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At a deserted petrol station in the mountains, a foreign man and a woman travel in a stolen van to run away from the police. A mist descends, obscuring their paths and reality.

Lu Bin, a taciturn young man who has recently been released from a juvenile detention centre, is assigned to learn cooking at a culinary school. On his third day under the instruction of the head chef Ms. Li, a sum of money disappears from the school office. The teachers at the school turn their suspicion to Lu Bin. While Ms. Li is a strict teacher to Lu Bin, she also sympathizes with him. If Lu Bin is identified as a thief, he will be expelled from the school. Two teachers decide to investigate further, and Ms. Li is forced to face her suspicion of Lu Bin, along with another unexpected secret.

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.

Director TSENG occasionally began to record the daily life of her mother, out of the need of completing her documentary assignment at school. The films presents a mother's persistence when facing difficulties and her love for her children. In the meantime, interactions and conversations between mother and daughter are revealed spontaneously.

Due to an assignment assigned by the school, David had to take the time to accompany with his father to go back to his hometown where he grew up. They rushed back from the bustling city to the beautiful town, and gave his father the opportunity to travel through time and space and see again his own hometown.

Wedding photos are the development of emotions. The unique cultural etiquette and true temperament of the Chinese society are all recorded in the wedding photos. It makes everyone believe that this is a dream factory that can exchange money for concrete happiness. Before entering into marriage, the prince and princess are looking forward to a happy and happy love and future. On the other side, the couple who are already in marriage, what they hear is a frank conversation between them. Looking back at the photo that symbolizes the marriage contract, what kind of form does the "intimacy", "happiness", or "love" between the two transform into?

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.

A truck drives into a square and a moveable tent is set up. Audience members enter and hear the faint voices from the cracks in society. As the tent becomes a convergence of the thoughts of those both on stage and off, we feel the power of resistance that the entire action entails. Functioning both as observer and participant, the director documents the tent's movements around Taiwan in the past decade.

A short, silent animated film about a father and son, both astronauts.

In a normal quiet Sunday, Dr. Evil Mantis attacted K-City unexpectedly with his gigantic claw, the entire city in panic and in danger. At the very critical moment, one young man stood out and fight the Dr. Evil Mantis. This is the moment for the hidden superhero, and his secret power is about to turn this chaos upside down. The Legend is about to begin...

A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience, recreating the senses of women in love and the unique inner sense of time through creation.

Li Ze-yang's journey in music was bumpy yet full of colors. His musical collection serves as a historic witness to ethnic communities. His relentless editorial commitment proved a quintessential scarcity in the history of Taiwanese music.

Taiwanese man, Yen, has been in a long-distance relationship with his Thai boyfriend. Because of the Covid pandemic, they have not been able to see each other for over 2 years. In the difficulties of unreal virtual relationship, Yen wants to end it but he is not sure how to do about this relationship stuck in limbo.

Untitled is a collage film that combines the image and sound of Takashi Makino, the music of Lawrence English and the automatic writing text of Esperanza Collado, produced between March and June 2020, when the first attack of the coronavirus shook the world.

The final chapter of the Taiwan trilogy, exploring the long-term effects of cultural education during Taiwan's military dictatorship.

One day after watching a film festival movie, I (the author) said to Chin-Chieh: "If there's nothing serious, I would like to watch another movie." That's when I realized I was classifying "go home" as a big event. February 23, 2023, I walked home on that day. On the way home, I noticed that it became quite ceremonial. The night scenes along the road, the memories of traveling with family, and the "failed" Super 8 images produced at home, all turned into the scenery of memories. At the same time, I also realize that when I am in the space of my home, I impose constraints on myself.

Originating from the Taiwanese Opera piece of the same title, the film Sam-phik-Ing-tâi, performed by Bí-too troupe, has preserved several unique theatrical plots and performance style. The film premiered 60 years ago as a commercial release, and contrasted the Huangmei Opera film The Love Eterne from Hong Kong with its vivid characters and humorous dialogues.

After getting married and having a child, Fang-Lan finds herself doing the same unchanging household chores day after day. Today she has received a invitation from her high school classmates association. Returning to a home where her son is constantly on the phone and her husband smells of alcohol, Fang-Lan's pent-up loneliness suddenly erupts…

Back in the Year 1998 Lina from the northeast of China struggles as the new one in class because of her accent and her classmates. Then she falls in love with the young goodlooking English teacher.

In 2017, four bands from the Chinese mainland toured in Taiwan. It marks a historic moment in the cross-strait subcultural communication. The tour is the biggest underground rock event made by rock bands from the Chinese mainland in Taiwan. With the GT Bitches's tour as the main plot, the film is an interview of 10 punk bands, gig organizers,and music fans from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. What is the punk cultural difference across the strait? The interview in the film might provide a partial answer…

A Taiwanese woman's journey to America reveals her fantasy of love and an identity entangled with beauty, sexuality, nationality and two languages. Through the protagonist confronting her own image and her failure at communicating, Wild Grass tells an unusual love story that is deceptive yet revealing.

Focusing on a middle class family in present day Taipei, each of the family members experiences struggles and sparks of change happening their own daily lives. While unable to share their inner emotions, they could still read between the lines, and sense that there are something yet to be said. In the family, Jia-Shiang, Jia-Chi, the Father, and the Mother, all have their individual ‘homework’ to be solved.

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.

The TV documentary explores the lives of Taiwan’s licensed sex workers. It follows how, in 1997, Mayor Chen Shui-bian’s sudden abolition of legal prostitution in Taipei stripped more than a hundred women of their right to work, forcing them into a long-term struggle for survival. Through documenting their protests and personal stories, the film uncovers the little-known history of sex workers in Taiwan and examines their struggles under multiple layers of oppression—from political and economic forces to legal and ethical debates.

As people head out to enjoy the Moon Festival with their family, an old lady remains in her shop till the full moon is high in the sky. It seems as if she's waiting for someone.

Jack is a merman who longs for a love romance. One day, he is stricken by a sudden whirlpool. He faints away and finds himself on the hilltop after waking up. Can Jack swim back to his sweet ocean? Will the journey be the chance of meeting his Ms. Right?

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.

In a moment of lost lucidity, an elderly woman with Alzheimer's has the last chance to reconcile with her daughter.

Bing-kun Su is destined to be a name that will be mentioned repeatedly in Taiwan's judicial history after the year 1986. Being in the environment of martial law, his family and career were destroyed overnight due to the flaws of judicial judgment. As the vindicator with the longest period of unjust imprisonment in Taiwan's history, Su was constantly dragged down by the injustice, together with his family. The lives of his wife and four children were turned upside down by this tragedy, forcefully changing their goal of life into "the reversal of Su's injustice case". The seemingly peaceful not-guilty justice buries the family's choice of life, with all these hidden costs that judicial compensation can never pay off, casting shadows over S and his family for a whole lifetime.

After surviving a Ponzi scheme resulted from an information gap in Myanmar, a Taiwanese shrimp farmer, Du, collaborates with a local Chinese-Burmese, Su, to keep his shrimp business going. It is a story about how they work from the beginning to the end.

Lan is born and raised in a happy family. She has been a behaved daughter, but she starts to be late for dinner more often. Out of suspicion, her father asked her and realized that she is dating someone. When Lan brought her date home as her parents look forward to, the person shows up is not exactly who they expect.

Two friends go on an adventure, gathering all kinds of ingredients to cook up an epic meal!

A mesmerizing dancer's eyes are consumed by relentless flashes that haunt his graceful movements. Seeking a remedy, he dutifully eats pineapple, hoping to expel these unwelcome guests. Yet, as time passes, he becomes trapped in a hazy, aimless drift – his dance now heavy with futility.

A political superstar finds himself falling from grace and plummeting to the depths. After the Sunflower Movement, Chen Wei-ting, whose reputation now preceded him, returned to Miaoli County to run for the legislature, but he soon withdrew due to some sexual harassment scandals. From public sweet heart to someone scorned and deemed a “criminal”, what does Chen think of what he calls his “perfect crash”?

In this story about friendship, a ragtag fellowship on a journey to the West support and help each other to overcome obstacles and conquer their mission together!

A lonely photographer, who developed the same photo of his ex-lover every day.

The film focuses on Cao Liou, a 25-year-old drag queen. The explosive creative energy he delivers is stunning, but at the same time, he also displays his egotistical nature and wanton lifestyle. Director Pan Hsin An is the same age as Liou. He peeps into Liou’s life through a camera lens, questioning and exploring. During the filming process, the two often fail to understand each other, and each has his doubts about the other. But in the end, at opposite ends of the scale, they find the same desires behind huge differences.

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…

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.

An unknown disease is striking to younger generation, the patients are going to lose the sense of reality and the memory of themself. We following a girl who got her new name 'OK' and she is going to figure out what's going on.

Using black-and-white images ranging from African statues to contemporary film posters and political meetings, Chihying considers aesthetic dynamics between the West, China and Africa. How did so many African artefacts end up in European museums? And what if this Western power of selection were replaced by Chinese control?

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.

Movies are a window on the world. In the 1990s, Taiwan-produced motion pictures did well at international film festivals. This has not only familiarized audiences around the world with the richness of Taiwan movies; it has allowed them to see Taiwan's growth. This presentation focuses on two stages of Taiwan movies: the pluralistic creativity of the 1990s, and the beginnings and foundation-building of the 1980s. It introduces contemporary directors of the time and their works to take viewers back to an enthusiastic and energetic era. It describes the relationship between cinema and social development, and explores the mutual reliance of the aesthetic of realism and social thought. Wave after wave of developments in Taiwan New Cinema occurred in the 1980s and 90s.

What will it be like in a century?

After her friend’s suicide, Toothbag buries her grief beneath anger and denial. Haunted by memories she can’t stop replaying, she struggles to accept the loss. But in a vivid dream, a final conversation with her friend shifts something in her. Waking up, she begins the painful journey of letting go, learning to honor her friend’s choice and confront her own sorrow.

Haunted by the tragic death of his father, a young Argentinian filmmaker of Taiwanese origin returns to Taipei to film the reunion with his mother. Reality and fiction blend in a moving personal quest in which an incredible portrait of a mother stands out from the picture of a family saga marked by uprooting.