Stray Dogs

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.

Beautiful 2012

A superb package of shorts by four leading East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae-yong on an emotional imposture, Gu Changwei on pregnancy in China and Tsai Ming-Liang on time and the city of Hong Kong.

Visage

To Each His Own Cinema

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

The Wayward Cloud

Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

On a dark, rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era.

What Time Is It There?

When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.

青少年哪吒

Vive l’Amour – Es lebe die Liebe

Tsai Ming Liangs Durchbruchsfilm erzählt in stilisierten Bildern eine bittersüße Geschichte aus dem modernen Taiwan über Liebe, Eifersucht und Zurückweisung. 1994 gewann das Drama den Goldenen Löwen in Venedig.