導演/張弘榤Zhang, Hong Jie
製片/丁忠瑩Ting, Chung Ying

Hundreds of offshore wind turbines are being built along the west coast of Taiwan, in close vicinity to the habitat of less than fifty Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphins, which have long been disturbed by the noise. Yang Wei-Cheng, who has been involved in the research of cetacean pathology and sound for years, tries to uncover these invisible truths and find the balance between development and marine ecology.

導演/潘思涵Pan, Szu Han

Ming-Chieh, a gay man, became addicted to meth because of drug-fueled sex parties, and once suffered a severe episode of paranoia due to an overdose. Fortunately, he was saved by the help of his college classmates. However, Ming-Chieh’s drug use did not lessen after the incident, and his second bout of madness soon occurred...

導演/黃繼賢Huang, Ji Sian

Through this documentary film, the transactions between farmers and wholesalers as well as the agricultural issues inside and outside of the Xiluo Fruit and Vegetable Market were investigated and recorded. In the process of filming, it was found that issues faced by Taiwan’s agricultural industry is due to a dysfunctional production and sales structure that can be found throughout Taiwan. The aim of the documentary was to find out who had vested interests and who were the victims in the current production and sales system amidst the politics, the market, and the farmers. It is hoped that this documentary can provide reflection upon the state of agriculture.

導演/黃聖鈞Huang, Sheng Chun
導演/薛若儀Hsueh, Lo Yi
攝影/金建宇Chin, Chien Yu

In a closed room with the smell of chemicals drifting through the air, Cheng Wen-Ping concentrates on sewing a broken body back together. For twenty years, she has spent more time with bodies than other people.

This year, she set up a team, and with the pressure of training students and running the company weighing on her, it is clear to her that her current condition can’t compare to her old days, but she wants to keep going despite her body and mind verging on the edge of burnout.

導演/黃開璟Andrie Huang

Liu Li-Chen is a young Atayal man that is extremely gifted at boxing. During his junior high school years, he won several national boxing championships, and the easy wins made him lax and unwilling to practice. After high school, boxing championships became less easy to win, and his results continued to decline, causing him to lose his passion for boxing. Chen Che-Yu, a boxing coach who is also an Atayal, hopes that Li-Chen can once again use boxing to regain his pride as an indigenous person. Che-Yu wants Li-Chen to not give up on the last competition of his last year of senior high school, but Li-Chen doesn’t feel that boxing is his future anymore. He is about to graduate from senior high school, but he still doesn’t know what he wants to do in the future.

Che-Yu doesn’t want to give up on Li-Chen, but he can’t convince him to continue boxing, either. How can Che-Yu help Li-Chen find his way back to the ancestral spirits? Can Li-Chen regain his past glory without relying on boxing?

導演/黃惠偵Huang, Hui-Chen

A photo and a flawed eyewitness identification changed Cheng-Fu’s life forever. Years later, Cheng-Fu returns for the first time to the place in his memory that started it all, and tries to identify all the things that happened along the way, as well as his hopes for and disappointments in the justice system.

導演/陳蔚慈Chen, Wei Cih

On the oldest remote island in Penghu, Huayu, there is a huge open-air garbage dump. Since its completion in 1995, it began a life of co-existence with nature, and all people and animals live off of it, either directly or indirectly. In the midst of daily life, it has also quietly changed life.

導演/陳婉真Kite Chen

製片/林冠婷Lin, Kuan Ting

A group of mothers, who call themselves obasans, try to live by the saying “life is politics” by joining the election using an atypical approach. But how can these full-time mothers care for their children and run for an election at the same time? How will the mothers, who have become election candidates, continue to parent while persisting in their beliefs after their political awakening?

導演/陸孝文Lu, Hsiao Wen

Child Portrait is a mirror that presents life from multiple perspectives, reflecting the various relationships between the self and others, and the issues that come with different emotions. Painting is not simply a thin layer of medium presenting one’s skills, but an art of deep understanding and acceptance. The painting throws out questions, and I walk into the world of the painting with my camera to find answers with the painter across time and space.

導演/夏鵬程Dapeng Xia

導演/車怡岑Stephen Che

製片/吳柏泓Bon Wu

製片/杜海 Vincent Du

The film is about the amazing creativity of Nut Brother, a performance artist who time and time again creates works that generate public attention in China, stimulate public discussion and reflection, and push the government to solve these social issues. At the same time, he himself faces tremendous pressure from his family and society, choosing, struggling, and balancing between his ideals and reality.

導演/徐靖倫Hsu, Ching Lun

製片/黃嘉煌Huang, Chia Huang

Due to the pandemic, many people are forced to stay in their homes, unable to go out, living a simple and confined life. However, for the Wu family, such a life is nothing out of the ordinary. I-Hsin and I-No, a sister and brother with a rare disease, could face the end of their lives at any moment; they are cared for by their parents, who have a close yet distant relationship because of their responsibilities as caretakers. Day and night, they are an integral part of one another’s lives. Day and night, they live with death itself. When death is no longer the elephant in the room, every ordinary moment is a beautiful one.

導演/邱繼亮Chiu, Chi Liang

製片/黎靜如Li, Jing Ru

After returning to their hometown from the city, the two brothers Yan-Hung and Yen-Chung start out as entry-level porters. They establish their own alpine porter company, and lead their tribespeople to run it together. Despite the challenges presented by a system that doesn’t protect porters, the two brothers take their deceased older brother’s beloved son to Lake Jiaming, hoping that this journey will open up the future of their business.