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This documentary depicts the journey of displaced students and retreating troops from the Yuheng United Middle School, crossing the treacherous terrain of Guangxi's mountains into Vietnam. They were then forced into French concentration camps before being relocated to Pulau Bidong, where they established settlements and protested through hunger strikes, garnering international attention. Their story portrays the plight of displacement and eventual return to Taiwan.

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.

Faced with a looming exhumation of a loved one, a father and son contemplate their mortality. But in land-scarce Singapore, even the dead must make way for the living.

My sister Pei-ling went through with an unexpected pregnancy. The child was nicknamed Angoo. In three years, Pei-ling broke up with the child's father, met a new boyfriend, left Angoo in my parents’ care to move in with her boyfriend, until she finally moved back in with our family due to the disapproval of her boyfriend's brother. The parent-daughter relationship was strained at first, but gradually things changed; understanding and love returned between them.

A Documentary about poet, novelist Leung Ping-kwan (Yesi).

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...

At nightfall, the sound of a whistle echoes as the young planet awakens. They gallop through the dark night, following pre-programmed instructions, silently carrying out their covert mission, gathering and dispersing. They await the break of dawn, leaving no trace of their presence when the sun rises again.

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.

The poetic short film by The Bomber (2023) director Hou Zonghua (侯宗華) draws its inspiration from the poem “Pawnshop” (〈當鋪〉) by Benito Tan (和權).

Yan Ting is both green and blue because he likes two girls at the same time. He suffers from Autism and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. He struggles with being at once afraid of the crowded place but also loving to go. Whatever he touches, he must kiss to release anxiety inside him. In Chinlung Development Center, there are a group of respectful teachers who are trying to help Ting pursue the life he wants.

As a child, Yu Xin loved riding in her father Zheming's taxi—the Apollo 11—feeling like she was on a space voyage through the city. After her father's death, Yu Xin discovers that he adopted a boy named Lin Si Liang. Driven by curiosity, Yu Xin decides to drive the Apollo 11 on one last space mission. When she reaches a desolate wasteland resembling the lunar surface, a strange boy's voice suddenly comes through her father's old radio. Just as the moon always shows the same face to the Earth, Yu Xin sees a different side of home.

A brief cinematographic exploration on Super8 that examines Taiwan's complex national identity through the prism of political utopia. Shot in emblematic locations such as the Legislative Yuan, Liberty Square, the National Human Rights Museum, 228 Memorial Park, and TSMC headquarters, the film juxtaposes these symbols of democracy and autonomy with monuments from the authoritarian past like the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and Cih-hu Memorial Statue Park. Through these evocative images, the film reflects on the historical, diplomatic, and geopolitical tensions that have defined Taiwan for many centuries and specially since 1949, when the Kuomintang established its government on the island following the Japanese surrender in 1945. This work explores the Taiwanese paradox: a nation functioning as a sovereign democracy while navigating a diplomatic limbo, pursuing a political utopia where its self-determination might be fully recognized.

Haunted by past failure, Ah-Zhi faces towering stakes that mirror his inner fears. Pressured by his mother to focus on exams, he sinks into doubt—until Xiao-You's quiet support helps him rise. In overcoming fear, he begins to truly see himself.

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...

Wildlife rescue work often involves racing against time. At the WildOne Wildlife Rescue Station in Chishang, Taitung, many wild animals, big and small, flood in as soon as the breeding season begins in spring and summer. Many injured animals, frightened and stressed, may even refuse to eat. Treating and caring are challenging to the veterinarians and rehabilitators. Despite the effort invested in their care, they must restrain their emotions to avoid the animals becoming familiar with humans. And sometimes, after extensive care, if releasing them back into the wild isn’t possible, euthanasia may be necessary for the sake of the animal's good. The film Journey Bound Home documents the journey at the WildOne Wildlife Rescue Station, from receiving injured wildlife to determining if they can ultimately be released back into their natural habitats.

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 director's father worked as a taxi driver, with only two days off per month, to support the family's livelihood. He hoped that his melancholic mother could regain her strength. Over the course of a year, the director used the camera to re-explore and mend family relationships, while also capturing the indescribable love between his parents.

Structured around a dancer's routine, the film unfolds in four stages: hope, fear, anger, and longing for stability. It interweaves these emotions with those of locals of Matsu, the military, and first-time-visiting photographers from Taiwan island.

An experimental poetic investigation of one of the world's largest e-waste recycling sites, Agbogbloshie, as a contact zone of complex global economic, social, power-political and technological processes.

Hypothesis Voyager is a road trip film that weaves social theory with a trip to the west of the United States.The video opening with a gallery social scene through the viewfinder, point out the first-person view that associated with the spectator. Then the story turns into discovering the history of the first human shelter that held the social events. Through the shift of the way we see art, the narrator travels us to the gallery and the loop we all faced. To escape, the time froze, the artist takes a deep look into the story of volcano mt. Vesuvius and sees the crater from a historical and mythology perspective of how it formed. The artists' camera becomes the vehicle voyage the viewer through time and space. The narrator travels the audience with her emotions that served as the passages connect each chamber by making the tour and detours.

Today in the 21st century, "singing" is no longer just a purely musical act. It can represent the pulse of society and put contemporary ideas into practice. To raise awareness about energy issues, we adopted a documentary-style cinematic approach to follow musicians recording an album close to nature. Eleven Meinong Conversations invites music producer and singer-songwriter Wing Lo to return to his sunny hometown of Meinong, a historic Hakka settlement in Taiwan, and fulfil a ten-year musical dream. Lo transforms a solar-powered wooden guest house into a recording studio to record his dream album in his Hakka mother tongue. The film conveys the passion of Lo’s Hakka music and his love of living life close to nature. Through eleven seemingly daily conversations with different characters, Lo’s pure and carefree rural childhood, his nostalgia of leaving home, and his loss of a beloved family member, are transformed into timeless, radiant melodies that touch the heart.

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...

A documentary short about indoor shrimping, an all-ages pastime that's found a following in Taiwan over the past three decades.

An explosion of grace and aerial symmetry at 70 beats a second.

Electrifying stories of intertwining relationships.

YouYou and Kat, two Burmese girls entering their final year of high school, are preparing for the overseas Chinese student exams that may take them from Yangon to Taiwan. Power cuts, shrill whistles, demanding exams, and teenage anxieties shape their everyday lives. Kat is driven and ambitious; YouYou is diligent, determined not to disappoint those around her. As Myanmar’s civil war quietly encroaches on the city through rumours of conscription and parental worry, the girls push themselves to maintain discipline. As the exams approach, they wonder whether studying abroad truly leads to freedom, or to another kind of uncertainty.

Telling the story of a farewell between a bird and a tree, it weaves together the thrill of growing up, the struggle of decision-making, and the emotions of longing and attachment.

A grandmother, who once dreamed of becoming a dancer, spent her youth clipping tickets, bound by duty. Marriage promised freedom, yet life wove tighter threads. Facing her own frailty, she casts off the past, rowing toward the unknown — refusing to let her daughter inherit her cage, vowing to dance forever.

Through two children of different races growing up in an intergenerational family, the film explores the racial stereotypes that have been buried in Malaysia for many years. Only a child's pure empathy can bring redemptive power.

Based on the story of “Pangu Separates Heaven and Earth,” The Beginning of the Universe starts with the time when the universe was a chaotic mass of air. After the great divide, Pangu’s body becomes the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, rivers, trees and grass.

Jia-ling got notified of her father’s passing due to the COVID, and she returns to Taipei from abroad to take care of the funeral matters. Chen Hsiung is an old man living alone with mild dementia, who mistakes Jia-ling as his married daughter. In the congregate housing shrouded by the pandemic, they found the long lost feeling of accompanying, even just for some brief moment.

Her bright world became dark after losing sight. One day, She met him, the person she had loved when she still could see…During the short conversation, she could feel the temperature, smell, vision and state of mind, in this extravagantly ordinary night.

Four artists decide to invite their parents to play the parts of dissidents in 1980s Taiwan. To get prepared for the performance, the artists show the actors footage from that time, initiating the discussion of arts and politics. Although none of them were involved in the event, they are still caught up in the story as well as their own past…

"It’s spring of senior year. This wasn't the first time Hoki attacked a wild bird. A school vote is held to decide its fate. Yi, Jen, and Hsaun-ting are seeking answers through each other. "

We experience a lot of poems as a record of real life. Through the specific Taiwanese backdrop, the poetry film illustrates a series of moments to approach the concept of time, which is not as concrete as we are taught. As a poet, the filmmaker presents her ideas on the nature of reality, existence, what is there and what is not there.

Jie Yu grapples with family issues and his growing feelings for his friend Yan Shiu, torn between friendship, love, and his own emotions.

Through juxtaposing languages with words, images, and sounds, A Play in Water depicts the conflicts between the internal world and external culture in prose poetry form. It can be considered as a personal diary written by a 16mm Bolex camera in memory of the beautiful life in Chicago.

The Tiger God project originated during the artist’s residency at Cien Art Village in Hualien in 2021, inspired by a Sikawasay (Amis priest) who said a concrete tiger carried a soul. The work explores encounters between Han folk beliefs and Amis spiritual traditions, reflecting on suppressed indigenous histories in eastern Taiwan under colonial and religious forces. Nighttime fireworks symbolize external impacts on the land, linking concrete animals, mining, and colonial imagination. The ritual opera returns the footage to the land and gods, weaving ritual, research, and reflection into a narrative about silent objects and memory.

Sunday, at the South-East Asian entertainment complex First Square in Taichung, two Filipinos, Jane, a domestic caregiver, and Randy, a factory worker, make acquaintance. In the precious hours of their day off, together, the two companions in foreign land spend a lovely Sunday.

Eight years in the making, the film focuses mostly on Ming Chuan University’s alumni cheerleading team preparing for their alma mater’s 60th anniversary celebration in 2017, capturing their practices, team building exercises, meetings and other activities with endless playful banter.

Fighting Life is a remarkable film rejoicing the spirit of life. It is the dynamic tale of two brothers who overcome immense physical and emotional handicaps, and become vital members of society

A guest is guided by a girl, Angela, through a house filled with surreal games, hidden disturbances, and unspeakable threats. As the guest ventures deeper inside, Angela’s anger and loneliness gradually surface. When fire engulfs the house, it reveals the monster behind her—and her fragile wish for someone to stay a little longer.

In the magic circle of a higher species, an unexpected creature was born. What would happen to them?

This film records my father’s daily life after my grandmother’s passing, exploring memory as a form of the soul’s continuation.

The Microphone Test series is named after writer Huang Guo-Jun’s work Microphone Test. Two months before Huang committed suicide, he wrote an essay in epistolary style titled“To Mother,” in which he expressed his intention to kill himself to his mother. The writing style is filled with black humor and expressive quality, but he killed himself two months after he wrote this letter, and he did not leave any suicide note. Microphone Test: A Letter to Huang Guo-Jun is a video letter to Huang Guo-Jun. Through conversations with Huang’s works created before he died, the letter depicts private family memories of three good friends, and attempts to portray what in fact belongs to the artist, or perhaps everyone’s memories through the memories of these others. Or perhaps, what is important is not whose memory it is, but the process that memory is constructed and viewed.

The Taiwanese philosopher-filmmaker James T. Hong (*1972) work: “Three Arguments about the Opium-War” (2015) is an inquiry into the competing narratives and contradictory logics embedded into what constitutes “history”. The dual-channel film juxtaposes footage of sites from the historical Opium Wars with contemporary views of Hong Kong’s harbor and cityscape. Each channel is accompanied by textual components: the war sites are overlaid with distanced narration describing how certain socio-political conditions pave the way for colonization, as well as the impossibility of any population having the same uniform political views. The recent Hong Kong footage features text justifying the British colonization of China, focusing on opium as a fitting punishment for perceived Chinese transgressions.