Acting
By Heart follows Catherine as she tries to figure out a way to hold on to her American roots and identity, after being brought to Taiwan due to her parents' separation, by resisting an indoctrinating Confucian text she has to memorize at school.
A male urologist and his dentist husband were madly in love, but their relationship takes an unexpected turn when a video of theirs goes viral on social media. As the spotlight grows brighter, the allure of fame begins to infiltrate one's desires.
On a winter hot-spring trip, twelve-year-old Dodie refuses to enter the water in the girly swimsuit her father bought. Feeling misunderstood, she hides by the poolside, watching the girls in the bath—none of whom look like someone she wants to become. Then, the calm, androgynous presence of Fujiko, a 69-year-old bathhouse worker, catches her attention. Dodie quietly steps closer…
In the early 1980s, hundreds of the so-called female revenging/exploitation films were produced in Taiwan. The 2020 version was based on the old genre to recreate a fantasy of the bloody revenge. The film is one of Su Hui-Yu’s “Re-shooting” series, which re-visits historical sources in Taiwan during the old days around the 1970s-1980s while the country was under martial law governance.
In the afternoon, at a café, a young woman waits for her date. As time passes and he still hasn't arrived, her mind races with countless possibilities. Finally, she decides to act on a troubling thought that has been lingering in the back of her mind…
