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In 1960-1970’s Taiwan, when Taiwan Economic Miracle happens, a lot of females sacrifice their future under the pressure of supporting their families. Our story protagonist "Grandmother," was a reflection of countless young females from that era. By using scissor and threads as element of this story, the thread symbolizes the constraints imposed on Grandmother by her past by qualities of entanglement and continuity, while the scissor represents her awaken willing, which cuts off the attachments and regrets she struggles to let go of.

Taiwanese movie

When the world disconnects, what connects you? Do you feel truly connected in your daily life? As we navigate through the crush of conflicts, wars, and climate change enveloping our globe, we must ask ourselves: are we truly understood and embraced by one another?

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.

Witness the first light and sounds of a new dawn breaking, as observed around the world one year ago. Patrick Shen’s cinematic meditation was created during the first COVID-19 lockdown by 35 artists from over 13 countries on May 3, 2020. With a soundtrack filled with environmental bird songs and ambient aural awakenings, the contemplative and collective portrait moves from darkness to light as a metaphor for hope and rebirth. 2020, United States, digital, nonverbal, 21 min.

A motorcycle gang wants to start a revolution. They ultimately succeed, but they also fail at the same time.

It's almost been one year since his boyfriend committed suicide on the day of the Moon Festival, in their own home. Wei, left alone, struggles to leave his memory behind and isolates himself in the apartment that torments him.

This film is like a person standing naked in the middle of a square, covered in wounds, holding up a sign that says “Free Hug.” Many people come to embrace him, and he embraces many in return. Yet this does not mean that those who embrace him are unscarred—it is only that they are clothed. — Director Zhang Yu

This work is an argument initiated with Wendy Brown’s article Resisting Left Melancholy. She applied Walter Benjamin’s notion of “Left Melancholia” to see the political thoughts and the norms in the left-wing movement/ theory traditions as the notion of melancholia. There is the thingness of the thoughts that can see as the lost object. Extends this idea, the thingness of thoughts, come from one’s personal or collective memories could become the pathological fixation.

Short animation by Anchi Shen and Jiayu Hu

In the second year of high school, Pei and her neighboring classmate Wen were inseparable, their bond deepening with each passing day, as if transcending the bounds of mere friendship. In the tender bloom of youth, Pei embarked on a heartfelt journey of self-discovery and quest for belonging, seeking the answers her heart yearned for.

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.

In 1956, the U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit No.2 built a pure white building in Shuilin Township, Yunlin County, and began a seven-year research project. The building was white, clean and bright, so that local residents call it the "American White House." The various things in the research process made the residents quite curious and suspicious of this mysterious building. The adults even reminded the children not to approach it. However, Taiwan didn’t know much about this project. After the project ended, all relevant materials were taken to the United States and stored at Johns Hopkins University. So the team went to America to find research materials and bring them back to Taiwan. The director’s father was one of the members of the research project then. Therefore, the shooting process is not only to dig out the past, but also to evoke the youthful memories of those elders.

A film correspondence between Yuri Obitani and Ming-Yu Lee, between Tokyo and Taipei, starting from 2019 to 2021. In the era of the pandemic, they communicate and understand each other through letter films.

In 1987, Su Ping-kun was found guilty of armed robbery and attempted murder, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In the era of Martial Law, he endured abuse and torture from the authority. In 2000, Su received a presidential pardon but still remained guilty in Taiwan's legal system. He refused to have a tainted name and continued fighting for over 30 years, just to clear his name.

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…

Taiwanese comedy.

We encountered the dogs on the forays through Pristina’s streets. At night, we melded into the canine throngs, shadowing their movements until they dispersed and vanished. The residents imparted a saga of these dogs: in the late 1990s, as Serbian troops and Albanian insurgents clashed, domestic dogs were cast adrift on the battleground streets. Ever since, Pristina has been a tableau of roaming dog packs, with sporadic human-dog confrontations.

Two Uigur brothers and a friend are in love with parkour, a kind of extreme sport. Regardless of opposition from their worried mothers, the boys train themselves to be the best in an upcoming parkour event in Beijing while managing to iron out additional difficulties. They lose the game, but eventually they learn much more about their true selves.

Popular internet celebrity Raccoon Chao suddenly is afflicted with insomnia which worsens over time. He meets Kangaroo Dai at a bar and falls in love quickly, but the insomnia affects their relationship. After seeking out the help of a psychiatrist and meeting several men, he slowly uncovers the secrets at the root of his troubles.

A group of irreverent students band together when their teacher is kidnapped.

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 single act of kindness, involving three DVD players, plunged a father and son into a fate they could never reverse. Like a sinking ship, they desperately tried to slow their descent, but ultimately could not overcome the water rising past their noses and throats.

A dark comedy that follows the adventures of the protagonist, a gay man in a long-term relationship whose life takes an unexpected turn when he falls in love with a mysterious neon blue cracked egg.

Taiwanese lewd film.

Welcome to our room! It's a monodrama about someone with depression. Let us enter this eerie and mysterious world together. Finally uncover the deep secrets of the room in the sound of heavy footsteps.

Ring of Fire, Annular Solar Eclipse, June 21, 2020. The covid-19 Pandemic is still changing the world. The Queen said, "Better days will return. We will meet again."

One of "2020 Taiwanese presidential election" short film series by Next Film (一丁目), a short-lived streaming platform by Next Digital (壹傳媒).

Why did you draw? How did you begin to draw? Why did you stop drawing? How did you go back to drawing? Will you keep drawing?

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…

A fourteen-year-old dancer meets a new choreographer whose strict and humiliating training triggers involuntary tics in her. The more she tries to suppress them, the less control she has over her own body. Through the indocile and dissonant bodies of young girls in the face of authority, this film aims to exhibit the subversive power embedded in feminine fragility.

The film explores how love evolves within marriage.

Returning to the ancestral home his grandfather built for the family, the eldest grandson finds no trace of his own childhood. Through the rhythmic cadence of his grandmother’s Hakka, he begins to reclaim his identity—stitching together a family history from old photographs and the stories that survived.

Jumping Jet Flash tells the story of a man who looks back on the last week of his life awaiting the results of an HIV test.

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 melodrama story co-directed by Bai Ke and Lin Tuan-chiu in Taiyu (Taiwanese language)

During the filming of a film crew in the studio, almost everyone was exhausted and exhausted for several hours. There were communication barriers and many bad things happened. Everything was turned to the director. The director finally lost his temper and left the studio. Go outside to smoke a cigarette, and when you go back again, everything has changed like a dream.

At the ripe age of 102, Chinhua Ho Chen, “Miss Golden Blossom”, takes center stage. In 1938, her voice graced the tracks of “Endless Spring” and “The Camellia Lady”, released by Victory Records, under the stage name “Yingying”. She also stands as the first among renowned female singers of Taiwan’s popular ditties. Through Miss Chinhua, we hear the echoes of the once renowned singer Yingying, preserving the distinct voices of Taiwan in popular music and songs.

Chaos has engulfed an industrial city whose residents greedily hunt creatures that can generate energy. Pier and Two, members of an expedition team, discover that under the sea exists a city that is a reflection of their tainted one – and it overflows with a stream of pure fuel. Inviting you to join this pair of adventurers, this deeply imaginative work impresses with its rich world-building and intrepid themes.

Taking care of the children on their own, a group of women just realise how ignorant the whole society is, regarding the daily needs of mothers and children. In this film, the filmmaker shares her own experiences with two other women caught in the same dilemma.

We always play as a peeping Tom and the one peeped, releasing ourselves while learning messages from others’. Therefore, we need to have a dialogue with ourselves by recalling past in the end of the journey, in order to sum up the honest self and continue moving forward alone.

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

Starring Chuang Ling and with cinematography by Hu Qi-Yuan, The Joy of Life consists of closeup shots of technically speaking only four simple gestures of pinching on a sugar cube, drinking coffee, lighting a match, and smoking a cigarette, and it is without any lines or specific plots.