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Giraffe-like construction cranes are avid eaters. They forage around in the woods and fields for their feeds: the collective longing for development and prosperity. As they crane their necks longer, they make the fantasy of progress more alluring. And that is what Chung-Ming Wang steps forward to fight. Left his stable life behind, he devoted himself into local environmentalism in his hometown Tamsui(Danshui), tried to keep it distant from developmentalism that Taipei had been suffered for long. Few years later, he decided to change his way of political participation. This documentary film depicts his third attempt to run in the City Council Election in 2014, including the difficulties and conflicts he encounters and the diverse imaginations toward progress. The film also tries to brings up an important question: do we need more edifices in our city, or we need to find a way to edify ourselves?

After serving three years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, an angry streetfighter seeks justice. Two sworn brothers oppose a gang of killers running a gym.

"It’s spring of senior year. This wasn't the first time Hoki attacked a wild bird. A school vote is held to decide its fate. Yi, Jen, and Hsaun-ting are seeking answers through each other. "

A documentary about Taiwanese legislator.

Wang Chen, a police of the government, was involved with a murder case and was put in prison. His brother disguised as Pink Panther and saved him from the prison, but then they were attacked by Japanese police.

Young Qin Chong fled his home, and was later adopted by the Zhu family, who own an oil shop, but his stepmother frames him and casts him out, forcing him to sell oil on the streets. A chance encounter with courtesan Yao Qin sparks instant attraction. When the Zhu family faces hardship, Qin Chong returns, vowing to achieve success in the imperial examinations, while Wu Ba kidnaps Yao Qin but meets his death in his own mansion, leaving her holding the murder weapon.This adaptation broke from tradition, replacing the usual gongs and drums with a Chinese orchestra for its score, adopting a folk-song style.

A young wife paces around a dark room. Lust and violence interweave into a fantastical web. Loitering between her lover, husband, and child, her painful memories of abuse continue to emerge. She cuts her wrist with a razor. In her final moments, the wayward feminine powers are recalled once again by patriarchy.

A young martial artist battles three traitors to retrieve a list of Chinese citizens who are collaborating with the Japanese during their occupation of Manchuria.

“All sadness leaves a trace of happiness. All regrets leave a corner of satisfaction.” When an all-powerful repairman meets the girl who has incurable disease, a love story destined to be imperfect re-defines their relationship and regrets.

The artist Mucun’s interest is to collect antiques and old objects. He likes to hang out in flea markets and second-hand junk stalls to hunt for treasure. To him, the tens of thousands of old things piled up at home are just the epitome of people's life history and life memory. The film "Dream is not a residual image" reflects Mu Can's inner artistic ideal, a strong surreal style, and a high standard pointing out the "incomplete" aesthetics.

Hao-Cheng, an urban indigenous boy, sets out on a journey to reconnect with his ancestral tribe. Yet, as he ventures deeper into the heart of his heritage, a creeping fear begins to take hold, with eerie occurrences unfolding one after another.

In the 1950s, A-Bao and her friends were women in pants who felt attracted to women. They named themselves the "Thirteen Rogue Girls ". They customize the all black suit , set the fashionable hairstyle, hung around night club. At these places, the clubs became the heterotopia wher they could be lesbians. However, in day, they’re just the decent women in the neighborhood, helping father with the store, or looking after the kids, and cooking at home.

A story of two best friends with very different personalities. They're an indispensable existence in each other's lives, but the lines are blurred between dependency and a genuine liking. These indescribable feelings are built up for 10 years, and it all comes crashing down on a drunken night. Now, can the two finally face their true feelings?

High in the mountains of Taiwan, is the remote village of Smangus. Inhabited by a unique group of indigenous people called the Tayal, Smangus is the only place in Taiwan that now practices common ownership of land and property. This is a place where nature and man have found balance. Now, witness every part of the lives of these people, through pain and joy, and experience the unique bonds formed with the ancient trees around them, in a film that documents A Year In The Clouds - a year amongst the sacred forests of this tribe.

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.

This is a behind-the-scenes documentary of "Double Vision", a Hollywood film shot in Taiwan. In 2001, Taiwan was struck by as many as nine typhoons, bringing with them an extraordinary amount of rainfall. That same year marked the first time the Hollywood film industry arrived in Taiwan with substantial funding and manpower. Although this documentary follows a production boasting an impressive international cast, it also captures a more complex reality: when the powerful machinery of Hollywood enters a country whose own film industry has all but disappeared, what should we be questioning or reflecting upon in this model of transnational collaboration? Like the typhoons that repeatedly swept across Taiwan during filming, what else did they bring besides torrential rain?

Adopting a pseudo-documentary format with a film-within-a-film metacinema approach, it portrays the onsite filming and behind-the-scenes during the making of Spy Love.

The background is set in nostalgic Hong Kong, a man keeping having nightmares after murdering his wife. In his nightmare, a big rat always appears to make trouble.

"Can I be your boyfriend?" The boy hears the man he admires say this to him. However, due to his past as a prostitute, the boy constantly moves from one man to another, always getting abandoned in the end. He decides to leave before this man grows tired of him as well. Years later, the boy meets the man again. The man has changed a lot and seems to have forgot him. The boy hesitates, wondering whether he should rekindle the man’s memory or start a new relationship with him under a different identity...

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When her boyfriend leaves to live with his mother, heartbroken Xiao Meng runs into an old flame. The encounter awakens buried memories, driving her to prove, against all odds, that love still exists.

A young scholar is asked by a woman ghost to bring her back to the world where she wants to take her revenge on her killers.

To explore sources of energy in space, the Stryker team is sent on a pioneering mission to an unknown alien planet where an unstoppable battle-ax mech awaits them.

In a world of mentally imprisoned mannequins, a restorer and her beloved female mannequin depend on each other for survival.

“You have read all the stories in the world, but can you tell me your story?” The city library is preparing to shut its doors. Confronted with the prospect of being shut down, Mia, an AI database and librarian, begins to question her existence and develop her first creative consciousness.

In an intimate and exciting journey to the root, the film follows a family based in Okinawa, Japan, that visits Taiwan to rediscover their family origins.

Though Taiwan's rainfall is three times the global average, its uneven distribution creates striking scarcity. Water gives and takes; it sustains life yet brings destruction. Following the sound of currents, the film reflects on water's shifting states, capturing the emotional and spiritual ties woven between people, memory and the surrounding tides.

Journalist San Lin-jun and his colleague attend a jewelry exhibition when the Cosmic Gang attacks, causing an explosion. A masked vigilante confronts the gang, leading to a battle between justice and evil.

On the rooftop, a little boy, Zai-Zai, finds his cousin, Hsio-Fei, who is avoiding a family funeral ceremony. He notices that Hsio-Fei has a new cellphone and wonders how he got it. He accidentally uncovers an unspeakable secret hidden deep inside Hsio-Fei’s heart.

With the form of remote audio conversation for its main narrative, the essay film consists of four chapters, each of which has its own focus but is also interconnected with each other. Blending voice narratives in four languages, moving images and literary texts, the film is mainly made from home video collections created in the 1990s from both filmmakers’ families, with home videos shot in the 1960s by a Hong Kong family as interludes. The film not only unfolds how East Asian families created their own image with amateur filming devices but also tells stories of migration, travelling, growing and familial relationships.​

Away for years, what is the unit for alienation? The saxophone at the intersection eleven years ago, the Korean music on the street four years ago, the flight broadcasts after the epidemic, the voices of family members, the days and nights when Taipei and Hong Kong were at a standstill, some moments linger.

Elephant Gym has been deeply involved in the indie music for ten years. Making ideals based on love and peace. Through Rock Music to communicate with the world, and taking their own steps on the road of creating music.

More chicanery from the Chinese underworld, hard man Shi Chung Tien takes on a multitude of tirades and their fighters in an effort to clear his name.

A taiwanese language film. The folk tales of Gezai Opera are put on the screen, and the form of the stage play is maintained.

A snooze alarm clock cannot wake a sleepy person. The bell of the alarm clock hence becomes a hypnotic trigger. Such an ordinary sound is redefined in our drowsy moments, and we are also liberated from the sounds that condition our lives—queue management systems, electric scooters, air raid drills, and public demonstrations. These sounds are released from the soft soil of our consciousness and grow into a new scene. And we sail with those who cannot be awakened on a boat drifting off course into a new realm projected by frequency. This is a film you can watch with your eyes closed.

Xijiyu, a village on Taiwan’s offshore island of Penghu, became uninhabited following a government-mandated relocation in 1978. Through image, sound, and 3D animation, this film recreates the village and its famed “King’s Boat” ceremony.

失業二年多的吳發達謀職四處碰壁，開計程車突槌，連當小偷都失敗的被困在冰櫃裡讓警察救出來。還被房東趕出去，落得以車為家。阿達妻受不了，終於在一次夫妻衝突後拋家棄子而去。受到妻子的刺激，阿達挺而走險，戴著米老鼠面具去搶銀行，卻晚了一步碰到另二名搶匪在搶銀行，二名搶匪得手逃逸而去，阿達卻因為面具被搶匪打落而被銀行監視器拍到。 阿達逃出銀行時在門口迎面撞上因經濟風暴被資遣的電子公司高級主管余樂天。這一撞把阿達的皮匣撞落在樂天身上，樂天為了將皮匣還給阿達，跟在阿達後面追跑，而被誤會是搶匪集團的一夥。阿達因為在警局有案底，又不忍兒子阿吉啦無所依靠拒絕為樂天到警局澄清。而樂天也因潛藏回家時聽到妻兒間的對話，知道女兒對他的不諒解與怨恨而覺得心灰意冷。二人於是決定逃避通緝，帶著阿吉啦展開一場逃亡之旅。 三人一行來到南部，樂天到夜市的一家牛排攤問路，卻被老闆牛排王誤以為是朋友介紹來工作的幫工阿慶。樂天在百口莫辯的情況下被指使去作他一向拉不下面子做"粗鄙"的工作，當牛排王知道認錯人時，樂天覺得繼續逃亡下去也不是辦法，而且"粗鄙"的工作也不是想像中那麼不堪，因此拜託牛排王留用他，隱姓埋名留在牛排攤繼續跑桌。 這兩老一小的落跑三人組，租了一間老式公寓展開了它們的同居生涯。阿達在樂天的「以身作則」下了解責任的意義，也開始思考他為人父的責任，開始認真找工作。在一連串的碰壁後，阿達來到萬祥開的機車行，吳發達也就成了機車達。 牛排攤的工作讓樂天改變他的價值觀，放下他的虛榮心，讓他更加謙卑地重新認識生命的價值也更能體會快樂幸福的真諦。另一方面，因為在牛排攤工作常接觸到年輕人，樂天似乎比較能了解年輕人的生活與心態，這對因為過度投入工作而不知道如何與孩子溝通互動的樂天不啻是個意外收穫。 日子一天一天過去，這落跑三人組最終將會面對什麼樣的命運呢？他們的人生還有再次重來的機會嗎？

A VR experience that illuminates the surveillance crisis with music from legendary electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre and visuals from award-winning VR director Hsin-Chien Huang.

Delivery guy A-Rong is bringing a birthday cake to his lover on Little Liuqui Island. On the ferry to Little Liuqiu, he encounters Xiao-Yu, who is rushing to a destination wedding on the island. Xiao-Yu is already late for the wedding and she has left her luggage on the taxi she took to Donggang. All she has on her now are the wedding invitation and some cigarettes....

Due to a drought that has occurred only once in a hundred years, the people of the Gaeryong and Gangho regions are plunged into misery. Upon this, Great Master Baekseong urges Geum-bung to find the Night-Glowing Pearl. Geum-bung meets Jung-yong, who was born as a dragon and was then transformed into a human, and sets off for the Gaeryong region to help him obtain the Night-Glowing Pearl and save the people. The film is a South Korean remake of a Taiwanese film titled Sea Gods and Ghosts, which this film also pilfers footage from.

In November, 2008, Chen Yun-lin visited Taiwan, a critical moment in history where the first official Chinese envoy to ever step on Taiwan soil in 60 years. Meanwhile, Taiwan people's freedom of speech and personal liberty were severely suppressed by the state apparatus. Student protesters assembled via internet networking all over the place, to voice their anger at the abuse of their common value. In the course of the struggle, suspicion arises among members of the movement due to ideological differences and distrust. They are engrossed in activism, schoolwork, active citizenship, politics, passion and self-reflection. Here in Taipei, in this square, in their twenties.

The first Taiwanese-language film produced by a public studio.

2012／HD／Color／19min／