Directing
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 on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.
Loosely based on 1957's "Our Sister Hedy" and 1961's "The Greatest Civil War on Earth", this romantic comedy follows the Wong household, where the father acts as the glue that holds everyone together while Mambo, the protagonist and third daughter, tries to get her other sisters hitched.
When a single, successful female lawyer is involved in a highway car accident, she wakes up to find herself in an alternate reality where she's forced take on the responsibility of a full time mother and wife, dealing with her demanding architect husband and two difficult children.
Three key events during three different time periods, in three seasons, and on three nights culminate to change the life of Zhang Dong Ling.
The film is set in a pre-Covid Taipei, where a group of disenchanted souls are lost in a parallel virtual world.
When the unemployed miner Sheng digs out a hot spring in his barren land, he suddenly becomes so popular in the village that everyone wants to be friends with him, hoping to get a share of the treasure.
Following the success of The Long Goodbye, the Taiwan Catholic Foundation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia has embarked on a second documentary film dealing with the plight of elderly people suffering from conditions like Alzheimer’s and other degenerative disorders resulting in memory loss. When Yesterday Comes takes the route of a compendium of four shorts by different directors.
Xiao Ji is a well-off married woman who gives up her aspiration to study environmental conservation to support her successful husband and to please her dotting parents. Looking forward to an overdue romantic holiday, she is once again delayed by her workaholic husband on the eve of a scheduled train journey. Never travelled alone and afraid of dark, she decides to embark on a solo trip to Kenting, to participate in her planned tours in national parks. On the night train, she finds herself seated across from a free-spirited and down-to-earth stranger- and begins as an ordinary train ride soon turns into a self-discovery journey.
Rama, a 16 year old teenager, must face reality after a tragic accident that left his mother in a coma. With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Rama and his father try to face their new reality.
A masterful minor exercise in telling a story with a twist and an equally masterful exercise in the dramatic use of what's known as a Steadycam, a camera with flowing motion. The car journey with one lover too many gets completely out of hand. And after the twist, another one follows.
The discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for Filipino guest workers Manuel and Dado.
Respire is set in a fictional world transformed by a deadly, airborne virus in which people are required to wear masks at all times. A young girl who knows her time is short decides to enjoy one last day with the boy she likes.
Five 16-year-old orphans wake up to find themselves in a strange building with nothing but endless flights of stairs leading in every direction, seemingly infinite. To find an exit, the five teenagers must learn to deal with the others’ disparate personalities, the lack of privacy and comfort, their clear helplessness, and a machine that only feeds them under increasingly ominous situations.
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Look at Me is a romantic melodrama, taking place in the near future where everyone relies on VR technology. Zhang suffers VR addiction and so do the people around him. He is depressed because his girlfriend doesn' t look at him anymore during their dates and, as a result, their sex life turns cold. Zhang is frustrated until he discovers a world where people crave for "real interaction."
