18th Taipei Film Festival

A sadisitic landlord manipulates the lives of his tenants through a network of surveillance cameras installed throughout the building.

Shot and hospitalized, a cunning robber refuses surgery to avoid police custody. A detective sees through this but is resisted by a dedicated doctor. A tense battle of wills ensues, as the threat of a rescue by the robber's gang grows.

In a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world.

When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.

The 25 years old Hanieh lives in the household of her married sister in Tehran. Every day Hanieh travels long and tedious hours to get to the suburbs where she works as a teacher at a girls' primary school. Hanieh tries to get shifted to a school inside Tehran but the paperwork seems stuck in bureaucratic channels. Increasingly exhausted by her paralysing everyday life and the two-faced reality she subliminally experiences as a woman, an employee, a younger sister, and unhappy partner, Hanieh struggles to find her way out, but despite her real intention, Hanieh plays a different role...

They go from town to town, a big top on their backs, their show over their shoulder. They bring dreams and disorder to people's lives. They are ogres, giants. They've devoured the theater and miles and miles of road. But the imminent arrival of a baby and the return of a former lover make almost-forgotten feelings resurface. So the party begins.

The story of two teenagers that are about to have a baby. After deciding they will keep the baby, they have to deal with their parents and also with their everyday life.

A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ending.

Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a love relationship and Iva is desperately in love. Suddenly Iva's father appears, to whom Hedi feels strongly attached. It seems that only one world exists for Hedi - her own.

They are bonded, nonetheless, by friendship and affection for a hen, whose eggs just might make a difference to Prakash's impoverished family. When the boy's father sells the bird, the chums desperately attempt to raise funds in order to buy it back.

A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.

It's broad daylight in a shantytown and a man witnesses a woman being murdered by masked men on the rooftop of a nearby building. He tries to surreptitiously take a photo the event but is seen. He runs away and hides in his studio apartment but the men soon find him, bashing his head in with a hammer and knocking him out. After being unconscious for some time, the man wakes up in the middle of the night to find himself naked and abandoned in the center of town. To his even greater surprise, he comes across a crying child. Where is he and who is this kid?

Three kids grew up in a secluded indigenous tribe in the mountains and the woods. They are all very optimistic, energetic and playful, but they are also troubled by their own family issues. Their handicapped teacher opens an after-school session to help them with their schoolwork, and it's like a ray of love is shining on them. The teacher has a beautiful voice, but never sings. One day, the kids find a tape of their teacher's recording and are amazed by her voice. They decide to take this tape to Taipei.... What changes will this trip bring to all of their lives?

Accidently hired by a private investigation firm, two young men are sent on a mission of collecting debt. When they finally get a 10-million-dollar check from the director of an orphanage, they find that they don't feel happy at all. A battle between their real personalities and the harsh reality begins...

Han and Hao are about to get married soon when Hao picks up a strange red envelope on the street and then all hell breaks loose with a vengeful supernatural bride wreaking havoc on his life.

The sudden death of their son prompts the couple to shut themselves up in their own worlds. The mother begins to spend more and more time feeding the stray cats on the street while the father pretends that nothing is wrong. Eight years after the incident, their daughter comes home, forcing the family to face their pain again.

Li, a shy girl with hearing loss in her left ear, musters the courage to express her love to Xe Ge, but Xe Ge starts dating Bala, until a tragic incident brings him and Li together.

Soon after a young police officer reports for duty, he is confronted with the unspoken rules. There are people who cannot be questioned and cases that cannot be further investigated. Although he has been sidelined, he refuses to give up the old case. However, having spent so much time and effort, will he find out the truth or some long forgotten conscience?

Truly Lin lives a lonely life as an employee in an office. She reminisces about her high school life when she and Tai Yu, the school's notorious student, fall in love with each other.

Based on true events and long-circulating urban legend in Taiwan. Wei is nowhere to be found one day before his grandma returns from her own strange missing incident. Wei's girlfriend desperately searches for his whereabouts and finds that it is the horrifying mystery of the little girl in red that has followed and haunted them all along.

The body of a shop owner's wife is found beheaded in the basement and the shop owner is the suspect.

In the war-torn Kachin State in Myanmar, waves of poor workers flock to dig for jade, dreaming of getting rich overnight. The director, Midi Z, is the protagonist's youngest brother. Midi tries to find out why his brother became a drug addict and abandoned his family. The film depicts how people struggle for survival in the darkest corners in Myanmar.

Li, a former soldier who's family broke apart during wartime, was born in Hebei Province in China. He joined the army since youth, never about any political beliefs, but to survive by fighting for those who fed him. The war brought him to Taipei Taiwan, a place where he spent six decades to fit in. Li never had a chance to return to his hometown Hebei, but has revisited it countless times in his dreams. whenever he dreams of it, he sees blood flowing all over the place. At the age of sixty, he decided to separate from his wife and children and lived alone for 20 years. He missed all those years wasted in wartime when he was young, at the same time, he had no idea how his eventful life would come to an end...

Taiwan's earliest modern poetry group-LE MOULIN-emerged in the 1930s, when Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule. Part of the wave of modernist literature and avant garde thinking sweeping Asia from the West, what impact did these young Taiwanese poets have, and what questions did they pose?

Without means to put down roots and settle, two migrant workers seek solutions on an island where anchorage is prohibited