Director: Wang, An-Min

Cameramen: Chen, Chun-Yi

Producer: Season Wang

How does the seemingly carefree A-Gong confront the challenges of his life? Now in his sixties, after enduring so much, what has led him back to the mountains? For most hikers, the mountains offer healing and fitness, but for A-Gong, are they a place of deep peace or simply a path chosen out of necessity?

Director: Wu, Hsing-Ying

A middle-aged woman begins to share her thoughts and feelings with her husband who passed away seven years ago, and a magical journey of mourning thus begins. The documentary made by a woman is transforming “widow” into “Wi(n)dow”.

Director: Lin, Huan-Wen; Lin, Yi-Jing

In the seventies, a taxi driver led a group of the nation’s top stunt drivers on a thrilling tour across the country. It was a time of unparalleled success, with their performances always crowded. But just a few years later, the stunt team was abruptly disbanded, and no one knew why. What happened to the stuntmen remained a mystery until...

Director: Frankie Sin

Producer: Huang, Hui-Chen

Every year during the Ching Ming Festival, our family worships a boulder without a tombstone. Because our ancestors, who were fishermen for generations, lived as sea nomads and were buried in random locations after their deaths. Over time, the burial sites and even the names of our ancestors were lost, leading our elders to choose this boulder by the sea as a symbol of our forefathers.
Half a century ago, my grandfather brought my father to settle in Cheung Chau, and since then, our family has not returned to the sea. Although we came ashore, our hearts continued to drift. More than a decade ago, I moved to Taiwan, and like my father, I often gaze at the distant islands, uncertain which one is our true home.

Director: Hong, Te-Gao

A heavily indebted ex-convict struggles to survive while yearning to prove his worth. He trains boxing relentlessly, but those who care about him keep leaving one after another. This is a long-time documentary of the director’s friend, Xin-Cheng, who graduated from a Christian rehabilitation center together, realizing that what he perceived as care has become an obstacle to Xin-Cheng’s self-identity.

Director: Chen, Chih-Ming

This is a story about my sister’s sudden suicide and how the members of a broken family struggled to carry on after the unexpected loss of a loved one.

Director: Flora Linghwa Huang

Hoang from Ben Tre, Vietnam, Hsui-Juan from Kalimantan, Indonesia, and Chang-Hua from Guangxi, China, live together in the seaside town of Dongshi, Chiayi. Their international marriages did not lead to prosperity, instead, they found themselves drifting from place to place, working and caring for their families in a fading fishing village.
Beyond accepting their fate, how can they carve out private moments of resistance and happiness amid their fragmented daily lives?

Director: Cheng, Po-Yuan

The director traces his family’s stowaway and refuge journey across Taiwan, the United States, and Vietnam. The story centers around his grandmother, expanding to include the lives of his uncles and aunts across different places, and furthermore delves into the conversations on self-identity among immigrant descendants, the so-called “bridge” among post-war Chinese-Vietnamese communities.

Director: Tsai, Chia-Hsuan

The protagonists of the film are are siblings whose mother, Euis, gave up her dreams as a young girl due to financial difficulties and came to Taiwan to work as a migrant laborer before eventually marrying and settling down. Now, as the siblings’ dreams begin to take root, they navigate the cultures of Indonesia and Taiwan, transitioning from childhood to adolescence—a journey from which there is no turning back, marked by a unique cross-cultural experience of growing up.

Director:Jiang, Xuan-Nian; Ji, Hang

Producer:Vincent Du; Huang, Hui-Chen

In China, where same-sex marriage is not legal, a lesbian couple decides to go abroad to purchase sperm in order to fulfill a promise made to one of their parents to have a child. How can they get Chinese society to accept that the child has two mothers?

Director: Han, Chung-Han

This documentary follows the surviving family of a suicide victim, telling the story of the pain and challenges they face after losing a loved one, and how they gradually reclaim their lives and find hope.

Director: Yen, Chi-Ying

More than twenty years ago, Yao, Chia-Yi moved to Taiwan from China after marriage and eventually settled in the single veterans’s dormitory, Dawoxinshe. Now a widow, her days pass slowly between caring for the veterans and working part-time jobs. Reflecting on her relationship with her parents, Yao, Chia-Yi gradually understands what brought her to this point and shaped who she is today. As the dormitory is about to be dismantled, the uncertainty of relocation looms once again.

Director: Huang, Shu-Mei

In response to the global trend of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the government began fully developing green energy in 2017, setting a goal to increase the green energy ratio to 20% by 2025. Farmland and fish farms in central and southern Taiwan have become prime targets for optoelectronic companies competing for land. One-tenth of the land in Cigu District., Tainan City, has been repurposed for the construction of photovoltaic power plants. As a result, many middle-aged farmers have lost their rights to lease the land, leading to job loss and forced migration. Coastal fish farms have also been transformed into a ”sea of photovoltaic power,” drastically altering the future of fishing villages under the green energy policy.