Director, Producer │DENG Wei
As their family have been arrested due to their involvement in drug dealing, or they are away working, a dozen of children all live together at their uncle’s. Even though their personalities cannot be further apart, they do share their innocence and loveliness in common. They play together, and grow up in one another’s company.
As the New Year approaches, most of them are reunited with their parents. However, a girl, Mao Se-zuo, is not greeted by her mother, and is isolated in the festivity of the time of the year.
Not long after Se-zuo learns that her mother had been busted for infant trafficking. She is absolutely certain that this must be a mistake and wants to ask her mother for answers in person, but was stopped by the elders. After numerous futile attempts to convince the elders to let her go, she decides to just leave home. When she was found by her family, she is greeted by the news that her cousin had died in an accident. Eventually, her quest to find her mother is gradually put aside.
Director │HUANG Yi
Producer │YUAN Xiao-bing
Refusing to endure domestic abuse any more, YAO, a young mother sued for divorce.
Three months later, her son was violently snatched and hidden by her husband.
She turned in all the evident proving domestic violence to the police and her husband was kept in detention for 12 days.
She hoped that the second divorce proceedings would result in a divorce and custody of the child. But it seemed not promising so she negotiated with her husband and got a chance to talk to her child through video call.
Director │Paul ZHOU, Zhang Yi-huan
Producer │ SHAO Han-bing
PAN Mei-hao is an optimistic and motivated young woman and wheelchair user who, at the age of 27, has been living independently in Beijing for four years. Although she is passionate about her work and loved by her boss and clients, she still faces strange looks from others. Faced with life, she still walks in her wheelchair; faced with society, she walks with people with disabilities like her; faced with the future, she is determined to gain a foothold in Beijing. How does a wheelchair girl with a monthly salary of around 5,000 take root in the huge city of Beijing? The last two years have been the peak of her career rise and an important turning point in her life.
Director │Xing ZHANG
Producer │ YUAN Ye
The smart Wei and the sensitive Lu are friends who in a special school in Guangxi. They joined a choir that was not understood by the villagers––a special choir made up of group of hearing–– impaired children like them, was formed because of Wei’s “Ah~” voice a few years ago, which shocked the young artists LI Bo and ZHANG Yong who came for a collect folk songs’s trip.
In 2018,they went to the Beijing Concert Hall with their special song. audience were moved to tears. Lu was sobbing in the backstage with partners, “We are the best singers!”
Wei and Lu become more confident and happy, appearing on the most famous TV channel and making many new friends. They are no longer discriminated but become the pride of their family and village.
However, the children still faced of dropping out or marrying early, their lives did not change. The artists find that singing is just occasion, better education will give them more choices, so they began to fight for transfer children to Beijing, But the philosophy / cultural differences of the children’s parents caused conflict...
Director │CHIANG Meng-chien
Producer │TSENG Chun-fang
The “Adorable Residence Project” looks for the possibility of a stable residence as a Taipei Drifters. We explored different housing options such as renting house, market housing and social housing. Finally, we see the possibility of practice in the “co-housing”, and we decided to establish our own Cooperatives and co-housing.
In the second season, we will set up our own cooperative, finding partners, making constitution of the cooperative, etc., promote co-housing in events and collect partners who has the same vision. At the same time, we will record the development and progress of other co-housing groups in Taiwan. Meanwhile connect with successful foreign co-housing cases to absorb successful experience. At the end of the second season, we hope our cooperative will be formally established, which was the first step to form an ideal residence as co-housing.
Director, Producer │ CHEN Wei-cih
A Penghu beach cleaning adventure to solve the Styrofoam problem has begun. From the two studios at the beginning to the call of environmental protection fighters on the Internet, they set foot on the small outlying islands of Penghu, including Huayu and Birds. Yu, Jiangjun, Wangan, Penghu main island, etc., take a beach cleaning adventure along the way, and difficulties in the course of this adventure also follow. Is the carbon footprint of beach cleaning itself even less environmentally friendly? Where should the rubbish go after the beach cleaning? These problems are like waves hitting the shore, impacting this beach cleaning trip.
Director, Producer │WANG Lei
In response to the protection of back-necked cranes, the villagers migrated to Huashibancun, Hunan. Throughout the years, they have acclimated and have developed a method to cultivate the land here. In 2001, the sudden arrival of wild Asiatic elephants had broken their tranquility. The elephants have pretty much settled down in this village. Year after year, they fed on the villagers’ crop. The inhabitants had been ordered by the government to protect the animal, and yet they were not given the compensation for their losses. Day after day, the villagers can only rely on Diao, the monitoring agent, to monitor the elephants’ movement to look for a safe window to go out. Diao’s own brother also struggled about whether to continue farming. In the mean time, his financial status deteriorates, and gradually, despair is beginning to set in.
Director │DONG Jun, MIN Tao
Producer │ YU Ya-qin
Film from to keep a record of the survival conditions of individual in-depth involvement by the subject in later life, a effective with the establishment of the type, its itself is a kind of care for the elderly. The film starts from the issue of “old-age care” to the observation of the material and spiritual aspects of contemporary Chinese people. Through specific characters and stories, it reflects the response and thinking of human beings in the face of loneliness and death. It not only has a strong sense of problem, but also puts into the author’s philosophical thinking on the ultimate issues of life.
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