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

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.

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.

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.

A hired fist shares the bizarre encounter that led to his retirement.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Gambling in the night, four men throw the dice of fortune. Suddenly, all sounds are gone from their lives. The adults are muted. Even the babies cry silently. The only sounds left are the pressing knocking from the outside and the tense nerves inside. Who is at the door?

Haunted by the tragic death of his father, a young Argentinian filmmaker of Taiwanese origin returns to Taipei to film the reunion with his mother. Reality and fiction blend in a moving personal quest in which an incredible portrait of a mother stands out from the picture of a family saga marked by uprooting.

The film was produced independently which used clay and other materials for landscaping to shoot on 16mm film. It shows that Taiwan's metropolis, mainly Taipei, has undergone rapid changes in the times, with vigorous vitality but disorder and lack of overall urban planning.

The most difficult decision is to end the life of the beloved.

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.

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

In order to advocate Taiwan’s independence and to defend the freedom of speech, CHENG Nan-jung chose to express his disappointment towards the ruling authorities by self-immolation. Thousands joined his funeral procession on 19 May. When they arrived at the presidential office, a disciplinary patrol, CHAN I-hua, lit himself on fire, taking concrete action to follow CHENG’s footsteps.

The blood red rose up in the east, Yen-si waits for the bus that was going to take her far away from here. Her husband, Wang Zi-wu, call made her stop in her tracks. Despite being treated like a caged bird by Zi-wu she still managed to break away from her shackles.

Set in the year 2050, ARIA 夢姬 is a CGI animated speculative short film. In the smart surveillance city of Dream Harbor, a fourth-generation female AI agent named ARIA is on the verge of obsolescence. She is the product of a state-run “Cyber Road Initiative” designed to address labor shortages and declining birth rates. Modeled after a famous late actress, she is the image of “grace and restraint” and domestic femininity. The work references Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and ideas of a post-gender future.

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 noir action comedy about a detective trying to retrieve a missing videotape.

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.

The girl arranged to meet the boy at the familiar sports field. The two of them walked along the lanes, talking about the blurry present and the past, trying to untangle the faint, almost intangible tension between them…

Braised pork balls with brown sauce, boiled chicken, some fish, a lot of side dishes, pricey fruits, steamed sponge cake, red bun...and mom’s favorite cake. Okay, we’re all set!

An experimental message to the parents. Or the life in the big city as seen by a homesick young director.

Hura is ready to leave her boyfriend for good. On her way out the door, she discovers a 30 foot penis chaining her to her soon-to-be ex.

One of "2020 Taiwanese presidential election" short film series by Next Film (一丁目), a short-lived streaming platform by Next Digital (壹傳媒).

experimental short film but not that EXPERIMENTAL?????

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.

"1975 of My Mother and Me" is the final release of the series "Where Do You Come From." The series segments the artist's life experiences in different works featuring significant years. The previous three pieces are respectively about 1981, the year when he was born, 1990, in which his parents divorced, and the year of 2020 when his mother is living alone. "1975 of My Mother and Me" marks the year of 1975 when his parents got married. The artist explores the meanings of marriage and family in a retrospective way.

Mankind is longing for freedom, even Cyborgs. In a closed mechanical underworld, E-28, the protagonist, is a cyborg imprisoned by the underground governor, the General. After a reunion with the mechanical dog, his partner in the old days, E-28 is brought back to its hidden mind. In facing the challenge, E-28, embarrassing the humanity, gradually begins a story of pursuing freedom.

Jiang brings Yang Yi around as they hang out together. In the last year of middle school, Jiang transfers. Yang remembers vividly the day before the summer break, when they share a memorable afternoon in the bright sun and heavy downpour.

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.

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.

A group of Pangcah people left their homeland in the eastern Taiwan to seek jobs on the western coast. They drifted from one construction site to another, until they finally settled on a temporarily unclaimed clearing behind a university, building a community far away from home. Despite the instability of work and earnings, they lived life to the fullest catching fish, growing vegetables, singing and dancing, even electing leaders of their community in this 'new paradise'.

Voices of Orchid Island focuses on the Yami on Orchid Island, a small island located 45 miles off the southeast coast of Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean.

A short film that has a purely core and talks about memory.

Liu Na’ou’s The Man with a Movie Camera is comprised of five episodes, shot in four cities across national boundaries: Tainan, Canton, Shenyang, and Tokyo. It displays impressionistic street spectacle and images of quotidian life, as well as excursions by train and ship, unfolding as a private visual journal and a sort of souvenir, but with refined framing, camera movement, and rhythmic editing. With his own perspective and artistic sensitivity embedded in this film, struggling between being a Japanese colonial subject and a Taiwanese/Chinese litterateur, Liu attempts to transcend geological, national, racial/ethnic, linguistic and medial boundaries, to establish a depoliticized, internationalist, cosmopolitan cinematic utopia, a pure cinema, and a fluid and contested identity.

The film explores the informal architectures of Taipei, seeing them as a representation of an Autistic Architectural Approach, which calls for disabled people to be—not included—embedded.

Movies are a window on the world. In the 1990s, Taiwan-produced motion pictures did well at international film festivals. This has not only familiarized audiences around the world with the richness of Taiwan movies; it has allowed them to see Taiwan's growth. This presentation focuses on two stages of Taiwan movies: the pluralistic creativity of the 1990s, and the beginnings and foundation-building of the 1980s. It introduces contemporary directors of the time and their works to take viewers back to an enthusiastic and energetic era. It describes the relationship between cinema and social development, and explores the mutual reliance of the aesthetic of realism and social thought. Wave after wave of developments in Taiwan New Cinema occurred in the 1980s and 90s.

When stress piled up, the bullied boy turned his gaze onto weaker beings to bully, not realizing that he himself was turning into the kind of person he dreaded the most.

What will it be like in a century?