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Simple, yet complex. A man (favourite actor Wang Shin-hong) meets a woman (standard actor Wu Ke-xi) on a moored ship, a sort of floating palace decorated like a Buddhist temple. The woman or her spirit struggles with her memories and the man takes on the form of a Buddhist monk in his next life. Complex and yet simple. The man, the woman and the camera move gracefully 'dancing' through the space. Only the thought of escape.

On Green Island’s Human Rights Memorial, a poem by Bo Yang mourns the mothers who wept through long nights for children imprisoned there during Taiwan’s White Terror. In Cries in the Dark, the filmmaker turns that line into family history. In 1950, their parents were arrested in the Yu Fei espionage case, convicted of rebellion, and sentenced to 13 and 10 years in prison. Their grandmother, desperate to save her newly married daughter and son-in-law, cried for help until she lost sight in one eye. Decades later, the case was officially recognized as a wrongful conviction: 34 people were implicated, four unrelated defendants were executed, and the rest received heavy sentences. Born while their mother was briefly released from prison, the filmmaker spent early childhood behind bars before being separated when she was sent to Green Island. The film records the intimate cost of political persecution across prison, family, and memory.

A man who has died from burning himself comes to a paper house, where Golden Boy and Jade Lady await to take him to the Western Paradise. He climbs up to the Hua-Shan-Qiang, and his soul goes through a fable of national identity.

For a few years, Tshan-tsui and his wife enjoyed a loving marriage. However, Tshan-tsui’s recent long hours at work have left his wife feeling neglected. Suspecting he might be having trouble in the bedroom, she embarks on a series of strategies to boost his virility. But when all her efforts fail, her thoughts turn to the possibility of another woman. Her neighbor, Mrs.Iap, offers one last piece of advice—a surefire plan to make Tshan-tsui pay attention to his gorgeous wife!

Four Indonesian female caregivers, each from a different generation, share their lives in Taiwan. On their days off, they gather at Taipei Main Station, reclaiming their freedom while facing the struggles of migrant women. This film unveils their stories, highlighting resilience, identity, and empowerment.

This documentary captures the Lanling Theatre Troupe's 1985 production of Nine Songs on 8mm film, following the troupe's rehearsals and actual performance and meticulously capturing the vibrant energy of Taiwan's experimental theater movement.

There is an April day with inconsistent weather. A taxi driver, four passengers, sisters and brother are going to visit their mother. As strangers. Chaos is in silence, in their minds, on the road...

Dark, unusual clouds gathered in the sky, slowly drifting toward the memory-laden hillside. With the typhoon approaching, people made their way to the cemetery atop Jian Mountain, hoping to reclaim the fading fragments of the past before the storm arrived. From deep within the mountains came the occasional sound of dogs barking—whispers, almost, of buried stories: ancestors who were relocated, stray dogs that were driven away, a woman still waiting for her husband’s return, and myself, trying to find a connection to my father in the cracks of memory—and perhaps, to find myself as well.

Unable to cope with the accidental loss of his wife, an out of work father struggles to give his daughter the happiest day of her life before executing a plan.

Ding-You, who plays the role of civil messenger in his GENERAL CLUB, is greatly troubled by the conflict of his family’s expectation and his own dream after high school. Although he has always wanted to study art but he has never told his father about it because his father expects him to study in a national university. He got a chance to interview for an art school’s admission but it clashed with their procession date. What’s worse was that his disturbed mind has impeded his ability to invoke his god. Despite of his friend’s constant support, he must deal with the problem among his father, his god and himself.

Hui-Mei comes from a poor family background so she can’t afford to join the graduation trip. But she accidentally finds some money. Despite feeling guilty, she decides to take the money and use it for the trip she longs for…

Portraits:Taken from Our Days is a personal and family-centered film, built from fragments of daily life and letter exchanges with my father. Through these intimate recordings, I explore shifting family relationships, unstable living environments, and my own psychological states. By revisiting family archives, I attempt to reconstruct an image of “home” from scattered memories.

1st sound / image jamming between Amund Ulvestad and Tzuan Wu.

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.

The story takes place in a small Chinese village located in northern Myanmar, where it was once the land of opium. A-Biao, a struggling young man, who has been away from Myanmar for more than a decade, gets tricked by his father into going back home and witnesses the political reform in Myanmar.

A letter from the grassland, recounting a sweet dream that began with an unexpected encounter and gradually turned into an irrevocable nightmare...

Liu Jay often invited Bao Yu home to spend the night, but was always vague to her mom when talking about the two of them. During a family gathering, Liu Jay finally confessed and made everyone awkward. She didn't speak with her parents for a few days until...

Using black-and-white images ranging from African statues to contemporary film posters and political meetings, Chihying considers aesthetic dynamics between the West, China and Africa. How did so many African artefacts end up in European museums? And what if this Western power of selection were replaced by Chinese control?

In the past fifteen years, the Asian art market has exploded. Chinese collectors now spend more money in auction than Americans and Brits, while a new generation of Asian artists are reshaping the world’s artistic palate. My Dear Art depicts the wonders and absurdities of the Asian art market. From China, to Singapore to London, it profiles the artists, collectors, gallerists and experts who are changing the face of the art business forever and asks fundamental questions about the value and role of art in modern society.

Traditionally the Tao people always harvest flying fish and dolphin from their plank boats in the southern waters. In the summer of 2007 they rowed westward to the unfamiliar water across the Kuroshio to call on the civilized Taiwan for a change. On their journey to Taiwan the Tao people have found themselves in a predicament under the circumstances of contemporary civilization and modern Taiwanese society.

I did not want to be born, suddenly I was born, I did not want to die, suddenly died. More than 500 years ago, during the Ming Dynasty, a samurai raped a little girl. Five hundred years later, the little girl's pet white cat cultivates into essence, to help the little girl's ghost kill the descendants of the samurai. If the little girl wants to be reborn, she will need to die ten lives.

In northern India's Dehradun, an all-women police unit tackles troubled marriages with unexpected wisdom and authority. Inside the bustling station, couples confront domestic turmoil while the officers balance tough love with surprising moments of humour.

Taipei 4-Way is a film on Taipei and the people of Taipei directed by four artists working in various art fields such as animation, installation documentary and experimental film. The film looks at Taipei as a whole through four sections titled' enTAIPEItrance,"traTAIPEIverse','adTAIPEIhere', and 'exTAIPEIit'.

After their father dies, the sister returned home after years apart and came across her brother from her past affections.

Combine animal rights, vegetarianism, feminism, lesbian, gay, male sex, Mozi, Hu Shi, Liang Qichao, Zhang Xiuya, Zhang Ailing.. with their own parrots, quails, little white birds, swallows, birds, rabbits in many households , cats, dogs... intertwined.

The second film in Huang Ya-Li's Sweet Potato trilogy.

The protagonist, Xiao B, is a graduate student who, after reaching the end of her study period, still cannot graduate. Upon learning that graduation might not be possible, Xiao B returns to her rental apartment and discovers that the adjacent unit, which has been vacant for a year, suddenly has a flicker of candlelight and faint sounds resembling incantations. Over the next five days, as Xiao B speculates about the activities in the neighboring room, her mental state gradually begins to unravel within her own space...

A young couple kills time in the nights of Taipei. She's a psychic who fixes toys; he wants to enter a gang. Slowly, they walk away from each other.

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

I grew up in a broken family, which was fragmented due to my father's emotional violence. Communication conflicts between my parents affected me and my brother under the same roof. During my upbringing, the four of us in the family became more distant and were unable to communicate properly with each other. As I grew older, I explored my gender identity, but found it difficult to balance my identification with my original family, so I decided to face why my family became like this. With the help of a camera, I opened up my own heart and the hearts of my family members, and found a way for each of us to express ourselves.

Rare Taiwanese martial arts, fantasy effort starring Mei-Yao Chang.

A hired fist shares the bizarre encounter that led to his retirement.

This film follows a girl who has been living with depression for many years, and explores the concept of “I’m sick” through different points of view. Everyone has experienced low moments in their lives or been through dark times in the past that are rarely talked about. It is hoped that this film can transform these emotions into positive energy in our lives.

This short documentary portrays Chang Yingwu (1921–1984), a man whose extraordinary body became a site where medicine, spectacle, and state power intersected. Born in Beijing and later relocated to Taiwan, Chang lived with acromegaly, reaching a height far beyond ordinary human scale. Once exhibited, later enlisted, and eventually turned into a public figure through sport and media, his life traces how an anomalous body is disciplined, displayed, and normalized by social institutions. Filmed with restraint rather than sensationalism, the work observes Chang’s daily gestures and silences, allowing his presence to expose the fragile boundary between individuality and social gaze.

This is a journey in which the creator of this documentary tries to find the origin for his creation. While driving on the freeway to Puzi, Chiayi County, WU Yao-tung and Tom continue a conversation left unfinished two decades ago. The dialogue falters; clearly they live in two different worlds. After traversing this journey for 20 years, the dark spectre entangled within the depths of the mind is never driven away.

A documentary of taiwanese writer Lai He.

Father, son, the lighthouse as the center of their lives. Both grow up, the son leaving every day to pursue his studies, then returning to an increasingly elderly father who welcomes him with the same warmth, taking him, as he has always done over the years, to the piano to play together.

In 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Three years on, same-sex couples still face challenges that heterosexual couples do not: some have trouble becoming legal guardians for their children; others must travel abroad to start a family; some are even rejected when applying for legal marriage status. As such, legalization was just another small step forward in the fight for equality. This 90-minute documentary shows how different same-sex couples fight for the life they desire and deserve. They may be fighting different battles, but they share one thing in common: the belief that the sun will shine after this rain.

Searching for the Zero Fighters documents a little-known chapter of taiwan history, particularly the psychological landscape of postwar Taiwan and the Japanese aircraft left behind on the island after World War II. Through ordinary people’s memories of the Zero fighter planes and the director’s own family footage, the film explores the turbulent period between the end of Japanese colonial rule and the takeover of Taiwan by the Nationalist government. It is the first Taiwanese documentary to examine how Japanese military aircraft were repurposed into everyday household items, and the first historical film to explore why, after the war, many Taiwanese people feared speaking openly about their memories.

Lai-Fu, is 80 years old. She lives alone with Chichi her dog. One day, she decides to leave the old apartment, but she seems to have no specific destination. The taxi driver takes her to meet her friends. However, with the taxi nearing the suburb, Lai-Fu seems more and more lonely.