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Abi is a cockroach who hates his own kind. He views humans as the most elegant beings and hence begins to observe and mimic their way of life and actions. One day,he was caught and got flushed down the toilet bowl, where he ended up in a foreign place. He thus began on this lonely journey, where he tried to find his place in this world yet only to face countless disappointments...

A film director try to make a good film but then realized the arrangement from producer was awful, the leading actress is not what he wished, even the important prop on set was disappeared. Director wants to make arts but he only feels the pressure from the acclaimed executive producer KIN GEN HAO. Then devilwoman appears, she met someone she loves, but when everything seem so beautiful, she realized there's a big mistake.

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”?

This film follows a girl who has been living with depression for many years, and explores the concept of “I’m sick” through different points of view. Everyone has experienced low moments in their lives or been through dark times in the past that are rarely talked about. It is hoped that this film can transform these emotions into positive energy in our lives.

Mark is a director working in Taipei City who recently lost an important client. Reluctant to go back to his hometown Kaohsiung, an industrial town with severe pollution and no directing job, he decides to earn some quick money by making porn with his friend, Bugsy. However, while they are shooting the sex scenes on the rooftop, the worst smog arrives at the city and devours everything, including Mark’s last hope to stay in Taipei.

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

An experimental animation film preserving the collection of old-time life at home. The "circle" in the film represents the passage of time, symbolizing the woman’s day-and-night long wait for the return of her partner. The film attempts to illustrate the persistence and resilience of women in the old days.

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.

Creatively inspired, but the puppet can’t seem to execute his ideas. After repeatedly revising, he finds himself dominated by his creation instead. A creative beginning results in an unexpected ending. The subjective “human” becomes the object.

Sounds of Love and Sorrow lets the eerie sounds of the Paiwan flutes including the nose flute, which legend says imitates the call of the deadly hundred-pace snake, mix in with the recollections of tribal elders and traditional tales to present a rich background of Paiwan life in Taiwan. Tribal elders recall the days of the youth and their romances. They tell of the creation of the Paiwan people, and lament the end of tribal life, crushed by the irresistible and contradictory forces of government policies and alien cultural influences. Talking of love, both the charm and cruelty of a traditional society are revealed. For many of the Paiwan, love may be a high point of a young life – but it is also the gateway to sorrow. But in the end, it is the high spirits, the playful romances and the family spirit of the Paiwan which shine through.

A visual poem etched onto 16 mm film that follows the movement of light and colour in the Nordic winter.

Stones in Chiayi's streams bear the marks of time and the land's memory. Seventy years ago, Zhan Long began carving tombstones, turning cold stone into living art and founding Chiayi's stone monkey tradition. The second-generation sculptor infused family memory and cultural sentiment, making the stone monkey a city symbol. Today, new self-taught artists reinterpret the craft, letting tradition endure and be reborn, bearing witness to the warmth and vitality of culture.

A camel looking for his missing wife in the desert faces the dilemma of chasing after his treasure or continuing his journey. It's the story of how someone recognises the most important thing in life while suffering from dementia.

Archive / Lee Guang-Hui is a 30-minute compilation film assembled from footage independently preserved by Chang Chao-Tang between 1975 and 1979 during his work as a television cameraman. Documenting the final years of Lee Guang-Hui—an Indigenous Taiwanese former Japanese soldier who lived in isolation in Indonesia for nearly three decades after World War II—the film traces his return to Taiwan, brief media exposure, and death. Neither a conventional documentary nor a completed historical account, the work functions as an unfinished archive, juxtaposing official rituals, media spectacle, and moments of silence to expose the erasure of subjectivity and the unresolved fractures of postwar history.

Abishag is an Indonesian Muslim who tries to make a living in Taiwan. Her job is to look after an old man aboned by his own family. The old man locks himself, Abishag, in his own confined space, watches porn films all day long, trying to feel alive again. Abishag is not used to her work; it requires intimate contacts when doing diaper changing jobs, which makes her very uncomfortable, let alone her religious belief rules the opposite. No one can escape from death; the old man knows it. He tries to feel the energy of life from Abishag but fails in attempt. Day after day, these two reluctant persons manage to constrain their sadness, but the pressure is about to explode. Love may be the best present for the old man, but who is willing to offer that to him? Is Abishag able, willing to give?

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 the media 'discover' them, two insect hunting buddies pose as eco-conscious experts of Taiwan's exotic species although they have never had a steady job or any formal training in their entire life. Under the operative quise of 'Nature Outback Workshop,' they devise original strategies to reap fame and fortune from their newfound celebrity. Crafty Swindlers or gallant pioneers, the boys have a jolly good time on an adventure that eventually changes their lives.

Haunted by past failure, Ah-Zhi faces towering stakes that mirror his inner fears. Pressured by his mother to focus on exams, he sinks into doubt—until Xiao-You's quiet support helps him rise. In overcoming fear, he begins to truly see himself.

Son of a glove puppetry master, Xiao Guo, after his parents' divorce, could only accompany his father backstage at outdoor performances, often lacking stable meals and motherly care! At one performance, the puppet beside him comes to life and tries to take on the role of his mother...

"When it comes to talking about family memories, I find that I have no recollection at all." A son who has forgotten his childhood and a mother who wishes to mend their relationship come together in an unprecedented way during the demolition of an old house. Through the eyes of lens, the once-filled house becomes empty, and the garden grows wild with weeds. The mother speaks to the camera, expressing her sorrow, regret over leaving the family, and hopes for a future together. As the distance between them narrows, how should the son respond?

The director's father worked as a taxi driver, with only two days off per month, to support the family's livelihood. He hoped that his melancholic mother could regain her strength. Over the course of a year, the director used the camera to re-explore and mend family relationships, while also capturing the indescribable love between his parents.

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.

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 80-year-old grandfather is suffering from senile dementia and his mental age has degraded to only 5 years old. Sometimes, he groans and talks to the air at home. There’s nothing much we could do. He seems to live only in his dream and gets deeper and deeper….

If infants were born asexual, they could choose their sex organs: breasts, genitals, or phalluses, according to their wishes. Proposes a new imagination for the human body and reflects the phenomenon of modern society. Nowadays, people have multiple roles and enjoy the right to choose the gender they prefer.

"Nan Xia the Tramping Tiger" used to be the favorite show of Zhu, Ching-Quei, the founder and first-generation director of Shinergy Puppet Show Theatre, as it has been a renowned masterpiece of this theatre for years. When Zhu Ching-Quei died from disease in 2015, his eldest son Zhu, Sheng-Chueh started to take the helm of theatre, but was faced with a dire crisis in the fast-changing world. Then his younger brother proffered an idea of using projection mapping to create the best ever Golden Light Puppet Show. Hence the two brothers are faced with a tug-of-war between tradition and innovation.

A-He, a 70-year-old film projectionist, has worked for 37 years in Shin-Rung theater in which just shut down recently. To make a living, he went to other theaters in Chiayi to look for a job. However, he was rejected due to his age. Suddenly, he felt he has lost something that has always been the majority in his life. Idling, he still went to Shin-Rung theater to clean up the projection equipment and tidy up the reels every day while waiting for the new investor to reopen the theater. One day, A-He returned to the theater and played a film. A long-awaited reunion is presenting through the image with movies.

Wedding, a big event. It took place during lucky hours, following traditional conventions until the daughter left the house and female family members got in. People involved then happily raised their cup and said, "Congratulations! Wish you a destined good affinity, a marital happiness, a soon-born offspring, a harmonious union for a hundred years, blessed and felicitous." "Thank you!" replied the female family members, with smiles.

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.

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.

At the foot of a mountain, there is a one-hundred-year-old house. Closely connected with each other, four women decide to become a real family there. In their capable hands, they build a home for women in this once deserted house.

The Lighting aims to revisit issues of discrimination rooted in technological development and image production. Three professional Togolese photographers explore how to use instruments to compensate for insufficient exposure while shooting dark skin tones. A leading software engineer, developing facial recognition algorithms at Taiwan's MediaTek, talks about how a newly-created camera algorithm is very popular on the African continent.

In the 1980s, the small theatre movement took place in Taiwan. Jixing and Wang Mo-lin, the two main characters in the film participated in this non-mainstream, anti-government, and rather a radical movement, and thus memories have stayed deeply in their hearts. They witnessed the historic moment of the end of a long, nearly 40-year martial law.

When I first heard the word "puffer fish," I asked Dad to draw one for me. He took a piece of paper and drew a small one. In retrospect, he was like this piece of paper, always leaving me with a big, blank space.

SEA 404 is inspired by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s series Seascapes, and French philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s essay The Vanishing Point of Communication. It questions the contemporary condition in which the computer mediates our experience, and parallels Sugimoto’s observation that media has transformed the way we see the world. In this film, the shift from the horizon line to the world of the onlooker is underlined by the sudden entrance of everyday sounds. The soundtrack is made from field recordings taken every morning at the same time and location for thirty consecutive days.

Gazing at the wall's cracks and a scar, a woman recalls the ups and downs of love. A depiction of femininity and female internal time-consciousness through the convalescence of woman's broken heart.

There is a mysterious relationship between human and pets. They communicate in a non-verbal way. In the process of communication, they are full of feelings and guesses. This situation also exists in other intimate relationships.

It's Station Master Chen’s last day at work. The last train is sent off. Tomorrow on, he will be a mere Mr. Chen. He looks around the station where he’s worked his whole life, thinking of the people he’s sent off. Some come back, and some don’t. Finally, Chen realized the reason he stayed at the station. He’s been waiting for himself, who missed that train decades ago.

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.

The well-known performance group Baixue Variety Troupe is formed by four students from the National Taipei University of the Arts who love to perform. For five years, they have insisted on creative costume performances.

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?