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A-Zhi returns home to Taiwan for the first time in many years just as his younger brother, A-Yong, is leaving with friends for “huan dao,” or a round-the-island scooter trip. An accident with A- Yongʼs scooter causes them to spend time together in a dysfunctional reunion.

A documentary film about the U2 surveillance planes that were flown by the secret 35th Squadron of ROC Air Force.

2013 chinese traditional new years special film filmed by Taiwan PTS(Public Television Service).

"Mazu" or "The Sea God" has been the most important religious belief of ordinary people in my hometown for four hundred years. Along the coast of China and even in the Nanyang region, there is at least one temple dedicated to Mazu in various seaside cities-this geographical and historical distribution coincides with the contemporary economic or industrial area of Chinese society. It is frustrating that rapid economic development has led to global warming. The factories located on the coast of southern China from all over the world will eventually cause flooding and inundate these temples dedicated to Mazu. This is indeed a very ironic discovery for our civilization, "We", not only Chinese or all human beings, now or in the past, how can we Chinese avoid this upcoming tragedy?

In 1991, a gruesome double murder was committed in Hsihchih in Taipei. Wang Wen-hsiao, a soldier whose fingerprint was found at the crime scene, was tried, convicted, and executed the following year. Prosecutors apprehended three additional young men and were suspected of torturing the suspects to extract confessions. The three’s death sentences have been appealed repeatedly over the years. Today, they are still waiting for a final outcome. This case of the century has proved to be difficult work even for forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee. Eighteen years of trial have hounded the three men and the victims’ son. They all yearn to unearth the truth and uphold justice. The truth, however, is elusive due to the passage of time and Taiwan’s flawed judicial system. The four young souls held captive in different forms can only continue to spend their lives trying to pursue that taste of freedom that no one else can truly appreciate.

As a Taiwanese in France, I have learnt a few things. There are three things I would like to share with you the most. French is difficult… but there are certain things more difficult than French.

Chi is a six-year-old little girl who lives ob the Happiness Road with her family. She recently starts school, but finds the teacher to be very demanding, and she has to speak Mandarin instead of her Taiwanese tongue to be a good student in class...

With a rabbit's dead body in hand, a glove puppetry performer reenacts the movements of rabbits as imagined by humans. The project was initiated by the death of a laboratory rabbit, and was inspired by the artist's family memories. The artist's grandma served in an animal laboratory for thirty years, during which, due to the particularity of her job, she had to dissect living animals for observation and experiments.

This film uses a humorous way to present the spirit of Taiwanese. A little green bean named as Kao Hsiung NO.9, a doctor of bean a young farmer, they are going to find a new path for Taiwan’s Agriculture. Those people are keeping learning adapting the world trends.

A man tries to capture her by making a film. She travels through different countries and time zones, telling her life and thoughts. But the closer he tries to get to her, the further away he finds her, and he ends up with a film of his “Her” but not her.

Oriental Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) is one of the raptors in Taiwan that specifically builds their nests in “ferns”. While other buzzards migrate between cold northern continent and warm southern islands, they prefer to propagate in Taiwan. Ninety-nine Peaks is their major habitat. With different feather colors, this species can only be distinguished from other birds by their long narrow beak and sharp claws. However, it is certain that all oriental honey buzzards love to eat pupa of bees. The Oriental Honey Buzzard of Ninety-nine Peaks is a documentary produced by Raptor Research Group of Taiwan and published by Forestry Bureau, Council of Agriculture Executive Yuan in 2011. This film not only was nominated in the 34th Montana International Wildlife Film Festival but also won the first –run film in the National Ecological Film Festival and the Best Animal Behavior Award at the 2011 Japanese Wildlife Film Festival.

This is a story about a father who drifted from New Zealand to Taiwan to look for his missing son. Although his son was never found after many fruitless searches, he gained love and friendship from many Taiwanese. This documentary tries to trace a father’s journey for searching his beloved son as well as to present how he recovered from his initial pain of losing son and turned it into his love for Taiwan at the end.

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.

Camera, Rolling, action! Than they act, sing and cry.However, how many people realize that the earlier film base was actually made of Taiwan's camphor tree and the story behind it?

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.

Song Yaowen, an aspiring actor, and Cui Can, a struggling stand-up comedian, meet by chance at rock bottom, and despite their mutual dislike, an unexpected friendship begins that will change both their lives.

Sam has OCD. After he broke up with his girlfriend, Yu Ting, his OCD got more serious. When Sam tried to overcome his OCD, Sam's brother, Ken, took Sam to jogging. One day, they met a girl when they were jogging.

Fu-Xuan is my classmate and friend. As a man who yearns for freedom, he has a cat. From January 12 to January 18, 2024, Fuxuan wanted to take me to meet Sesame, but she ran away.

Dream Land is a one-year ink painting project by GAO Chun-fu. Every night, in the late hours, GAO captures the busy and chaotic state with ink painting. Applying the flowing technique, he paints the images and illusions emerging from deep within. The spontaneous gathering and scattering of water and ink reflect the artist’s internal breathing as well as the passing of time.

The story revolves around the peculiar relationship between a princess, a castle, and the Bug King. Through a fragmented narrative style, the princess's yearning ambition for her past kingdom is personified, transforming into the Bug King, a being of only faint power. He becomes a surrogate for the princess in reviving the kingdom, creating an imagined fantasy within a forest of strange creatures.

Nine years ago, Liu and her family were asked to move out of the place that they rented for ten years in fifteen days. This documentary examines how they become separated and the importance of home to the family.

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.

Two young women, though leading very different lives, discover they are quite similar in their afflictions. As the friendship develops between Sheng Lei, an aspiring singer in modern Beijing, and Dan Qing, a writer from Taiwan, stories of Sheng Lei's unsettling childhood begin to unfold. As Sheng Lei reflects upon her past, she realizes the importance of reconnecting with her paralyzed grandfather. Hoping to put their troubles behind them, the three set out on a journey to see the Ghost Horse, a vision that could deliver a much desired peace.

Wandering through and documenting different religious spaces when traveling, then through editing, these half sacred and half site-seeing experiences have been collaged to a passage to another heterogeneous space. Throughout the corridors and doors, The statues of saints and dolls gaze into the after world without the existence of humans, silence in trance. And it is the voice of prayers bringing me back to the mundane world.

From the first minute to the last, from surreal, incongruous scenes to indigenous funeral ceremonies, from fish ponds to ruins, from women to men, from a telephone to a tortoise shell, from fortune-telling to Taoist salvation rites, from color to black and white, from Ma'nene to Family Constellations, from animals to being animalized, from sorrow to tranquility … Every image performs a death, releasing a vast vitality.

Teachers and parents play important roles in children educational processes. The documentary explores and features the perspective from three different education systems and a career-oriented mother, and the different insights to education philosophies. Parents and educators need to find a balance and educate the next generation in a better way.

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.

3 Islands’ documentary images try to shift from literary writings to the actual fixing of body-scene. Adopting literatures as well as the personal research and practices of artists as scripts, parallel with reversible movements of the flesh, the work recounts the unknown history and the symptomatic interpretations of the 3 islands of East Asia—Taiwan, Okinawa, and Jeju Island.

Wall to Wall is a triptych of stories created across different moments in time, each orbiting the theme of love: a reunion after a breakup, the quiet friction of daily life, and a conversation altered by experimental influence. Through silence and speech, the film traces the subtle marks left by time.

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…

Since 1995, the TransAsia Sisters Association has been a pioneering force in supporting immigrant women in Taiwan, especially marriage migrants. What began as a small literacy class has grown into a vibrant community that empowers women to organise, speak out, and advocate for their rights. The film explores the struggles of belonging, the strength of sisterhood, and the quiet power of everyday resistance. From street protests to storytelling through food and culture, the Sisters continue to reshape the narrative of migration—one voice at a time.

Yi-De and Jhih-Wei oversleep in Yi-De's bed on a weekend morning. While Yi-De needs to meet his girlfriend later for the day, Jhih-Wei needs to think if he wants to stay just a bit longer.

Conflicts reach their boiling point during a mass protest. Law enforcement stationed at these demonstrations are made to work overtime; long hours away from their families have since become the norm. Police sergeant Ah-Wen, who is thrust into the heart of these clashes, struggles to find a balance between his already precarious marriage, and the high pressure and strenuous conditions of his working environment.

This film is dedicated to the house that has anchored a home for my family for over 30 years: Chang Chun, my grandmother’s house. Just like the fate of several old buildings in Taipei, she will be demolished by the end of this year.

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

A time of crisis with a pandemic raging––these are dark days. Nevertheless, on a special errand, a little girl resolves to get through a city filled with viruses, made worse by people’s indifference. The little girl’s special errand is bringing her mother a magical rose. Her mother is courageously working in a hospital on the frontline against the pandemic. As with the battle against the pandemic out in the world, her journey is bumpy and frustrating but hope is never lost.

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.

The gentle gestures enacted by large-scale machines subvert our notions of the domestic, imagining industrial equipment as bodies in a home rather than the machines that construct the spaces we inhabit daily.

The things we had lost in time differ, it is the reason why we can’t grow up together. Some events seem to be not important at the moment might became a crucial milestone in a personal sense. Through retelling and rewriting the memory, the pointless emotions turns to the flowing memory, and being able to preserved. The film was shot in 16mm, based on a childhood (false) memory, transformed with fantasies and symbolic objects, and performed in a public environment. The elements in the film are both the markers of emotion and time, with montage, the outside world and inner scenery came across to each other.

Collection of home movies which was shot by Deng Nan-guang, the well-known photographer, during 1930-1940s.

Two boys uncover their boss's drug stash, leading to theft and sale. Their actions provoke a confrontation, resulting in a larger catastrophe that casts an irreversible shadow over their lives.