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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'.

The story revolves around the peculiar relationship between a princess, a castle, and the Bug King. Through a fragmented narrative style, the princess's yearning ambition for her past kingdom is personified, transforming into the Bug King, a being of only faint power. He becomes a surrogate for the princess in reviving the kingdom, creating an imagined fantasy within a forest of strange creatures.

On the eighth floor of a run-down motel, through the door of room 817, a janitor quietly goes about her chores, blending unassumingly into the backdrop. In the room next door, a prostitute is lying in bed next to a stranger, turning her back to him in order to feel alive.

Due to his injury, 30-year-old ballet dancer LIANG Shih-huai is forced to put his dance career on hold. While nursing his body through recovery, Shih-huai retraces his tenacious pursuit of ballet from Taiwan, U.S., South Korea, to New Zealand, and he carefully thinks through the options available at this pivotal moment in his career. Ballet in Tandem centers on Shih-huai’s journey in dance and compares it with different generations of Taiwanese dancers’ quest for perfection in Western classical dance. Through these stories, this films questions the decision-making process in Taiwanese education system and in other related social institutions, challenges the stereotypical perceptions of the art form, and explores more possibilities for dance, art, and culture in Taiwan.

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…

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.

An unfinished housing complex has been abandoned. The imagined future from the past is taken over by foliage and wildlife.

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…

The East-West Highway was soon to be built in central Taiwan. It would pass through the village of Liu Ts'o, and many homes and rice paddies would be destroyed. The filmmaker, Hu Tai-Li, went back to her mother-in-law's village Liu Ts'o, where she did anthropological research from 1976-78, to preserve some images of life at that moment - forever.

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.

This story is about climate disaster survivor and his comforter/savior.

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.

The moon and stars rising from the east, people entering their sound sleep, it is the end of the day for most ones, but the start of the day for a few. The film records various types of night workers in Taiwan’s metropolis. The Night Carnival is about to begin. Get ready for the pure immersion in cinematography and music. And remember to show up on time because it is a MIDNIGHT SCREENING only.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Dedicated to the sisters who fought back with the last strengths in them, The War of Roses documents the struggles and aftermath of four women in different environments that encountered sexual assaults, shedding light on the underlying structural violence sustaining the unequal power relations in gender.

A journey of lost, exile, and going home.

Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks involved in working abroad and the traps she has fallen into.

In an advanced city far into the future, a unique race called “The Human Cannonball Tournament” takes place. Contestants are fired from a series of cannons from a platform, and compete through the circular city hovering high in the sky for the highest honor. Back in the tournament’s maintenance bay, the technician Zazel has a childhood dream of entering the race one day. By an unexpected turn of events, she accidentally gets mistaken for one of the contestants and is thrown into tournament. With no experience and equipment, can she fulfill her dream and reach the finish line?

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.

For a long time the KMT government has held a monopoly over Taiwan’s TV channels, using the lack of channel bandwidth as an excuse for its stranglehold. During the build-up to the elections at the end of 1989, Green Team set up a satellite transmission channel on its own, poking a hole in the KMT’s argument.

Kuo Hsiang (Kaori), daughter of a tea merchant in 1947 Twatiutia, appears in 2014 modern Taipei. Having no idea what brought her here, Kaori only knows that it is the day when Guangdong Yi-Jen Yuan Chinese Opera Troupe reunited for a local Chinese Opera in Yung-Le-Tso Theatre after Taiwan Restoration.

An amalgam of colorful shots of chemical pollution superimposed on aerial shots, disturbing images of burning smokestacks, and purposely distorted sounds and images work to portray unconventional industrial sights and the vividness of air pollution that would otherwise be difficult to do.

【The Optimist】The album begins with the first song "32.63N 117.14W", which is a landmark located on a beach on the west coast of the United States, and it is the place where the protagonist of the story was last seen. The concept of the new album comes from Anathema’s earlier work [A Fine Day To Exit]. Lead guitarist Daniel Cavanagh explained: "The protagonist of the story suddenly disappeared. Where did he go? Did he start a new life or start a new life? Knocked down by fate, not accounted for, and no one knows his whereabouts." Album producer Tony Doogan [Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Super Furry Animals] suggested recording the album with a full orchestra, which is also Anathema A method that has not been tried in many years. Lead singer Vincent Cavanagh said: "Tony wanted to capture the drama of the band, the tension that can only be found when all the members are playing together face to face, and the results are quite admirable."

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.

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.

What is it about the Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival that attracts so many bands? Called The Ocean Music Festival in Chinese, this annual rock and roll contest was first organized by Taipei county in 2000. What is it about the festival that keeps the bands coming back year after year? What is that attracts hundreds of thousands of fans to pour into The Ocean to hear the music, eagerly awaiting next year's festival as soon as this year's is over? All the bands striving to succeed at this summer event comes with its own attitude, its own story. But what they have in common is a striving for the chance to get up on their stage and dazzle hundreds of thousands of onlookers, just like The Ocean does every year.

Hsiao Le tries to reconcile with her friend by inviting her to fulfill their old promise to set off fireworks at the summit of a mountain. Through their conversation, she realizes that the changes in their lives are irretrievable, forcing her to confront the reality of their altered relationship.

The documentary "Wounds – Veterans' Stories" primarily focuses on the veterans who came to Taiwan in 1949 with the memories and traumas of the civil war. The film is conducted along with two story lines: One is conveyed through the personal accounts of the veterans in Taiwan telling their memorable stories of migrating to Taiwan, while the other one follows the story of the Borough Chief of Xianghe Lane in Kaohsiung who escorts the ashes of deceased veterans back home. Through the record of the veterans' stories, the impacts of war on individuals and society as a whole is revealed.

We always play as a peeping Tom and the one peeped, releasing ourselves while learning messages from others’. Therefore, we need to have a dialogue with ourselves by recalling past in the end of the journey, in order to sum up the honest self and continue moving forward alone.

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.

This film was produced for a briefing to the Ministry of Economic Affairs by the people of Houjin opposing China Petroleum Company’s fifth naphtha cracker plant. It brings together scenes of pollutions caused by the CPC over the previous year, interviews of the people affected, and footage of a series of protests, including that of the residents carrying coffins to the CPC facilities.

Since 1995, the TransAsia Sisters Association has been a pioneering force in supporting immigrant women in Taiwan, especially marriage migrants. What began as a small literacy class has grown into a vibrant community that empowers women to organise, speak out, and advocate for their rights. The film explores the struggles of belonging, the strength of sisterhood, and the quiet power of everyday resistance. From street protests to storytelling through food and culture, the Sisters continue to reshape the narrative of migration—one voice at a time.

Through its little screen, what kind of world does a Game Boy see as it records? As a child, the Game Boy was my most faithful companion at my hospital bedside. Years later, lying in a hospital room once again for surgery, my father couldn't be there because of other obligations. So I brought it with me, hoping to capture this journey through its tiny screen.

Kuan has to straighten his naturally born curly hair with a hair straightener before school everyday. But due to the raining season...

The boy was on the terrace and finally encountered that girl. In the girl's mind, this story appeared. Inside the window, with her thoughts wavering, the girl looks outside through a pair of binoculars. Outside the window, the boy collapses onto the girl.

The Return of Gods and Ancestors is the first locally made ethnographic film in Taiwan. The film, captured with a hand-cranked Bell & Howell 16 mm camera, documents the most magnificent five-year ceremony in Paiwan tribe. During the festival, the Paiwan people expect to receive blessings of the gods and ancestors by piercing rattan balls with extended bamboo poles; however, they also try to prevent any harm caused by evil spirits. The Paiwan five year ceremony is not only the reunion of the dead and the living, but a meeting of the old and the new.

Sometimes you are the only one that can really see what’s out there.

Amid a pandemic, Mango leaves the city to join Monkey in a remote mountain refuge. Shot on mobile, this haunting film blends mysticism and reality, revealing nature's beauty, and its harsh, unforgiving truths beyond illusion.

On Green Island’s Human Rights Memorial, a poem by Bo Yang mourns the mothers who wept through long nights for children imprisoned there during Taiwan’s White Terror. In Cries in the Dark, the filmmaker turns that line into family history. In 1950, their parents were arrested in the Yu Fei espionage case, convicted of rebellion, and sentenced to 13 and 10 years in prison. Their grandmother, desperate to save her newly married daughter and son-in-law, cried for help until she lost sight in one eye. Decades later, the case was officially recognized as a wrongful conviction: 34 people were implicated, four unrelated defendants were executed, and the rest received heavy sentences. Born while their mother was briefly released from prison, the filmmaker spent early childhood behind bars before being separated when she was sent to Green Island. The film records the intimate cost of political persecution across prison, family, and memory.

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

An old camera borrowed from a friend. It's enough to be carried in pocket. Since that day, I can forget to take wallet out, but I can't forget it. We get along day and night, work, eat, hang out and meet friends every time. And, there are also every passenger photographed by it.

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.

When Taiwanese citizens vanish in China, a journalist returns home in search of answers. What begins as reporting becomes a personal reckoning—revealing the high cost of speaking out and the quiet erosion of freedom in Taiwan.

Feel the ground beneath you. We are constantly supported by the earth.

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