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- Using a crack team of doctors and his wits, an antisocial maverick doctor specializing in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way.
- Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
- A tormented student uncovers unsettling secrets at her remote high school as betrayal and a paranormal encounter upend her life.
- A hearing-impaired boy transfers to a school for children with special needs. But his excitement about blending into a new environment immediately turns into fear when he witnesses the reality happening in the school.
- Xiao Zhen is a 16-year-old girl who just wants to live a typical teenage life in high school. But since she was born with the ability to see ghosts, her life will never be normal.
- Police officers Pi Zi and Ying Xiong are as different as day and night. One lives a luxurious lifestyle and does nothing but drink coffee and wait for information from dubious sources to crack his cases. Another believes that law and justice are the pillars of society and is constantly on the street catching criminals. When a case brings these two top crime-solvers together, sparks fly and light creeps into the dark city of Taipei.
- Cheng-Hsun, an overworked anesthetist, had involved in a medical incident. He tried to reveal the truth but no one trust him.
- A woman who believes she chose an unconventional path in her life is startled to find her children are stepping farther beyond society's boundaries in this drama from Taiwanese filmmaker Hsiu-Chiung Chiang. Ai-tsao (Li-li Pan) is a widow who is nearly 60 years old; her husband, over twenty years her senior, has been dead for nearly two decades, and Ai-tsao's life has settled into a comfortable routine of looking after her elderly mother and doting on her two adult children. Ai-tsao had a strong independent streak when she was young and struck out on her own over the objections of her parents, but she's not quite as willing to accept that her children have chosen lives different from her own. Ai-tsao slowly comes to the realization that her son is gay and struggles to come to terms with his lifestyle, but it's even more difficult for Ai-tsao when she discovers her daughter is going to be the unwed mother of a mixed-race child.
- Guo Wen-han, Mayor of Wanhe City, was seeking re-election but being kidnapped a few days before polling day by a young man from the North Bank, a poor and seriously polluted area of the city. It was a scheme plotted by a local petrochemical enterprise, hoping to ensure Guo's victory in the election so that their expansion application could be approved afterwards. However, this false kidnap turns to be a real one after the plot went astray and everything was out of control.... The fiction story, based on a true social issue of Taiwan, depicts struggle of the unprivileged for environmental justice under a huge web of polico-business complex.
- The documentary follows five kids who stutter ages 9 to 18, from all over the United States, who after experiencing a lifetime of bullying and stigmatization, meet other children who stutter at an interactive arts-based program, The Stuttering Association for the Young, based in New York City. Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent. Over the course of a year we witness first hand the incredible transformation that happens when these young people of wildly different backgrounds experience for the first time the revolutionary idea at the heart of SAY: that it's okay to stutter.
- A 12-year-old girl's dilemma between a friendship and a possible future.
- Chen Hao Yuan is an honor student with a mellow personality. His best friend Hong Cheng Yi, on the other hand, is delinquent who did time in juvenile detention for bank robbery. Together they helped their classmate get off drug addiction, exposed their teacher's dirty secrets, and even tried to find the bees that have gone missing because of the upcoming 2012 apocalypse. Their carefree attitude toward life turned to rage when they discovered that a corrupted politician was responsible for both of their families' misfortunes.
- Taipei in the 1970's was a very intolerant place for homosexuals. This story is about a young man named A Qing whose family cut him off because of his sexual orientation.
- Radically rethinking the tired talking-heads template, Tsai Ming-liang's latest digital experiment turns the human face into a subject of dramatic intrigue. Comprised of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals (Tsai devotees will no doubt recognize his long-time muse, Lee Kang-sheng), the film shrewdly deemphasizes language while reducing context to a bare minimum. In their place, the beauty and imperfections of each face take center stage. Accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's soundtrack of dynamically modulating drone frequencies, Tsai's subjects variously speak, stare, and, at one point, sleep as the camera quietly registers the weight of personal history and accumulated experience writ beautifully across every last pore and crevasse.
- A filmmaker who has been living in exile in Hong Kong visits a festival in Taipei to present a film has been banned in Mainland China.
- Wen-de, a staunch defender of marrying for love in his youth, is now a father. On the day Taiwan passes its same-sex marriage law, he finds himself being hounded by local women trying to introduce a marriage partner to his daughter. Meanwhile, his daughter is at home, celebrating her new engagement to her girlfriend. How will Wen-de face the challenge of modern views on love?
- A troubled psychologist returns from the U.S. and sets up a clinic in Taiwan, where mysterious patients and uncanny events shed light on his murky past.
- Ping Pong is a social thriller. It tells the story of the social ailments behind a horrific paranormal death event. After the painstaking investigation, what's revealed is nothing more than the barrenness of the remote village and the dearth of people's souls.
- Xiaoyue finds that her mother has been working for a long time away from home when she receives the apples sent from her mother. Just entering her puberty, Xiaoyue comes from a new immigrant family from Vietnam. She is laughed at and bullied in school because her old father makes a living as a scrap collector. The rebellious Biyan always stands out for Xiaoyue. She even plans a three-day journey to see her mother with Xiaoyue. Ms. Chen is faced with a dilemma. She is going to retire but the after-school tutorial class in the community is the only place for her to care her students. For Xiaoyue and her friend Biyan, her class is their hope.
- Seeking to start anew, an ex-con released on parole finds himself trapped in the shadow of his past and paying the price for a noble sacrifice.
- Orangutans, native to Malaysia and Indonesia, are the "Man of the Woods". But since the 1980, Taiwanese merchants have smuggled the furry great apes to Taiwan to sell them as domesticated pets. This documentary shows the efforts of research institutes who have been working to rescue these creatures by training them to eventually release them back into the wild. Can the apes once again swing in the paradise they seem to have lost?
- In order to take care of his old mother, who has lost her intelligence and is disabled, Xia Changming remains unemployed at home. Under the physical and mental pressures, Changming always feels depressed and helpless. When the police bring his mother back and his wife take his son away, he receives a call and decides to takes his mother to travel.
- Dong has been released from jail. He killed someone imprudently years ago. When he was locked up, he had a little daughter, who was just 3 years old and a young wife, Lan. However, after 12 years in jail, everything has changed. Lan chose to be a betel nut beauty, and secretly had an affair with Bung. On the other hand, Dong's daughter Ting, has grown into a difficult teenager. Due to Dong's criminal history, Ting was bullied at school. In order to protect herself, Ting never mentions about her father. Dong tries to get his normal life back, but he cannot find a regular job to support his life and family. Now, he isn't sure whether being released from prison is a rebirth or entering another jail?
- A "yes-man" taxi driver tries to take revenge and regain control of his fate. However, it is fate who plays a joke on him instead. On this absurd day, a psychological rollercoaster awaits.
- "There's only one goal, and that's to get rich!" exclaims Xue, who is determined to become super-rich, by any means necessary. An unscrupulous Taiwanese businessman living China, Xue seems to have it all. At the height of China's economic boom, billionaires with huge cash flow are eager to invest in his properties. Not only that, he seems to live an enviable life: a beautiful young wife, an adorable 8-year-old son, an obedient 22-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, and a giving and submissive mistress who waits patiently in the wings; what can go wrong? But somewhere along the way, something goes awry...will Xue be able to keep his world from imploding?
- A girl returns home from Paris and opens up a small patisserie with no name in a alley. There is no menu and everyday she only makes 3 types of desserts based on her mood each day. Naturally her business is not doing so well. No one knows of her past and why she appears to be so cold towards everyone holding onto some dark secret within her. One day a bright young man coincidentally enters the shop, refusing to leave and eventually becoming a staff in the store. Through his arrival, the whole atmosphere of the store changes. Will this man be able to open up her heart and let her face her past?
- A strict and unapproachable father and his two sons live in a soon-to-be-renovated old house. The younger brother likes to tag after his older brother as if it was the most important task of his life. Day after day, they lived in calm peace, like nothing would ever change. It wasn't until a mysterious moment that happened one summer afternoon where things changed...
- Once Upon a Time examines life in Taiwan throughout its history through the eyes of a families and individuals, the young and the elderly, as they struggle to make their way.
- Insurer Ah-bin lived to his forties and never thought that he could be a saint. Just by stamping on policies and he can change people's lives. Everything starts from the loan shark, Mr. Hsi who saw the potential business from Ah-bin. As long as Mr. Hsi pays the premium, Ah-bin takes care of the insurance claims, and the insured "exchange some of their owns," everyone are beneficial. What's better than a deal like this?
- THE ISLANDS follows the journey of former student activist Chen Ting-hao, as he decided to escape the toxic political environment of Taipei City. He ended up landing on Matsu Islands, a political backwater located off the coast of China. Serving as a political staffer managing local affairs, he is forced to ponder on the intricate interplay between political ideals and reality.
- What will the world be like 100 years from now? No matter how the world and technology change and progress, one thing will not change ─ Life needs each other so that we won't be alone.
- JIA-CHAO has been living with his autistic brother JIA-LE for more than 10 years. One day, JIA-LE got lost when they were playing hide-and-seek on trip...
- As a single parent, Helen's mom works hard to raise her daughter. She hopes one day Helen will find the right man, get married, and make her a proud grandmother. But Helen does not think that a "man" is what she needs and wants - It is time that mother and daughter come face to face with reality.
- Trying to save his high school love from an unhappy marriage, Weida ask voice actor Wu for help. But their feelings might get in the way of their mission and start a hole new problem.