Those Who Dance
30 mins | 2024| Lo-Yao HUANG
A 14-year-old dancer meets a new choreographer whose humiliating training triggers involuntary tics in her. The more she tries to suppress them, the less control she has over her body. As the training proceeds, she starts to question the nature and purpose of dancing.
Fan Fan
30 mins | 2015 | Chia-Hsin LIU | Drama
The titular anthropology student Fan Fan (Ambrose Liao) decides to temporarily take up a job as a sexy Karaoke girl at a local gentlemen's club, after a disappointing relationship. When one of her clients treats her with kindness and respect rarely seen in the sex industry, the lines between bossiness and pleasure start to get blurry.
Big Little Man
23 mins | 2019| Hsuan CHAO
A nine-year-old kid's divorced parents are both having new families. He leaves his father's house in Taipei and goes on a road trip to seek shelter at his mother's B&B in Hualien but only finds out there's no such place for him to call home.
Tip Toe
17 mins | 2019 | I-Ju LIN
It has been almost a week since mother left home. 10 yr old Jiajia and her 7 yr old brother Kai try to follow their mother’s daily routines while waiting for her to come back. Their father’s work is busy as usual. The grown-up world stays in its everyday orbit. Jiajia tries to maintain the usual daily life with Kai, but it has not been easy for her. Through tiptoeing, trying so hard to keep mother’s routines, the strangeness and clumsiness of the attempts keep reminding her of the stings of the mother’s absence, just like the over-grown fringe getting into her eyes.
The Voices
31 mins | 2023 | Qiu-Rong Gong
The 50-year-old Shufeng suffered from a strange condition that made her mute. She could not find a cure at the same time she is caring for her ill mother-in-law. Depressed Shufeng met Bin, a man selling milk in the market. He became a confidant and listened to Shufeng and slowly these two broken and lonely souls shared each other’s burdens. But a sudden encounter made Shufeng anxious. Can she stand up for herself and face her true inner voice?
The Taiwan Way - Bando
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6 mins | 2023 | Chris HUMPHREY
Let's follow Chris into Taiwan's famous street banquet world—Banquet-style Dining. Chris witnesses an all-female team expertly and elegantly orchestrate a feast, their impressive efficiency leaving him amazed. Yet, Banquet-style Dining is more than a culinary feast! Food historian Steven Crook uncovers its intriguing history and significance. Master A-Yong reveals unique dishes and indispensable classics. Don't miss Chris' incredible journey, delving into the heart of Taiwan's street food culture!
Kisses and Hugs
40 mins | 2019 | Hao-Chung CHAN | Documentary
Syucuo Elementary School is only 900m from sixth naphtha cracker. Owing to the concern for school children’s health risk, the school children experienced four times relocation in three years. Children chose to stay in the school, which is nearest one from petrochemical industry park. This issue seems to be settled and finally returns to normal.
One Summer's Day
25 mins | 2021 | Yan-Ping WANG
Summer’s coming.
Hsuan, Yei, and Chi will jump into the pool together.
Yei is always faster than Hsuan, but she doesn’t care about racing.
All she wants is to stay with Chi, slowly, naturally, till they arrive Taipei.
Grandma and Her Ghosts
85 min | 1998 | Shaudi WANG | Animation
DouDou arrives at his grandma's in the midst of a typhoon that almost turns Taiwan upside down in the seventh lunar month.Grandma has a black cat that sleeps on the back of a white dog all day long. She specifically tells him not to touch the pickle urns scattered everywhere in the yard. DouDou does it anyway and the black cat nearby is transformed completely. Grandma says the evil spirit she suppressed escaped. This evil, like DouDou who does not listen to her, is going to stop her from helping the ghosts return to hell. The purpose of the evil spirit is to collect these wondering souls to be his slaves.
One Women
16 mins | 2022 | Qiu -Rong GONG | Drama
Two women make a conversation in a café. One just lost her husband, and the other is the third person. Their dialogue is about resentment, guilt, confession, and self-forgiveness.