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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.

The government's discriminatory policies, wars, profit-seeking politicians, and capitalistic exploitation forced indigenous peoples to leave ...

Fedati lives in a small room nearby Taichung train station, in which she makes Indonesian food and clay craft; it is also the favorite place of her migrant sisters in the area. They share about work as a domestic helper and a factory worker; they talk about being homesick and how much they miss their families. The journey of Fedati in Taiwan has been recorded in this 16 square meters room. She started as a domestic helper, and later became a clay artist, a migrant culture activist, and an owner of a take-away Indonesian food business. To be even better, she joined a master program in a university in Taiwan. In her room, we can have a peek into the possibility and vibrancy of migrant lives in Taiwan.

Feeling stressed by the hardships of city life, a man seeks the services of a masseur. In the process, he ends up forming an unlikely bond.

The gender issues that exist in Taiwan's rap circle are actually a microcosm of the overall social gender structure. Even though there is now an increasing awareness of gender equality in society, gender limitations still exist and require our continuous efforts to slowly change them.

A documentary of taiwanese writer Yang Kui.

A man who has a unique way of using toilet paper after pooping. A couple who always orders delivery because they don’t like to put on clothes. A family that has a way to avoid washing dishes. A woman who likes her table to be sparkly clean. People use bags for every little thing, a convenience of life we enjoy every day. Too much waste? No problem, just flush them all down the toilet!

After studying traditional Japanese-style carpentry by himself, Yang devotes sixteen years of his life to building his dream home. He handles the entire process of building a house, from designing a blueprint to acquiring wood, starting construction, assembling columns, tiling the roof, and building the interior.

A self-destructive and anxious 30-year-old man and his 26-year-old friend with a camera. It's a personal film about their relationship in the last years of a life - battling the HIV virus. The flamboyant man flirts with the camera while the filmmaker is tormented, forcing himself to go on filming. Their sincerity when facing the undefeatable facts is moving.

This calm, family-centered film documents the first 18 months of the life of the director’s eldest daughter. The film follows the young baby’s faltering footsteps, as she takes account of the wide world through her tiny body, and preserves the cherished moments of the family.

A daily gif created over 100 days.

"Blended Vision" is a duo-screen video. The screen on the left shows a video about Lau's experience of accompanying his father during eye surgery. As the father's vision gradually becomes disabled, he begins to rely on his daughter's eyes to see the world, and the roles of caregiver and caretaker are reversed. In the series of events from the discovery of the disease to examination, surgery, and recovery, the emotional changes between father and daughter constantly overlap and stagger, and are connected by an invisible line. The video on the right, Lau uses a camera lens to imitate the blurred vision from the eyes of her father, and returns to the places he passes by every day, the park near their home, the same teahouse, the same bus route, the same way home... to reproduce those things that are seen repeatedly in the scenery.

A family feigns insanity to fraudulently claim an enormous amount of health insurance money. Have they gone off the deep end and can no longer distinguish reality from make-believe?

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.

The film primarily tells the story of a financial dispute between a large conglomerate and a criminal organization. The protagonist infiltrates a criminal organization and uses his charm to seduce the wife of the gang leader, thus instigating conflict between two major criminal organizations.

A Taiwanese language film

A boy's adventure in the ancient temple where were burned by the mysterious reason.

This documentary records the events of civil unrest in Taiwan that followed the "Red Martial Law" in 2008. It tells the story of abuses suffered by civilians at the hands of the authorities; of how state power has rapidly advanced to undermine civil rights; and investigates the problems of being educated to be "obedient" in Taiwanese culture.

On 14 May 1989, the Far Eastern Textile Industrial Union passed a resolution in favour of strike action. However, the Hsinchu County government and police authorities actively helped the employers in breaking the strike action. This film documents the 17-day desperate protest lasting until the employers announced a full return to work, finally concluding the battle.

“Lifeng Coal Mine” (利豐煤礦) in Sanxia, Taipei County, was once Taiwan’s largest specialized coal mine. Unable to compete with cheap imported coal amid Taiwan’s impending WTO accession, the mine shut down, leaving 118 miners unemployed and sparking disputes over pensions and severance pay. San Yan (《散宴》) follows several aging miners, including brothers Huang Wu-yi (黃武義) and Huang Rong-quan (黃榮全), documenting their reflections on unemployment and their lifelong labor underground. After sharing one final farewell banquet, the miners’ “black gold dream” disappeared together with the closing mine. Through the film, the director moves beyond stereotypical images of miners’ hardship, portraying instead the quiet resilience and optimism of these “last-generation miners.”

Eighty years after World War II, memory clings like frost to glass-blurred, fractured, yet never fully fading. Filmmaker Ming Chun retraces the forgotten journey of Taiwanese soldiers conscripted by Japan, captured by the Soviets, and exiled to Siberia. From departure and defeat to captivity and return, he follows a path of war and displacement-toward a home that no longer felt like home. Across Taiwan, Japan, and Russia, he searches for traces of their lives-abandoned camps, fading photographs, fragments of memory-while opening a dialogue across three generations: elders whose recollections falter, children burdened with unanswered questions, grandchildren confronting fractured identities. When history falls silent, what do we hear? And where do restless souls finally belong?

Obsessed with capturing death to glimpse the soul yet terrified of death itself, photographer Hao is haunted by visions due to a past accident. In search of peace and to escape being killed by these apparitions, he embarks on a journey to THE LAND, seeking the God‘s Endless Path.

This work started as a personal project. The artist initially intended to create a one-man home video only for himself, hoping to gather snippets from his life abroad to represent them as vital parts of his life and temporary definitions, forming a time capsule created to commemorate his graduation. A few months later, the artist restarted this unfinished project and changed his intention during editing. By remaking this essay film using several (pseudo-) video diaries and two different mediums—digital recording and digitized Super 8mm footage, the artist translates private, intimate whisperings into his reflections about memory, viewing, film, and the process of image (re-) production.

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.

In the pre-dawn hours near a temple are the homeless people with nowhere to go and nothing to do. People pass by without seeing them, police cite and release them over and over, politicians make hay out of issues, and poor people keep exploiting other poor people by playing the lottery. Surveillance cameras are everywhere on the streets, coldly recording everything, devoid of emotion.

On 27 February 1987, residents of Shui Yuan Village barricaded the front gate of LCY Chemical Corp factory, who was polluting the groundwater. On the 100th day of their protest, Hsinchu Mayor promised to have police stationed there. But the factory tried to secretly ship out their product. Pushed to the limit, the villagers built a wall with concrete and vowed never to be fooled again.

The Breast Talk is a graduation film made by three college students from the Department of Radio and Television at the NCCU. The film concerns the topics of female breasts in relation to sexuality and gender.Through experience sharing, , it tells the high hopes that women can find their own way to be themselves comfortably.

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).

Around one hundred million sharks are killed every year because of overfishing. Only roughly thirty of them can be saved, which gives them a survival rate of one in three million. In 2016, at a fishing port in Tatung County, Taiwan, two pregnant tiger sharks were caught by local fishermen, and 75 shark pups were rescued. An unprecedented release operation thus began. Related Clips

Once, Chen Yi, a gay man who was about to graduate from college, and Zhie Ze maintained a detached sexual partnership. But now, Chen Yi, who has no job and no purpose in life, is playing an ambiguous game of friendship with Zhi Ze, trying to get out of the shadow of his previous relationship and find his way.

Made in 2008–2009, Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-Jen’s Empire’s Borders conveys the real-life experiences of women who have attempted to cross Taiwan’s borders: first, Taiwanese women denied tourist visas to visit the United States, and second, women from mainland China who have married Taiwanese men and have been denied permission to enter or remain in Taiwan. Shot on 35mm film in stark black and white, each woman relates her story in her own words. The bureaucratic settings for these short monologues recall the interview centre or airport immigration hall where the encounters originally took place.

The wind on the riverbank, mixing with the sun and your smile. Practicing mistakes on the rooftop, gently strumming. Please don’t let time slip away. Counting down dreams, and memories etched inside my heart. When love tries to justify the wrongs, from start to finish. That's when words lose their sincerity. I wonder what's on your mind. I don't want you to vanish from my life. Keeping silent is my tenderness. Seeing you well is better than possessing.

Bullied in school, a young pupils life becomes a living hell.

The most difficult decision is to end the life of the beloved.

There are always some moments you don’t want to say a word. The world is silent and you turn silent.

A Taiwanese husband and a Vietnamese wife, a dream about three goose eggs. According to a Vietnamese tradition, a pregnant woman has to eat three goose eggs before she gives birth, to ensure that her baby will grow healthy and smart. A husband wanders around Taiwan, for his wife and their baby, in search of three rare goose eggs.

Damon, a talented stage director, is having the worst day of his life: nothing goes well, one of his dancers is missing, and his boyfriend, Jhongwei, insists that he has something important to say to him that cannot wait any longer. When Damon finally gives Jhongwei to opportunity to talk, the latter tells him that he no longer wishes to be his boyfriend.

An office worker obsessed with the supernatural visits an old parking lot and finds evidence of ghosts of perverts.

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.

This documentary examines Taiwan's role within the war machinery of East Asia, and how air-raid shelters have transformed from military defense structures into part of the everyday landscape. By guiding audiences through the often-overlooked landscapes of Chiayi, the film calls for renewed attention to historical sites and explores how war has shaped urban structures and collective memory. It also invites reflection on the lasting impact of war, reminding us that war is never as distant as it seems.

In the sweltering summer heat, the ping pong club is plagued by a broken air conditioner. A girl, bored out of her mind, quietly sets out on a quest to find something special. Little does she know that this seemingly ordinary afternoon is about to take an exciting turn when a boy walks down the stairs.

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.

Suthat, a young man from the northeastern part of Thailand, has worked in Taiwan for six years. He does not aim to save money, nor does he have any plans for the future. He has just moved to Taichung. Four months ago, he visited the ASEAN Square for the first time. It was in a Thai disco club that he met the film crew that was scouting locations and looking for materials for a production to be shown in a group exhibition at MoCA Taipei in May. For reasons unknown, the film crew invited Suthat to join the film. That day, Suthat came to the ASEAN Square to celebrate the Songkran festival with his friends. During the past four months, he has made quite a few friends; and today, the film crew with a Thai interpreter became his new friends.