Dai). With a sudden appearance from his ailing grandmother (Chen), he is confronted by a past he had left behind. In the midst of a health crisis and a broken family, Wu is forced to re-examine old relationships, embrace a heritage he once denied and discover the importance of family and identity.

Li Qing went to Dongguan, Guangdong with his mother, Xiu-Juan, to look for the disappeared father, who is a Taiwanese businessman. During the days, they met a private chauffeur named Chen. However, their journey wasn't easy under the lead of Chen, and they experienced a journey with endless stories to seek her father.

The film revolves around the story of two girls, Summer and Yuki, who fall in love with each other. It explores the themes of romance, life, and youth. It is an independent film and has been praised for its portrayal of a lesbian romance.

As the director and the cameraman of a documentary project, Meng and Jianxian are travelling around Taiwan filming statues of religious and historical figures. Their conversations and debates on the statues often touch the political reality of Taiwan. Meng's girlfriend, Ning, is involved in a mediocre commercial feature film (initially as location scout and subsequently as an actress). Instead of realizing her ambition, she finds herself being exploited by the filmmakers. On the other hand, Meng and Ning's relationship is gradually faded.

This movie describes the process of two girls, separated after entering different "social freshman" stages one year apart, and the process of proximity, life, companionship, and understanding between them over the course of ten years.

Drug dealer Guo-hao hopes to make big money by an unknown cocaine deal so that he and his girlfriend can leave their life of crime behind. But he soon realized that the whole thing is not that simple.

Tsai Ming-liang designed this short film as a farewell to his friend Simon Field, who was about to leave his position as director of the Rotterdam Festival after eight years in office. The piece follows two dogs roaming the Tamshui River in Taipei, accompanied by the director's voice-over as he reads a written dedication for Field.

The film is about the life of a family of seven. Ah Nan is a senior university student, he loves his classmate Dan Niu, a beautiful girl who comes back from Canada. When Dan Niu learns Ah Nan's parents are drunkards and gamblers and his brothers are thieves and blockheads, they break up. After losing his love, Ah Nan drops out. Phoebe, a friend of Ah Nan, her parents die in a plane crash, but she doesn't give up her hope for life. Ah Nan is influenced by Phoebe and is determined to live hard and change the situation. The whole family is influenced by his spirit, they open a boarding house.

The film was shot in two periods. Initially, during Kuo's visit to Ching-wen rebuilding his parents' home, unplanned as a documentary. Later, funding came, but Ching-wen left for Taipei. Kuo returned to Orchid Island, capturing memories of Ching-wen.

As Yong-Ning’s drag persona Valerie begins to shine in Taiwan’s underground Ballroom scene, his budding romance with Wei-En falters. Shaken by a moment of rejection, the two must decide if love can survive the weight of identity.

A Taiwanese American filmmaker questions her family’s silence around the cycles of violence that have persisted since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949.

On her wedding day, Xiao Xuan faces mounting doubts under family pressure, societal expectations, and ritual burdens. Told through her friend Renjie's perspective, the story follows her brief escape from the ceremony, sparking chaos in her absence. As tensions rise, the line between personal choice and duty blurs.

Martial arts film from Taiwan

The main character of little girl in the story confronts a robbery and strays from the road she is familiar with. After passing a hedge, she enters an unknown world and unfolds a magical adventure depending on senses other than vision and her imagination. With soft and cute colors as the main key, we used simple designs to depict the little girls' imaginary world.

Although Tsi-an and Yi-rui are an invincible duo in table tennis doubles, Tsi-an’s technique is in no comparison to Yi-rui’s. Tsi-an, frustrated by her sense of inferiority, beseeches the coach, Yi-rui’s father to give her additional drill. During an one-on-one training session, she develops a crush on the coach. Ping Pong Coach adopts Tsi-an’s point-of-view to narrate her romantic fantasy in an understated manner, which in the event gives rise to her bewilderment, joy, disappointment and growth. LIN Yen-chen, who plays Tsi-an, captures the capricious behaviour of the teenagers in her delicate performance, Yi-rui and Tsi-an’s grandmother also leave behind a vivid impression during a brief screen time.

Tong and Yong-sheng are inseparable playmates, but after Yong-sheng dies in an accident, Tong falls into a dark spiral. At the time, this film was banned due to its homosexual overtones and ideology, while some felt that certain segments drew comparison with CHEN Ying-zhen’s short story The Noodle Stall.

Taiwanese historical drama.

A small village's enchanted stone that brings the inhabitants good fortune is threatened by faeries

A seventeen-year-old girl's family, drowning in debt, agrees to a marriage proposal out of desperation. But the wedding hides a dark secret, a terrifying ritual demanding the sacrifice of five brides. Caught between survival and horror, she is about to face a nightmare far worse than she imagined.

Two engineering prodigies’ love and despair unveil through a road trip from San Francisco to Vegas. It opens with a mysterious suicide but ends with one of the character’s choice to go on living: to bear the burdens of their fate and the memory of the beloved, like a spent bullet.

Taiwan movie

After beginning his transgender journey at age 18, Tyler has become a young man who will no longer be mistaken for a woman. Having finally achieved harmony between mind and body, can the pain Tyler felt from his earlier gender identity struggles be cured? Tyler’s family also must come to terms with their child as he begins a new life as a son, brother, and boyfriend.

The movie revolves around the female leads insecurity regarding her flat chest, as she suspects her boyfriend will be lured away by another woman's curves.

Revolving around the First Guangzhou Uprising, Sun Yat-sen's detainment in London, the Second Guangzhou Uprising and the Wuchang Uprising, this work interweaves one man's regret of causing a friend's death with the rivalries and cooperation between different revolutionary camps. These brave young people fight for the common good unto their last breath, paving this saga of toppling the millennia-old empire with their courage and blood.

“Journey into the Mine” (礦之旅) is a 1981 documentary directed by Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂). Part of the “Journey Through Images” series (映象之旅), it documents the Ruìsān Coal Mine (瑞三煤礦) in Houtong, Ruifang (瑞芳侯硐). Using a portable ENG camera, the crew descended 600 meters underground to record miners working amid heat, coal dust, and gas hazards. Rejecting elite-centered television perspectives, the film foregrounds the resilience of working-class laborers. Its essayistic voice-over is paired with ECM jazz and blues, creating a distinctive tone. In 1982, it won the Golden Bell Award (金鐘獎) for Best Educational and Cultural Program. A rebroadcast added footage of the Neihu Futian Coal Mine disaster (內湖福田煤礦災變), producing a stark dialogue between policy narrative and industrial tragedy. Its footage was later used in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1986 film Dust in the Wind”(戀戀風塵).

Liu Ping-hui, gifted with the ability to absorb others' negative thoughts, believes he can bring peace to the world with his power. But instead of becoming a hero, he’s spent 38 years single—until he finally finds a girlfriend. His happiness is short-lived, however, as she abruptly breaks up with him via a cryptic message saying, “Your smile seems fake.” During his search for her, he meets Hsin-chieh, a fearless and passionate woman. As he tries to use his ability to help her, he only ends up creating more chaos in her life.

A strange wind blew up the gate on the top floor. Jia-wei was stuck on the rooftop. He had to ask for help and get out as soon as possible. Otherwise, he would be late for the party with his girlfriend's family. He carefully prepared to leave a good impression on the parents of both parties, and his success would also be broken.

A conservative Taiwanese mother and a British gay man meet to discuss his involvement in her son’s life and the finer details of her son’s death.

A young martial artist battles three traitors to retrieve a list of Chinese citizens who are collaborating with the Japanese during their occupation of Manchuria.

The little place is Hsiao-Chun’s home and country. As many young Taiwanese, she is torn apart between leaving or staying this place. Expecting a baby, her chances of finding a career abroad are fading, though her connections to the little place are changing like the bustling city that surrounds her.

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

Respire is set in a fictional world transformed by a deadly, airborne virus in which people are required to wear masks at all times. A young girl who knows her time is short decides to enjoy one last day with the boy she likes.

An old father living in the past, a hard-working wife who doesn't know how to express love and a grown-up son struggling with the relationship with his father. An emotionally separated family who has lived decades as if it was one day.

A spy film about two spies, one male and female (Pai Hung cross-dressed as male), cracking down the villainy gang The Devil Gang.

Portrait of a relaxed and friendly gay bar in Taiwan in the weeks before it closed due to police harrasment.

John Liu stars as Shao Yu Pai, master of the "northern kick" kung-fu, still seeking revenge for the death of his brother. Evidence mounts that Lu Tung Chung (Alexander Lo), master of the "southern fist" kung-fu, is the culprit. What Shao doesn't realize, however, is that the true villain is subtly manipulating both the martial artists behind the scenes, hoping to force them into a confrontation and have the dirty work done for him.