Dai was born into a poor family with a mentally-challenged mother and an abusive veteran father. To find a better future, he goes to northern Taiwan t... (Read more)

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)

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)

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)

Colorblind girl A-Kuei feels alienated and misunderstood. She’s raised by her grandmother who would rather believe she is possessed than hear her feel... (Read more)

A mother moves to the city, taking her daughter, Mei, but leaving her son Nan with their father. Years later, Nan, now a tour guide, still struggles t... (Read more)

A goat has a starring role in a film. The director believes it’s the film’s “spirit medium”. But production designer, Kong, and assistant, Wen, are st... (Read more)

The film puts together four sequences shot on 35mm from 1920 to 1939 that show Indigenous people’s lives during Japanese rule, offering a glimpse insi... (Read more)

Khue-Guan, a deliveryman living in a cheap apartment, dreams of making it big one day. He happens upon a teenage runaway, Tsing-Bi, and entices her to... (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)

Dressed in traditional Amis clothing, a young girl, Nakaw, rides a scooter past a succession of tour buses into a beautiful, ethnic coastal village. B... (Read more)

HAN Shuen-Yun, a 60-year-old woman, retires from an administrative position at a university. Unmarried, she lives with her mother in an old hillside c... (Read more)

Ling, a middle-aged woman, is fired for no reason. Her mother-in-law is hospitalized and she is the sole carer; her husband’s been working abroad, and... (Read more)

Taxi driver, A Cui, is a nice, old push-over who always ends up being exploited. His social status is lower than his beautiful but estranged wife, and... (Read more)

A sadistic landlord installs hidden cameras in the old apartments to peep on his tenants: a lusty gymnastics teacher, a divorced father living with hi... (Read more)

Newspaper reporter Chi discovers that his car is accident-damaged. As he begins to look into its history, he soon unearths a fatal car crash nine year... (Read more)

Tsi-Bing is living a wealthy and successful life. However, when he is manipulated by his mistress into believing that his wife is having an affair, he... (Read more)

Tshui-Giok’s step-father sells her to a club to pay off his debt. But when her boyfriend, Kok-Liong, learns about it he helps get her out and plans to... (Read more)

Buried in the Liuzhangli cemetery are 201 victims executed during the White Terror. One of them is SHI Shui-Huan. In the 1950s, SHI was imprisoned for... (Read more)

On Liang’s 18th birthday, she is unable to celebrate with her boyfriend because she has to babysit her irresponsible brother’s baby. Refusing to lose ... (Read more)

HU Ding-Yi is the most acclaimed Foley artist in Taiwan. Using unconventional methods with immense creativity and talent, HU produces all kinds of sou... (Read more)

Summer Snow(1995), In the Mood for Love(2000), Millennium Mambo(2001): Just three of the classic Chinese-language films shot by prolific Taiwanese cin... (Read more)

The deep rumble of drums opens the gate to the underworld and Sea Goddess Mazu gracefully leads the spirits towards it. A scene from the ritualistic d... (Read more)

Dawang’s home is about to be demolished. The pig he has painstakingly raised is about to become a religious offering at a Temple Fair. Meanwhile, it h... (Read more)

Unable to remember the combination to her apartment’s lock, dementia sufferer Hsia decides to go to her old neighbor, CHUANG, in the community she use... (Read more)

A car accident involving a stray dog connects unlikely characters with life-changing results. A hand model caught in an estranged middle-class marriag... (Read more)

A-Ming, a homeless old man, has forgotten where he came from. When he finds a camcorder at a recycling depot, he becomes captivated by its tape of a h... (Read more)

The film surrounds two outcasts whose drifting paths cross by chance, taking them on a journey across Taiwan. In eastern Taiwan, fruit farmer Jia-Ming... (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)

Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based filmmaker LAU Kek-Huat became interested in his grandfather’s life as he tried to get to know more about his long-absent ... (Read more)

Tenn Kong-Hui is a private detective who uses people’s shady pasts to blackmail them. Tai-Giok is a secretary to a steel company’s chairman, and a dan... (Read more)

After the death of their mother, Siok-Hui sings in a nightclub to support her younger sister Siok-Tshing, but her immature sister looks down on her oc... (Read more)

Tshiu-Bi and her husband Siu-Gi have a seemingly perfect marriage but still have no children. When Tsiu-Bi’s friend, Le-Hun, a single mother, is force... (Read more)

A commercial actress is raped by a driver when she tries to hitchhike from a remote shooting location. As she insists on pressing charges, she is met ... (Read more)

It is the end of 2012 and the Burmese government is waging war with the Kachin rebels. Jade mining is forced to come to a halt because of the conflict... (Read more)

In 1999, a luxurious floating restaurant sailed from Hong Kong to the port of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. When the Asian financial crisis forced the restaura... (Read more)

With crop prices remaining too weak to make ends meet, a Burmese farmer pawns his cow for an old motorcycle so that his son can take passengers to tow... (Read more)

Poverty-stricken A-Hong has no choice but to take his younger sister and illegally cross the Myanmar-Thailand. However, his sister is sold to human tr... (Read more)

When Myanmar finally welcomes its first presidential election, Xing-Hong, a Burmese construction worker in Taiwan, returns home with hopes that change... (Read more)

Taiwanese noise performer, and music aficionado, HUANG Da-Wang is incompatible with society. HUANG suffers from Tourette syndrome, a disorder that cau... (Read more)

Four years after her sister died, director LEE Pei-Yu began to document her family’s daily life. Year after year, life goes on with lingering grief. T... (Read more)

During the Japanese occupation of China, Xiao-Hui receives training in the martial art of ninjutsu in Japan, and becomes the first Chinese lady ninja.... (Read more)

Horseshoe crabs are one of the most ancient creatures on earth, whose life and death are subtly intertwined with Taiwan’s turbulent history. After 194... (Read more)

Born in Hebei but destined to pass away in Taipei, a city far from home, LI originally expected to take good care of his family and be loyal to his co... (Read more)

Dance teacher Ling-Ling receives a letter from her childhood friend Mei-Hua, who, after being forced into prostitution by local gangsters, was murdere... (Read more)

Growing up without parents, MA Sha has always worked as a lookout in a red-light district. When he is imprisoned for manslaughter following a customer... (Read more)

In Shanghai, Hai-Nan, son of a Chinese official, is found stabbed on the street. But when the culprit, Li-Fang, is apprehended, she refuses to reveal ... (Read more)

Yi-Che, a young man just released from prison, returns to his hometown of Nanfang’ao on the east coast Taiwan, hoping to start a new life with his gir... (Read more)

Hsiao-Wei and A-Chieh are cousins who stick together through thick and thin, having grown up together in a multilingual Hakka military dependents’ vil... (Read more)

With the arrival of summer, 17-year-old Kang-Yi returns to a shady neighborhood by Keelung Harbor to spend her summer vacation at the blind massage pa... (Read more)

Ah-Chung is a reckless young man who grew up in a complicated family. His mother separated from his father due to domestic violence, and makes a livin... (Read more)

Face to Face aims to reveal what wrestling really is. First of all, it is a performance. Wrestlers are required to evoke emotions from tens and thousa... (Read more)

Civil Disobedience documented the clash between the police and the people during the civil unrest that followed the controversial cross-strait negotia... (Read more)

MENG Yun-Lao, a college student originally from Hong Kong, stays at a family friend’s house and falls in love with their daughter, Hai-Ni. Hai-Ni is b... (Read more)

Four Moodsconsisted of four costume drama sections on folklore.“Joy”by PAI Ching-Jui, features a stylized guard of ghosts that keep a watchful eye on ... (Read more)

Raised in a strict family, YANG falls in love with a college student, LI, but she yields to her parents’ marital arrangement. Several years later, she... (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)

A-Te used to be a social movement fanatic. But after suffering the pain of divorce and the death of his child, he changed his profession and became a ... (Read more)

The film narrates the political history of Taiwan over a period of 50 years, following the imposition of martial law in 1947 and ‘The White Terror.’ S... (Read more)

A-Chuan is a quiet thirty-year-old who works as a chef in a Japanese restaurant in Taiwan. One day, without apparent reason, he falls into a coma, and... (Read more)

The National Land and Water Resource Conference is taking place. The President is on his way. Security guard, A-Ho, in line for promotion, is trying a... (Read more)

November 2008 was a critical moment in history. CHEN Yun-Lin visited Taiwan, the first official Chinese envoy to step on Taiwanese soil in 60 years. B... (Read more)

A hacker with the alias INTOXICANT is threatening to destroy a famous internet forum named BDD. Out of curiosity and panic, netizens flood the system ... (Read more)

An elderly man shuffles through a spacious hospital, his left hand holding a drip that disappears into his right arm. Later he lies sleeping, restless... (Read more)

Farewell 1999is an intensely personal and poetic study of the director’s late mother. In 2003, becoming aware that memories of her mother were fading,... (Read more)

Amid the neon lights and ethnic food, the prostitutes and their aging female pimps, dwells the Longshan Temple, one of the oldest religious sites in T... (Read more)

In the late 80s, three rebellious high school students, Mabel, Liam, and Aaron see their adolescent antics turn into unrequited love. When they leave ... (Read more)

Transparent glass-built enclosures decorated with glittering neon lights, in which female vendors sell a spicy, addictive chewing snack called “betel ... (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)

Taipei, 2009. Easygoing twenty-something HUANG Tian-Kuo delivers lunch boxes for his restaurateur parents. He gets to know LIN Yang-Yang, a street per... (Read more)

Chung is a tow truck driver in Taipei, earning a meager salary to support his family by towing away cars parked in prohibited areas. However, it makes... (Read more)

After his father's death, 10-year-old Xiang is sent to live with his mother and a stepfather he barely knows. However, a lurking threat of unspoken vi... (Read more)

A group of socially deviant teenagers live at the Faith Hope Love Academy, a foster-care facility in Hualien, eastern Taiwan. Many of these “nowhere b... (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)

Adapted from novelist Huang Chun-Ming’s three short stories: “The Sandwich Man”, “Vicky's Hat”, and “The Taste of Apples”. The omnibus film showcases ... (Read more)

This is a semi-autobiographical film by director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. In the film, a Hakka family left China and settled temporarily in a small town Fengs... (Read more)

Xiulan and Huotu grew up together in the same village in Changhua County, and they love and are committed to each other. To pay off her family’s debts... (Read more)

Three mothers become close friends because they each have an autistic child. They learn, encourage, and support one another, and although they live in... (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)

Taipei teenager Chih-chiang does not do well in school, and is a day dreamer. He witnesses the kidnapping of a little boy by accident. After being dis... (Read more)

The film is set in an old-style house in Mengjia, an old district of Taipei. Rebellious teenage girl Laichun, now 16, lives with her extended family. ... (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 agency. His wife, A-Yue, ... (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)

On Mother’s Day, Chen Mo goes to a bakery to buy dessert for his wife, only to find his car blocked in by a double-parked car. As Chen Mo searches for... (Read more)

Set in 1980s Taipei, the film shows three groups of complete strangers whose lives intertwine in strange ways, making for an enigmatic thriller. An id... (Read more)

Ah-yuan and Ah-yun grow up together in a small mining town of Jiufen. The mining industry is in decline, and there’s no hope for the new generation. T... (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)