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Bullied by Bí-tin, who also fancies Tshiu-sing, Lē-hun is saved from an assault by Bí-tin’s father, Guân-hìng, revealing a buried past—Guân-hìng once shared a tragic romance with Lē-hun’s mother, Xiumei, which was sabotaged by his wife, Yuejiao. Years later, these intertwined love stories resurface, altering the fates of all involved. Directed by HSIN Chi in his final Taiyupian, with a theme song by Judy ONGG, it poignantly captures the era’s social issues.

A devastating earthquake hit Taiwan on September 21, 1999. Based on the written correspondence between the director and his friend, this film illustrates the sorrow of families who lost loved ones in the disaster, and the relationship between the director and his aging father who now lives in an institution for the elderly. Death and separation, despair, and the desire to live. A fine work that questions the meaning of life.

Where do we go when we zone out, and how do we find our way back to reality? Sense of Nowhere is an invitation for the audience to explore the subconscious, piece together hidden clues, and find their way returning to the present moment.

Charged with violation of the Water Act, the indigenous community living under the San-ying Bridge was forced to witness their shelters and homes being torn down by the government every year, while the sand and gravel processing plant on the east bank grew larger and larger; the garbage mountain on the west bank higher and higher. This absurd cycle became so familiar that the children of the community began to build and demolish make-believe houses as a game.

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…

The heart is a battlefield where struggles between good and evil, light and darkness rage.Frostlight, a naive girl, disregards the fortuneteller's warnings, and tries too hard in keeping Westwind's heart. Her attempts catch the attention of Asura, and a war breaks out. Frostlight quickly boards a mysterious ship and departs on a perilous and fantastic journey. This strange ship carries a cast of helpless, tormented souls as it drifts through a mysterious space, unable to make port. The souls fear that Asura could strike at any moment and send them to the Asuran Realm, never to return.

Taiwan's Martial Law provisions included laws clearly suppressing assembly, demonstrations, and forming of organizations. Nonetheless, one afternoon on a holiday in 1983, five youths appeared on Ximending Street dressed in white khaki pants and wearing cotton bags over their heads. A document of dissident action during this period.

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.

In 1995 in Malaysia, Lily faced the burden of her husband's funeral and the enormous cost of healing Xiong's heart. In addition to work in the rubber plantations, she had to take care of two children, Xiong and Feng. Under all kinds of burdens, in an arrangement with her boss, Lily decides to sell one of the children.

When her boyfriend leaves to live with his mother, heartbroken Xiao Meng runs into an old flame. The encounter awakens buried memories, driving her to prove, against all odds, that love still exists.

Demand an Answer from History is a documentary about the landmark case in Chinese #MeToo movement, Xianzi v. Zhu Jun.The film focuses on the experiences of MeToo supporters outside the courts during the three hearings of this case. With a blend of live footage and narratives from supporters, it presents the case’s origins, its profound impact, and its ripple effects in society.

"People who have been abandoned by their family can only seek reunion with their second parent." Mads, a depression sufferer, is not accepted by her family. She wanders to find where she belongs and who will love her. After a failed suicide attempt to jump off a building, her life swings between the chaos of her symptoms and fleeting moments of happiness, continuing her journey with trauma and sequelae. Will she find the “haven” and be accepted by society this time?

Over the ten years, Ino has been passing down the Atayal culture with real actions, imparting all he learnt from the forest to children in Cinsbu. The audiences can feel his natural philosophy of life in his words and deeds. He makes people realize that there exists genuine, pure and beautiful relationship between human and myriad elements of nature.

The Guardian Lions of Fushun Temple reminisce about the annual Lantern Festival and Budaixi puppet show.

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.

In 1985, US company DuPont received permission from the Ministry of Economic Affairs to set up a titanium dioxide plant near Lukang, Changhua County. The local residents held a series of protests against the plan, even one in front of the presidential office. This rising community consciousness, combined with a growing environmental awareness, ultimately drove DuPont out of the region.

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

A voice from the ocean floor awakens the forgotten protagonist. All creatures in the ocean current carry a mark resembling a black hole. In an instant, they are swept to an unknown place — the deepest part of the North Sea.

Step into the world of an aged farmer engaged in a relentless battle against the Malaysian government to protect his cherished durian orchard. This heartfelt tale explores the courage and resilience of a man determined to preserve what is rightfully his.

A journey of lost, exile, and going home.

Suat-ah is a contrary and stubborn woman, One day, she suddenly left, and we lost her before we had time to say anything. Suat-ah is my mother. The son tried to reconstruct the documentary of his mother's memory figure in the non-existent reality, hoping that the memory and warmth of his mother could remain in this world.

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

A polygonal girl tried to make herself prettier by using her new cosmetic tools, and by doing so accidentally ruined her own face.

The first public gay wedding in Taiwan has stirred up considerable controversy, including a local campaign to ban this film. It tells the story of Yosheng and Gary, the first gay couple to have a public wedding in Taiwan. Their wedding was held in conventional Taiwanese fashion: a wedding banquet with friends and family and even the mayor of Taipei as the promised wedding moderator.

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

a journey of search; a search of journey

A short animated silent film where about a girl who had a kite.

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.

In the heart of Taiwan, a young woman faces the pressure of a society that imposes strict rules and traditions on her. Trapped in a life that suffocates her, she begins to develop suicidal tendencies as a way to escape her deep suffering, slowly discovering that she dies over and over again, inhabiting a parallel universe.

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.

Sosowon: The Season of the Flying Fish is a VR tale set on Lanyu, an island in southeastern Taiwan, featuring a boy, Masarey, and his grandfather, Syapen. During the experience, the viewer will join Sosowon, a flying fish who, to escape a fisherman's net, must perform a feat to save his family. Along the way, Sosowon will go through ordeals, will be overcome by remorse, and will retrace his steps to rescue his family. As an intergenerational tale, the experience opens doors to Sosowon's fantastical world, and evokes a universal theme of love and sacrifice for loved ones.

When a reporter visits a temple to interview a folklorist about a local legend, strange events begin to occur.

Four men are obliged to take a short-term counseling class about domestic violence. Each of them has problems like unbalanced communication, custody, marital conflicts and tension between the wife and the mother. The director documents the perpetrators with an in-depth perspective of how they've faced their family and conflicts and digs into the truth of love in the name of violence.

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.

A story about memories.

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 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 a society where thought is tightly controlled, children within the Asian education system are taught from a young age to become "perfect melons"—obedient, quiet, and indistinguishable. This experimental animation uses the metaphor of a watermelon to expose how conformity is instilled and individuality erased. It reflects on generational conditioning and questions whether we can still remain who we truly are.

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.

An overweight boy longs for love, while a national swimmer struggles to retain past glory. How will they inspire each other?

An amazing origami action overload of paper cut-outs and corrugated cardboard shapes marching, climbing, dancing and jumping on a mission to create a pinball machine.

"Ground Me More" focuses the ignored details of main roads, sidewalks, ground objects, and billboards of major cities across Taiwan to seek commonalities, differences, and trends. Thus, the current state of aesthetics of Taiwanese and the politician policies could be revealed.

Tao litterateur Syaman Rapongan bridges the bond between father and son through the Tatala and his writing, preserving the memory of his people. Spanning seventy years, the film interweaves footage from different eras, evoking the spirit of the language and culture rooted in the sea and the body. Along this journey, Syaman Rapongan learned and borrowed a foreign language to tell the story of his own people.