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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.
Wandering through and documenting different religious spaces when traveling, then through editing, these half sacred and half site-seeing experiences have been collaged to a passage to another heterogeneous space. Throughout the corridors and doors, The statues of saints and dolls gaze into the after world without the existence of humans, silence in trance. And it is the voice of prayers bringing me back to the mundane world.
An emotionless workaholic opens her heart when she can hear the thoughts of a dog, that her ex-boyfriend left behind.
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).
An Indigenous Amis family hunts snails by headlight after a midnight rain on Taiwan’s eastern coast. Back home, as they butcher, clean, and cook them, family members pass on their endangered language to a younger generation and trade ghost stories that echo the fragility of inherited identities.
A story about memories.
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.
A man dives into his subliminal mind, for all about his future.
In 2009, a DNA test report that "does not rule out the possibility" turned Chen Longqi from a witness to a defendant. After he was found guilty, he began to flee, fearing that he would not be able to clear his grievances in prison. Fortunately, four years and thirty days later, he met a judge who was willing to investigate again, and finally changed the verdict to not guilty. But from guilty to innocent, what he saw in front of him was the ruin of his career, heavy debts, the mental panic of long-term escape and hiding, and many people who wanted his help and were also suffering from unjust cases...
A, the last human on the planet. X, the god, demon, or the future in A's nightmares. In 1972, a futurologist book precisely predicted the human destiny manifested in East Asia. In an unknown era, the last human found a mysterious message from an electronic device and embarks on a quest for a future from the past. In ten chapters, the audience explores this dream-like prophecy.
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”?
Artist Hsu Che-yu blends his digitally animated exploration of the relation between media and memory with an account of Taiwanese terrorist Yung Ru-Men, a bomb maker who idolised Japan’s suicidally-inclined United Red Army.
The film explores the informal architectures of Taipei, seeing them as a representation of an Autistic Architectural Approach, which calls for disabled people to be—not included—embedded.
A soon-to-be college freshman moves to the city where she will spend the next few years of her life, searching for a place to call her own. Through a senior’s recommendation, she finds a vacant room once occupied by a former tenant and decides to rent it. While settling in, she discovers an old cassette player left behind—
The film begins with a conversation with the grandmother, tracing back the gentle, intricate, bittersweet, and hard-to-express emotions between mother and daughter. It moves between the reality of daily life and the imagined scenes from memories.
“You have read all the stories in the world, but can you tell me your story?” The city library is preparing to shut its doors. Confronted with the prospect of being shut down, Mia, an AI database and librarian, begins to question her existence and develop her first creative consciousness.
This film is dedicated to the house that has anchored a home for my family for over 30 years: Chang Chun, my grandmother’s house. Just like the fate of several old buildings in Taipei, she will be demolished by the end of this year.
The Malaysian father, Beng Soon, came to Taiwan to investigate the disappearance of his son, Kah Choon. During the process, he gradually realized his lack of understanding towards Kah Choon, while also discovering the changes in Kah Choon.
A girl has her slipper stolen by a crab on the beach. In the process of recovering it, she learns a valuable lesson about cherishing the little things in life.
Shao Qui has painted with her close brother Shao Kai all her life, not knowing the hidden secrets of her brothers private life. After her brothers suicidal death, she is forced by fate to live with her brothers male lover Fang Zhou. Through her brother's lover she learns the lesson of the Chinese proverb "The love of the house extends even to the crows perching on the roof".
Mankind is longing for freedom, even Cyborgs. In a closed mechanical underworld, E-28, the protagonist, is a cyborg imprisoned by the underground governor, the General. After a reunion with the mechanical dog, his partner in the old days, E-28 is brought back to its hidden mind. In facing the challenge, E-28, embarrassing the humanity, gradually begins a story of pursuing freedom.
River Without Banks (2014) takes poetry and war as its main theme. As homage to Death of a Stone Cell, the film is structured into ten segments; each led by the first lines of the first ten stanza of the poem. Correspondences between the poet and his friends are incorporated throughout, taking the audience back and forth between Lofu's youth and middle age, only to eventually depict a full picture of the protagonist. The camera follows Lofu on his trips back to the bomb shelter and tunnel in Kinmen and his hometown Hengyang in Hunan Province of China, while also capturing his daily life in his adopted country of Canada. Acclaimed as the "Wizard of Poetry", Lofu shares through the film of the most insightful reflections.
I tried to discuss the stirring and emotional states in human life, like a touch or a physical state of behavior. We expose ourselves to a vast event that creates a state of smallness and vulnerability, We are so vulnerable, so powerless to extend our thoughts or intentions.
There was creepy crying from the quarantine hotel, which scared all the guests. A little boy wanted to find out what’s going on. However, his mother stopped him and scared him with ghost stories. Everyone thought that it was ghosts. It was fear that kept people away from the truth.
Claude, the cloud maker, drops his tool and it gets picked up by Yin. While trying to retrieve his tool, the broken gadget turns into a horrifying storm monster. Claude must team up with Yin to stop it from becoming a disaster.
In order to advocate Taiwan’s independence and to defend the freedom of speech, CHENG Nan-jung chose to express his disappointment towards the ruling authorities by self-immolation. Thousands joined his funeral procession on 19 May. When they arrived at the presidential office, a disciplinary patrol, CHAN I-hua, lit himself on fire, taking concrete action to follow CHENG’s footsteps.
Want to meet your child early? With “Pre-Parenting,” now you can. In near-future Taiwan, the government promotes "Pre-Parenting", simulation glasses that allow mothers to see and bond with their future children. But what happens when the child you see no longer exists?
Set in the year 2050, ARIA 夢姬 is a CGI animated speculative short film. In the smart surveillance city of Dream Harbor, a fourth-generation female AI agent named ARIA is on the verge of obsolescence. She is the product of a state-run “Cyber Road Initiative” designed to address labor shortages and declining birth rates. Modeled after a famous late actress, she is the image of “grace and restraint” and domestic femininity. The work references Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and ideas of a post-gender future.
Mixing drama and documentary, After Raining narrates a love story between two male adolescents, interlaced with five radio interviews with gay men, lesbians, and a worried mother.
Set in a Tayal community, The Halfway explores the subtle ties between life and death through a tribal funeral. As traditional culture, religion, and modern life collide, the supernatural actions of a "dirty little boy" connect souls, rituals, and family emotions. Produced by an all-Indigenous crew, the film reflects the spirit of mutual support and aims to sincerely convey the cultural and spiritual values of the tribe.
The lives of Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle were torn apart when they were wrongly convicted of killing police officers—Sunny in the U.S, Peter in Ireland. Each were jailed for crimes they did not commit, only be exonerated after more than a decade each behind bar. In the aftermath of unimaginable hardship, by chance, they found one another and became the world’s only wrongfully convicted, death sentenced, cop-killer accused, exonerated and married couple!
The protagonist Junnan went to the hospital for a check-up due to his dizziness. On New Year's Eve before the holiday, he received a call from the hospital informing him that there was a tumor in his brain and he needed brain surgery within ten days. Faced with this sudden and significantly shocking news, he decided to seize the time to capture beautiful memories of traveling with his wife. Despite the concerns from his friends, Junnan decided to complete this film based on his personal experience with his wife, striving to cherish this extraordinary journey of life.
Mentioning Diao-yu-tai evokes an immediate patriotic response in Taiwan due to the territorial dispute between China and Japan, sparked by a 1968 oil field survey in the East China Sea.
A dance in a small fishing village became a memory of the old man. The flood of drugs set off the detective’s ambition. The heroism of the young beetle opened the curtain for black humor!
The person in the photo is my grandma. She passed away… After developing this roll of film, I found out this is the only portrait. My grandma is blurred in this photo. I neither knew the reason what happened to me back then. The distance between me and Grandma has always been so far, and the closest one. It's the moment when our eyes meet in the camera.
You’re looking at a picture scroll of a remote mountain cemetery southeast of metropolitan Taipei, the shady side of the wealthy world. It’s autumn 2021; the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading around the globe. Inside the gate, a gravedigger, headless chickens, a dreamer, and a three-legged dog quietly appear.
Sòng Pèi Xīng, Sophia Song, the first Taiwanese American to play in the professional women’s basketball league in Taiwan, recounts the most pivotal moments of her basketball career. This short celebrates the struggles and triumphs of an athlete who persevered through life’s circumstances to reach the highest level of her sport.
On the eve of World Human Rights Day, the Taiwan Society and Friends of Taiwan released the documentary "Red Martial Law" yesterday, which aims to restore the historical truth through images of the various brutal human rights violations committed by the military and police in the Chen Yunlin incident.
Sculptor Tu-shui Huang (1895-1930) was way ahead of his time, combining traditional Chinese themes with Western influences that he learned while studying at the art academy in Tokyo. This earned him a reputation as the “founder of modern Taiwanese sculpture,” but he also drew criticism.
In 1999, the Indigenous Culture Club at the National Taiwan University held a series of annual ceremony activities as a tribute to traditional indigenous rituals. Unfamiliar with their native languages and cultures, however, the student organizers found themselves in an awkward position that brought them into conflict with the school administration. Where would they find the “salt”, an in-depth understanding of their cultural identities and backgrounds?