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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 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.
- A tormented student uncovers unsettling secrets at her remote high school as betrayal and a paranormal encounter upend her life.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent.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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Huang, a taxi driver, is like the most common urban dwellers, earning a living but also becoming drifted apart from his family, bearing his wife's harsh personality and his daughter's puberty day by day. One night in his ordinary life, a gunshot strikes nearby all of a sudden. What Huang doesn't know is that this robbery will change his entire life.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cheng-Hsun, an overworked anesthetist, had involved in a medical incident. He tried to reveal the truth but no one trust him.
- A 12-year-old girl's dilemma between a friendship and a possible future.
- 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?
- "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 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...
- 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?
- 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.
- 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?
- Hindus celebrate 'Mrityubhoj', or the Death Feast, on the 13th day after a cremation as a remembrance for the departed soul, and also as a ritual to help the soul find heavenly abode. However, today this practice has become akin to a status symbol and a reflection of a family's social standing. This film takes a fly on the wall approach, following a family in the Chambal district in India, as they get ready to organize a death feast following the demise of their father. Caught between tradition, societal pressure, and prestige on the one hand and on the other hand, activists trying to put a lid on the pernicious practice of Mrityubhoj, especially for the poor, it tries to capture their predicament of being caught between a rock and a hard place.
- 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.
- 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.
- Three bailiffs draw lots to decide who will perform tomorrow's execution. Quei-wu gets the mission. But his wife just got pregnant, he asks Hsin-chuen to fill in for him to avoid bad luck. Hsin-chuen, however, struggles to say yes.
- 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.
- A stranger offered a failed porcelain maker a lot of money to create a high quality qing-bai vase. Some time after the job was done, the maker discovered at an antique auction for Northern Song Dynasty ceramics that the featured piece looked identical to the one he had made for the customer. An investigation into possible forgery uncovered a conspiracy that began back in 1949.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wu Si tries to make a high budget independent film and gets into a great contradiction and confusion.