A young boy, An, believes in reincarnation, obsessively searching for his “past parents”. Meanwhile, his actual parents’ marriage is crumbling. An’s b... (Read more)

Da, a family man, begins writing a eulogy for his beloved grandmother’s funeral. As he does so, he begins to reminisce about his childhood, reevaluati... (Read more)

Mortuary cosmetologist Min-Hsiu helps families find solace in making the deceased beautiful again. But when a body from a suicide turns out to be her ... (Read more)

Xiao-An has been away from home for years. When her mother decides to sell the old apartment and move to the seaside to nurse her deteriorating mental... (Read more)

An abused woman is notified by the police that her heavy-drinking husband is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Just when she thinks she and her son... (Read more)

Qi moves from Hong Kong to Taipei alone, with only her pet parrot for company. There, she continually receives phone calls asking for a mysterious man... (Read more)

Singing suffers the recurring dream of a man shouting at her, who she believes to be her father who had disappeared at sea. While working on a ferry, ... (Read more)

The film opens with a group of anti-nuclear activists, a Bunun doctor and a Han Chinese anthropologist sitting on a seashore, exchanging their motivat... (Read more)

The film follows the life of SU’s grandfather, Teymu Teylong, a famous hunter in Ciyakang village, Hualien, who has lived through Japanese rule, as he... (Read more)

Artist Rahic Talif came from the Amis ethnic group but hid his Indigenous identity when young. It wasn’t until he saw art works created by Indigenous ... (Read more)

Manawei, a Yami boy, lives on Orchid Island with his grandmother while his father is away from home working. He hopes that his father will bring him a... (Read more)

Vietnamese woman NGUYEN Kim Hongmoved to Taiwan in pursuit of happiness and a cross-cultural marriage. However, she was forced to divorce her husband ... (Read more)

During Taiwan’s period of Japanese rule in the 1930s, a group of pineapple farmers sailed to the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa to start a new life. Over ... (Read more)

While on a train, Ren-pu and his father check whether the money inside each red envelope matches their list of designated names. They are returning to... (Read more)

Set in Japan: On a bitter cold day with heavy snow, YANG, from Taiwan, goes to a newspaper office to apply for a paperboy job. The boss states that he... (Read more)

A Chinese food delivery boy from Taiwan searches for his mother in New York with a photo of Marlene DIETRIH. His neighbor Wayne makes a living by clea... (Read more)

‘‘Honey, I am away to make money, because ― No Money, No Honey!’’Money and Honey is an Asian documentary that spans thirteen years. It intimately port... (Read more)

Chinese Mainlander ZHAO travels from Beijing to Taiwan to pursue Shin-yi, the love of his life. However, due to the historical turmoil between Taiwan ... (Read more)

The colonial government view the uprising of the Seediq tribe as a major crisis and send Major General Yahiko KAMADA, with 3,000 police and soldiers, ... (Read more)

WEI Te-sheng's epic film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale reclaims an extraordinary but little known episode from 20th century history. Between 18... (Read more)

The teacher at an aboriginal primary school nestled in the mountains gives the students a weekend assignment for which the students must try and find ... (Read more)

Shot on 16mm film, this documentary captures two years in the life of the director’s friend, Mamuno, a Tao, or Lanyu island tribesman. Through Mamuno’... (Read more)

Forever Love pays tribute to Taiwan’s local film industry in the 1960s when Taiwanese dialect films were cheap, stars were gods, and spies, giant mons... (Read more)

In December 1941, the Pacific War broke out. Back then Taiwan was still under Japanese Rule. Hundreds of Taiwanese were drafted into the war. When the... (Read more)

In 1965, director CHEN Yao-Chi made Liu Pi-Chia, Taiwan’s first observational documentary. Its eponymous character was a farmer press-ganged into the ... (Read more)

"I'm a cultured woman, travelling about footloose and fancy-free…” So begins a lilting tune from Taiwan's “Dance Age” of the 1920s and 1930s, a parado... (Read more)

A dark and poetic comedy, 7 Days in Heaven centers on one woman's experience of the death and funeral of her father. Mei, resolutely urban, makes her ... (Read more)

This exquisite black-and-white animated short poignantly explores a personal family story in an innovative fashion, and casts a nostalgic gaze at Taiw... (Read more)

Titisi is an Indonesian in-home carer looking after an old Taiwanese lady who is trapped in her illness and painful memories. The pair are close, even... (Read more)

During a peaceful weekend in Taipei, a French TV crew unexpectedly visits a Taiwanese family of three, claiming to shoot a reality show that aims to f... (Read more)

Watan, a member of the aboriginal Atayal tribe, left his village to find work in the city, and returned as a depressive alcoholic with a broken leg. A... (Read more)

Monga is named for Mengjia, an old district of Taipei which has long been the domain of the local gangsters. Mosquito, the teenage son of a single mot... (Read more)

A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spac... (Read more)

Guo is a middle-aged police detective nearing retirement. He is stern, stubborn, and solitary, and lives alone in a boarding room after divorce. The b... (Read more)

Master Lin makes paper houses—or paper “origami villas”—for the dead. His son Gang has just started working at a real estate a... (Read more)

This is a portrait of patients of Alzheimer disease: Hsu Ching-Chen tends to be forgetful about the fact that her husband is long gone, except when sh... (Read more)

“Juliet's Choice” It is the 1970s and Taiwan is under Martial Law. Hsiu-Chu, a lame young woman, labors in a printing shop. One day a youn... (Read more)

Master Chu, a retired and aging Tai-Chi master, emigrates to New York to live with his son Alex, his American daughter-in-law Martha, and his grandson... (Read more)

Because his mother has to leave the country to attend to his father who got injured while working overseas, Dou Dou, a five-year-old boy, must go to a... (Read more)