Liao Ching-wen
Crew
Known For

This is a short film that requires the audience to pay attention. Pay attention to what does not happen in the frame; pay attention to the dialogue that is not said in the frame; and most importantly, pay attention to the man who does not appear in the frame.
Hear Her With Your Eyes

What if love fades? When have we drifted apart? To ease his partner’s fear of her fading fertility, Sen dedicates himself to preparing his body for parenthood. But after the doctor confirms his sperm motility is healthy, Sen recoils from the intimacy he once embraced. As her ovulation window begins to close, the fragile harmony of their marriage starts to unravel beneath the surface.
All about I Loved You

In a village often disturbed by military drills, the army sends soon-to-retire soldiers to take care of cows and sheep, hoping to build good relations with the locals. But this kind act cannot hide the long-term impact the drills have had on people’s lives.
This Is NOT My Cow

On the website OnlyFans, subscribers can pay to watch amateur pornography. Hsuan, who has 20,000 followers on Twitter, receives a letter from university student A-Hsien, who proposes that they make a video together. The two meet in a hotel to shoot Hsuan’s favorite sex act…
There’s No Sex, Only Fans

A mortuary in Taiwan stores the bodies of deceased children whose parents, for whatever reason, have disappeared. Their remains are kept at the top of a freezer, sometimes for years, until the funeral home organizes a ceremony. Houses and horses made of paper are burned to accompany the children on their solitary journey to the afterlife.
Paper Houses and Horses

Young Taiwanese worker Lin spends his days crafting intricate paper houses for funeral offerings. When his boss arranges a blind date for him, he begins to envision his future through the burning paper houses. What does an ideal life look like?
Paper Life

At a deer farm in Changhua County, a middle-aged man is asked to cut off a stag’s antlers in front of his two kids.
The Stag

Taku feels like he is incompatible with this world. But one day, he wakes up to discover that all his dissatisfactions no longer exist.
Blissgate

Through the aesthetic experiment of reconstructing its own time and space, this film reinterprets the time and space of online dialogue text, and explores the phenomenon and facts of modern interpersonal dialogue.
The Textual Way of Contemporary Dialogue

At seventeen, our body gets restless and our head gets hot. We try to feel ourselves; we influence ourselves, and we collide with ourselves.
A Lock With No Key

Wireless signals, like a digital fog, blanket the concrete jungle. Each phone connects a sleepless, loveless soul. In this chain of late-night calls, relationships and conflicts twist and spread, linking people by their desires and ultimately separating them by the same force. Perhaps some relations are never meant to last, only to touch us, once, like morning light.
Calls of Desire
The day Father Chatergil Potter left his room, he shed his duty as a Father. Though his body was frail and his mind slow, it was enough to finally experience the tangible world. He sought to understand folly, dreams, and what it truly means to be human—right down to the simple taste of a hearty meal.
Thus Spoke Chatergil Potter

Kuang has difficulty focusing during school choir. He's distracted by something more enticing than singing. When a charismatic new student arrives, Kuang's curiosity and sexual desire is taken to a new level.
Bubbling

Kuang, a student, was flagged by the school’s security system for posting unsafe phrases on the Internet, and as a penalty, his face was covered by mosaic. Most of his friends made fun of it, but reasonably refused to support his right, except his girlfriend.
Mosaic

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Our Windward Night

The metamorphosis of the story “Madame Butterfly” told through the perspective of three women over the past century.
Madame Butterfly of Nagasaki

On a small island, the indigenous Da’o people live in harmony with the Pacific. Their love for the sea prompts 19-year-old Vongnyan to enlist in the navy. Returning broken, he confides his traumas to the waves during bouts of insomnia. His younger brother, Bo, plays and lives in the water, completely carefree, yet he, too, will soon have to choose his future.
Piercing Water

Chu Chen, the 27-year-old lead singer of the indie band "The Land Reborn", is always performing and practicing. He doesn't want to waste any moment of his life since the misfortune inherited from his family is lurking in his restless blood.