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- Two women struggle to talk about their roots: one a daughter with her father, the other a teacher with her students.
- An aspiring cop investigates a man with the same face as her deceased partner.
- Wei-Chong has just graduated from college. The boss of a movie studio admires his talent and invites him to make a ghost movie in advance of writing that script. In order to get this chance, Wei-Chong forces himself to accept this job. As the beginning of writing, there are more and more strange phenomena happened in Wei-Chong's life. It seems that all the things are related to a picture. Although Wei-Chong felt afraid of these phenomena, he wrote it into his script. He became more and more nervous. Therefore, his girl friend, Shu-Way decided to find out the truth. What the hell is going on in this story?
- Armed with video cameras, twelve artists present a highly stylized portrait of SAN YUAN LI, a traditional village besieged by China's urban sprawl. China's rapid modernization literally traps the village of San Yuan Li within the surrounding skyscrapers of Guangzhou, a city of 12 million people. The villagers move to a different rhythm, thriving on subsistence farming and traditional crafts. They resourcefully reinvent their traditional lifestyle by tending rice paddies on empty city lots and raising chickens on makeshift rooftop coops. Directed by acclaimed visual artists Ou Ning and Cao Fei and commissioned by the Venice Biennale, SAN YUAN LI explores the modern paradox of China's economic growth and social marginalization.
- In LA Chinatown, a young woman dreams of being a chef in her father's restaurant, but when she finds out that her father plans to pass down the restaurant to her brother, she has to re-evaluate her dream.
- Imagine you have been given an all-access backstage pass to tour with dance rock band The Slants in Asia. Picture yourself joining the band to tour Taiwan's streets, night markets, clubs, and infamous Spring Scream festival. See the gritty, quirky, and hilarious moments experienced only on tour wrapped around an unbelievable concert at one of the most popular music festivals in Asia.
- Five troubled strangers meet in a wasted dance club only to discover a terrifying truth about their lives.
- Kaneki-kun Searching for Memories.
- A teacher named Chen Yi-Shing took his class to a field trip in the mountain and encountered huge wasp attack on the way. Unable to escape, the teacher exposed himself naked to the horrible wasps' stings and sacrificed his own life in order to save his students. This film is based on a true tragic event that happened in the '80s. It's one of the most graphically horrifying film made in Taiwan.
- The film consists of three parts. 1. Frustrated in his work, Lu Guojun finds that his son has been treated unfairly like himself, so he makes a reckless move and is arrested. His wife comes to bail him out but he refuses to come home with her. 2. Elderly Yu Younian is hospitalized for heart disease. During his critical period, he writes a will. The contents of the will were unexpected to three children and aunt Tian, who had been taking care of herself for a long time. 3. On the train of business trip, Sun Jiaming ran into two girls going to Disneyland. He fell in love with one of the beautiful girls. So, Sun has been looking for an opportunity to meet. They don't expect to be sexually harassed on the train. The protagonists of the three stories meet in a convenience store.
- TO THE LAND OF BLISS is an intimate portrayal of the Chinese Pure Land Buddhist way of dying and living. In 1998, the filmmaker/anthropologist Wen-jie Qin returned to her home region in Sichuan Province in southwest China to research the post-Mao revival of Buddhism. During her fieldwork on the sacred mountain Emei, an eminent monk named Jue Chang passed away. People in the community laughed and cried at the departure of their beloved teacher. They gathered to escort his body through a rite of fire and to observe his consciousness rise to a paradise known as the Land of Bliss of Amita Buddha. The filmmaker captured some of the wonders and mystery from her search with these Chinese Pure Land Buddhists for the door to Amita Buddha, the Buddha of Infinite Light and Infinite Life.
- Taiwan has 23 million people. These are the stories of six of them.
- Singapore's oldest cemetery is in an area known as BUKIT BROWN. In 2011, the Singapore Government announced that the construction of an 8-lane roadway cutting through the heart of the area would begin in two years. In its final year as an intact cemetery - during the grave-sweeping festival of Qing Ming - we speak to the descendants of those buried in Bukit Brown's jungled hills and witness age-old rituals passed down through generations. Through their voices, we see the cemetery, not as a place of the dead, but a site filled with memories and living heritage. Revealed too is the unexpected beauty of a Singapore that visitors rarely see - a secret garden hidden behind the gleaming towers of this Asian metropolis.
- Hsiao-Hsien Hou (A City of Sadness) and Edward Yang (Yi Yi), two rivals who were the driving forces behind New Taiwanese Cinema and their passion for cinema are portrayed by Hirokazu Koreeda.
- A magician comes back to Shanghai to find his son separated twenty-five years ago.
- "What did you do when you were my age?" In spring 2019, over the sea the director went to Tokyo from Taiwan, living alone in a small 5J room. It was the year she was welcoming her 30-year-old, and at the end, she encountered a journey of memory, images and sound, and the enthusiasm for personal films.
- In China, Ben & his friend watch a ping-pong competition on a communal village TV, and Ben's dreams begin. Ping-pong is in Ben's heart, but he can't ask his mum for money to buy the balls & paddles.
- Nowadays, people tend to think they are consumers, whereas health care workers are in the service industry who should provide whatever they request. Over 40% of the nurses in Taiwan who has professional licenses choose to give up their dream and switch to other occupations. They were once been proud of being a nurse, giving all their selfless commitment and contribution to carrying on Florence Nightingale's spirit of self-sacrificing and dedication. And that was just one of the many reasons what's holding them back...
- In a lucid dream, there is a pair of joined islands above the sea horizon. Ocean tide rises mildly when a sacred three-legged raven lands on the shore, then there follows the man in kendo armor. The man wakes up with a heavy headache in an abandoned attic upon the city center. He wonders whether he was then dreaming of a raven by the shore, or whether he is now the raven, dreaming he is an obsolescent warrior trapped in a busy metropolis.
- Body at Large intends to explore the problems of prohibition, limitations and discrimination faced by people of borderline gender. Its protagonists include the veteran Taiwanese film critic Alphonse Perroquet Quail Youth-Leigh, muscular LEE Yao, transvestite AG and the transgender performance artist James CHEN. The film shows how they have managed to escape from the mainstream gender culture system.
- In the bustling industrial hub of Guangzhou, China, filmmaker Haryun Kim films three migrant worker children during their final year at a privately run primary school. As she captures their passions, struggles, frustrations and dreams she discovers the shocking reality of Chinas growing educational underclass. Propping up Chinas economic boom is the largest migration in human history as millions of people leave the countryside to work in the cities. Many parents have no choice but to take their children with them. There are more than 20 million migrant worker children in the cities and under Chinas residency laws they find themselves locked out of the national education system.
- Lili, who hasn't seen her father for a decade, comes back to her hometown. Her father, Jixiang, who has mental problems for years, lives in the village with his mother. As Jixiang's mother has passed away, the family start discussing Jixiang's future.
- A letter brings Mo back to where he wanted to forgo, a place away from the city and he is forced to face the most unforgettable and memorable, an accident. What happened at the seaside during that summer? Let the sea tell you the secret .
- A man put a missing person notice on himself
- The biggest real estate developer in the world is - unsurprisingly - Chinese. Property tycoon Feng Lun is convinced opportunities are equal for all in China. But do a scaffold builder from the countryside and a car salesman from Beijing, representing the other social strata of Chinese society, share his belief in the Chinese Dream? The Chinese Bubble shows how class differences motivate a country to move forward in uncertain times. It unravels the delicate dynamics of Chinese growth and reveals the sacrifices of the people who are making it happen.
- Set in the late summer in 1947, a group of medics and wounded of PLA chased by enemy are short of water and try to survive in severe environment.
- Born in 1981, a Nanao Atayal from Yilan, Wu Ta Elementary School teacher Wilang went hunting with elders in the mountains and learned rattan weaving techniques since he was a little boy. He has an old soul that is passionate about Atayal culture. In 2014, Wilang embarked on the 'Finding our Roots Project' at Wu Ta Elementary School. He took school children to the old Wu Ta Village, trying to find the place where their ancestors used to live. However, the houses in the old village have been reduced to fragments of slate. Wilang's search for the original design of Atayal houses launched his quest to imagine Atayal houses.
- My aunt was a melancholy patient, and when I was feeling depressed, she encouraged me with her own story, this is a letter addressed to her.
- The Adventures of Ray is a story about a young man Xiaolei(know as Ray) Zhang, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. But Xiaolei is an honest and kind-hearted young man. When he is about to graduate from university, in his own way, he refuses to obey the instructions from the head of the student affairs department to monitor and report on his classmate Yueru Shen, who is a Falun Dafa disciple. As he protects Yueru, he forms a wonderful predestined relationship with Falun Dafa.
- Follow the daring, action-packed exploits of Peter Mache, Master Detective in the Case of the Plaster Parrot. Be amazed, as Peter, a store mannequin dummy, along with a shop window full of characters, comes alive to spoof those wonderful film noir movies of long ago. Any similarities to the 'B' movies of the 1940s and 1950s and the Maltese Falcon are fully intended. Peter, pursuing the famous baseball-sized Belvedere Diamond, falls from a twenty story building and in love with a dame- there's always a dame ain't there? She's Lotta the girl with a lotta you know what! The evil Big Man, who has to be seen to be believed, tries to foil Peter's plans. Will he win out? You?ll be breathless as you follow Peter Mache Master Detective from one spine-tingling episode to the next. On this DVD there are: 10 Cliff-hanging episodes of Peter Mache Master Detective BONUS FEATURES 'Making of' segment. Go behind the scenes to see how Dummy Detective was produced and Two Thrill-packed trailers.
- Bound by their painful past, a mother and a daughter go on a journey in an attempt to find salvation.