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Kota, a city in North-West India famous for its coaching institutions, attracts more than 200,000 teenagers from all across the country to prepare for the undergraduate competitive exams. These students reside in cubicle sized hostel rooms and study for more than 15 hours a day for two consecutive years to crack the entrance exams for prestigious colleges that has acceptance rate of less than one percent. These students face intense insurmountable pressure from coaching institutes, peers and their families which not everyone is equipped to cope with, resulting in some students taking the extreme step of suicide.

Clad in white and wielding the deadly Ringing Sword, the beautiful Yeh Chiu Lu wanders the countryside righting the wrongs perpetrated by the White-Haired Warlord, Tsao Tan (Law Bun, "King Of Kings"). Determined to wipe out the Chiang Clan, Tsao Tan sets his swordsman to capture Master Chiang (Kong Ban, "Shaolin Kung Fu Mystagogue"), the last of the clan. Only the Ringing Sword and a mysterious ninja, with his own vendetta against Tsao Tan, stand in his way.

New Year's Eve, 16-year-old boy fell in love with girls half a head taller than him, he was determined to be desperate and want in the coming year is 10 cm long to pull her hand. This seems simple wish affects the entire family, divorced father, mother, grandparents each side to help him seek medical attention, and asked the Buddha, to find secret; a relative accused personally. After a day the amount of that dream of one day after the height of a step back, but one day may not grow the fate of the force step before the finish this year's 365 steps, 16-year-old boy how to face their own and that hand is less than love? Hot-sensitive youth and family involved entanglement and date are used to measure height of the cold numbers continue to puncture, the interval; the world the joy of New Year's countdown, hip-hop Fight radiant, seems humorous plot and fiddled with adolescents struggling with arms stand up, that's like a boulder rolling down hill like a heavy fate.

A disgraced showgirl turned gambling addict is trapped in a sinister hospice where she uncovers horrifying events and faces the ultimate price for the past mistakes that haunt her as a mother.

Le-hong’s life, marked by sexual assault and the death of her parents, takes an unexpected turn when she becomes the second wife of wealthy Hok-tsai. Their marriage provides her luxury but lacks intimacy, leaving her lonely and unfulfilled. Upon Hok-tsai’s sudden death, she inherits his fortunes. She then meets a charming young man who awakens her body and soul, but as their affair blossoms, strange occurrences begin to plague her home. Is the sinister housekeeper to blame, or is the young lover the real threat?

The line between life and death is deeply imprinted in my childhood, I remember a vivid memory of sunny days, a bucket of water almost full and a half-submerged new mouse in a cage wanting freedom, until it was exhausted and surrendered to inevitable death. The music used in this work is the German folk song Ach, wie ist’s möglich dann. In Taiwan folk culture the song was often performed at funerals, an interesting and absurd contrast to the song’s original use in the 1935 German literary film as the soundtrack for a love story. So Zhang choreographs a dance performed to this German folk song about death.

The girlfriend of a con-man is being held in a brothel and he must try to raise 200 tales of gold as a dowry. So he cheats a country simpleton out of his money then goes and loses it in the casino resulting in the country man feeling sorry for him. The two become friends and as they are both expert fighters start working as instructors for a local big boss but this causes real trouble.

"Relationships" is a documentary that explores modern relationships, including relationships, family, self, residence and technology. The film begins with a 51-year-old gay marriage from two countries. We interview sociologists about their views on marriage and bring out the possibilities of relationships, including LAT, open relationships, Norway's Sambo With Särbo and others, these challenge our imaginations of modern relationships. It further explores reconciliation with family, self-exploration, emotional education, co-living, and the interpersonal impact of technology.

A man investigates on the death of his friend, killed by the henchmen of a Casino big boss. The boss sends the Casino girl to seduce him, then he hires a professional killer.

The film explores Lin Hai-yin’s unique perspective of having “two homelands,” narrated by her daughter Julie Chang. It highlights her life, work as an editor, and her role in overcoming censorship. Lin Hai-yin’s novels, known for their inclusiveness, remain a shared memory for cross-strait readers. She was a friend to writers and a courageous mother, nurturing Taiwanese literature post-war. As editor of the United Daily News, she supported writers like Lin Hwai-min and founded the Belles-Lettres Publishing House. Her living room was a literary hub, and she is fondly remembered as “Ms. Lin Hai-yin.” Her novel Memories of Peking: South Side Stories was published in 1960.

After a one night stand, a successful single mother helps her son find his father by placing an ad in the newspaper.

Yu Jane, a high school teacher and Xiang Guo-Chen, a successful industrialist, are secretly having an affair outside of his marriage. Xiang is on his way to a political career. His campaign advisor wants him to break off his relationship with Yu so to present himself as a candidate with an untarnished image.

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It's been several years since the incident happened. Xianyun tries hard to return to normal life. As a counselor, she hopes to ease her pain of losing her daughter through helping others with their pain. The mother of the killer, Chen, is a neighbor of Xianyun. They see each other occasionally but never spoke. Xianyun could not bring herself to forgive Chen. As the execution day of Chen’s son getting closer, all the pains and memories are once again stirred.

The film follows the meandering misadventures of an aimless medical school graduate who has never kept a job and wanders from the bed of one girl to another. He becomes caught between his flight attendant girlfriend who is often away and a high school girl who claims to be a lesbian. A mixture of fast living and brooding melancholy, Fluffy Rhapsody is an engaging, photogenic essay on the current generation of seemingly thoughtless, but in fact overly introspective urban youth.

A supernatural sword thriller: starring the Queen Boxer herself,Judy Lee.Swordplay mixes with Black Magic to create a unique and action packed Wu Tang masterpiece!

In a closed natatorium, Doris was skipping stone beside the swimming pool while she met Jay, a boy who brought his goldfish with him. They broke into it at the same time. Jay kept being nice to Doris and his strange behavior appeal to her . Till the very end, Doris decided to get over her shyness and took a big leap to express her feelings.

80 years ago, Seediq people living in the mountains of Taiwan organized an uprising against the Japanese colonial rulers: the rebellion known as the "Wushe Incident". In this documentary, the descendants of the Wushe survivors talk about that history from their point of view, and lead us to the places where the tragedies took place.

A group of aimless Taipei residents deal with their personal problems in this Taiwanese drama that does feature brief flashes of black humor. Much of the story centers upon lonely Mrs. Chen who has trouble coping with her philandering husband, and nearly senile mother-in-law. Her daughter frequently sulks and has a desperate crush on one of her teachers. Mrs. Chen's only friend is her co-worker Liu, who has fallen for a new office boy, Chou. Mrs. Chen also finds him attractive. Unfortunately for either woman, Chou is gay and plagued with problems of his own.

Five years after participating in a failed government protest in 2009, Sheng-han and his friends storm the Executive Yuan as members of the Sunflower Student Movement. Through failures and choices, these young activists on the cusp of adulthood seek to affirm their self-identity.

Documenting Taiwan from an aerial perspective offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and urbanization on our environment.

Jessie is going to be 18, a grown-up. After Jessie's father left them, her mom wants to start a new life and ends the gas service store they own. Mom wants to erase anything about her husband. She even wants to throw away the motorcycle which helped them carrying the gas tank. To Jessie, gas service store is not only a gas service but the whole picture of family. Motorcycle carries not only gas tanks but also the memories. Jessie's dad becomes her secret coach, teaching her how to ride motorcycle behind her mom. When Jessie rides the motorcycle with her head down, her dad always encourages her to head up and to look forward. On the runway of the motorcycle test, Jessie tries to keep the balance between parents, motorcycle and herself. Does the 7 seconds mean the starting bell of her life or the final?

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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 Hong Kong girl went to Kaohsiung in agony to search for her friend who was supposedly kidnapped.

In this film, the idea of the iron rabbit is used as a metaphor for bisexuals’ situation. Something that looks like a rabbit is not necessarily a rabbit. When a straight couple appears, people often consider them to be ordinary heterosexuals. And when two gay people get together, people simply think of them as homosexuals. In this instinctive view, which holds that people are either homo or hetero, bisexuals seem to fade out. This film is a real reflection of the lives of bisexual people in Taiwan. We hope that through the film, people can understand more about bisexuals.

Obsessed with ballroom dancing, Summer tries to achieve her best with her coach Tony. They build a complex, passionate but finally transient relationship throughout the pas de deux dancing steps.

Twenty years ago, AJ returned from San Francisco and began hosting parties to give Taiwanese lesbians a place to meet, dance, and feel free. What started with a few hundred attendees has grown into LEZS Party, a cornerstone of lesbian culture in Taiwan and Asia, expanding into media and branding while paralleling Taiwan’s equal rights movement. This film follows AJ as she plans the 20th anniversary, revealing her emotions, beliefs, and vision to empower more lesbians to challenge the system and make their voices heard.'

26 TAKES FOR HARUN FAROCKI is a film collage made by former students. One minute per take. This film was shot by Arthur Sumereder, Axel Töpfer, Björn Kämmerer, Christoph Kolar, David Pujadas Bosch, Franziska Pflaum, Georg Tiller, Jessyca R. Hauser, Johann Lurf, Josephine Ahnelt, Karo Riha, Mina Lunzer, Michael Poetschko, Monika Rabofsky, Mrova, Nathalie Koger, Patrick Schabus, Peter Muzak, Selma Doborac, and Thomas Lehner.

A playboy who finally settles down fights off a gang of thugs harrassing him and his wife but does not reckon with an ex-lover who tips off the gang's boss.

As the actress arrived, everything about the movie, about the life of director and actress, and about the affection between professor and his student, were revealed and punctured one after another. In the hazy fuzzy afternoon, there is nothing left on the dining table outside the cabin but four-cornered souls; the bandit in the director's movie was also beset in the bank as a trapped beast.

A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”

An Ultraman compilation film from Taiwan.

Taiwan horror / ghost story.

An anti-Japanese spy film about the female spy White Peony.

In this documentary, director Tang records his own son's birth and growing up, his father's recovering from a stroke and a nostalgic trip home to China. (In the 1940's his father evacuated with the Nationalist troops to Taiwan after it lost the Mainland to the Communist in the war. It wasn't until 1980's were people allowed to go home to visit in Mainland China). From his search for the earliest memory of life, with a close observation and sensitivity, he exams the parallels of the different lives of a different time. In his previous work, "HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN," director Tang ends it with the ultrasound image of his unborn child, representing the beginning of a new life. With this work, "HOW HIGH IS THE MOUNTAIN," it is rather a beginning of a series of questions about life and a continuation of examination of his own life and the longing of a perfect world.

A film producer, an assassin, and a patriot. These aren’t three characters in this film but three ways of describing Wu Dun, a member of the United Bamboo Gang who murdered the Taiwanese-American writer Henry Liu and became a producer of wuxia films. Hsu Che-yu, who previously brought Single Copy (IFFR 2020) and Re-rupture (IFFR 2018) to Rotterdam, visits Wu’s abandoned studio to restage the events with forensic scanning techniques.

With the absence of his parents and his drunken grandfather, Jay’s dream of a life far away from the village begins to fade. One day, a beautiful girl from the big city enters Jay's life....

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.

’Being fat’ often has negative connotations and is seen as a state that needs to be changed. Amy and Mallie suffered much frustration before learning to live in harmony with their bodies and advocating for body equality.

The son of Wu Village elder Datong (Brother Wang) is unrequitedly in love with the village girl Cuicui (Bai Lan). One day Datong is changing Cuicui, Chen Zhongyi (Chen Yang), a college student who was returning home to visit relatives, passes by and rescues Cuicui. Since then, the two have had a strong bond. After his holiday, Zhongyi takes the night bus back to Taipei. Cuicui's father does not allow her to see him off...

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

Second Degree, Part 2

Su Zhengde, a middle-aged policeman who has no hope of promotion, eavesdropped on insider news of professional baseball signing and gambling in his duty. He wanted to raise money to send his daughter to study abroad, and he struggled between love and morality. Ada, a fat little brother who lives opposite Zhengde's house, plays baseball in order to become the real man in his mother's mind, but his real dream is to be a dancer. In order to realize his dream, Ada goes hungry and saves money to participate in dance competitions, hiding from her fierce and strict mother. On this day, Zhengde hesitated whether to give up morality and go all out? Ada is still waiting for her mother to understand how he wants to dance! The dreams of two generations, the middle-aged Zhengde and the young Ada, are waiting for the opportunity on the sunny autumn afternoon...