New Taipei City Documentary

Jiu Peng_An CHU

Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council has confirmed Jiupeng Village in Manzhou Township, Pingtung County, as the site of the country’s first national rocket launch facility, thrusting this remote village into the center of a national policy debate.
Despite having lost an arm, community association chairman Su Wei-Fu-Jen continues to guide the occasional visitors through the village, telling stories of its history and landscape. From formal public hearings to standing before tourist maps, he moves between two worlds: on one side, the nation’s blueprint for future development; on the other, the preservation of local memory.
As villagers debate the arrival of the spaceport, Su voices both support and concern. A guide who has spent years telling stories of the past now finds himself facing a future filled with uncertainty.
As that future draws closer, all he can do is keep talking—insistently giving voice to the history of this place. Through his perspective, the film follows a village on the margins as it searches for its place in the present, caught between past and future, memory and development.

Echoes on a Pillow_Lei, Cheok-Mei

Starting with my childhood memories, I want to show how Macau’s society changed in the 1990s and how these changes affected family life and personal growth. Through simple writing and pictures, I keep shared memories alive while protecting personal privacy. This story shows Macau’s shift from Portuguese rule to Chinese rule, and families changing from large extended households to smaller modern ones.

HATI-HATI_Wu, Guan-Ying

“HATI-HATI” begins with a cross-border friendship. A journey to Indonesia leads the filmmaker to look back on the time once shared with a friend, while completing a farewell that came too late.
Through the mobile phone videos and messages left behind by the late Indonesian fisherman Gunawan during his years working in Taiwan, their relationship finds another way to continue.
In Indonesian,“Hati-hati” means "take care" or "have a safe journey," a phrase commonly spoken when parting. This film is dedicated to the goodbyes left unsaid and the regrets that still remain in our hearts.

Night After Night_Lorelai Jo-Hsuan Lin

Born in China to a Taiwanese father, two Japanese siblings inherit the trauma of political persecution that imprisoned their father and left him to die in exile. Now in their seventies in Tokyo, the sister struggles with insomnia while the brother searches for his father through memories, writing, and dreams. Discovering their father listed as having “no descendants” in the family genealogy, they embark on a journey to reclaim their history and belonging.

Shadows of the Island_Lin, Huan-Wen, Lin, Zih-Yun

For two decades, wind turbines have rapidly expanded along Taiwan's western coast, bringing green energy while transforming life in farming and fishing villages. Low-frequency noise, shadow flicker, and environmental changes have long been impacting the physical well-being and livelihoods of local residents. As the energy transition becomes a national goal, who will bear these overlooked costs?“Shadows of the Island” takes you beneath the wind turbines to hear the most authentic voices.

An Island Boy_Frankie Sin

On Cheung Chau, an outlying island south of Hong Kong, 20-year-old Po steps into his father’s shoes to become a fisherman. Friction constantly arises between father and son due to their contrasting values on fishing, yet they are bound together by the long, unavoidable hours spent on the same boat. Six years pass. Po’s father grows older, Po gets married and welcomes a child—assuming the dual roles of father and husband. These shifting identities force Po to confront a whole new set of responsibilities.

TPC Dormitory_Chang, Fan

The employee housing community of Taiwan's First Nuclear Power Plant in Tamsui was once home to hundreds of families. As the plant undergoes decommissioning, employees retire, longtime neighbors move away, and public facilities close, the community has gradually become unrecognizable to those who once called it
home.
As a community shaped by Taiwan's national energy policy undergoes transformation, the film looks back through the memories of its former residents to document the fading of this once-vibrant neighborhood. Through the lived experiences of different
generations, it explores the deep emotional bond between people and place, revealing how national energy policy has tangibly shaped—and reshaped—the home of a nuclear power community.

Investigation: City of Pipes_Chen, Hung

In 2014, Kaohsiung was struck by an unprecedented petrochemical gas explosion, exposing once again the city's unresolved dependence on heavy industry. Through a fictional investigation, this film adopts "voice" as its investigative method. Beginning with the ruptured petrochemical pipeline that caused the disaster, it gradually reveals the relationship between Kaohsiung's petrochemical industry and its citizens, while uncovering an industrial history that spans Taiwan's transition from authoritarian rule to democracy.

Present_Chen, Hsiao-Wen

Lina, from Indonesia, became the staff at a migrant worker shelter because of her fluent Mandarin, assisting Indonesian migrant workers with communication with the Taiwanese system. In assisting migrant workers, Lina witnessed the high risk of sexual harassment and assault faced by female migrant workers. Some, under pressure, simply chose to change employers to leave, while others persisted in filing charges. Regardless of their choice, Lina stood by them.

Through the fields_Dai, Wei, Chang, Tzu-Hsiang

In an aging village in northern Taiwan, a proposed mining project fractures the community, pitting supporters against opponents. As capital and interests move in, media and votes become tools in the power struggle.
Ming-hua, a daughter-in-law who married into the rural village, uncovers discrepancies in the mining assessment report and becomes a key voice in the opposition. As the protests escalate, she faces both external pressure and fracturing ties within the local community.
Water is the village's lifeline; money is a pragmatic promise; votes are the key that determines the future.
“Through the Fields” follows Ming-hua’s actions and internal conflicts, documenting how an individual in a seemingly modest position responds to the upheavals of her homeland while engaging in a dialogue with greater forces of nature and society.

Days in Nanshan_Hsueh, Lo-Yi

“Days in Nanshan” unfolds like a long countdown. Signs of the cemetery’s impending disappearance seep into everyday life: an official notice fluttering in the wind, numbers marked in red paint, fractured tombstones, and empty graves. These quiet traces of erasure gradually emerge across Nanshan Cemetery. It is not only the people who are saying goodbye—the cemetery itself is also bidding farewell to the city.

Toward a distant dream_Chien, Chen-En

In 2025, the Beitou Junior High School Girls' Softball Team won the Babe Ruth League U16 Women's Softball World Series. Although the team is based in Taipei, only three of its players are actually from Taipei. At the age of twelve, these girls left home to pursue softball, facing the pressures of school, training, and daily life on their own. By placing cameras in the players' hands, the director documents their everyday lives—where moments of sunshine and setbacks exist side by side.

The Ground Within_Chen, Hsiang-Hao

To preserve the memories she shares with the land, Jo-Chen Sung embarks on a bold endeavor. The film documents the challenges and setbacks behind her launch of “a-Ping Landowners,” a crowdfunding campaign to purchase the farmland. Through these conflicts, it reveals the differing ways Taiwanese society views land, while Jo-Chen embodies an alternative vision of a fulfilling life. Ultimately, the film becomes a meditation on the emotional bonds between people and the land.