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Taiwanese horror movie from 1987.

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.

This is a documentary about sweetness and hurt, pursuit and loss. It is a bluebird's song of comrades and their joy, tinged with melancholy premonition-a song that comes from afar as though to rub shoulders with life directly, only to pass on. A story of two marriages, one lesbian and one gay. The parallel structure lays bare the complexity of queer love, but also the cruelty inherent to love itself. Domestic violence, faithfully captured by the camera, threads its way like a deep silent river, cutting out its course and leaving a path of marks and scars. The survivor is like a child who cannot explain, but can only remember.

On 1st July 2022, as Hong Kong marks the 25th anniversary of its handover, tropical storm Chaba lashes the city. Cyclone captures the resilience and vibrancy of Hong Kong people as they navigate the day amidst historical significance and natural upheaval.

This film is based on concepts of panic attacks and ornithophobia. The girl suffers from a feeling of great discomfort that comes without warning, like an uncontrollable disaster. When the panic is accompanied by a flapping of wings, a chaotic, dissociated journey into her unconsciousness begins.

It tells the story of a woman who recalls her childhood at night.

Lovers Journey

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.

Orphan Ling Po is a Taiwanese-language (taiyu) biopic about the eponymous legendary Hong Kong movie star.

He gained his fame from the internet. His readers call him and he called himself the Nine Knives, a writer that routinely writes 5000 words a day. This is more than a story about a life of young writer who manages to publish 12 books in one year. We will also see the chemistry between internet and writing.

A collection of animated visual poems that illustrate a girl's surreal journey towards facing her fear of intimate relationships and of being touched. She is seen running across the snow, hiding in an apartment and going to the sea, until her pain turns to relief.

When taking the train home, I always feel that some parts of myself cannot keep up with the moving carriage, and I feel that the order of my mind is also disrupted. The trivial matters that happened during this period began to appear in my mind, and the boundary between reality and memory began to blur…

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

A female director from Japan is in Saigon, preparing to shoot a film when her male lead suddenly leaves. She begins to rethink the meaning of the resonances and exchanges she has experienced in the city, leading her to perceive the images in front of her more clearly. Unexpected encounters and planned arrivals — these two almost contradictory concepts oscillate in her mind interchangeably. What she feels is not a remembrance of the past, but the future. The traces Saigon has left on her body form a sculpture without dimensions.

Hua Yang and Afa are two competitive freediving athletes. One is focused on breaking the deepest record in Asia, while the other aspires to claim the crown of Taiwan’s top freediver. Both received invitations to compete in the prestigious Blue Hole Vertical Blue Depth Competition. This documentary follows their journey from land to underwater,capturing their contrasting styles and perspectives as they merge in the tranquil yet mysterious blue depths.

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 feast for the senses, preserving memories forever Countless beloved songs, unforgettable stories 127 minutes of the most heartfelt musical hospitality Featuring a groundbreaking four-sided stage! A 360-degree rotating stage with rising and moving petals. The concert's sincerity is evident in its sold-out success. Chang Ching-fang personally serves as artistic director. Six thematic audio-visual feasts. Forty-nine musicians perform newly arranged compositions; 16 dancers recreate 1970s choreography.

Chattering school boys first learn of the secret of palm reading. They stare at the overly short lifeline, all of a sudden, the fear of death seeps into their youth. The black and white images exude repression and melancholia, mixed with the angst for mortality and the memory of deceased loved ones. Time flies by like the train speeding past town. With the desire to live, the boys run forward, attempting to break free from destiny.

A graduate student of History Department meets a hooligan who works in Taiwanese parade formation in temple fairs when the student is doing field studies. They are completely different in character. One is composed and calm but the other one is aggressive and bold. After they spend a summer together, the chemistey gradually develops between them…

With just one week left until the performance of "The Brave Cinderella" by Xiantang Elementary School's opera troupe, Lucy, the lead actress, strains her voice due to excessive rehearsal. In a twist of fate, her friend Cindy, eager to help Lucy regain her voice, steps in as the understudy. Faced with the opportunity to take the stage and her friend's doubts, how will she choose? Will the friendship of the Team Princess be shattered?

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.

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Due to his injury, 30-year-old ballet dancer LIANG Shih-huai is forced to put his dance career on hold. While nursing his body through recovery, Shih-huai retraces his tenacious pursuit of ballet from Taiwan, U.S., South Korea, to New Zealand, and he carefully thinks through the options available at this pivotal moment in his career. Ballet in Tandem centers on Shih-huai’s journey in dance and compares it with different generations of Taiwanese dancers’ quest for perfection in Western classical dance. Through these stories, this films questions the decision-making process in Taiwanese education system and in other related social institutions, challenges the stereotypical perceptions of the art form, and explores more possibilities for dance, art, and culture in Taiwan.

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?

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.

An enchanting fusion of choreography and cinema, IMMORTELLE is a broken-love story that creatively envisions the trials of separation. Having just split, the protagonists try to go about their daily lives, but lingering feelings materialize into the outside world. Their bare and unwelcoming interiors, echoing the emptiness within, are invaded by cadaveric doubles of the former lovers. These figments of the characters' minds struggle as if in a battle for life and death, the relationship’s dying breath. A deeply emotional experience, this is a film about feelings so strong that, in their quest for closure, they overpower reality.

A white collar worker is kidnapped on the way back home. The kidnapper gives lectures to him on the interrelationships among the five senses, and points out the importance of the olfactory system. Nomination for Best Short Film, 34th Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan | Outstanding Short Film, 21st Golden Harvest Awards | Outstanding Narrative Film, Taipei Film Awards 1997

On a mountain climbing trip, a man falls into a mysterious forest. In a trance, he beholds a woman in white approaching. Tempted to stay but yearns to escape, he repeats this cycle day and night. Failing to locate the exit, he gradually wanes and ages, finding himself lost both in the forest and in time.

"I'm interested in the topic of homeless people and… there are a lot of things in this world that do not make sense." – Singing Chen Bundled is activist filmmaker Singing Chen's fiction/verite reflection on homelessness in Taiwan.

This is an Asian epic documentary on migrant workers spanning thirteen years. Director Jasmine first came into contact with Filipino caretakers in the Taipei nursing home, where her grandparents were under care. Living away from their loved ones, both the Filipino caretakers and the elderly residents suffer from homesickness. Stories of joy and sorrow take place between them. As wives, mothers and migrant workers, the Filipino women are smart. They know how to survive. And yet, the road home seems to grow longer and longer.

Mixing drama and documentary, After Raining narrates a love story between two male adolescents, interlaced with five radio interviews with gay men, lesbians, and a worried mother.

A dance in a small fishing village became a memory of the old man. The flood of drugs set off the detective’s ambition. The heroism of the young beetle opened the curtain for black humor!

Sòng Pèi Xīng, Sophia Song, the first Taiwanese American to play in the professional women’s basketball league in Taiwan, recounts the most pivotal moments of her basketball career. This short celebrates the struggles and triumphs of an athlete who persevered through life’s circumstances to reach the highest level of her sport.

Set in 2040, a mysterious actress mistakenly breaks into the audition space of a Malaysian Director who lives in Taiwan.The incident not only forces the director to keep her, but also seemingly bring back the nostalgia of not being able to return home several years ago.

A bedridden husband and his deranged wife live in a shabby old mountainside house. One day, the bored wife goes out to collect trash. As she passes by a deserted cemetery and ruin, she comes across a mirror and takes it home. The mirror connects the past with the present. The bedridden husband can see the reflection of the yellowed photos on the wall in the mirror, prompting him to reminisce about his past affairs during the Japanese rule. One day, the wife ventures out again and encounters a nightmarish air raid…

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I tried to discuss the stirring and emotional states in human life, like a touch or a physical state of behavior. We expose ourselves to a vast event that creates a state of smallness and vulnerability, We are so vulnerable, so powerless to extend our thoughts or intentions.

In various religious rituals and philosophical mindsets, the emphasis is often placed on "transformation." Within the realm of inner knowledge, such actions are referred to as "alchemy of consciousness."

In this documentary, 60 men living in 7 cities were interviewed to see what they were looking for, revealing their experiences of love, lust, and lost as gay people in modern times.

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.

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.

A journey to say goodbye to their love.

The metamorphosis of the story “Madame Butterfly” told through the perspective of three women over the past century.

Kabukicho, located on the east side of Shinjuku, is one of the more famous red light districts in Tokyo. There are over 3000 registered bars, and at least 1000 of them are Taiwanese-owned. In the late 1970s, over 10,000 Taiwanese women left for Japan for work and wealth. Most of them settled in Shinjuku. The women worked over 20 years at bars to send money back home

Who lost their memory? Why did you forget your story? Where is my hometown? Home Kong is an 8-minute short film comprising only 3 drone shots. A tale of 2 cities. A co-production between Hong Kong and Taiwan.