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A girl lying in her room in Taipei gets bored and goes to sleep. Heavy rain starts, and the story goes into a dream world. She mounts on her bed and starts her trip guided by mice. The background music is Maiden’s Prayer which she finds played by mice. After diving into the water, she starts dancing with the mice.

"The Yang Notes" records a legend about a mythical creature known as the "Shahuadu" (shark-deer). It is said that in western Taiwan, residents often share tales of this bizarre creature that can switch between the form of a deer and a shark; when on land, it appears as a deer, but when it enters the water, it transforms into a shark, retaining a One day, a half-fish, half-deer creature with antlers crawled out from a fish pond filled with black water, slowly making its way towards a town that continuously discharges waste. Is it the manifestation of the mythical creature from legend, or a "fish pond monster" conjured up by the local residents

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.

Guan and Kai are good friends, they often travel together on a train. However, as time goes by, they gradually go different ways. When they start to have different lives, will they still be good friends?

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".

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.

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.

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.

Scottish photographer John Thomson's trip to Taiwan in 1871 left an important mark in the history. This film reinterprets the event via a photo of a hunter, taking the audience to the Siraya tribe to meet WAN, a tribe elder who knows how to sing and talk. Through his intriguing words and songs, WAN leads us back to the past as he plucks the strings.

There’s a sense of being hollowed out slowly and deeply, as if everything is happening all over again, yet it exists only within the images. The life within the images keeps rolling and reminding me that I no longer possess that time — that good time has already slipped away.

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.

In 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Three years on, same-sex couples still face challenges that heterosexual couples do not: some have trouble becoming legal guardians for their children; others must travel abroad to start a family; some are even rejected when applying for legal marriage status. As such, legalization was just another small step forward in the fight for equality. This 90-minute documentary shows how different same-sex couples fight for the life they desire and deserve. They may be fighting different battles, but they share one thing in common: the belief that the sun will shine after this rain.

This documentary depicts the journey of displaced students and retreating troops from the Yuheng United Middle School, crossing the treacherous terrain of Guangxi's mountains into Vietnam. They were then forced into French concentration camps before being relocated to Pulau Bidong, where they established settlements and protested through hunger strikes, garnering international attention. Their story portrays the plight of displacement and eventual return to Taiwan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An indigenous couple married young with a child when they were only 16 and 19 years old. The financial burden and challenges in life were so heavy for them that quarrels were unavoidable. As their former elementary school teacher, the filmmaker recorded the young couple’s daily life, while trying to give them a hand in their time of need.

This restrained, documentary-like work explores the central role the manufacturing industry has played in Taiwanese history and the way in which this history continues to haunt it today.

Jie Yu grapples with family issues and his growing feelings for his friend Yan Shiu, torn between friendship, love, and his own emotions.

CAFÉ TOGO looks at the efforts to change street names with colonial connotations in the so-called Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter) in Berlin-Wedding. According to Berlin’s street law, every street named after a person honors that person. Petersallee, Lüderitzstraße, and Nachtigalplatz bear the names of persons whose biographies are tainted by the blood of the victims of German colonialism. According to the law, streets that do not correspond to today’s understanding of democracy and human rights should be renamed.

Chien Wei-ssu documents her and her friends' perspective, studying abroad in Ohio State University, being there taiwanese students keen of structuralism, Claude Levi-Strauss and Jean Rouch. She delves into women's relation to men, to women, to their own body, to the menstrual cycle, historical national identity, gender identity and sexuality. In the process, she captures the silence and displacement of living overseas, as well as the intense intimacy between friends. Waiting for a menstrual period that never comes becomes a metaphor of suspension and the freedom of living in another country.

This is a common phenomenon in Taiwanese daily life. Although it may seem funny, it's a regular occurrence in our daily news broadcasts.

To escape her father's violence, running away has become a familiar part of Chou Mu-ding's life. But on her birthday, she makes a quiet and yet resolute decision to stop fleeing and finally confront what she once feared.

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.

At the end of 2023, my sister, living with schizophrenia for fifteen years, received her first electroconvulsive therapy. Watching her in the ambulance, I wondered: as she and I drift apart and our parents age, how long can I keep turning away—and how should I see her now?

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.

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 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?

The story takes place in a sea. Two pilots crash down, red and blue. The two compete for a pistol, hoping to kill each other… This film explores human nature. People who are bound by duty are extremely blind, like soldiers who have become refugees at sea. If they can leave their guns and duties behind, the two have a greater chance of survival.

There is only a little boy on the planet. Day after day, even the boy is lonely however he works very hard to keep his daily routine implemented.All the efforts he does is just waiting for the day coming...

After more than a decade in the financial industry, Jeff HUANG decided to leave his comfort zone at the age of 33 and changed his job from an analyst to a mixed martial artist without a regular income. Jeff walked away from it all, moved to Brazil to train. Upon his return to Taiwan, Jeff entered the professional world of MMA and became known as "The Machine". But In the face of his family's doubts and marriage crisis, will he be able to continue to follow the path he has chosen?

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?

Intimate recordings in the personal surroundings of the maker. By re-ordering individual shots, hidden meanings emerge.

On a calm summer day, children want to have a different end of the vacation......

In disaster-stricken Hualien, heartbroken Xiaoxi continues her solo journey after a painful breakup, only to find shelter with a kind elderly couple. Just as peace returns, a buried secret from Mr. Quan threatens to upend everything.

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.

The story of ants embarking on a musical journey

Jinguashih and Jiufen were once the biggest gold mining towns in Taiwan. As the collectors and amateur artists later came to this place, a community is gradually growing.

Talk about ya inmates taking over the asylum!!