Taiwan

  • Hsiao-Ming Hsu – Qu nian dong tian AKA Heartbreak Island (1995)

    1991-2000DramaHsiao-Ming HsuTaiwan

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    A young woman named Lin-Lang has served a long jail term for terrorist actions against Taiwan’s rulmg KMT party. The society she returns to is very different from the one she left: former radicais have gone soft and become middle-class, the former political opposition has become respectableand lost its edge, everyone has grown nakedly materialistic. But the biggest shock for Lin-Lang is the discovery that her lover—the man who taught her radical politics, the man who got her pregnant, the man she went to jail for—has married someone else. He and his wife have a child, and he runs a small coffee-shop which doubles as a meeting-place for students of Chinese mysticism. Almost deranged with shock and the sense of betrayal, Lin-Lang impulsively kidnaps the man’s child…Read More »

  • Cheng-sheng Lin – Tian ma cha fang AKA March of Happiness (1999)

    Cheng-sheng Lin1991-2000ArthouseDramaTaiwan

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    1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February IncidentRead More »

  • Ang Lee – Xi yan AKA The Wedding Banquet (1993)

    1991-2000Ang LeeComedyDramaQueer Cinema(s)Taiwan

    To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.Read More »

  • Cheng-sheng Lin – Tian ma cha fang AKA March of Happiness (1999)

    Cheng-sheng Lin1991-2000DramaTaiwanWar

    1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February Incident.1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February Incident.Read More »

  • Yu-Hsun Chen – Jian wang cun AKA The Village of No Return (2017)

    2011-2020ComedyTaiwanYu-Hsun Chen

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    It is an unusual day for the remote and isolated Desire Village. A mysterious Taoist priest brings a magical equipment that can erase one’s memory. Since then, all the villagers have forgotten their past, living “happily ever after”, while the dangerous plot behind their back is just about to be unveiled.Read More »

  • Midi Z – Juo ren mi mi aka Nina Wu (2019)

    Midi Z2011-2020TaiwanThriller

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    After years of toiling in bit parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu (Wu Ke-Xi) finally gets her break as the female lead in a big-budget espionage thriller. The role, which calls for nudity and explicit sex scenes, is made all the more challenging by the director’s savage belittlements. Hovering on the brink of stardom, Nina’s psychological resolve begins to crack under the pressure. As she clings to her sanity, a traumatic past event begins to resurface.Read More »

  • Lei Pan – Tai feng AKA Typhoon (1962)

    1961-1970DramaLei PanTaiwan

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    A clever and lively girl who gets lost in the world of radio drama runs away from home to search for her imaginary mother. A scoundrel claims to be the girl’s father to escape from police. They encounter two women in the mountains: one is tortured by her workaholic husband who engages madly in his scientific research, the other is a pure and naive girl living in the mountains. Typhoon is now coming.Read More »

  • Fu-chun Hsu – Meng you xia wei yi AKA Holiday Dreaming (2004)

    2001-2010ComedyFu-chun HsuTaiwan
    Meng you xia wei yi (2004)
    Meng you xia wei yi (2004)

    Plot
    Ah-Zhou, who is about to be honorably discharged from the military service, has a surreal dream. In the dream he sees the dead body of Shing-Shing Chen, a classmate in elementary school from years back. Is this dream implying that Shing-Shing Chen might have died? Soon afterwards, Ah-Zhou gets an unexpected five-day vacation and decides to look for Shing-Shing Chen. Nevertheless, he quickly learns that the special vacation is for him and another soon-to-be-discharged solider, Xiao-Gui, to go after a deserter, Kuen-He, who ran away with weapons two days ago. Both of them are worried about this assignment because they, the old birds, used to pick on Kuen-He, a spring chicken. And Kuen-He is now a deserter, armed and dangerous.Read More »

  • Yi-Shan Lo – Xue shui xiao rong de ji jie AKA After the Snowmelt (2024)

    2021-2030DocumentaryDramaTaiwanYi-Shan Lo
    Xue shui xiao rong de ji jie (2024)
    Xue shui xiao rong de ji jie (2024)

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    A dazzling and unconventional documentary where a filmmaker explores their first experience of great loss after her best friends Chun and Yueh go missing. Trapped in a cave in Nepal for 47 days, Yueh survives. Chun does not. Yi-Shan offers an intimate window into the complex relationship of survivors as she traverses the intricate terrain of grief and gender with Yueh. Their conversations are steeped in themes of guilt, perseverance, and identity as they navigate Chun’s legacy with ease, even as elders around them fail to acknowledge their friend’s queerness/transness posthumously.Read More »

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