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In the stickmen's world, one matchstick figure finds himself at odds with the seemingly inevitable cycle of burning. Unable to ignite like others, he struggles to find his place until discovering his own secret to shining.

An experimental poetic investigation of one of the world's largest e-waste recycling sites, Agbogbloshie, as a contact zone of complex global economic, social, power-political and technological processes.

Ling is having an affair with Midnight Cowherd without telling her husband, and one day unfortunately, the Cowherd and two gangsters take nude photos, and then intimidate and blackmail her. Unable to bear the humiliation, Man Ling got into an argument with the gangsters, and was killed and her body mutilated. The gangster was ruthless, and then contacted Man Ling's husband, Zhen Feng, to demand a kidnapping and ransom...

Hypothesis Voyager is a road trip film that weaves social theory with a trip to the west of the United States.The video opening with a gallery social scene through the viewfinder, point out the first-person view that associated with the spectator. Then the story turns into discovering the history of the first human shelter that held the social events. Through the shift of the way we see art, the narrator travels us to the gallery and the loop we all faced. To escape, the time froze, the artist takes a deep look into the story of volcano mt. Vesuvius and sees the crater from a historical and mythology perspective of how it formed. The artists' camera becomes the vehicle voyage the viewer through time and space. The narrator travels the audience with her emotions that served as the passages connect each chamber by making the tour and detours.

The Ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou’s dream of becoming a butterfly blurs reality and fantasy, reflecting a poet’s desire for freedom and eternity. The coming of Tulku draws from Buddhist classics, using Chou Meng-tieh’s life as a metaphor. His experiences at WuChang Street and his bookstand, started in 1959, led to enlightenment and loyalty to Buddha and loved ones. Influenced by Buddhism, his poems blend Zen with grace, affection, and prudence, capturing life’s essence with strength and delicacy. He closed his bookstand in 1980 due to illness.

Throughout his life, he has been active on four continents, fighting against three regimes. Some say he was ""Don Quixote, who dreams the impossible dreams;"" others say he was ""Che GUEVARA, the only remaining active revolutionary in East Asia."" However, the leader he privately admires is Arafat. His whole life was on the run. Now 97 years old, blind in one eye, figure stooped, he is still combating vigorously, his legend continues...

A documentary short about indoor shrimping, an all-ages pastime that's found a following in Taiwan over the past three decades.

For more than two decades, internationally acclaimed artist Chen Chieh-jen has illuminated the deep impact of power on bodies and architecture. Here he explores a pair of sites built by the Japanese colonial government in the early 20th century: the Losheng Leprosy Sanatorium and the Taipei Prison. The first was on the outskirts of Taipei, the second in the heart of the city. Both were used for controlling marginal populations; both continued to operate long after the Japanese left; and both were eventually torn down for urban redevelopment. Across its four sections linking different times, places and people, Realm of Reverberations reveals cycles of construction and destruction, and the ironies of emotional attachment and historical detachment.-UCLAFilm&TV

A fire dragon discover and breakthrough its fear under the guide of a gentle light snake.

The crowd follows their desire to pursue a goal that seems beautiful. I express the desire of people through their possession of chair. This film is to think about desire through the contrast of minimalist style and interaction of the person with the chairs.

Missing was made as part of a series of short films meant to combine poetry and imagery. Wu did not use a poem as inspiration. Instead, he turned a touching story he once taught his students into an animated fairy tale about a boy who runs off to India to catch mice, and finds himself farther and farther from home.

Ling began to realize the differences between body and genders. Bound by constraints, she made a determined effort to move forward after meeting the pony.

“Lifeng Coal Mine” (利豐煤礦) in Sanxia, Taipei County, was once Taiwan’s largest specialized coal mine. Unable to compete with cheap imported coal amid Taiwan’s impending WTO accession, the mine shut down, leaving 118 miners unemployed and sparking disputes over pensions and severance pay. San Yan (《散宴》) follows several aging miners, including brothers Huang Wu-yi (黃武義) and Huang Rong-quan (黃榮全), documenting their reflections on unemployment and their lifelong labor underground. After sharing one final farewell banquet, the miners’ “black gold dream” disappeared together with the closing mine. Through the film, the director moves beyond stereotypical images of miners’ hardship, portraying instead the quiet resilience and optimism of these “last-generation miners.”

The story of Tanpopo (Dandelion) is about the search of his best friend, Little Bee, and making new friends with Beggar-ticks and Little Dog. The animation covers issues such as nature, environmental protection, pollution, quit farming, eco-friendly farming, climate change, and teamwork by bringing these animals, plants, and nature to daily life.

One ordinary day, a sudden visit disrupted the routine of the whole family. The youngest bunny, bursting with excitement and curiosity, bounced through the house—she simply couldn’t wait! However, when the mysterious visitor arrived, the once noisy house instantly fell silent.

Five cousins are determined to use their creativity and tenacity to successfully cross the creek behind their grandpa’s house to see what happens on the other side.

During the covid-19 pandemic, everyone was kept at home and quarantined, The red granny only play with her dog Miaomiao, one day，the dog was lost.It turned out that the authorities thought pets also carried the virus, so they organized dog hunting teams to catch stray dogs, They happen to meet the dog Miaomiao and capture its. The red granny decides to rescue miaomiao. On the way, they meet Huang Xiaomei, who has also come to rescue the dogs.

⁣The protagonist attends a banquet, but it seems to be no ordinary dinner. As everyone enjoys the "delicacies," the atmosphere becomes increasingly eerie...

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 desire for laughter cannot break free from reality, and the imagination of home cannot be realized. Go out the door and run around to challenge; a small stream in the backyard, tolerant and self-healing. A female high school student wants to change her family's current situation through her own efforts, but an unexpected event happens on the way to finding a job. How should she face the next phase of her life?

Clement Town draws inspiration from a secluded town in modern Uttarakhand, India, allegedly built by local intelligence agents for Taiwan during the Cold War. The film weaves together staged photography from historical archives and real military records, with actors engaging in conversations with those connected to the special operations on the border to recreate images moments just before the scenes captured in historical photos at the original locations.

On 27 February 1987, residents of Shui Yuan Village barricaded the front gate of LCY Chemical Corp factory, who was polluting the groundwater. On the 100th day of their protest, Hsinchu Mayor promised to have police stationed there. But the factory tried to secretly ship out their product. Pushed to the limit, the villagers built a wall with concrete and vowed never to be fooled again.

The Breast Talk is a graduation film made by three college students from the Department of Radio and Television at the NCCU. The film concerns the topics of female breasts in relation to sexuality and gender.Through experience sharing, , it tells the high hopes that women can find their own way to be themselves comfortably.

"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.

In his 40s, sculptor JU Ming had already made his name in the early 80s art scene in Taiwan. He then decided to pursue opportunities in New York. During then, HUANG Yu-shan made her first documentary with JU Ming as the subject when she studied at New York University. The film contains footage of JU knocking and carving in his studio and interviews with gallery managers, art critics, and sculptors. This film brings together two New York experiences from two Taiwanese/Asian “exhibitors” who respectively experienced documentary filmmaking and sculpting in the city.

Once, Chen Yi, a gay man who was about to graduate from college, and Zhie Ze maintained a detached sexual partnership. But now, Chen Yi, who has no job and no purpose in life, is playing an ambiguous game of friendship with Zhi Ze, trying to get out of the shadow of his previous relationship and find his way.

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.

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.

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?

Mabanan is an Atayal settlement in Miaoli County, where the filmmaker was born. During the Japanese colonial rule, most of the indigenous community's land was expropriated and registered as state-owned forest. The Kuomintang (KMT) government later imposed even more restrictions on the use of the land. How would the Mabanan community reclaim their homeland when the government still refused to recognise proofs of residence of their ancestors?

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.

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.

Damon, a talented stage director, is having the worst day of his life: nothing goes well, one of his dancers is missing, and his boyfriend, Jhongwei, insists that he has something important to say to him that cannot wait any longer. When Damon finally gives Jhongwei to opportunity to talk, the latter tells him that he no longer wishes to be his boyfriend.

On the sandy shore at Yehliu, a headless human figure is beached and beaten by the waves. As the figure rolls along the sand, it takes on a variety of sculpture-like poses in the endless space where sea and sky seem to join as one. The human-like figure flickers in and out of view between the waves, until her arms stretch out from the vast emptiness and are cleansed.

An office worker obsessed with the supernatural visits an old parking lot and finds evidence of ghosts of perverts.

The film primarily tells the story of a financial dispute between a large conglomerate and a criminal organization. The protagonist infiltrates a criminal organization and uses his charm to seduce the wife of the gang leader, thus instigating conflict between two major criminal organizations.

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—

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.

Candles are flickering. In the dark, endless dreamscape, where do I find myself?

“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.

In order to explore the new space, a red bird try to overcome its fear and jump from the cliff.