The Tour 私家車

Short film (32’)  |  directed by Cai Yu-han 蔡渝涵  |  Taiwan, 2018

the CAST

白小櫻 | 黃婕菲 | 李曉川

the story

Li Qing and her mother Xiu-Juan just arrived in Dongguan, Guangdong (China). They are looking for their father and husband, a Taiwanese businessman. During their journey, they meet Chen, a private chauffeur.

李罄隨母親秀娟前往廣東東莞尋找失聯的台商父親，旅程中結識了私家車司機小陳，但在小陳的帶領下旅程並不順遂，三人一同經歷一趟無盡的尋父之旅。

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

2019 — 41th Golden Harvest Awards, Taipei, Taiwan Won the best Script, Best Art Direction and Excellence Awards in the Student category
第41屆金穗獎｜學生作品｜優等獎，個人單項表現獎－編劇，個人單項表現獎－美術設計

→ The Tour official page

She & Him 雁雁

Short film (25’)  |  directed by Yang An-qing 楊岸青  |  Taiwan, 2018

the story

「我們會像大雁一樣，一輩子緊跟著彼此，永遠不會再分開。」

1996年的飛彈危機，正在當兵的小馬與小萍是對恩愛的年輕伴侶，隨著歲月過去，兩人迎接女兒雁雁的出生，在日常的耗損裡，愛情有了些許變化，曾經炙熱的親密情感在煙消雲散之後，愛情，到底會轉化成什麼樣的存在？

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

2018 — Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan – Kaohsiung Shorts special screening

→ She & Him official page

My Wife is a Chicken

Short film (32’)  |  directed by Jingjue Li  |  USA, 2018

the CAST

Sarah Navratil | Matt Steele

the story

Bella’s wife has gone missing – the same day a chicken appears in her home. Coincidence? Bella’s cuckoo-pants therapist says no. Time for couples therapy.

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

2019 — European Cinematography Awards

→ My Wife is a Chicken official page

The Mosquito Patch 防蚊貼片

Short film (24’)  |  directed by Anthony Lian 練健輝  |  Taiwan, 2018

the CAST

何子華 | 屈中恆 | 江沂宸 | 楊靖輝 | 洪群鈞

the story

Kai-kai is seventeen. After an accident left him in a state of brain death, the doctors advise his parents to consider donating their son’s organs. His father agrees but his mother is not ready yet to make such a decision…

凱凱是一位十七歲的高中生，因為一場意外造成腦部死亡，醫生建議凱凱的雙親同意器官捐贈。

凱凱的爸爸覺得凱凱還很年輕，器官捐贈是可以幫助他人的善事，沒有什麼反對的理由。但是凱凱的媽媽卻沒辦法立即做出決定...

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

2018 — Macau International Movie Festival

2018 — 17th International Student Film and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy (ISFVF) won Outstanding Chinese Student Film Award

→ The Mosquito Patch official page

Last Gasp 課後輔導

Short film (28’)  |  directed by Lin Xin-ti 林芯緹  |  Taiwan, 2018

THE CAST

高英軒 | 汪采涵

the story

對你來說，我是最特別的，對吧？

沒有出口的無助，渴望關愛的她，獨自面對心中愛情模樣破碎又試圖想拼湊的詩晴，說服自己這是愛情的另一種面貌。當老師成為割捨不掉的一部分時，使她漸漸地於這段關係中失去自我。

The Thorn 棘

Short film (23’)  |  directed by Zhuang Yu-ru 莊育儒  |  Taiwan, 2018

the CAST

徐華謙 | 蔡明修 | 季念潔 | 徐銘志 |

the story

A-yuan suffers from a unusual affliction. While his body is undergoing a series of changes, his mind starts bounding with the nature surrounding him…

阿源生了一場怪病
身體的異變，讓他進入未知玄妙的狀態
和自然交織出一幅奇幻的異像...

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

2018 — Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing, China

2018 — Golden Bell Awards (金鐘獎), Taipei, Taiwan, 1 nominations and 1 award:

Best Sound — Won

→ The Thorn official page

Classroom 教室

Short film (27’)  |  directed by Chien-Hung Lien 練建宏  |  Taiwan, 2018

100th Birthday Wish 小孩不在家

Short film (17’)  |  directed by Chien-Hung Lien 練建宏  |  Taiwan, 2016

The story:

Today is Granny’s 100th birthday. Her family members decide to throw her a grand birthday party, but Granny’s birthday wish is different from what everyone expects…

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

2018 — 34th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA, Shorts competition

2017 — 18th San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, USA, showcased in Asia Pop!

2017 — Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, showcased in Pulse of Taiwan

2017 — Hawaii International Film Festival, Hawaii, USA, showcased in (Dis)Connection shorts

2017 — 10th Seoul International Senior Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea, showcased in Special screening

2017 — Kaohsiung Film Festival, Short film competition

2017 — 5th Golden Lotus Awards, Hangzhou China, Short film competition

2017 — InDPanda International Film Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2017 — Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Tokyo, Japan – Special programs

2017 — 34th Busan International Short Film Festival, Busan, South Korea – Shorts for family

2016 — Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan – Kaohsiung Shorts special screening

The Boss 老大

Short film (24’)  |  directed by Wu Xiao-feng 吳曉峰  |  Taiwan, 2016

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

2018 — Short & Thick Asian Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea

2017 — Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, showcased in Pulse of Taiwan

2017 — 39th Golden Harvest Awards, Taipei, Taiwan – Drama Competition

2016 — Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan – Kaohsiung Shorts special screening

Red Spider Lily 未竟之地

Short film (41’)  |  directed by Yang Kai-ting 楊凱婷  |  Taiwan, 2015

The story

汽車行駛在海岸線上，在腰間藏匿黑色金魚刺青的女孩，帶著黑色金魚到沙灘葬。遇見金魚的那天，她與攝影課老師上了床，金魚被賦予日本攝影師川內倫子的名；失去胎兒的那天，倫子也一起死去，尾鰭開灑如彼岸花綻放。女孩在末日前踏上旅程，為失去的一切尋覓此曾在的證據。年輕導演嘗試透過各種隱喻的元素，找尋創傷的治癒可能。

The film is about a girl who got post-traumatic shadow after an abortion. She banishes herself, travels alone, writes letters, and holds memorial ceremonies as a therapy for her post-traumatic memory.

Festivals and awards

2016 — Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan – International Shorts Films Competition

2016 — 38th Golden Harvest Awards, Taipei, Taiwan – Student Film Competition

Hpakant Jade Life 帕敢青年

Short film (30’)  |  directed by Lee Yong-chao 李永超  |  Taiwan-Myanmar, 2015

Festivals and awards

2017 — Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival, Hong Kong, Hong Kong – Selected International Short Films

2016 — 56th Krakow Film Festival, Krakow, Poland – International Competition

2016 — 15th Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan – Competition

2016 — 34th Fajr International Film Festival, Fajr, Iran – Special Screening

2016 — 27th Ankara International Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey – Special Selection Program

2016 — 38th Golden Harvest Awards, Taipei, Taiwan – Drama Competition – Won Excellence Award and Best Cinematography

2015 — 52th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan

2015 — 20th Busan International Film Festival, Busan, Korea – Wide Angle Section, Asian Short Films Competition

Fan Fan 凡凡

Short film (30’)  |  directed by Liu Jia-xin 劉家欣  |  Taiwan, 2014

the story

As part of an under-cover research project into the sex industry, graduate student Lin Fan sets herself working at a local gentleman's bar. But the thin line Lin rides between this new moonlight profession and her ‘normal’ life are blurred in the red haze of an underground that plays by its own rules.

With a relationship that mixes illusion with reality and an underground culture that flaunts its extremes, Fan is thrust into a zone she didn’t know existed where she feels a stranger even in her own body.

Festivals and awards

2017 — Internationales FrauenFilmFestival, Dortmund, Germany

2016 — 23rd Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan – Won the Grand Prize

2016 — 38th Golden Harvest Awards, Taipei, Taiwan – Drama Competition

2015 — Interfilm Festival, 31st International Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany – Cinema Formosa, Taiwanese Shorts – Won the Formosa Cinema Audience Award

2015 — Montreal World Film Festival, Montreal, Canada - Student Film Festival – International Competition

2015 — Brussels Short Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium – International Competition

2015 — CinemAsia Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Nederlands – Official Selection

2015 — 37th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France – International Competition

2014 — Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan – Kaohsiung Shorts special screening

→ Fan Fan official page

Take Me Home 阿嬤妳還記得嗎？

Short film (30’)  |  directed by Chen Jing-ru 陳靜儒  |  Taiwan, 2014

the story

Yu-sin lives with her grandmother who suffers from dementia, leaving the young girl with no choice but to take care of her. All grown up on the outside, she is still a little girl on the inside, who cries at night for her mother to take her home.

隔代教養的的予昕，童年裡父母親的身影總是缺席。隨著時間的流逝，失智症開始伴隨著阿嬤與予昕的生活，一切都需要予昕來承擔，憶起自己成長的一切，情緒受到了波動，憤慨的內心不斷地煎熬著她⋯⋯

那首日本歌謠曾是記憶中彼此生命的證明，歌聲緩緩地憶起她倆的共同記憶，最後是否能喚回屬於她倆彼此對愛的意義？

Festivals and awards

2015 — Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan – Student Film Competition

2015 — 37th Golden Harvest Awards, Taipei, Taiwan – Student Film Competition

→ Take Me Home official page

Rowboat 划船

Short film (28’)  |  directed by CJ Wang 王希捷  |  Taiwan, 2014

the story

Is love nothing but an illusion mix of memories and imagination? Or is it a fantasy that keeps lingering in one's head throughout life? Rowboat tells the story that everyone experiences, or desires to experience, once in their life. A story of falling in love.

Festivals and awards

2015 — 22th Women Make Waves Film Festival Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan

2015 — 37th Golden Harvest Award, Taipei, Taiwan - Drama Competition – Won Best Drama Award

2014 — 19th Busan International Film Festival, Busan, Korea – Wide Angle Section showcase

2014 — 16th Taipei Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan – National Short Films Competition

2014 — 67th Cannes Short's Corner, Cannes, France

→ Rowboat official page

He An 何岸

Short film (26’)  |  directed by Lu Min-yu 呂旻諭  |  Taiwan, 2014

the story

老胡最近總是做著相同的夢。他夢見自己在一艘船上搖搖晃晃，直到有一天他認為那不是夢­，而是他該去實現的事情，於是便不顧一切地離家，實現夢裡的模樣。

A Little Life 蜉蝣

Short film (34’)  |  directed by Li Jia-ling 李佳玲  |  Taiwan, 2013

the story

After his wife passed away, he started to dream…
In his dream, he rowed a boat under endless tress on a dark, secret little river…
Yu Dong wanted to keep his wife’s phone with her in the coffin. However, it was stolen by his nephew and sold in the second-hand market. The sadness seemed endless that made him start to send messages to his wife’s phone.
Xiao Jun, an independent, young girl lived with her grandpa, bought the phone in the market. She started to receive those messages from Yu Dong…

他總是夢到，在一條被樹影遮滿天的神秘河流中，他不停地擺渡著...
余東因不捨剛過世的妻子，想將她的手機留在棺木中，但卻被親戚偷走，轉賣到二手市集。一直無法從喪妻之痛中走出來的他，開始傳簡訊到妻子的手機。
和高齡爺爺相依為命的曉君，在二手市集裡買了余東妻子的手機後，開始也收到余東傳來的一封封簡訊...
 

Festivals and awards

2014 — Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong

2014 — Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan

2013 — Youth Way-Light Film Festival, Taiwan

→ A Little Life official page

Smile 微笑

Short film (11')  |  directed by Li Jia-ling 李佳玲  |  Taiwan, 2012

The story

Since Yu Dong’s wife got stroke, she lost her ability to move and speak. Going to see his wife in the nursing home every day after finishing the work in the hot spring house has become part of Yu Dong’s life. His daughter who worked far away from home often worried about them. In order to make her not worry too much, Yu Dong always pretended he’s all right and told her daughter everything is fine. Before he went to see his wife, he would stand in front of a mirror and practice a nice joke and a big, sweet smile. Most of his jokes were about their nice memories. He hoped his wife could be happy even though she’s in a bad condition. However, every time when he saw his wife smile back at him, a feeling of indescribable sorrow surged within his heart...

Festivals and awards

2011 — 劇本獲台灣藝術大學編劇工作坊短片組優選

2012 — 獲新北市文化局補助拍攝16mm

2013 — 獲臺灣微電影節 社會組 金獎

2013 — 南京軟博會﹣台灣微電影館放映

2014 — 入圍城市遊牧影展

2014 — 東芝幸福影展 記錄獎

2014 — 於國立台灣美術館放映

Roadside Girls

Short film (15’)  |  directed by Denis Maugit  |  Belgium, 2012

the story

A spring morning on a coutryside road. Two hitchhikers get acquainted. Sarah, a 28 years old bohemian lifestyle traveller meets and take under her wing the young Alex, 19, that seems to have no purpose but to leave the place where she landed.

Festivals and awards

2013 — Indiana Short Film Festival, United States – Won the Audience Drama Award

2013 — 6th Kuki International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth, Berlin, Germany – French Program screening

2013 — Portobello Film Festival, London, England – International Competition

2013 — Odense Film Festival, Odense, Denmark – International Competition

2013 — 53th International Zlin Film Festival, Zlin, Czech Republic – International Competition of Student Films Zlin Dog

2013 — 15th Mecal International Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain – Teenager section screening

2012 — Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bruxelles – National Competition

Avec le soutien de la SABAM

→ Roadside Girls official website

Mother 母親

Short film (20’) | directed by 劉家欣 [Liu Jia-Xin] | Taiwan, 2011

Festivals and awards:

2013 — Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel

2013 — Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2013 — 12th International Student Film & Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China

2013 — Signes de Nuit International Festival, Paris, France

2012 — Taiwan Cinefest, London, UK

2012 — Taiwan Cinefest, Paris, France

2012 — International Student Film Golden Lion Awards, Special Screening