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In 1995 five hundred dock workers in Liverpool were fired for refusing to cross a picket line, sparking the Dockers' dispute of the 1990s. In protest, when the Neptune Jade – a Mersey-loaded ship – set sail from England dock workers across the globe refused to allow the ship to dock and unload its cargo – first at Oakland CA., then Vancouver, Canada and then Yokahoma and Kobe, Japan. The ship eventually sailed to Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan where it was disbanded and sold. Neptune Jade stands as a significant event in the dock workers struggle and of their international solidarity. In The Route, Chen re-presents history by interspersing archive film footage with new footage of a picket line staged by Dockers at Port of Kaohsiung. A symbolic connection between workers in Liverpool and Taiwan, the artist's home, is created, echoing the Dockers' phrase 'The world is our picket line'.

Under constant regimes of discipline and incorporation, rituals, faiths, bodies, and the position of man and god all trend towards uprootedness, where we lose our links to the land and to others. Time is dissected into ever more infinitesimal parts. Those who could not keep up now appear within the gaze of a stopped frame. Regardless of man or god, all destruction and rebirth meet at this point in search of a safe corner.

A bizarre animated film about a girl, who fell out of a toilet.

A menopausal woman thought her husband had an affair because she was no longer beautiful. Imagine that a rival competitor is a young and beautiful woman, struggling to maintain a seemingly complete and happy home.

You can almost see this transparent glasses built vendor selling this special Taiwanese chewing gums everywhere in Taiwan. It’s called the “betel nuts stands”. Then a betel nuts girl is there to match the male customers’ sexual fantasies. In the tiny glasses house, the girls talk about stories of themselves.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A young woman, Kuo, embarks on a journey to find her birth family.

Before the COVID-19 mandatory quarantine is canceled, soldier Wei Yu calls his fellow soldier Ferris, seeking advice on how to fake a positive rapid test result to secure a week off. However, their squad leader, “Winnie”, who specializes in bothering Wei Yu, refuses to let him off so easily.

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

A short film by Wang Chu-Chin. The first winner of Golden Harvest Award in Taiwan.

"Southward Expansion to Taiwan" describes the achievements and achievements of the Taiwan Governor's Office in ruling Taiwan for about forty years. The film presents the appearance of Japanese rule in Taiwan: including the customs, industries, construction, geography and cultural landscapes of Taiwan's states, such as: the aboriginal people's club sound, the earliest department store in Taiwan, etc., and Taiwan's natural beauty, resources and Japan in Taiwan The achievements of modernization since taking power have been presented to the Japanese.

[Ten Years of Installation Art Series-Taiwan Art Lantern Festival (Technology Empyrean 2004) The Taipei County Bureau of Culture used "Technology Auras-Metropolitan Gaze and Imagination" as the curatorial proposition of the 2004 Taiwan Lantern Festival Art Light District. It reintegrated the meaning of the times, contemporary art, and the cultural image of the traditional Lantern Festival. Its purpose is to focus on dialogue through the works of artists, the contemporary "urban imagination", and a total of 9 domestic artists' lantern festival installation creations.]

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.

Son of a glove puppetry master, Xiao Guo, after his parents' divorce, could only accompany his father backstage at outdoor performances, often lacking stable meals and motherly care! At one performance, the puppet beside him comes to life and tries to take on the role of his mother...

Before and after the lifting of martial law in Taiwan, there was a group of photographers who remained steadfast in their beliefs. Undeterred by the pressures of the mainstream market or government interference, they boldly ventured across the country, presenting firsthand material to the public, regardless of whether their perspective was objective or not.

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.

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.

An experimental documentary which opens with a story of my family: my American aunt found a painting of my grandmother by chance, in a random Chinese restaurant in the middle of nowhere - she said she cried. By tracing this story and reproducing its meaning, the film wonders through different topics: the construction of the Cold War, USA and Taiwan relations, different generations of Chinese diaspora since the 1950s, contemporary immigration and cross-nation fluidity, family romances, religion, and ancestors...

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.

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.

The special bond between filmmaker Mei-ling Hsiao and her daughter, who has Asperger syndrome, is meticulously recorded over a period of 12 years. As a result, we see Xiang Yun/Elodie grow from a creative girl into a young adult preparing for a career as a pâtissier. This means leaving her mother in Taiwan and moving to France, where her father lives, and where there is better training. But the distance between mother and daughter puts a strain on their relationship.

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.

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.

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.

A team of workers is sent to planet Gliese 12b to build a gravitational portal. To conserve energy for survival on the frozen planet, each worker is allowed to speak only 113 words per day.

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

Jun. 2nd, 2013, Nalam, an Indonesian undocumented foreign worker misheard the police from “donʼt run” to “take a photo”. And later arrested after taking photo with the undercover officers. It was shortly reported as a hilarious news. What if we invited three Vietnamese martial art masters as Nalam, and if he escaped from assaulting the police?

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...

Planet A is a metaphor for human arrogance, in which humans destroy nature and other beings, justify their behavior as "development", evaluate themselves as "good"(A), and are flattered to be on top of Earth. An experimental musical documentary project, presented as an omnibus of 15 music videos, was created with the goal of challenging the status quo and revealing the truth that lies behind what is happening on this "fantastic" planet right now, along with fighting against all discrimination within it.

An animated feature adapted of Brother Ox Cartoons' (牛哥漫畫).

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...

In the day he is a delivery driver for a factory, but on dates that ends with 3, 6, or 9, he exchanges his dirty work clothes for a mottled apron with a delicate yellow dragon. The apron is like a mission that carries on the last wishes of his late father. Taking over the mantle of his father, he becomes a psychic. He must encounter all kinds of issues, which include joy, sadness, sickness, and even death. Moreover, he faces the dilemmas and helplessness of other people. We want to know how he can find a way of life for those believers, and how he can strike a balance between being himself and a psychic. (Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival)

An art teacher returns to her childhood home to mourn the passing of her grandmother. As she pieces together the fragmented memories of her youth she finds herself coming face-to-face with the problematic issue of her country’s fractured history. Through an artistic duty that this teacher gives to students, a performance art process that has lasted for more than 10 years, a representational portrait of the island’s collective memory begins to emerge; and in so doing, these young artists have initiated a process by which Taiwan, an island forgotten by the world and in the midst of forgetting itself, can now remember itself and construct a new postcolonial identity through art.

Love of Tseng Wen River

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.

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.

12 strangers, invited through an open call, join a portrait party led by a counseling psychologist. Wearing the outfit they wish to be remembered in and bringing a meaningful item, they use their last portrait as a starting point to share life’s most important yet unspoken stories.

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...

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.

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 director reminisces wistfully on the homosexual relationships he formed during his military service. Like pages torn from a diary, his cinematic voiceover monologue touches on themes of childhood and family, and is imbued with a soft and sunny melancholy revealing his intimate childhood memories and pessimistic fatalism.

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.

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