Parco WONG Lok Han

The elder brother (the director) is writing a petition letter for his younger brother, caught up in the events of 2019. He recalls his own arrest in 2014 but finds it hard to put pen to paper due to the estrangement between the two. The elder brother sought refuge in re-watching family videos. He was surprised that their father had taken the brothers up the mountains to watch the mists. The mists from twenty years ago have now become a storm. The fate of the brothers and Hong Kong seems to have already been set in storm. The night before the younger brother was to go to prison, the two decided to ride up the mountain and have a heart-to-heart talk. They suddenly had the idea to play a game: Film the younger brother giving the Peace sign from the prison cell.

Li, I-Hsuan

People usually shy away from separation and death because there is no way to become familiar with it all. A Silent Before Farewell is a documentary about longterm care and home euthanasia for pets. The everyday life of the vet Liao, Kuan-Chi and the silent conversations with different pet families invite the audience to experience all the different emotions before the next choice is made in one farewell after another.

Li, Chih-Han

In Taiwan, if you want to learn midwifery skills, you must find a veteran midwife who is willing to pass on his/her skills. Tang, Kai-Lin chose to embark on this journey to learn from Wang, Hsiu-Hsia who has helped with more than 10,000 births, even as the midwifery culture is gradually disappearing. Amidst the shouts of the expectant mother and the cries of babies, Tang learned how to assist with births while also bearing witness to the realities and paradoxes in the corners of society. Inside the old midwifery clinic, she saw a microcosm of midwifery and birth culture. This also spurred Kai-Lin to look back on the meaning of being a midwife.

Wu, Chih-Chieh

On the streets of Taipei, a group of young, unhoused people drift between odd jobs and temporary shelters. What seems like a brief transition has become their protracted reality. This film follows the daily life of Lumi, allowing us to glimpse how he navigates the space between the streets and the system. His seemingly passive state of survival is, in fact, his chosen way of pursuing selfhood.

Wu, Pei-En

At its peak, the Minth University of Science and Technology boasted more than 300 faculty and staff members as well as more than 10,000 students. Declining birth rates and the poor reputation of vocational schools however meant there were now just a little over seven hundred students left. Many of the faculty and staff members lost their jobs as well. My father is a tier-1 manager in this school, which is on the verge of closing down. What difficulties are he facing? And what made him decide to continue fighting on in the workplace?

Chen, Hung-I

In Taiwan's protests on affordable housing, it's always the women who hold out to the very end in defense of their homes. To them, it was the home of their grandfather, father, husband, and future children. It was never their own homes that they were defending. When facing the state apparatus, legal system and capitalism in a patriarchal society, they resisted with the feminine traits of resilience, flexibility and courage.

Chen, Wei Cih

For every child of offshore islands, they will all eventually leave the island to further their education. Will the process of pursuing further education be a shackle or proof of the experimental elementary school's importance? How will the loss of the elementary school affect and change an island?

Mok, Kwan-Ling

The lives of a generation were changed by a pile of charges and imprisonment. If the young people had known what shape the suffering would take, would they have still tried so bravely to change the world? Hong Kong's social activism resulted in the police arresting 10,279 people. Among these, 2,899 have already gone through or are going through the legal process. Around 80% have been found guilty and sentenced to prison. The documentary A Thousand Winds converts the numbers back into people to show how they are responding to the trial in their youth.

Sophie YiChia FU

My mother came from Sichuan and migrated to Taiwan through marriage. She turned to religion to deal with the sensitive issues between China and Taiwan. When her daughter reached the age, her mother had given birth to her, she decided to pick up the camera and try to piece together her family memories in an exploration of the paradoxes in her identity.

Ren Yang

After his father passed away, the director returned to the old apartment that was set for urban renewal. The contents of the apartment introduced the memories and stories of the director and his family shortly before his father's passing, and helped them confront their unresolved emotional entanglements once more. How will the director and his family deal with their regrets and come to terms with the past?

Liao Ching-Yao & Hsu, Yun-Kang

A group of Formosan Macaques are climbing through the old trees in search of food, frolicking across the rooftops in Ziqiang New Village in Kaohsiung. Hsu, Kai and his neighbors have lived here for more than seventy years. Their childhood, youth, romance and family bonds all took place here. Their homes were devastated this time by a typhoon and heavy rain. The old houses will need to undergo a major renovation...

Hsu, Chung-Yen

Where the Bees Belong is a documentary that explores the ecological crisis facing honey bees. The daily life of A-Xian, a beekeeper living in Zhongliao, Nantou, is used to convey the humorous interactions and pace of life as they collect honey in the mountain wilderness. Despite the deadly threats posed by agro-chemicals to bees, the beekeeping family insists on living in harmony with nature. The film also explores structural problems, such as consumer habits, agricultural systems, and environmental change, to examine the feasibility of humanity living in harmony with nature.