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'Peng! Snowman' is a feature length documentary about a farmer's son who became one of the worldwide best martial artists. Just forget what you know about martial arts master. Peng will redefine the term: He's a funny, crazy genius! At the age of 60, Peng Wu-Chi was willing to share his incredible story for the first and last time - before he disappeared.

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.

Two cripples protect a beautiful girl who is on the run from local gangsters and who has become temporarily blinded, while trying to disguise the fact that they are crippled so they can win her affections.

Just like the delicious dishes on this New Year’s Eve, the tension between He Muguang, her father and grandmother heat up, revealing more than just trash buried under grand-mas cluttered stuff.

Bean's delusion makes her think she’s a surveillance camera. Every day, she stays in the parking lot with Fox, the manager, watching everything intently without moving. Life is dull until one day, a vending machine appears across the lot, and a boy named Daikon comes daily to buy a can of Coke.

A woman is abruptly called back home to take care of her mother, interrupting her in the process of committing suicide. The family’s past is gradually revealed through the revelation of the details about the relationship between the mother and daughter.

A non-typical story about immigration—a Taiwanese student in Brussels investigates his identity crisis through a personal documentary essay.

Taiwanese language drama film.

Gao was trying to seek a complete love in different people to fulfill her emptiness.​

Danny, who dreams of being a star in Hollywood, makes his living as an escort. During the day, he wanders around in extraordinary clothing. At night, he plays at bars and discos. His beauty attracts cravings for him from a wealthy married woman to an award-winning producer. His gay friend shows affection to him as well. Everyone yearns for having him, but he loves nobody until he meets an adorable girl Trissy one night. Love and sex drive the two into ecstasy. However, the burden of intimacy also raises the question: could the lascivious nature be tamed with devotion?

This documentary film follows the journey of former student activist and current political staffer Chen Ting-hao after his decision to escape the cynical politicism of Taipei City to the political backwater of Matsu, an island group administered by Taiwan less than a dozen kilometers off the coast of China. The narrative follows Ting-hao as he reflects on how his political idealism fits in with everyday political reality and ponders Taiwan’s complex political landscape, Taiwan’s relations with a meddlesome yet surprisingly indifferent China, and the perspectives of Matsu residents on Taiwan-China affairs.

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.

Xiaotong hides her fears beneath a fragile illusion of love. When she discovers flirty messages between her boyfriend and his ex, she quietly discards the key—creating a small excuse to hold onto something already slipping away. But in the stillness of the night, a single tear exposes the truth.

When a sci-fi film crew invades eccentric alien enthusiast Homer’s “cosmic sanctuary” to shoot aliens as villains, he leaps into action to defend his turf—and to show them what real extraterrestrials are all about.

A depressed young man, an enthusiastic local and a koi embark on a journey.

Japanese youth Lin Xun-ming travels to Hong Kong in search of his lover, Li-hua. Due to his striking resemblance to the syndicate hitman "Lin Wen-ming," he is thrust into a web of mob hits and police suspicion immediately upon arrival. With the help of the mysterious "Brother Nine" and a local bar owner, Xun-ming pursues the truth amidst an exotic detective thriller. As the transaction day approaches and gunfire becomes imminent, Brother Nine’s hidden identity arrives to rewrite the fate of this dangerous mistaken identity and the shadows of a smuggling empire.

Comedy based on Taiwanese folklore.

Taiwan is overrun by zombies. A-Huo along with his wife, Gui-Chun, runs to a fishing harbor but misses the ferry they want to take. They decide to hide in an office of Fishermen's Association and get some rest. Gui-Chun is so exhausted. It is not until the moment when she asks him, 'what will you do if I am bitten by a zombie?' that A-Huo notices a bleeding bite on her arm.

This dance film presents Dream of the Red Chamber as reimagined by Lin Hwai-min and performed by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, directed for screen by Chang Chao-Tang. Inspired by the classic Chinese novel, the story centers on the fragile love between Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai, set against the rise and fall of a great aristocratic family. Lin’s choreography frames the tale as a memory: a young man who has left the garden looks back on a vanished world. The Twelve Beauties appear in flowing, embroidered costumes, moving through falling flowers and shifting seasons. Classical imagery merges with contemporary dance, creating a restrained yet lyrical visual language. Premiered in 1983, the work became one of Cloud Gate’s signature productions. In 2005, Lin retired the piece as the company turned toward a more austere, introspective aesthetic. This film preserves a late-stage performance, documenting a key work from Cloud Gate’s early repertoire.

While the Covid-19 pandemic spread quickly across the globe, a man returned to Taiwan after several years doing business in Hong Kong. However, the reason he came back is his ex-wife became critically ill. According to the rules, he'd have to stay in quarantine for 14 days. But it doesn’t matter. He has already separated from his family for 20 years. The day before the quarantine period ended, he was hesitant to face his family.

Taipei in the 70's, a small village, with people from different backgrounds whom are tightly connected with each other. The Liu's daughter - Liang Liang is seven years old, she is a naive and lively child. One day, she bravely save her little friends from a fire in a car accident, unfortunately she fell into a coma. In her coma, she dreamed of participating in the nation's first marathon...

At the end of WWII, the Nationalist party of Republic of China, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), took control of Taiwan and imposed martial law for 38 years. This period is known as the White Terror, where anyone suspected go being a Communist agent was hunted down. Through a 7-year-old girl’s point of view, The Black Kite brings us back to the innocent, yet high-handed time of the 1960s Taiwan.

A letter from an old friend brings Mo back to the familiar seaside which he would rather forget, a place away from the city. During his high school days, something happened while he was out with friends one night. What happened at the seaside that summer? Let the sea tell you the secret …

A quiet, Caucasian house painter lives a life of solitude in Brooklyn's Chinatown. On the night of a blackout, he forges a silent bond with his neighbor.

"The Beauty of Rituals" (《祭典之美》) by Chang Chao-tang (張照堂) surveys Taiwanese folk festivals across regions and seasons, framing them through the perspectives of archaeologist Chen Chi-lu (陳奇祿), choreographer Lin Hwai-min (林懷民), psychologist Yu Te-hui (余德慧), and painter Shiy De-jinn (席德進). The script and voiceover by Chiang Hsun (蔣勳) articulate the symbolic and affective dimensions of traditional belief.With music by Ma Shui-long (馬水龍), Chou Wen-chung (周文中), Kitaro (喜多郎), and Mike Oldfield, the film juxtaposes Eastern and Western sonic forms, re-mediating ritual as a dynamic contemporary cultural field.

Taiwanese horror fantasy movie from 1981

K’S ROOM is a mental space that serves as a metaphor for the complex relationship between men, boundaries, and the nation during martial law. All the lines in the film were extracted from the sentences used in the "New English Grammar", one of Taiwan's most popular English grammar books, to restructure the mental status of its author, Mr. K, during his incarceration because of the political left.

Somewhere in Myanmar is a forest rich in amber and controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Most of its inhabitants work in a mine, digging the earth night and days in the hope of finding the precious ore that will get them out of poverty. But on top of the excruciating hardship of the work, they also have to fear an attack from the army.

West Island lies south of Penghu, under a square kilometre in size. At its peak, around 200 people lived here, but by 1999, only few remained. It's uncertain if their departure was coincidental. Both the island and its inhabitants have faded into obscurity.

Selfie is a comedy of revenge, redemption, and smartphones, about a man who is coerced into donning a silly-looking superhero costume and forced to 'fight crime'. The story is told entirely via video chat.

A witch unleashes an army of killer cats on a village for burying her alive.

Of the many unrealized projects Yang developed in the wake of Yi Yi, the one that came the closest to fruition was an ambitious animated martial arts movie inspired by his lifelong love of graphic novels and his friendship with Jackie Chan. Though production on The Wind was halted after Yang’s death, this brief assembly of completed scenes offers a glimpse of what might have been. Courtesy of the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute. – Film at Lincoln Center

Zhe stole money from Wei, and pinned it on borderline man in class, Kang. They deceive the others and struggled in bullying on campus. At night, Zhe comes across a woman seriously wounded by an accident. Still, he chooses to flee on the spot. Will he confess his mistake, or getaway with the consequences of his wrongdoing?

At a train station floating in the cloud, a mysterious red tail catches the boy’s attention. Chasing the red tail, the boy travels through countless magical places, runs into bizarre creatures, and finally he meets the gentleman, who seems to know his secrets more than he does. When the red tail reminds the boy of his own memory and sadness, what are the secrets hidden behind, and where will they lead him next? Inspired by Wang’s same named comic story, the mysterious red tail leads viewers on a magical journey, creating a poetic metaphor of people’s childhood memories.

In this short filmed during Chung Mong-hong's study in the United States, a giant cross hovers above, as floating images of the city segue into the vast expanse on the beach where an exorcism is underway, with people holding crosses and self-flagellating, contrasting with the skyline on the other side of the city, the nostalgia and alienation of the sojourner. During the exorcism, a voice-over relates the varied reactions of the bystanders. What is ‘exorcism’, and how do symbols, sounds and imagery relate to each other? In this highly experimental work, Chung compares the director’s montage with the process of exorcism, offering an alternative interpretation and reconstruction of the film’s structure and narrative.

In Singapore, executions take place at dawn. Years after her brother’s death sentencing for drug trafficking, a sister duo continues their early-morning journeys, carrying the quiet aftermath of a punishment the city no longer sees.

Growing up in an ordinary family, Ah-Hui inherited his father's profession and became a postman. However, he gradually realized that this was not what he wanted, but due to his personality and the family atmosphere, he found it difficult to talk to his family about it. One rainy night, Ah-Hui had an accident, and three souls detached from his body. Each soul had its own consciousness, but only one of them wanted to wake up. Meanwhile, the other two souls, existing in different spaces, discovered the regrets they had in their past lives. Unsure if they could make amends, their thoughts gradually began to change.

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....

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.

It’s supposed to be an energetic morning, but Zhe, a real estate agent, feels suffocated and oppressed. With nowhere to go, he heads to a house that he can’t sell and calls for an escort, unexpectedly opening up new possibilities for both of them.

In June, 1993 , the gravestone of Hsu Ching-Lan was finally found in Liuchangli by his brother after 40 years of searching. Hsu was killed by the KMT during the 'White Terror,' the organized suppression of leftist activities in Taiwan in the 1950s.

A young woman's heart and jewels were swindled by three con-artists. As if this wasn't enough, they murdered her. With the help of a kind passerby, her ghost is now able to seek revenge.

A documentary on King Hu.

Newlywed and heartbroken, Zhen-zhen flees her home and her husband, Da-wei. He chases after her, but he can’t stop her tears. Zhen-zhen confesses that she feels unworthy of being a wife. Seeing her pain, Da-wei finally admits that in his student days, he was infatuated with an anonymous woman. Her rejection led him to escape reality by obsessing over erotic photos, struggling to find a balance between love and lust within their marriage. What he doesn’t know is that Zhen-zhen has a secret past of her own...

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.

In the midst of a passionate affair with a married woman, arts teacher Ariel must choose between sating her sexual desires or living an open life free of broken promises.

In the mist room, in the dim light, the steaming heat is floating and overflowing. The flickering male bodies, sucking each other's desire and loneliness, the more squeezed, the thirsty. You seem to have entered the forbidden area by mistake in formal attire, falling between dream and waking, staring, and being stared at. You can't remember how you came here or how to get out. Theater and video director Zhou Dongyan once again touched the life experience of gay men’s community culture that is hard to articulate but difficult to cut. This time, he moved the poetic lens language into VR, taking you and me to the male sauna, peeling off the layered desires, and exploring the hidden love in some kind of lovelessness.

San Mei Zheng Lang

It is a documentary on food design, redefining food through the lens of creativity and design. The film features interviewees from Italy, Spain, Taiwan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.