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The Way is an inspirational story of the adversity and challenge professional surfers go through while trying to make it. The film starts with the discovery of an old surfboard washed ashore in Nelson, New Zealand. The board is refurbished and it turns out it was shaped by legendary charger Peter Way, New Zealand’s first ever national champion in 1963. Peter was known for his antics in and out of the water, but it was his mark on surfboard shaping, competitive surfing and surf lifestyle that has influenced the lives of generations of surfers who have come after him. Current pros Paige Hareb, Billy Stairmand and Ricardo Christie weigh in on what has driven them to success and also hard times. Maz Quinn takes us through becoming the first ever Kiwi to make the world tour of surfing and we’re taken on a journey through the north island of New Zealand to return the old board to the man who made it, Peter Way.

This film was made in the Bade Area of Taoyuan County, Taiwan. Chen Chieh-jen invited local temporary laborers to wander around the area, and enter office buildings and factory spaces that had been sealed off by the courts due to property right disputes. Examining the objects left behind in these spaces from the viewpoint of these temporary laborers, it muses on the voids and landscapes left behind in Taiwan amidst the torrent of globalization.

Somewhere, an unassuming betel nut stand sits next to the bustling streets. There, a fair-skinned beauty named Nana tends to the shop. Many customers frequent the shop after carefully parking their cars, and yet some take far too long to come out for what should be a quick transaction. Even weirder is that often these customers come out with a dazed look on their faces, but with seemingly no purchase made and empty hands… One day A-YAO enters the shop after being persuaded by A-Hsing only to discover a hidden side to the normal-looking shop…

The Good Daughter is a portrait of the fraught marriage between a Taiwanese man and his Vietnamese bride. Born out of a disabled man's wish to obey his mother and a woman's effort to help her family escape poverty, the marriage has produced two daughters and a complicated drama. The film takes us inside a household simmering with tensions.

She moves to Taipei with her mother. years later, she runs away, and returns to her childhood home.

The film focuses on Cao Liou, a 25-year-old drag queen. The explosive creative energy he delivers is stunning, but at the same time, he also displays his egotistical nature and wanton lifestyle. Director Pan Hsin An is the same age as Liou. He peeps into Liou’s life through a camera lens, questioning and exploring. During the filming process, the two often fail to understand each other, and each has his doubts about the other. But in the end, at opposite ends of the scale, they find the same desires behind huge differences.

Taiwan's Martial Law provisions included laws clearly suppressing assembly, demonstrations, and forming of organizations. Nonetheless, one afternoon on a holiday in 1983, five youths appeared on Ximending Street dressed in white khaki pants and wearing cotton bags over their heads. A document of dissident action during this period.

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

The Weight of Things explores this world of layers, these liminal spaces between heaven and hell, life and death, hope and despair. It is a visual testament of these pandemic times, of the invisible weights we bear. These weights of words and actions, unpursued dreams, the loss of loved ones—these burdens that bind us and hold us down, making it all too easy to forget the lightness of possibility. To not only be weighed down but to also become the weight…

When working in Tokyo, Erika embarks on the journey of stepping outside the role prescribed by her biological sex and relieving the suppressed feminine self. This film documents Erika’s life journey of gradually building up her ideal body image, including the sexual reassignment surgery (SRS). Through Erika’s experience moving between Japan and Taiwan, as well as male and female identities, the film sheds light on the unique life experience of transgender people.

A young woman in an old town is looking for a place to stay. How does her gaze differ from the goddess's?

A newly homeless family, with a sacrificed pig, in a city longing for rain: with compassion and prayer, they try to survive.

A man is punished for his crime by being exiled to a pitch-black enclosure, condemned to remain there for eternity. The isolation slowly drives him toward madness—until one day, the black walls begin to expand…

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.

Short animation by Anchi Shen and Jiayu Hu

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.

In 2016, Cheng Hsing-tse walked out of the prison as the first death-row inmate pending a retrial requested by prosecutors. Cheng was acquitted at last. Yet he cannot forget the kid he met on the day he was led in shackles by the police to pay respects to the kid's father at the mortuary. The kid must have grown up by now. Cheng wants to meet him again to forget about each other.

Lin Yongjie gets a call from her ex-girlfriend Yuan Qing and the two meet. Yuan Qing reveals that she's pregnant, and wants Lin Yongjie to go with her to get an abortion. What follows is a slow unraveling of the complicated emotions and feelings over the course of one evening.

This is a story about indigenous people's land rights. In order to learn more about the history of the Atayal people’s migration, the director traces the journey of the Atayal ancestors.

Che Ling means “pull bell sound”. This ancient Chinese juggling is a form of yoyo, once popular in Europe as “diabolo”. Two youngsters take turns exhibiting their skills, with the joyous involvement of their whole body. Almost unnoticed, the dominant hand controls the acceleration – counterclockwise – and directs the trick; the other maintains a responsive balance; it’s as if the magic was drummed into existence.

The Master of the No Clan School swears revenge after he is crippled illegally in a tournament by a rep from the Iron Fist School run by the Triads. His trained children enter the tournament years later to bring the Iron Fist School to justice.

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.

After WU’s arrival in New Zealand, WU has been trying to take a photo of the starry night sky every day with his phone, whether or not it was clear. The star photos can be interpreted as diaries. Using a 16mm Bolex camera to film the stars frame by frame with long exposure. Exposure time was determined by the mind. These uneven pulsations of lights correspond to the starlight changing along with the thoughts that were at mind. This film documents WU’s everyday ritual of star-gazing with the related associations and inspirations and forms a meditative process.

In the lovers’ relationship, it seems like that we’re going on a vacation to each other’s heart from our own individuals’ lives. We cannot control the duration of the vacation, and we need us to keep the mountains green, the ocean blue, and the sunshine hot. The vacation seems to end after all, and we need to pack the scattered baggages.

Explores the body's preservation of past trauma through the folklore of Sister Lin-Tou. Viewers enter an in-between realm where Lin-Tou's vast form houses an entire universe, suggesting trauma remains despite healing.

A visually stunning paean to spiritual pilgrimage that creates a world of intense reverence, distinctly Asian in its imagery. Set to Georgian folksongs with 3½ tons of shimmering golden grains of rice.

A truck drives into a square and a moveable tent is set up. Audience members enter and hear the faint voices from the cracks in society. As the tent becomes a convergence of the thoughts of those both on stage and off, we feel the power of resistance that the entire action entails. Functioning both as observer and participant, the director documents the tent's movements around Taiwan in the past decade.

A short, silent animated film about a father and son, both astronauts.

After her friend’s suicide, Toothbag buries her grief beneath anger and denial. Haunted by memories she can’t stop replaying, she struggles to accept the loss. But in a vivid dream, a final conversation with her friend shifts something in her. Waking up, she begins the painful journey of letting go, learning to honor her friend’s choice and confront her own sorrow.

Taiwanese horror movie from 1981.

A boy who is the only child is faced with his father's abandoning the family home.

After family chaos from his brother's death, Xuan tries to hold things together. Months later, while his parents visit the Spirit Bone Tower, Xuan sits alone in the car, quietly staring out the window, lost in his own world.

A lonely photographer, who developed the same photo of his ex-lover every day.

In 1998, Wuqiu was marked as a Nuclear Waste Disposal site despite protests. Islanders question the choice: 'Why dump it here? Why not bury gold?' As a military zone, public access is denied, leaving us defenseless if the government acts further.

Cinema has closed one after another, yet some still remain its traces. "The First Cinema" in Meinong, which opened in 1969 and closed in 1991, had built collective memories for people in town. These faded traces once nourished someone's dreams where fairies still dance, where laughter and tear reechoes.

The sound engineer, Tree, has a crush on their producer, Cindy. During a pause between the scenes, the lead actor goes missing. The film crew grumbles at each other, and no one wants to take the responsibility. Then, the most weird thing happens.

After a serious car accident caused by her fiance, Jack, Sharon was left with paraplegia. With her worsening condition and Jack's increasing burden as a caretaker, Sharon began to rethink about their relationship.

A-Cheng seeks money to save his sick wife via cheating in a gambling house.

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.

CHANG is a responsible and hard-working staff member who is framed by his supervisor and forced to quit his job. He must pay off the loan. In despair, CHANG tells the debt collector that the huge amount of recycled banknotes can be stolen from the Central Engraving and Printing Plant. The debt collector decides to orchestrate a heist operation. The team robbers are made up of a variety of socially marginalized pariahs, and even CHANG’s high school daughter joins the team by accident. Can they really pull off this unprecedented banknote heist?

A visual poem etched onto 16 mm film that follows the movement of light and colour in the Nordic winter.

On her city balcony, Audrey delights in the flutter of tiny birds—fluffing their feathers, chattering, and sneaking tangerine bites. Their chirps sound like cheerful hellos and playful spats, inspiring her to invent a bird-language translator that unlocks their secret conversations.

A girl, Ping, faces conflict with her girlfriend Lala’s homophobic and aggressive father, The Man. As tensions escalate, Ping is forced to take drastic action to save herself and kills The Man.

The TV documentary explores the lives of Taiwan’s licensed sex workers. It follows how, in 1997, Mayor Chen Shui-bian’s sudden abolition of legal prostitution in Taipei stripped more than a hundred women of their right to work, forcing them into a long-term struggle for survival. Through documenting their protests and personal stories, the film uncovers the little-known history of sex workers in Taiwan and examines their struggles under multiple layers of oppression—from political and economic forces to legal and ethical debates.

On an ordinary day in a small Taipei hotel, the arrival of a new night shift front desk employee changes everything for a solitary chambermaid