Rui-Zhi
Yu Ting, a 16-year-old high school student, comes home one day to find a "sister" of her age, her cousin from Vietnam, her mother’s hometown. Yu Ting's mother has promised to get the underage girl to work in Taiwan under the disguise of her "adopted" daughter Yu Lan.
Mad Monkey
Ko Chen-tung (You Are the Apple of My Eye, Road to Mandalay) and Angelica Lee (The Eye, The Garden of Evening Mists) make an unusual romantic pairing in this offbeat romantic comedy from director-cinematographer Chen Ta-pu. Ko plays Croc, a young gangster who goes back to work for his former boss at a city councilor’s office after his release from jail. Croc’s latest task is to deal with Ping, a headstrong farmer who adamantly refuses to give up her land for redevelopment. As Croc and Ping develop feelings for each other, Croc is determined to become a better man and hang on to his newfound happiness — even if it means defying his own mob.
No English overview available now. This film was nominated for the Golden Harvest Award 2021.
A-Fang
A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can’t decide if she wants to live or die.
Loo
A gang conflict brews as dispute about the lucrative elver harvest rises. Fellow gangster Loo is desperate to extricate his fisherman father, Gu, from the impending warfare, but they are nonetheless caught in the crossfire.
Yu Xiang
台湾南部のろう学校で実際に起きた、性的暴行・セクシャルハラスメント事件を題材に『無聲』を撮ったのは、本作が長編初監督作となるコー・チェンニエン。 事件について綿密な調査を行い、事実を一人でも多くの観客に伝えるため、映画化に踏み切った。 世間から多くの批判を受けかねない、深刻な社会問題を描くことに挑戦する監督を支えたのは、ユー・ベイファ、チュウ・ヨウニンの敏腕プロデューサー２人。 本国では、教育者や政治家をはじめ、多くの観客が事件の深刻さを問題視し、台北の週間興行収入1位を獲得。勢いはとどまることなく、台湾の金馬奨では、8部門ノミネート。チェン・イェンフェイの最優秀新人俳優賞など2部門を受賞した。 2021年度の台北映画祭では、最多7部門8ノミネートを記録。チェン・イェンフェイの最優秀新人俳優賞など3部門の他、観客賞を受賞した。
Sheng
Set in Taiwan during the 'White Terror' period of martial law, a high school girl who awakens in an empty school, only to find that her entire community has been abandoned except for one other student. Soon they realize that they have entered a realm filled with vengeful spirits and hungry ghosts.
Ah-pan
A man chooses to leave the city and goes back to his hometown in the countryside. However, he finds that his dream of being a farmer is shattered as the property developers have flocked into this small town in Southern Taiwan. Consequently, the farmland is taken over by holiday homes and villas, which not only look incongruous in the landscape but have destroyed the serenity. A woman who left home lives in one of the villas. She has been trapped in the house both physically and mentally until she meets the man. Their encounter is about to change everything…
Pan
Right in the afternoon after the graduation ceremony, the boys' plan to celebrate was disturbed by a sudden rain. Xiao-hai rushed to the park and it was already past the time he and Xiao-pan were supposed to meet. The rain had stopped; everything looked brand-new. Summer is on its way, but a sudden death has made everything somewhat different.
Cheng Wei-Lin
Lin, a young boy bullied in school. Classmates accuse Lin's father of being a serial killer since he caused a hit-and-run accident several years ago. Lin turned to meat pie peddler who used to be a gangster. Lin stole his mother's money and asked the peddler to kill four of his classmates. But the peddler didn't take revenge for Lin; he ran away. Because of this, Lin transfers to a new school, a transformed person. From the scrawny boy bullied around, he has become the ring leader of a gang of bullies.
Liar #2
More than just naughty, they play tricks on classmates, tease girls at school, fight with other boys, and lie to everyone until their teacher breaks down. They are named Liar No. 1 and Liar No. 2. The most important act planned in their life is to go to the mysterious water park, where they can leap through the portal at the end of the water slide to the fairy-tale world OZ and live as grown-ups happily ever after. However, the commitment is torn by a careless betrayal.
Ping finds a guitar with only three strings at the port and tries to fix it by himself. Meanwhile, his father, the rookie temple host, tries to catch a big snapper as an offering to the god.
A crime drama of a group of 5 teenages.
