Lim Giong

This is a story of reminiscence, remembering my long-deceased Grandpa. To remember is to transcend, therefore it’s a story of time and space, overlapped and intertwined. It’s also a quest of love and work, a spiritual and emotional journey; and through which values are re-examined and life reaffirmed.

A documentary took more than 30 years to pursue a migrating bird, black-faced spoonbill.

Dancer SHEU Fang-yi’s career has been told through her modern dance dramas such as Sparrow, Stranger, Wall, and Martha GRAHAM‘s Heretic. Martha GRAHAM once said: “A dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.” At this intersection of her life, SHEU Fang-yi commemorates her glorious past two decades with a funeral, to farewell her past self, and to get ready to move toward her unknown future.

Lim took Huang touring around the downtown streets and rural trails, tracing the path of HUNG TUNG, Lim's favorite artist.

Lim took Huang touring around the downtown streets and rural trails, tracing the path of HUNG TUNG, Lim's favorite artist.

Nina Wu es una joven que abandona una pequeña compañía de teatro en el campo para marcharse a la gran ciudad, donde aspira a convertirse en una actriz. Sin embargo, las cosas no salen como ella espera, y la oportunidad que tanto busca nunca llega. Pronto, una depresión comienza a hacer mella en su carácter, hasta que por fin un día recibe una oferta para interpretar a una heroína de los años 70 en una película de espionaje. Nina decide entregarse en cuerpo y alma para tener éxito en su papel, algo que no sólo consigue, sino que además hace mella en su mentalidad. Antes de poder darse cuenta se ve obligada a enfrentarse a complejas decisiones relacionadas con su sexualidad, que le recuerdan una y otra vez de dónde procede.

Stoic truck driver Jinpa picks up a silver dagger wearing hitchhiker in the desolate Kekexili plateau. The stranger suddenly reveals he’s going to kill the man who murdered his father.

In Taipei, a rehearsal for Kafka’s Metamorphosis is in full swing as the show’s opening night approaches. Lin’s girlfriend, Julie, is visiting him from Paris. After the rehearsal, he picks her up at the airport and they spend the night together. In the morning, Lin is nowhere to be found and leaves Julie waiting at his apartment

This omnibus film consists of three films made by three directors from three countries. With “Journey” as the theme, each of these films tells about a journey. “The Sea” is a film by Degena Yun (China), telling about mother and child’s trip to the sea from Beijing. “Hekishu,” a film by Daishi Matsunaga (Japan), tells about the journey of a Japanese businessman involved in infrastructure development in Yangon. The film depicts the entrepreneur’s emotional feelings in the face of Yangon residents who lost their homes due to the construction of the new infrastructure. The last is a film titled “Variable No. 3” by Edwin (Indonesia), which tells the story of a couple’s journey to Tokyo. There they meet a mysterious man. The man who works as a tour guide and rents out the inn, gives a strange advice to the husband and wife.

Luo Hongwu comienza la búsqueda de su antiguo amor en la ciudad de Kaili, a la que regresa tras huir hace años. Como dato recuerda el nombre que le dió, Wan Quiwen.

Qiao es una joven bailarina que vive en los subrubios industriales de la ciudad de China, una zona que toma el nombre de Datong, donde se enamorará de Bin, un mafioso de la zona. Tras una pelea entre bandas, en la que se ve mezclado el joven, Quiao dispara para poder protegerle y es sentenciada a cinco años de prisión. Después de ese largo periodo, ella volverá a buscar a Bin para poder continuar su apasionada historia de amor desde el punto en que la dejaron.

“What were you doing last year, when I took this photo from a train passing by your house?”

As the actress arrived, everything about the movie, about the life of director and actress, and about the affection between professor and his student, were revealed and punctured one after another. In the hazy fuzzy afternoon, there is nothing left on the dining table outside the cabin but four-cornered souls; the bandit in the director's movie was also beset in the bank as a trapped beast.

Hsu Zi-qi, who raises parrots in her apartment, keeps getting wrong phone calls for someone named Johnny. Lee, the autistic son of Zi-qi’s landlady, reads old newspapers every day and wanders around. Handyman Feng, who works odd jobs around the apartment, feels disheartened and frustrated when his beloved car breaks down. The lives of these three lonely souls cross over when one of Zi-qi’s parrots escapes one day. Johnny is missing, but he’s hardly the only one lost in the urban jungle of Taipei.

For the sake of her mother, who lives far away, withdrawn Lynn searches for a way to be accepted into the local police academy. At the same time, the 16-year-old gets caught up in a criminal mess involving stolen cell phones.

Two journeys take place in two different periods. One is a train journey across two continents. The other follows an old family photograph back to life during wartime. The rhythmic swaying of the train reveals a forgotten memory.

Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). In Jia’s segment, a Chinese couple in the ancient town of Pingyao attempts to breathe new life into their old love as they ponder having a second child. Pingyao, home to the film festival Jia has co-founded, is a highly picturesque UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Jia humorously plays with a very recent dilemma – the second child policy dates from only 2013 – in a setting itself forcibly revived from history.

A rebellious teen is reunited with her father, a small time Taipei gangster, causing him to question his life of crime.

Anu is a tomboy. Although she was married off at a young age – as was customary in Taiwan in the 1970s – and had two children, she quickly divorced her violent husband and brought up her daughters alone. Since then her only relationships have been with women who, like her, earn a living as professional mourners at funerals. One of her daughters is filmmaker Hui-chen Huang. It’s considered taboo in Chinese culture to question a mother’s unconditional love, and yet this is exactly the topic of Huang’s intimate portrait. Mother and daughter set off on a journey together into the past during which Anu is confronted with questions that have tormented her daughter for years. In a series of long shots the two women discuss such topics as trust, abuse and cognisance, and yet most of these discussions end in painful silence. Shifting focus in order to plumb the depths of the depicted room, the director attempts to understand her mother by also talking to her mother’s siblings and ex-lovers.

Two illegal Burmese migrants fleeing their country’s civil war find love with each other while struggling to survive in the bustling cities of Thailand.

En la mística y subtropical provincia de Guizhou, hay una pequeña clínica donde trabajan dos doctores de vida tranquila. Uno de ellos, Chen Sheng, debe viajar para ir a buscar a su sobrino, que ha sido abandonado por su padre. Durante el viaje, Chen Sheng para en un lugar llamado Dang Mai, donde el tiempo parece haberse detenido y donde la vida de sus habitantes es un misterio. (FILMAFFINITY)

Midi Z visits his oncle who works as a jade miner.

The black kite, generally referred to as “the eagle” in Taiwan, used to be very widespread and so common that it is the main character in a well-known Taiwanese children’s game. However, it has now become so rare that very few people ever get to see it. SHEN Zhen-zhong, better known as “Mr. Kite” who vowed to safeguard this endangered bird, is determined that he spent the best 20 years of his life traveling throughout Taiwan to find out why the black kite is disappearing. From 1992 to 2015, the film documentary maker LIANG Chieh-te followed Mr. Kite’s journey. Through his camera lenses, the story of how, one person can cross the species barrier and totally devote himself to a cause with no regrets because of love.

On his trip to the village, Wong meets a Tibetan girl, De Lan. He later finds that De Lan is married to Rigchin. One day, a young Tibetan man arrives with a woman, and De Lan starts crying. How many lovers does De Lan have? When Rigchin hints Wong that he doesn't mind he joining them, Wong is lost...

China, siglo IX. Nie Yinniang regresa a casa de su familia tras años de exilio. Educada por una monja que la inicia en las artes marciales, es una auténtica justiciera cuyo objetivo es eliminar a los tiranos. Su maestro le encarga la misión de matar a su primo Tian Ji'an, gobernador disidente de la provincia militar de Weibo. Nie tendrá que elegir: sacrificar al hombre que ama o romper definitivamente con la "Secta de los Asesinos”.

Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys' traces two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing. Both face a similar fate. Air pollution is one of China's most pressing environmental and health issues. Greenpeace calls for a shift from coal to clean renewable energy, as well as short term measures that better safeguard people's health.

Dahai, minero exasperado por la corrupción de los dirigentes de su pueblo, decide pasar a la acción. San'er, un trabajador emigrante, descubre las infinitas posibilidades que le ofrece su arma. Xiaoyu, recepcionista en una sauna, no soporta más el acoso de un cliente rico. Xiaohui pasa de un trabajo a otro en condiciones cada vez más degradantes. Cuatro personajes, cuatro provincias, una reflexión sobre China contemporánea: una sociedad con un desarrollo económico colosal poco a poco erosionado por la violencia. (FILMAFFINITY)

With a large number of factories in the area, the hosiery industry forms the backbone and economic mainstay of a small rural town. One in two of the population makes their living from the production of socks. “Brother Black Dog” is of one of them and has been toiling day and night. However, one day in spring, his overseas orders suddenly disappear. He gets stuck in a midlife crisis.

Young Chinese parents Chen Xuesong and Cai Weihang find their marriage eroding as they deal with financial troubles, jealousy and constant bickering. When Weihang finds a photo of Xuesong and her ex-boyfriend, things spiral out of control.

One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jincheng, in the province of Liaoning (North-East China), to re-paint again friends and relatives after several years have gone by. With a soundtrack by famed composer Lim Giong (Millennium Mambo, The Assassin).

High in the mountains of Taiwan, is the remote village of Smangus. Inhabited by a unique group of indigenous people called the Tayal, Smangus is the only place in Taiwan that now practices common ownership of land and property. This is a place where nature and man have found balance. Now, witness every part of the lives of these people, through pain and joy, and experience the unique bonds formed with the ancient trees around them, in a film that documents A Year In The Clouds - a year amongst the sacred forests of this tribe.

A Shanghai, una metrópoli en rápida evolución, una ciudad de intensa actividad portuaria, llegan todo tipo de personas: revolucionarios, capitalistas, políticos, soldados, artistas y mafiosos. También ha visto revoluciones, asesinatos e historias de amor. Después de la victoria de los comunistas chinos en 1949, miles de habitantes de la ciudad marcharon a Hong Kong y Taiwán. Irse significaba el abandono de sus hogares, la separación de sus familiares; pero quedarse significaba sufrir las consecuencias de la Revolución Cultural y otros desastres.

A Shanghai, una metrópoli en rápida evolución, una ciudad de intensa actividad portuaria, llegan todo tipo de personas: revolucionarios, capitalistas, políticos, soldados, artistas y mafiosos. También ha visto revoluciones, asesinatos e historias de amor. Después de la victoria de los comunistas chinos en 1949, miles de habitantes de la ciudad marcharon a Hong Kong y Taiwán. Irse significaba el abandono de sus hogares, la separación de sus familiares; pero quedarse significaba sufrir las consecuencias de la Revolución Cultural y otros desastres.

Cada año mueren en Argentina más de ocho mil personas, y detrás de cada una de esas tragedias existe una industria floreciente basada en los pagos de los seguros y resquicios legales. Sosa es un abogado que recorre los hospitales públicos y las comisarías en busca de potenciales clientes. Luján es una joven doctora que acaba de llegar a Buenos Aires. Una noche sus destinos se cruzan cuando coinciden en un accidente.

In a small northern Chinese city in 1997, Judge Tian privately struggles with the loss of his daughter, killed by a stolen car in a hit-and-run accident. On the bench he encounters Qiuwu, a mechanic accused of stealing two cars. Perhaps influenced by his emotional state, the outwardly impassive judge imposes an almost-obsolete criminal law on Qiuwu that sentences him to death for his crime. Desperate to mitigate his sentence, Qiuwu agrees to donate his kidney to a rich businessman dying of a terminal illness, hoping at the very least that his impoverished family may profit from his demise.

Yang-yang is a French-Chinese mix. She has never seen her French father. She does not speak a single French word. Her mum has re-married but she has been very lonely. She started working at the entertainment industry. The fact that she is a mix is a good selling point. The film depicts how Yang-yang dealt with her life, her relationships with men, with her mother and friends.

24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned factory in Chengdu, southwest China and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.

Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the two never speak to one another, the girl captures her appearance and life changes during the years through various means such as photos and drawings.

A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jin is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mother, while Mi is the more sedate and level-headed of the couple.

Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for Still Life (2006). The experiences of his childhood, the people he grew up with, and the changing landscape of his home town gave Jia the inspiration to make his first films. The documentary forms a poignant inquiry into the past of the director's life and Chinese society at the same time.

Do Over follows five characters over twenty four hours on the last day of the year. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. By depicting five different characters at emotional crossroads, Do Over examines the struggle of overcoming our greatest fears; the unknown of what lies ahead in the future, the fading value of our existence in the present, and most of all, irreversible mistakes made in the past that may catch up to us.

Tras la construcción de la presa de las Tres Gargantas (China) la aldea de Fengjie fue inundada y sus habitantes realojados en un nuevo emplazamiento. El minero Han Sanming regresa a Fengjie, después de 16 años de ausencia, a buscar a su mujer. También la enfermera Shen Hong busca en la aldea a su marido.

Tres épocas (1966, 1911, 2005) y tres historias, interpretadas por la misma pareja de actores, Shu Qi y Chang Chen. Un cuento sentimental que evoca la triple reencarnación de un amor infinito.

La película gira al rededor de Tao, una cantante del Beijing World Park, y su novio Tai-Sheng, quien se ocupa de la seguridad del parque temático. Pero los enamorados empiezan a distanciarse cuando otros personajes también ejercen su poder de seducción..

The film follows Robinson, a very succesfull real estate broker, who lives in a modern hotel in Taipei. But all the success also hides a lonely man, whose relations are becoming distant, including friends and lovers; Robinson's dream is the Crusoe, an island on the Caribbean, which he wants to try purchase.

Vicky es una joven con el corazón dividido entre dos hombres, Hao-hao y Jack. Por las noches, trabaja como relaciones públicas en una discoteca para ayudar a ambos. Hao-hao la vigila constantemente: controla las cuentas, las facturas de teléfono, los mensajes de su móvil e incluso su olor, para descubrir lo que ha hecho en su ausencia. Ella ya no le puede soportar y huye, pero Hao-hao la encuentra y le pide que vuelva. Entre tanto, Jack invierte en diferentes negocios; su manía de recibir con los brazos abiertos a todos los que necesitan ayuda, le causa algún problema que otro. Vicky ya se ha refugiado dos veces en su casa. Se establece entre ellos una relación más íntima, que podría conducir a una relación más estrecha o a una sólida amistad.

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.

In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which promise to get the gang nowhere fast.

In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which promise to get the gang nowhere fast.

Una joven actriz, Liang Ching, es perseguida por un hombre anónimo que le llama repetidamente, aunque después no habla. Él ha robado su diario, y le manda por fax sus páginas a diario. Al mismo tiempo, Liang ensaya para una película de rodaje inminente.

Un famoso maestro de marionetas oriental narra la historia de su vida.

A group of young Taipei residents is drawn into the city’s underworld through the growing obsession of one, the boyish Ah-feng, for the sexy Cantonese mistress of a gang boss.

A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, the two teens are forced into hiding.