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A man recounts his sorrows over his love that was not meant to be. As China enters its tumultuous period of political upheaval, love begins to blossom for two people on opposing parties.

Based on the story of “Pangu Separates Heaven and Earth,” The Beginning of the Universe starts with the time when the universe was a chaotic mass of air. After the great divide, Pangu’s body becomes the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, rivers, trees and grass.

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...

Black and White – Malayan Tapir, hopes to apply an encyclopedic narrative style to deal with the equality between people and non-humans, man and nature, and to explore the changes in the way modern people view images. The scenes switch from the National Gallery Singapore, the National History Museum, Singapore Zoo to search engines and multiple windows. The political relationship between the history of the zoo in Southeast Asia and the colonial era leads to the drawing of a scientific illustration, biology, civil division and the local legend of Malayan tapir.

Taking place in the 1930s on one island of the Japanese Empire, a few Pinginumu or the ‘escapees,’ attempt to flee from the infamous Green Jail coal mine but lose their way. They suffer from starvation, risk a brutal beat-up if caught, or if lucky, they swim to regain freedom. They become the hungry wandering living-ghosts. After the war, locals have more or less witnessed the miners’ ghosts that remain wandering about, as if they were still the poor souls that lost direction.

The Silent Thrush is a fascinating mixture of exoticism and eroticism. It tells the story of Mu Yun, a young woman who joins a Taiwanese opera company. Ka-hung, the company's star actress (who is Mu Yun's childhood idol) soon falls in love with Mu Yun. This provokes the intense jealousy of Ka-hung's longtime lover, Ai-cheng. Their melodrama of lesbian love is played out against the backdrop of the troupe's day-to-day problems.

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?

The film is based on the Founder of Causeway Bay Books - LAM Wing-kee’s experience after he was temporarily released back to Hong Kong after 8 months of detention in Mainland China. LAM was demanded by the authorities to retrieve his computer in the bookstore in Hong Kong, alongside with the information of his customers. Only when he found out that his colleague handed over to him the wrong computer, should he start to think about possibilities besides submitting to authorities from Mainland China. The film re-enacts the events happened in the two days he was allowed to return to Hong Kong and explores LAM’s decision to defy, and refuse to leave his homeland.

Huang Hsin-Yao’s directorial debut on documentary

A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a screenwriting collaborator, a script supervisor, and a companion.

This film traces Arizona’s desert as it is reshaped into a hub for data centres and semiconductor manufacturing. Moving through altered waterways, the film exposes tensions between technoutopian visions and drought-stricken ecologies. Guided by offscreen voices and Tohono O’odham poet Ofelia Zepeda’s ‘Cloud Song’, ancestral knowledge counters the rise of industrial ‘cloud’ infrastructures.

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.

Suffering from dementia, Hsia flees the brand-new apartment where she now lives with her daughter and returns to her old home, only to relive the nightmare that she has long forgotten and buried.

The Petrel Returns is the story about the pioneer of Taiwan modern dancer Ms. Tsai Ruiyue, who was born in Tainan, and had been educated in Japan. After she came back from Japan, she had met the famous poet Mr. Lei Shiyu, soon they were engaged and married while Ms. Tsai Ruiyue had decided to devoted her life to dance art and education.She has founded the first dance theater: Chung Hua Dance Theater which has encouraged many potential Taiwanese dancers after WWII.

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.

A Sequel to "Ultraman - Protector of the World", based on the Ultraseven series, including the eponymous episode alongside other episodes from Ultraseven.

Obsessed with capturing death to glimpse the soul yet terrified of death itself, photographer Hao is haunted by visions due to a past accident. In search of peace and to escape being killed by these apparitions, he embarks on a journey to THE LAND, seeking the God‘s Endless Path.

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.

With his complexly plotted feature-film debut, shot entirely in widescreen black and white, Taiwanese director Fu Shan-Fong has created an often hilarious satire of filmmaking in Taiwan and a parody of cinema cliches resulting from the attempts of a group of hot young advertising executives to make a major motion picture. Each of the would-be filmmakers tends to make commercials that pay tribute to their favorite movie directors (who range from Ingmar Bergman to John Woo), and all are eager to realize their dream of making an art film. At first, the group faces so many obstacles the director kills himself in despair. Shortly thereafter they find a backer who unfortunately insists they make a Hollywood-style action thriller about Mafia arms smugglers called "Striking Back." Scenes from the investor's dream movie periodically appear throughout the story, and Shan-Fong uses them to parody Asian cinema's tendency to imitate and elaborate upon Western movie conventions.

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.

A melodrama story co-directed by Bai Ke and Lin Tuan-chiu in Taiyu (Taiwanese language)

On the last day of summer, Fei and his mother cannot stop arguing. Fei finds a cassette tape in his bag since he is asked to record a summer day as schoolwork. Mother and son set off on a bold plan, reliving the last day of summer.

Lu Xia was shooting a short film at the entrance of the alley. After returning to the coffee shop, he discussed life with Xiao An in his fantasy and wanted to make this idea into a 90-minute hero film. The two began to fall into fantasy. , in the conception of these stories, Luxia also constantly instilled in himself the message of believing in himself, making choices in life, etc., but was interrupted by his colleague Xiaomei when the climax of the story was conceived, and Luxia forced Xiaomei to participate together In the decisive battle in the story, in the middle of the plot, the daydream was interrupted by Xiaomei, reminding Luxia to return to reality. Although Luxia was depressed, he was still working reluctantly. After finishing the day’s work, his mind started again. The fantasy of a superhero plot. At this time, Lu Xia made a choice to pursue his dream.

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...

Mr. Sai, a man of science, finds his relationship with his superstitious wife growing colder over time. After his doctor recommends regular intimacy to improve his health, he faces unexpected challenges—especially when his recently released, outspoken son announces plans to run for local office. Stubborn and unyielding, Mr. Sai must confront his beliefs and adapt as he navigates the trials of his later years.

A man named Dhama created the Shaolin temple, where Chinese Kung-Fu originated. Here is the inside story of his struggles, the secret style he invented, and how he became the "Grand Master of Shaolin Kung-Fu".

The scholar Ning caichen, who was poor and short in life, inadvertently lived in lanruo temple, but led to the seduction of female ghost Xiaoqian. Xiaoqian is controlled by the tree demon. She is looking for a man to absorb Yang Qi. Fortunately, caichen is saved by the Taoist Zhang Dezhi. After being rescued, Ning caichen died suddenly due to food poisoning. He started as a thousand people. Ning caichen became a ghost. Under the control of the mother of the tree demon, he followed Xiao Qian to find a man to absorb Yang Qi.

An unknown disease is striking to younger generation, the patients are going to lose the sense of reality and the memory of themself. We following a girl who got her new name 'OK' and she is going to figure out what's going on.

Afei, a young factory worker, is 40 weeks pregnant out of wedlock. Her boss threatened to fire her if she didn’t return to work immediately after giving birth. She thought hiring an unlicensed babysitter would keep her job, but he took the money and disappeared, leaving her with no choice but to ask her ex-boyfriend, the baby’s father, for help, despite her hatred for him. Unbeknownst to her, this request led to a child abuse case.

This is the first starring role I've seen Casanova Wong play. He and the film's producers seem to be paying homage to Toshiro Mifune, Clint Eastwood, Jimmy Wang Yu et al. Casa is very much the taciturn, serious lone man on a mission. He is always focussed, apparently calm, until he explodes into action.

This landmark dance film presents *Portrait of the Families*, a defining work by Lin Hwai-min and Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, directed for screen by Chang Chao-Tang. *Portrait of the Families* is a mournful elegy for loss. Dancers move amid projections of nearly 200 historical Taiwanese photographs collected by Chang Chao-Tang and the voices of oral histories, evoking the deep scars and pain left by the 228 Incident and the White Terror. This film captures the original staging from the work’s 1997 premiere.

Childhood is a dagger lodged in the throat. Spending childhood under the pressure of academic success, there was no happiness to be found. It wasn't until I grew up and started filming my family that I discovered my mother's body and mind had long aged and shattered. As my heart broke with each merciless verbal attack, who could return to my mother her lost youth? A mother and daughter, loving and clashing, after over twenty years together, finally willing to face the long-standing issues between them.

Suthat, a young man from the northeastern part of Thailand, has worked in Taiwan for six years. He does not aim to save money, nor does he have any plans for the future. He has just moved to Taichung. Four months ago, he visited the ASEAN Square for the first time. It was in a Thai disco club that he met the film crew that was scouting locations and looking for materials for a production to be shown in a group exhibition at MoCA Taipei in May. For reasons unknown, the film crew invited Suthat to join the film. That day, Suthat came to the ASEAN Square to celebrate the Songkran festival with his friends. During the past four months, he has made quite a few friends; and today, the film crew with a Thai interpreter became his new friends.

Hsu, retired, craves for grandchildren while his two sons still staying single. Preventing from losing memory, he takes a camera back to hometown to shoot an autobiography for his unborn grandchildren.

In the historically most famous ancestral house of the matrilineal Amis tribe in Taiwan, the carved pillars tell legends, such as the great flood, the glowing girl, the descending shaman sent by the Mother Sun, and the father-killing headhunting event. After a strong typhoon toppled the house 40 years ago, the pillars were moved to the Institute of Ethnology Museum. Recently young villagers, with assistance from female shamans, pushed the descendants and village representatives to communicate with ancestors in the pillars. They eventually brought the ancestral souls rather than the pillars back and began reconstructing the house.

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.

"Politics and religion are not allowed here. We only talk about women." But after a few glasses of Kaoliang liquor, CAO's rules are naturally forgotten. Every night for 30 years, CAO would sit in front of his house and have a few drinks, and it has become a place for older men to gather. After retirement, their conversations are full of conflicts between old and new values and "masculine" topics. CAO and his buddy LAI chit chat about their inner feelings that have to be spilled out.

Huang Ming-chuan interviews female poets from Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, inviting them to speak about feminism, their social context and the role of poetry today.

Kai wants to become a pastor, following his father's footsteps, which causes a misunderstanding between Kai and his closeted boyfriend Jay. On the other hand, Jay is thinking about going abroad for his training in the soccer team. They find themselves struggling with each other's choice.

When taking the train home, I always feel that some parts of myself cannot keep up with the moving carriage, and I feel that the order of my mind is also disrupted. The trivial matters that happened during this period began to appear in my mind, and the boundary between reality and memory began to blur…

As his family home is set to be demolished during urban renewal, Hao decides to buy a new house with his inheritance from his father so as to get away from this sad place and start a new life elsewhere with his mother, Hsia. However, in the meantime, he finds out that Hsia has continued using the inheritance money to make political contributions, for she is such a political fanatic. Somehow, Hsia believes that only CHIANG Chung-Yao, the latest candidate running for mayor, can bring about a bright future for all. Eventually, Hao has chosen to hold his mother captive for fear that Hsia will be duped into giving away all the inherited assets.

Chen Chieh-jen’s Lingchi Echoes calmly yet forcefully condemns the many forms of Western colonial domination Taiwan has endured. Its images feel like dream-images from collective memory, buried in the viewer’s unconscious and demanding a response. Projected across three screens at a slow, poetic pace, the work connects historical violence to contemporary Taiwanese society. Hovering between madness, agony, and ecstatic transcendence, the imagery turns viewing into an unsettling confrontation. Though based on a once-obscure historical document, its reenactment of lingchi in the twenty-first century feels like looking at images of hell. Loaded with colonial, historical, cinematic, punitive, and aesthetic meanings, the slowed image compels the viewer to stare—at history, at violence, and at the self. Lingchi becomes a metaphor for First World power over the vulnerable under globalization.

The financial problems of a Jewish community are a nightmare for their leader, Rabbi Aaron. Cornered and overwhelmed, Aaron tries a last resort: embark on a trip to the Far East to get donations.

After the divorce lawsuit, Jia Ting and Ming Kai want to have brain surgery to completely forget each other. While preparing the materials for the surgery, which include the objects representing their love, hatred, relatives and friends, they realize that the difference between them is this increasingly divided memory...

The story depicts a young man who is banished for questioning the state machinery and embarks on an unknown adventure in order to protect his love.

Literature and tales of the military dependents' villages leave a unique and precious character in Taiwanese history since the Great Retreat in 1949. The people have gradually formed a culture within the villages. To dive into the richness of military dependents' villages, the film interviews many prominent Taiwanese writers who grew up in the first and second generation of military dependents' villages and quotes extensively from literary passages, creating the reappearance of the unforgettable lives in the villages and of the cultures of Waishengren.

Mei Chi, an amnesiac following a car accident, deserts her family to hook with up Ah-Liang, a taxi-driver by day and pirate CD salesman by night; Fortune-teller Ren appears on the doorstep of a lotto store owner looking for more than just a place to stay; a sexy bar owner mocks the amorous advances of an impotent musician manqué driving him to seek solace in alcohol...

After school, Xiao-Ci wants to talk to her mother about what happened in school today, but her mother was too busy looking for the evidence to prove Xiao-Ci ’s father is still smoking secretly. Xiao-Ci’s mother was sure that, last night, she heard the sound of a lighter: “Pada!”

It was almost the college entrance exam. Students were cramming til night at school. Zi-Fan, the president of student union, like every model student, he was working on tests while listening to a strange cassette. On the other hand, Zi-Fan's crush, Jie kept sneaking on Zi-Fan without letting him notice. When Zi-Fan saw Jie left the classroom, he followed his steps to the corridor and accidentally bumped into the candidate for the next president campaign. With the power of the magical cassette, Zi-Fan read the broken heart from a victim of domestic violence on this second-grader. The unbearable scream of agony reminded him of how he escape his bullied life by listening to others through the cassette. Zi-Fan ran away to the washroom where he recognized as a safe haven. With panic filled in his mind, he met Jie where he used to spent his darkest moments alone. Sensing his fear, Jie held Zi-Fan's hands and invited him to listen to his heart...