To Each His Own Cinema
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, “To Each His Own Cinema” brought together 33 of the world’s pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the…
Three Times
In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.
Millennium Mambo
The youthful Vicky is torn between two men, Hao-Hao and Jack. At night she works as a PR person at a night club to support both of them. Hao-Hao keeps…
A City of Sadness
The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror”, mainland China’s political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.
Play While You Play
A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei,…
The Boys from Fengkuei
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to…
Flight of the Red Balloon
The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d’Orsay, ‘Flight of the Red Balloon’ tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes…
Café Lumière
Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm’s length, whether it’s her father and stepmother or Hajime, the owner of a small bookstore who…
The Assassin
A female assassin during the Tang Dynasty begins to question her loyalties when she falls in love with one of her targets.
10 Plus 10
10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each…
Dust in the Wind
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun…
Daughter of the Nile
The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
The Time to Live and the Time to Die
The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan.
Flowers of Shanghai
Women struggle in a Shanghai brothel where everything only appears to be beautiful.