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Kuan has to straighten his naturally born curly hair with a hair straightener before school everyday. But due to the raining season...

Integrating home movies shot over six years of traveling with friends and lovers with postcards and flyers collected during past travels, Wu Chun-Hui takes us on a journey without end, a voyage searching for the origin of memory and infinite desire. Noah, Noah deals with relationships, distance, and memories, and turns the needs and desires that evolve from them into a cinematic experience. Trains departing, back roads roamed, navigating by water or air. It’s also about distance in filming, a distance from one image to another film roll, from one frame to another perforation, the distance from the real to the faded memory.

Mentioning Diao-yu-tai evokes an immediate patriotic response in Taiwan due to the territorial dispute between China and Japan, sparked by a 1968 oil field survey in the East China Sea.

What is it about the Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival that attracts so many bands? Called The Ocean Music Festival in Chinese, this annual rock and roll contest was first organized by Taipei county in 2000. What is it about the festival that keeps the bands coming back year after year? What is that attracts hundreds of thousands of fans to pour into The Ocean to hear the music, eagerly awaiting next year's festival as soon as this year's is over? All the bands striving to succeed at this summer event comes with its own attitude, its own story. But what they have in common is a striving for the chance to get up on their stage and dazzle hundreds of thousands of onlookers, just like The Ocean does every year.

Due to an assignment assigned by the school, David had to take the time to accompany with his father to go back to his hometown where he grew up. They rushed back from the bustling city to the beautiful town, and gave his father the opportunity to travel through time and space and see again his own hometown.

In 1995 five hundred dock workers in Liverpool were fired for refusing to cross a picket line, sparking the Dockers' dispute of the 1990s. In protest, when the Neptune Jade – a Mersey-loaded ship – set sail from England dock workers across the globe refused to allow the ship to dock and unload its cargo – first at Oakland CA., then Vancouver, Canada and then Yokahoma and Kobe, Japan. The ship eventually sailed to Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan where it was disbanded and sold. Neptune Jade stands as a significant event in the dock workers struggle and of their international solidarity. In The Route, Chen re-presents history by interspersing archive film footage with new footage of a picket line staged by Dockers at Port of Kaohsiung. A symbolic connection between workers in Liverpool and Taiwan, the artist's home, is created, echoing the Dockers' phrase 'The world is our picket line'.

Jumping Jet Flash tells the story of a man who looks back on the last week of his life awaiting the results of an HIV test.

The soldier's written words breathe life into the desolate and shell-covered Tong-Sha Island, transforming it into a vivid landscape. It's a place where many men seem symbolically bound, unvisited yet too precious to forsake.

Zhen Zhen and her single parent mother struggled with livelihood. They had a wish to own, a modest house that they could call home. In a Chinese calligraphy practice occasion, Zhen Zhen met Grandpa Liu, a lonely old man who then became her landlord-to-be by chance. Zhen Zhen started to reside at Grandpa Liu's house and became his finial protégée in Chinese calligraphy. Facilitated by internet communication, Zhen Zhen's help Grandpa Liu's homosexual son to return home and made reconciliation with Grandpa Liu to accept his alternative life. Zhen Zhen and her mother's wish of owning a house still floats in the air for the time being, but they persist to realize it with every little step they strive. The film talks about the true value of the family and the hope in which communication barriers amongst adults were bridged by a youngster's perspective. It is a heart smoothing story entailing how a child's innocence angle the web of complexity within a family.

When fishing at sea, he always glimpses Guishan Island. Childhood memories and the villagers' distinct qualities were buried there during the village’s relocation. 'Now, we hide our homesickness in dreams'. Witnessing the island's tourism deeply affects displaced islanders.

In 1997, the Taipei City Council abolished the Licensed Prostitute System without any compensatory measures. For over 2 years, Miss Guan was one of the leading figures that organized over 500 protests to defend the prostitutes’ work rights. Yet under huge pressure from their mounting debts and governmental crackdown, she finally threw herself into the ocean….

A short documentary about Jimmy, a black Taiwanese drag queen. The film considers the socio-cultural complexities of the protagonists's mixed parentage. With a contemporary urban narrative, it incorporates animation to create an affectionately comical insight.

Made in 2008–2009, Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-Jen’s Empire’s Borders conveys the real-life experiences of women who have attempted to cross Taiwan’s borders: first, Taiwanese women denied tourist visas to visit the United States, and second, women from mainland China who have married Taiwanese men and have been denied permission to enter or remain in Taiwan. Shot on 35mm film in stark black and white, each woman relates her story in her own words. The bureaucratic settings for these short monologues recall the interview centre or airport immigration hall where the encounters originally took place.

The soldier's written words breathe life into the desolate and shell-covered Tong-Sha Island, transforming it into a vivid landscape. It's a place where many men seem symbolically bound, unvisited yet too precious to forsake.

An office worker obsessed with the supernatural visits an old parking lot and finds evidence of ghosts of perverts.

4 Children share a similar fate. Their fathers fish on the sea. Their mothers are of foreign origin. What are their inner worlds like?

31 years ago, the story was written. Origami animation.

According to the Tao people’s traditional beliefs, illness was a sign of supernatural possession by evil spirits. Many patients thus became isolated, unable to receive any medical care. A native of the Orchid Island (Lanyu) where she worked as a nurse, the filmmaker initiated a program in 1997, recruiting some 40 volunteers to visit and care for homebound elderly patients against considerable social pressure. This documentary captures the powerful dilemma when traditional values clash with compassion.

In December 1941, the Pacific War broke out. Hundreds of Taiwanese were recruited to join the war. When the war ended, these Taiwanese soldiers were sent to court as prisoners of war and faced identity crisis. Heat Sun intends to record the lives of these soldiers. Through conversations and visual images, the film reveals the issues surrounding humanity and war.

When a boat sets off, passengers may anticipate their destination's appearance. Some believe imagination can transport them, while others need firsthand experience. The story of Keelung Islet documents both a process and a state of consciousness.

Comfort is found lurking in the moonlight in this haunting sand animation.

Bathing but no murder! Chun-Hui Wu deconstructs Marion Crane's motel room ablutions in Htichcock's classic "Psycho", reframing and reanimating the famous shower scene into a whole other narrative of frustrated suspense with erotic overtones.

Hard Good Life II is a work that comes from the heart. Since the director learned how to hold a camera, she had gazed at her father through the lens all the time. This film is a memory of her father. After her father got cancer, they went through all kinds of treatment together, including loss or gain, hope or sorrow. This unbreakable connection supported them to the very last moment and never faded away.

A young man works out his hostility towards his deceased mother by dressing up as her and asking strangers to scold him.

A frank and candid portrait of the lives and family relations of three gay teenagers in Taipei. One breaks up with his boyfriend before going abroad to study, the other craves for love, and the third one moonlights as a crossdresser. A bold statement against norms in a Confucean society.

Taiwanese softcore work.

This documentary is all about nationality, race, identity, trust, culture, and media contact between Taiwan and China, and the chaotic mind-changing of the author during the shooting. The team interviewed some young people who were born in the early 80’s, and conducted various questionnaires in order to find out how the new generation in Taiwan is thinking about this ambiguous political situation, and even how they think it should be solved. The most important and remaining question is about to be answered…or will it?

Treasure Island opens with an animated fairy tale about a beautiful island filled with hidden treasures. As the tale unfolds, a parallel story takes place in reality—following two young women from Vietnam and Indonesia who are stranded in Taiwan, victims of human trafficking. They once believed coming to this treasure island for work would let them support their families and build a better life back home. But that fairy-tale dream soon collapses, overwhelmed by the harsh realities they must face.

Taiwanese children between 4 and 8 years old talk about their views on surrendering to China.

Green Island's link to political prisoners remains indelible despite its modern tourism. To depict the multi-faceted appearance of the island, the film centres on 3 characters: a local islander, a former prisoner’s daughter, and an artist with depression.

Young Mao-Di spends his whole nights sitting at a computer tweaking digital photographs. One day, he meets the girl of his dreams on the metro. follows her and finds out that she lives across the street. the next day, he is followed by an older man, who lives in the same house as the girl. Mao-Di sets out to discover who the two are.

A journey of lost, exile, and going home.

The man intends to kill another man. While waiting for the man to get off work, he was witnessed by another man. The first man killed his target, completely seen by the second man. The second man told the first man that he saw it without missing a single glance.

A girl said to another girl, you are beautiful. The girl behind saw that the previous girl gave another girl a coat. Finally, the second girl saw the first girl holding a boy's hand in the elevator.

On January 1, 2003,President Chen Hsui-Bian declared:" I have felt the people's anguish and pain, and would like to express my gratitude and best wishes to the hard-working people of Taiwan and their unrelenting strivings."

Since Taiwan’s opening of cable TV in 1993, the number of channels has increased by 30 times, including 8 24-hour news channels. TV news and newspapers are trying to fight for ratings, grab advertisements, invade people’s privacy, make up for news, and seduce gossip. Is there really no cure for this media monster that is damaging the eyes of the audience? Is publicization the last salvation for the failure of the media market? Through the interviews of a number of audiences from all walks of life and the experience of frontline journalists, this film combines the context of the media reform movement to sort out the root causes of media chaos and the possibility of prescribing the right remedy.

A series of emails that the filmmaker wrote to her late mentor, the renowned American documentary filmmaker Robert KRAMER (1939- 1999), are woven throughout the plot of a story as the boundaries of life, distance, language, identity and nationality are re-examined from the perspective of Elodie, her daughter.

A documentary about a professional Taiwanese basketball team's road to championship.

Hitting 30 and no husband in sight? Forget online dating. In this hugely popular documentary, Wu Wuna seeks out Taipei’s thoroughly modern matchmaker, Chen Hailun. She looks on in amazement as Chen fixes up the most unlikely couples. More therapist for individuals than broker between families, Chen nudges the men – “why not marry her?” – and reassures the women. The stories the couples tell might inspire you to believe in love and romance all over again. But you might also notice that Wu Wuna doesn’t seem quite convinced enough to engage Chen’s services for herself.

In 1943, the Imperial Japanese government announced a work-study program in its colony, Taiwan, to recruit children to work in military factories. 8,419 boys came to Japan... An one-hour documentary, Shonenko reveals the unknown stories of these child laborers (Shonenko), from 12 to 14 years old, who manufactured fighter planes in Japanese Naval Arsenals during the Second World War. They left their families, homeland and childhood with the dream of receiving an education. But their dream was to be shattered - first by the war and again by cruel post-war politics in Taiwan, Japan and China.

Besides exploring complex student relationships, family dynamics, and gender-based violence, the film reflects the director’s perspective as a teacher, subtly expressing anxiety and lament over the loss of innocence in the harsh realities of modern youth.

A big cock go-go boy, a she-male hooker, and a couple of lesbians making out in a seedy men’s room set the stage for a debate on Taiwanese independence.