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Taco meets a girl named Cathy who just missed her train.He tells her a story about “Cathy,” a name shared by all his ex-girlfriends…

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

Day after day, bars of sunset pass the kitchen. Lamps carry on when the sky gets dark. The frame finds its balance. Life in work and work in life.

Mr. Lai, an extra in a film, wakes up coughing on the set and gets notified he is going to play a dead body lying in a coffin. Teased by other background actors and mistreated by the film crew, he finds a perfect way to lie in the coffin.

This dance film presents Siddhartha as reimagined by Lin Hwai-min and performed by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, directed for screen by Chang Chao-Tang. Inspired by Hesse’s novel and a pilgrimage to Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha attained enlightenment, Lin created a work of stillness and elemental force. The stage is shaped by tons of golden rice grains into shifting landscapes—like rain, waterfalls, and deserts. Georgian folk songs flow through the space as dancers, carrying wooden staffs, move in slow, spiraling journeys, while a monk in white remains motionless. In the final scene, a dancer rakes the grains into vast concentric circles, forming an image of quiet intensity. Premiered in 1994, this 90-minute work is one of Lin’s key creations. Widely toured and acclaimed, it remains among Cloud Gate’s most performed works. Recorded in high definition, this 2013 version stands as the definitive edition of this landmark piece.

Plot details under wraps but "aims to fuse high-octane action with comedy while celebrating cultural diversity across its Middle Eastern and Taiwanese settings".

Lo Tong Conquers the North

He has tattoos. He writes poems. He paints. He has done a few dirty jobs. When he was in prison for the second time, he received a literary award. He always looks for work, friends, love, but gets lost again and again... He is Weiming, a pen name he adopted when he was in junior high school.

Three commentators sit in a news studio in front of a TV discussing the Tiananmen Square massacre as reported by local and foreign media. This film aims to examine the politics of image and the image of politics through commenting on the topics of democracy, media control, consumption and commercialism.

Returning to the ancestral home his grandfather built for the family, the eldest grandson finds no trace of his own childhood. Through the rhythmic cadence of his grandmother’s Hakka, he begins to reclaim his identity—stitching together a family history from old photographs and the stories that survived.

Taiwanese writer and social critic Long Yingtai spent the last decade undertaking an ambitious project to record the untold stories of the Chinese Civil War that culminated in the Kuomintang's 1949 retreat to Taiwan. Based on her research as well as first-hand experiences collected through interviews, Long wrote the book "Big River Big Sea 1949," and, with the help of producer Wang Shau-di and director Huang Li-ming, also created this companion documentary. The film chronicles her yearlong journey visiting war survivors scattered throughout Taiwan, Hong Kong, and various places in mainland China, preserving a generation's precious memories in the form of a vivid oral history.

The reunion of a man and a woman blurs the boundary between reality and memory.

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

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Stewardess Ivy was laid off by airplane company, and her life suddenly fell to the bottom. But a cheer competition video brought her back to life. Ivy, who was a cheerleader in her schooldays, now wants to find her alumnus and participate in the competition.

Originally written by HUANG Hua-cheng in 1966, the script centres on the dialogue between a couple sitting in the audience of a play. 51 years later, original actors CHUANG Ling and LIU Ying-shang are invited back to the theatre to recreate the groundbreaking original.

Yao-Wei takes his girlfriend home to Malaysia for the first time. In the midst of a monsoon, he tries to find the right time to tell his parents of his engagement.

A documentary of the life story of a violent and bloodthirsty young man from Kachin, Myanmar, who casually discusses killing as if it were not his own story. His past of a non-voluntary, military life has cost him a great deal and completely changed his post-military life. With all the wounds and experiences, he is now considering which path to take for the future.

The story is about an old women with a drawer on her body. This drawer is full of the memory of her passed husband. She puts things into the drawer every day to look for the shadow of him.

A documentary short about a couple dedicating to marine environmental protection.

Money, money! In an ordinary funeral, driven by the peculiar request of the deceased's son, Ah-Min and Birdie, a pair of friends, choose to cremate the body late at night. To their surprise, the deceased suddenly comes back to life. Was he never genuinely dead to begin with? Or is it something more sinister? No one knows for sure, but all they see is the awakened demented old man, and wealth pouring in.

A Taiwanese language film.

There are currently only about 42 minutes of fragments of this film left.

We found Ishikawa's sketching route by following the 1909 travelogue of Kinyichiro Ishikawa's "Tataga's Memories" (タッタカの思出): the Nantou mountainous area was once a battleground for the aboriginal people and the Japanese army, and because of the need to contact the farm for filming, we learned that in 2016, the Meifeng Farm in Taichung University accidentally discovered the site of the garrison in the park, and so we decided to take the members of the Southern Art Association and their friends to go there and make a two-day and one-night sketching tour. The trip was a two-day, one-night sketching tour. For this sketching trip after 110 years, a few young Sedgwick men working at NTU's Mountain Experimental Farm cleaned up fallen trees and weeds in the park after the typhoon, and worked continuously in the forest, waiting for the upcoming team of painters and a team of photographers.

Since deciding to give up on resuscitating his estranged father, Cheng Yi hasn't been able to sleep properly. The funeral rituals seem like a dream, so real yet so elusive. During this period, Cheng Yi's daughter noticed his gradual decline and fatigue to some extent. She knew how much Cheng Yi longed for Gung Chin to come into his dream, and to tell him whether he made the right decision or not.

It shows the psychological and destiny changes of a New York man on the subway.

Filmed for over 10 years, this epic documentary presents the story of renowned Taiwanese choreographer Lin Lee-chen and her Legend Lin Dance Theatre. Extracting the essential details of Lin’s daily life, the film explores the origins of her dance, contemplates the poetic and ritualistic movements she creates, and delineates her lifetime pursuit of aesthetic concerns.

When he was a child, Junya promised his maternal grandfather that as the eldest grandson, he would take over the family Shinto shrine. However, this did not come to pass as Junya did not share the same family name and he grew estranged from his family over time. To escape this tension, Junya ventured overseas to pursue other dreams and distanced himself from the hometown where he grew up. One day, while working in an izakaya, he meets a foreigner with the same birthday researching a new dance piece for a film. His fateful encounter leads him to confront a family history that he has left behind and gives the dancer inspiration for her work. Together in the midst of winter, they revisit Junya's hometown to reconnect with his childhood and let go of a promise he cannot fulfil.

About the past , my memory are fading and The past "I" is also vanishing . Considering the question of the relation between "I" and its image and death.

Two mixed-race children of the US military in Taiwan, one speaking Hakka, the other Taiwanese. In the ruins of a former military dormitory, they speak slowly, uncovering a history their faces and languages could never fully inhabit, their memories moving like ghosts along the edges of history.

The story is from director’s childhood memories which depicts the reduction of humanity by military government during the martial law, the colonial culture as well as the digital era into a story beyond reality.

My elder brother A-Chih has been serving as a psychic since he was twelve. He has helped many believers communicate with the divine to overcome their problems. Despite his gift, he is unable to escape the grip of his own difficult life. It is the reason why I have doubts about his abilities. To improve his circumstances, he has tried various works such as street vending and part-time jobs. What can he do to find a way out of this tough situation of life?

Abi is a cockroach who hates his own kind. He views humans as the most elegant beings and hence begins to observe and mimic their way of life and actions. One day,he was caught and got flushed down the toilet bowl, where he ended up in a foreign place. He thus began on this lonely journey, where he tried to find his place in this world yet only to face countless disappointments...

Huang Hsin-Yao’s directorial debut on documentary

Taiwan in the year 2000, only thirteen years after the lifting of Marshall Law rule and still an unruly place referred to by many as the “Wild, Wild East,” provides a perfect setting for The Taiwan Oyster. Masquerading as a bender road-­‐movie, the darkly comic film explores deep existentialist questions as the protagonists journey deeper and deeper into the Taiwanese countryside. Darin and Simon’s quest for the perfect burial spot becomes a strange trip down Taiwan’s picturesque East Coast Highway as they encounter the unique cultures of Taiwan, welcoming families, violent gangsters, and Nikita, another lost soul who joins their odyssey. Along the way, they explore the Southeast Asian ex-­patriot experience, their own personal demons, and the universal questions that arise when one is confronted with an untimely death.

A Taiwanese Odyssey resulting from the assassination attempt by three expatriates in April 1970 on Chiang Ching-kuo, heir apparent to dictator Chiang Kai-shek. The story is told through the life of Cecilia Huang, a gentle and quiet participant previously unknown. With memories shared by people across three continents, the film explores complexity of the human condition, love, betrayal, defiance, regrets, trauma and the possibilities of poetic closure from pain and loss.

An author helps her boyfriend commit his memories of a childhood sexual assault to paper. When he refuses to publish the book shortly before the editorial deadline, she must find a balance between her love for him and her own job as an author.

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.

A tie-dye fabric animation that narrates the beginning of life from a microscopic perspective.

Although the little girl-Min Ru and her cousin had never met,but she read letters what he sent for years . One day, Min Ru reads the unfamiliar words “ released on parole “ in the letter. The message of her cousin's parole caused arguments among relatives. Face with relatives who try to drive a wedge, and mother defended her point of view. With curiosity and doubt, she embarks on adventure, experience a time when she didn't exist. Spring follows winter. Also, Min Ru writes a letter to her cousin…

A story about two volleyballs. No genders, merely two objects and souls falling in love. Both were solitude until an encounter breaks their desire to be each other’s loved one.

Yunlin, literally "the cloud forest", is named for its dense forest and cloudy landscape in past time. This wonderland relies mainly on agriculture and fishery. As the time passes, the forest gradually disappears but the beautiful cloud remains. The cloud forest looks the same in a different way.

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Thirty-four year-old Alun formed the first hip-hop dance group 'The Party' soon after totalitarian rule ended in Taiwan in the early 90s. The group eventually disbanded, but Alun's passion for hip-hop remained. He's about to compete in Juste Debout, a worldwide street dance competition to take place in Paris. Where will this journey take him? Eight high school students born in the 90s, and half the age of Alun, make up 'Undergradu-eight' Supported by a more open society that has come to embrace pop culture, what is the dream they're hoping to achieve through hip-hop?

Wei-Lun is a senior high school student in Taipei. His daily life revolves around school, cram school, and home—or he’s on the way between these places. The only time he can catch his breath is during that short break between school and cram school, when he sneaks off to an internet café. He doesn't take exams very seriously, nor has he ever thought deeply about anything. He simply drifts through each day, living a monotonous and unchanging routine. The future seems distant and unreal. As long as he's with his friends, it feels like these youthful days will go on forever—doesn’t it?