Director │ Maso CHEN
Producer │WU Yu-wen
As a professor in the study of anatomy, one of the most difficult dilemmas is whether to support a loved one's wish to donate their body to a medical institution. Over the course of a semester-long anatomy class, we will look into the families of those who have donated their bodies, the teachers and students, and experiences how they face the conflict between death and the ownership of bodies.
Director │ HOU Zu-xin
Producer │ LIU Bin
Sixty-year-old HOU Mu-ren is one of China's first generation of rockers. After suffering a stroke in 2009, he lost the ability to speak for a time but not his passion for rock and roll.
Forty-year-old GAO Hu is the lead vocalist of Miserable Faith, a hardcore metalband from Beijing. After fame and success, he grabs his new album and begins his dreamed journey to Tibet.
Twenty-year-old LIANG Bo is the fresh-faced 2012 winner of The Voice of China. He is currently working on his highly anticipated debut album amidst intense media scrutiny.Rock guides them and gives them strength, regardless of age.
Director │ Ben KANG
Producer │WANG Xin
Sonam Darge has loved writing poetry since he was a child. He often imagines himself as the reincarnation of Tshangs-dbyangs-rgya-mtsho (also known as Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama) and wants to publish his own book of poetry. But then his younger brother passes away, and he gets rejected by the publisher. When religion fails to provide him with a sufficient sense of belonging, does this Lama -- a poet so colored by romanticism -- overcome his sense of inferiority with wisdom, and find the ability to seek out his soul within the world of poetry?
Director │ Kite CHEN
Father left a tremendous amount of things after he passed away. The bits and pieces of the memories of him vanish little by little as items being tossed away one after another. Afraid of losing the memories, the daughter picks up her camera and attempts to create a dialogue with the deceased father through items, documents he left behind, and words of people he once knew.
Director │Connie Yan-wai LO
Consultant │ IP Hon-ming
The Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots is considered as a historical watershed for Hong Kong. However, the three parties (China, Britain and Hong Kong) have remained so silent and reluctant to revisit this historical episode. As all three parties are unwilling to face the lessons from history and as we can see that lots of political frustrations and pressures are adding up lately in our community, can Hong Kong hide away from these historical questions any longer?
Director, Producer │TSAI Yi-feng
Zhi-ming's father's boat was seized and confiscated overseas. The family suddenly fell into economic difficulty. The father had no choice but to retire early and return home to find job and care for his grandchildren. To comfort his father, Zhi-ming wants to craft a miniature fishing boat as a present. Meanwhile, Zhi-ming's younger brother, Zhi-mao, who wants to venture into the fishing industry, also returns home to investigate what happened. He talks to many fishing boat captains in Xiaoliuqiu and learns that what happened to his father is a common experience for almost all fishermen from the island. If a boat has been seized and confiscated, the fishermen would say the boat has been "taken away". A boat usually worths millions of Taiwanese dollars; once it's seized and confiscated, the fishermen would be left with nothing. Some captains hustle to recover the loss, but for Zhi- ming's father, the reality of once having a boat has sunk and been buried at the bottom of his memories.
Director │ Norbert SHIEH
Producer │ KIM Ki-jin
PRESERVES observes agriculture's effects on individuals in Taiwan through the process of growing and harvesting suan cai over the course of one season. The film reveals a disappearing lifestyle and landscape through intimate vignettes that emerge from lives that revolve around the industry. As this nomadic crop meets further difficulties of emerging farming and land regulations, the uncertainty of future seasons quickly and inevitably becomes clear to those involved in its production.
Director │Nicola CONTINI
Producer │ Alessandro CARROLI
Emilia and Angiolo decided to travel the route followed by thousands of Chinese workers towards Italy in the opposite direction: they emigrated to China in order to make up for the bankruptcy of their family business in Tuscany. After having spent 8 years in the Far East and approaching their seventies, Mr. and Mrs. Fattori have another choice to make, in contrast with their son and daughters: where should they build the future of their family?
Director │LIANG Mai
Producer │ DAI Nian-wen
It's a story about young people at the prime of their youth; about their often rousing or confused relationship to life, death, emotions, society, and the like; and about how they judge and choose their path. Amidst emotional turmoil, they struggle with loneliness. Expected personality traits are merely a disguise; when the mask comes off, this impulse-driven society can really kill someone!
Director │ ZHANG Zan-bo
A highway under construction is going to cut across an ordinary and quiet village in Xiangxi, Hunan Province. Lots of road workers flooded into the village from other places. Over three years, they earned their living through hard working. Meanwhile, the village and the local people are confronted by the fate of being changed.
Director │ K.M. LO
Producer │ WU Chi-ying
CHICOLATE CITY is the nickname of African peddlers’ settlement in Guangzhou. It’s a story about the social pressure and issues caused by illegal African immigration in China. This film analyzes the reaction of Chinese and the golden dream of illegal African immigration, interprets the joys and sorrows in life from both sides, and how to keep a tolerant and open attitude to accept the impact of multicultural.
Director │ FU Yue
Producer │ CHANG Da-jung
It's a story about how a Chinese girl, CAI Bo-yi. She goes to school in Taiwan, breaks through the external constraints and internal self-censorship from her country, and searches for true freedom. CAI grew up in a speech-constrained state and looks forward to the complete freedom. She enjoys the right of being against the government in Taiwan, but she has to walk in jeopardy because of the double pressure from the mainland and the little island. This smart girl has to find a perfect excuse.
Director │LEE Li-shao
In the name of the "State Mine Exercise", the Thai-Burmese guerrilla withdrew to Taiwan in 1961. They were sent to reclaim a barren area at the junction of Kaohsiung and Pingtung counties. The history of this period, hitherto excluded from Taiwan's national memory, is gradually revealed through the memories of these former child soldiers even as these veterans slowly wither away in this small southern region of the country.
Director │DING Yi, J.P. SNIADECKI
In 2006, I followed my mom back to the Great Northern Wilderness where she left near 30 years ago. My mother, born in 1949, and I, born in 1978, have had the similar passionate ideal but faced the disparate transformations of Cultural Revolution and after the Reform And Open. Just like any place in China, the Great Northern Wilderness is transforming radically. The students my mother taught then became the human test field of the reformation. The tension derived from the growing of poverty gap leads to a homicide ultimately.
Director │ Vincent TSAI
Producer │ Frances LU
An anti-nuclear youth activist returns home, a place surrounded by nuclear power plants, to observe from a short distance Captain Okela, a controversial nuclear power opposition figure from the last generation. Through Captain Okela's present-day leadership of anti-nuclear activities among local residents, and his colorful and legendary past as a smuggling kingpin and community leader, the youth is searching for the truth behind the anti- nuclear movement.
Director │ XIE Xiu-yuan
Ten years ago, the uncle ZHANG Gao-ping was at the emerging stage of his career and the nephew was about to get married. Yet, at that time, accident happened. One day, the two guys gave a young woman a ride who got raped and killed later that day. Somehow they were put into prison just because of the ride. It was clearly a miscarriage of justice. Now the injustice has been righted and they settle back to homeland. However, can the uncle and nephew get back to their normal life after journalists?
Director │ WU Jian-xin
Producer │ Hanah HSU
"The rain may enter, the storm may enter, but the King of England cannot enter," goes the Western saying. This common idea of civil society is only a fairy tale to people in China. To this day, Chinese-style tragedies of housing demolition and relocation are continually being enacted. This film tells the story of how, in a southern city noted for its fierce popular pride, several common citizens facing demolition of their homes are resisting by legal means. Their slogan is "Arm ourselves with law and help the government to correct its wrongs." On the surface, this appears to be an ants-vs.-elephants battle of relocatees against government and developers. In actuality, this is a contest between the sprouts of civil consciousness and a deeply entrenched "ant- izen" mentality.
In 2007, the government began to push the "Hong Kong Street Project" in the name of renewing the Old City. By now, most citizen residences within the project's enclosed area have been demolished, and only a small number of households still refuse to move. Among them the most determined are Ah Zhi, Ah Mei, Hong Jie and Pepper. In 2011, Gao Lao appeared on the scene to share his rights-protection experience and teach the basics of law. With Gao Lao's free-of-charge assistance, Ah Zhi and the rest have been quite effective at resisting demolition and protecting their rights according to the law. However, the course of forcible demolition is by now irreversible. The small group of holdouts have two choices: give in or try matching points of law with the government in a government courtroom.
Director │ James SU
Producer │ Magnolia YU
A group of young Chinese rockers highly influenced by western culture since the beginning of 21st century that has entered their prime. They are struggling to find a way out of the cliche between art and survival. With music as a vehicle, they are pondering and exploring more deeply into their lives, relationships and mythology. This film will reveal the hopes and dreams of three iconic rock musicians, their life search, and the utopia in each of their minds.
Director │ Mike SHANG
Producer │ Cindy Xin ZENG
In order to eat safe food, Ms. ZHANG became a lower class farmer from an upper class diplomat. For the past thirteen years, with the Chinese conventional wisdom, she has explored the methods of sustainable organic farming. Although the cost is beyond imagination, she always keeps faith and fight against the mainstream values with individual efforts. How far can she go after all?
Director │ ZHOU Yu
Producer │ SUN Meng
This film tells the story of YANG Yong, the explorer, and his non- governmental scientific survey team's two-month expedition to the glaciers at Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. There, rifts, conflicts and crisis threaten the relationship between man and nature, and relationships amongst the team members. The film will also expore the current state of the glaciers at Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a place that has been honored as the world's third pole.
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