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- A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
- Alan is trapped in three absurd relationships. His girlfriend Angel is deeply in love with him but Alan's detachment keeps letting her down and pushes her to a nervous breakdown. Belle has just fled from a broken marriage and rents the room next to Angel's; she also happens to have been a young love of Alan's, who Alan has not forgotten. Madame, 40 years old, spends her life waiting for her mafia boyfriend to come back, until one day Alan shows up and caresses her lonely heart...With a bold attempt to use cross processing procedure on colour reversal film stock, FALLING...IN LOVE beautifully unfolds these distorted and tangled relationships.
- 'The Bad Man' is a documentary of the life story of a violent and bloodthirsty young man from Kachin, Myanmar, who casually discusses killing as if it were not his own story. His past of a non-voluntary, military life has cost him a great deal and completely changed his post-military life. With all the wounds and experiences, he is now considering which path to take for the future.
- The love sea of Taiwan in 1980', an offshore island--the Matsu Chinbi Village. Don Quichotte was a single-parent father. He was full of imagination and faith toward his life, which formed his attitude when facing all his problems. Many years ago, Don Quichotte's wife couldn't take it anymore and left Matsu to without saying goodbye to her husband and child, Eggie. Now, he wants to find a mother for his son and he thought Nina who's the owner of an ice cream shop would be a good choice. Nina's husband was killed by a broken piece of artillery during an air raid; she was so sad that she was addicted to sleep since then. She fell asleep all the time to avoid the pain. One day, the plague spreading news was coming from Taiwan. The plague was spreading immediately and people were panic, which made the villagers worried and became suspicious about the people around them. In order to prevent plague, the entire village was isolated into quarantine and the plague check for the entire village had begun. A villager with diabetes was forced to leave Matzu and sent to for Quarantine. How did Don Quichotte save villagers and successfully made Nina fall in love with him?
- The millennium summer was the best days in Ren-jie's life. He met Xiao-ping, walked hand in hand with her through their youth and wrote the opening sentence of his life poem. But a visit by his father in the military changed his life forever. He fell into the uneasy atmosphere of 2006. When he was discharged from the air force, the cruel reality wore away their romantic love. Ren-jie had to leave Xiao-ping. They fell in love under the sun and out of it at sunset. The days tortured them and blurred they clear eyes. When they finally got back together, would they recite again the poem on how beautify life is?
- Miao people are fond of azure blue attire and luxurious silver ornaments. On carnivals or festivals, Miao women usually attend in full dress, wearing head ornaments weighing several kilograms. In the past hundreds of years, Miao people seldom have intermarriage with non-Miao nationalities so the Miao traditions are well preserved among them without being influenced by the outside world. The most characteristic instrument of the Miao nationality is the reed-pipe, which is made of several bamboo tubes of different lengths. When the bamboo tubes are tied together and filled with reeds, beautiful music can be played on the reed-pipe. Miao people hold the "Reed-pipe Carnival", often attended by thousands of people, on big traditional occasions, where songs and dances are performed by Miao people. Miao people have very distinctive national features.
- A cute coed leaves her mother's home and gets involved with a pastry chef who just finish his military service. The two rebelious youngsters deal with the harsh realities of life on the streets of Taipei by having links to the local criminal element.
- Eight stories from different filmmakers chronicle 24 hours in Taipei.
- High in the mountains of Taiwan, is the remote village of Smangus. Inhabited by a unique group of indigenous people called the Tayal, Smangus is the only place in Taiwan that now practices common ownership of land and property. This is a place where nature and man have found balance. Now, witness every part of the lives of these people, through pain and joy, and experience the unique bonds formed with the ancient trees around them, in a film that documents A Year In The Clouds - a year amongst the sacred forests of this tribe.
- This story is about Bibi, an adventurous little girl full of ideas. Once during her usual mornings by the staircase, where she likes reading her story books she realizes that she desperately wants to grow up fast. Having a very vivid imagination she quickly invents a plan to reach her new goal.
- Asking her grandmother what advice she has for young people, filmmaker Anita Chang receives a simple reply: "Politics!" Despite a third stroke and a century of struggle, "Democratic Grandma" remains true to the ideals that earned her acclaim and a memorable nickname in Taiwan. However, she also knows that progress exacts a price-a realization rendered vividly and with poignant candor in Chang's portrait of her headstrong amah. Tracing the parallel threads of her female relatives' stories, Chang (SHE WANTS TO TALK TO YOU, SFIAAFF '02) uncovers revelations of political persecution while focusing on the struggle to maintain-and sometimes resist-the bonds of filial traditions. A mesmerizing and provocative meditation on history-making and the post-colonial condition, this dynamic documentary intimately depicts what it means to be a part of a family, a nation, and a world in constant upheaval.
- A documentary about dance teacher Lin Ssu-tuan, who is over 80 years old but still fervently pursues her ideals and passions with her body.
- Taiwan's first TV travel program features a bus as its storyline.
- "Tudou", who just turns 19, lives with his uncle and older brother in a Sanheyuan compound. He starts to fend for himself at an early age and takes on high-risk jobs of labor, even ones in legal grey areas. A group of young people from the countryside of Yunlin, Taiwan are eager to turn their lives around, but life is ever changing. When they join the workforce and start a family at an early age, will their children share the same fate?
- Caring for an autistic adult can be seen as an act of faith. It is unpredictable. A regular interaction can lead to a violent lashing-out. However, due to its lack of exposition and its pure form of observation, the film captures something even more profound: life as a collection of failure, pain, and tragedy as felt by its protagonist, Chen Hung-tung, a father who cares with extraordinary patience for his autistic son Li-fu.
- People say that what happens in dreams is the opposite of that which unfolds in reality. But sometimes, reality itself is like a dream, and also a mirror image. Although reality can present a reflection of our dreaming lives, it cannot reverse time. In dreams, however, like an island where time and space are stagnating, a new moment may seem familiar again.
- A visually stunning paean to spiritual pilgrimage that creates a world of intense reverence, distinctly Asian in its imagery. Set to Georgian folksongs with 3½ tons of shimmering golden grains of rice.
- Director A-Shun is doing all he can to capture the golden era of Taiwanese-language cinema in his new film. Despite encountering one problem after another that pushes him to the brink of collapse, everybody still says to him: "You can do it!"
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