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Lush Reeds
2018-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Newly married journalist Xia Yin moved into her husband’s apartment. However, her not-so-sweet newlywed life, as well as the suicide…
Nice to Meet You
2018-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Graduate student Yi-wen gets on the wrong train and meets a former classmate from her past, Wei-chiang, who is now…
Pundusina
2018-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Adapted from the online comics Pundusina, the story shows Macao’s typical family values and ways of family members getting along…
We Outlaws
2018-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the early 1990s, trans people lived in a world that was unknown. Usually “he” is Chen Shi, an ordinary…
When Darkness Comes
2018-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A young girl Pui and her father live together leaning on each other for support, but they still feel lonely…
Areca
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
At night, neon lights are flashing and sitting in a betel nut stand are the Cao sisters. The industry is…
At the Time
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the Chinese New Year of 2017, Solar and I went together to visit David Zhang who was practicing kung…
Between the lies
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In 1960, China was in the age of famine, father and daughter living in poor rural areas together. Living in…
Bi China
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Bisexuals. Who are they? What lives do they lead? How do they feel about coming out? What are their thoughts…
Born Wasted
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The frustrated painter decided to burn his failed paintings. Unexpectedly, when the paintings burned down, they turned into paper cranes…
Stella
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
What does marriage, love, intimacy mean? What should they be? Stella met his long lost lover by chance. He lived…
Swallowtail Butterfly
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
‘Body’ is an object we are all familiar with. For British sculptor Anthony Gormley, it is a medium for expressing…
The Foolish Bird
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Winter is just about to start in a small town in southern China, when Lynn (16), a ’left-behind’ child who…
Lucie
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
After a big fight, teenage girl Lucie steals her boyfriend’s motorcycle for revenge. She rides out but later realizes the…
Myanmar Bride: A story of A zhen, Ma Yong & Han’Ai
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Mangshi, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, on the southwestern border of China, is home to many women who married…
Blossom in Midnight
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The film is about a woman from a rural area and works in a small restaurant as a cleaner with…
One Summer
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Late one night, Zhen Liu’s husband, Shen Xiaoping, was arrested. He’s been missing for over thirty days. Zhen Liu doesn’t…
Open Sky
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Two friends reconnect at their childhood haunts in the heartlands. As the night lengthens, their conversations draw out their sense…
Shanghai Youth
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
As a special generation born in New China, the 100 thousand educated youth from Shanghai has been through enormous hardship…
Still Life
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the dream I had one early morning in 2014, I was sitting in the backseat of a car. The…
The Corn is Flowering
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In a remote rural area of China, a middle-aged man took his father to a hospital to see a doctor….
The ShoeShiner's Journey
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
If someday on a noisy city street or a dusty road of a remote village in China, a battered van…
Foolish Village
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This is my fifth time coming back to my own village, where I was born and brought up. After I…
Golden Gate Girls (Bilingual Version)
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Hong Kong’s first “directress” was a San Francisco native and an open lesbian. Esther Eng (1914-1970) was a true pioneer…
Miss A
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Based on a true story, the film takes its inspiration from the opposition protest Xu Tong’s Wheat Harvest met. The…
My Milk Cup Cow
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The father tells his daughter Nunu a lie that there is a cow in her milk cup. She believes it…
On My Planet
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
“On my planet” is a short love story. The concept is that everyone owns a little planet. The main character…
The Transplants
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A young Chinese couple struggles to adapt to their new home and grows increasingly estranged from one another and from…
Young Jigme
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
There are two roads in the woods. You can only take one of them, and wonder about the other for…
Dialogue between Blue & Green
2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Taiwan’s democracy and freedom are generally envied by the Chinese world. At the same time, Taiwan’s blue-green dispute often casts…
Golden Gate Girls
2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Esther Eng (1914-1970) was once known as “the only Chinese-American female director in Hollywood”. Early in her life, she made…
The Trail From Xinjiang
2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Musa and his friends, all men, all young, all from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on China’s northwestern border, now wander…
Trash Village
2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This is the fourth film in my Zoujiacun series within the Folk Memory Project. In 2013, I came back to…
My Life against Taiwan Sotokufu --1891-1931
2012-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
“My Life Against Taiwan Sotofuku – 1891~1931” is Taiwan’s first biographical animated documentary. The film combines animation, archival photos, footage,…
Children's Village
2012-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This film is the third one I have made for the People’s Memory Project, returning again to the same village….
People's Park
2012-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
People’s Park is a 75-minute single-shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in…
Dragon Boat
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The filming began in 2001 and lasted for ten years, recording the story of the dragon boat in Lianxi Village…
Gold Underground
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Yulin, once the poorest region of Northwest China, has rapidly become “China’s Kuwait” for the mining industry launched in recent…
Millionaire In Checkfun
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The Check Fun Store is an innovative business model. Every store is divided into hundreds of small checks to display…
Satiated Village
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
It is the second documentary of “My Village” series since I joined the “Folk Memory Project” and returned to my…
The Men Talking Nonsense
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The current state of life of unsuccessful literary youth….
Almost In Life
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This is a film, but also a journey. In the indifferent poetic journey of director Tai Ting, I meet people…
On the Road
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Only a few days before the Spring Festival of 2018, several truck drivers set off from Nantong, Jiangsu Province, to…
The Starving Village
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
One woman, nearing 80, is living out the last two years of her life. From when she is still using…
Everyday Everyday
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Sook Chen quit her job. She decided to go to Peru. Ma could not understand why. In fact, he could…
Storm under the Sun (Chinese Version)
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This is the first feature documentary concerning Mao’s purge of writers and focuses on the 1955 Anti-Hu Feng Campaign, where…
Storm under the Sun (English Version)
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This is the first feature documentary concerning Mao’s purge of writers and focuses on the 1955 Anti-Hu Feng Campaign, where…
To Say Goodbye
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A girl falls in love with a classmate. She knows why she loves him, but she wants to find out…
The District Councillor
2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The year 2003 is a rather turbulent period for Hong Kong – the economy was in recession, the government constantly…
The Need for Rites
2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Sook Chen meets a fortune teller on the street. The whole conversation soon becomes unbearable….
Bing’ai
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
With the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, now under construction, 1.13 million people along the Yangtze River will have…
Nobody’s Girlfriend
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The Short film is made during Tan Chui Mui’s CinefondationResidency in Paris, casting another two residents, Nadav Rapid and Rusudan…
Wu Ding River
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In northern Shaanxi, those three-wheeled trucks who came to the city from rural areas came to be suffering. They talked…
Company of Mushrooms
2006-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The whole film is mainly a conversation between four big men in one night, and the entanglement of the relationship…
Love Conquers All
2006-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Ping (Coral Ong Li Whei) has come from Penang in the north to Kuala Lumpur to work with her aunt….
Who Is Haoran
2006-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A group of small-town boys has prepared to beat up on this boy named Haoran for a long while. Belligerent…
South of South
2005-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Fujian, Guangdong, and Hainan Province of China have always been called “southland”, and the homeland of the protagonists Malaysia is…
A Tree in Tanjung Malim
2004-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A fictional autobiographical sketch from the director’s youth. A seventeen-year-old girl skipped school and came to Kuala Lumpur. She had…
Blame On The Girls
An attempt….
Hubble Bubble
After quitting her actress job, Riiko lives with Masao, an illustrator. At the same time, Mito, a childhood friend and…