The Man Who Couldn't Leave

A film sequel to the popular series, U Motherbaker. It is a Taiwanese family comedy about culture and the challenges of transforming a traditional cake shop. The film spin-off depicts the mother’s adventures of being the number one fan of the superstar OO.

The film is set in a pre-Covid Taipei, where a group of disenchanted souls are lost in a parallel virtual world.

Mei is a beautiful and successful woman in many ways. However, her romantic relationships never go well. One day, Mei’s widowed father tells her he will marry Lan, an ugly and obese murder suspect. Even more shocking is that Lan is accused of being the “Poisonous Widow” who lives a luxurious life by killing her rich husbands. Mei begins to investigate Lan’s background to save her father from being a victim. Bit by bit, Mei is subconsciously influenced by Lan’s twisted views on love, money, and sex.

The “ultimate love” that aims at “tolerance” and “symbiosis” will be sublimated and ask questions to the chaotic society of today.

In rural Taiwan, during her mother’s funeral, A-Hsien, the eldest daughter, grapples with grief, resentment, and the quiet burden of tradition. As patriarchal rituals unfold, a silent resistance emerges, unsettling the roles she was expected to fulfill.

A heartfelt piece that tells the stories of Taipei streets, people and communities. From ten directors across the globe, creating ten unique stories of Taipei, through various backgrounds, delivering the same heartfelt message.

On his 18th birthday, Jan Wen shoots randomly at the crowds in a night market for unknown reasons. The tragic incident causes a strong impact on the lives of his family and friends, the victims and the witnesses. However, if there was a chance for them to make different choices, would the tragedy still happen? Will it be a different outcome if they all changed their behaviour at the crucial moment?

A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, the two teens are forced into hiding.

A has-been newscaster Liu Li-min is taken hostage by an escaped inmate Zhang Zheng-yi, who pleads his innocence. To Liu's astonishment, Zhang claims that he was smeared by Liu's departed wife. Thus, Liu teams up with Zhang and reinvestigates Zhang's murder case to help his beloved be cleared of blame. However, the more they get to the bottom of the case, the further the truth is beyond their reach.

Two years post heart transplant, Ah Xun remains unable to shake off the gloom cast over his renewed life. First, there is a house fire; then, an unprecedented pandemic breaks out. Retreating to his grandfather’s home, Ah Xun finds himself persistently haunted by a string of unfortunate events. He is faced with an ex lover’s return, an encounter with the mixed-race sibling neighbours, the harrowing news of his mother’s cancer, his sister’s nervous breakdown, a friend’s drug issues, and now, the news of his grandfather testing positive for the new disease.

A story about a karaoke-addicted old woman struggling with her self-worth and a sense of betrayal at her long-lost husband's funeral where she encounters his younger and more sophisticated girlfriend while she finds out her kids might have been secretly in touch with her late husband all these years.

A deadly virus outbreak puts a hospital in total lockdown, and various people trapped in the crisis must confront a deluge of agonizing choices.

This is a story of reminiscence, remembering my long-deceased Grandpa. To remember is to transcend, therefore it’s a story of time and space, overlapped and intertwined. It’s also a quest of love and work, a spiritual and emotional journey; and through which values are re-examined and life reaffirmed.

Li Zhenghong (Zhang Zhehao) is unwilling to be blind and can only be assigned to do word processing work in a law firm. He strives to participate in litigation, but always hits a wall. One day, he finally received a civil claim suit, but did not expect that the defense lawyer in this case was actually Zhao Dingbang (Ban Tiexiang), the boss of his law firm. If he helped the plaintiff, how should he face his boss? What is more difficult is that this case is not a general lawsuit. It is actually a multinational class action with 531 plaintiffs. Li Zhenghong has not even fought a single lawsuit, and is a blind person. How should he win the lawsuit?

Lonely Kevin hooks up with George via a dating app for a steamy night. After a risky choice, Kevin’s cold lingers, and George vanishes.

Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.

In 2006, Detective Chang leads a police investigation into a murder committed in a public marketplace. Chang discovers the victim's father has ties to several other families with dead or missing members, and a grim espionage case buried for 50 years in Taiwan's past. Meanwhile, the kidnapped Mr. Hsu is interrogated by a mysterious mastermind. As the truth emerges, the embers of history become a deadly wildfire.

Across three eras, eerie dreams of a red snake connect the intertwined fates of two families. In 2026, Xiao Lian’s play about her grandmother Paochu’s guerrilla tales sparks a political backlash. Seeking Paochu’s hideout with the guide, Yulao, they find a dead Vietnamese logger. In 1989, police informant JunXian breaks from his handlers after confessing to Ya-Hong, Xiao Lian’s mother, who's the editor in chief of a magazine, then is framed for robbery and is tortured by the police. In 1952, A-Kun, an idealistic enforcer for Paochu’s guerrillas is also a henchman for them. History repeats itself as love and justice struggle against a legacy of hatred.

Wan Zhen (Janine Chang) is an editor of a fashion magazine where she is competent that she can do her job successfully but was very clueless in real life. Since her boyfriend Hao Jie (Peter Ho) works from home, he looks after her so well that they adopted a golden retriever (Li La) which drastically changed Wan Zhen’s life that she begins to woke up early and cook for Li La. Wan Zhen is soon promoted and begins to devote more to her work but as her career soars, her time become hectic. Will Wan Zhen choose the job she loves or Li La who has become family to her?

Professor J announces a casting for his new work. Fiona, a student from Hong Kong, is unexpectedly chosen as the female lead. During a staged family dinner, an abrupt performance, an uncooperative co-actor, and unaware spectators blur fiction and reality, leading her to uncover the script’s hidden subtext.

Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an unexpected bond and support each other in a time of crisis. Finally, we see Diego before she joined the band, when as a teenager she came to grips with her gender identity.

On Green Island in the 1950s, the female thought prisoners chose to fight for freedom, but were more forcefully suppressed by the authority. They held on to their beliefs and hoping for true freedom to come.

Ray and Dio, father and son, work the day and night shifts respectively. Both reticent and emotionless, they keep some distance between them due to family issues and generation gaps. On Tomb Sweeping Day, Ray gets lost in the columbarium since no one told him where their ancestors' urns are placed. When Dio sees his miserable father from behind, he realises how useless his father is...

A scientist buried in his work to avoid the pain of his wife's death, he brings a robot home which looks just like his wife. The robot carries the burden of making her two daughters "happy". Tzu-Yu, a scientific girl who inherited her father's talent. She has not only to face the huge changes caused by her robot mother, but also the pressure of the competition. Moreover, the romance between her and the gifted transfer student Yi-Hsiu, making her sip the sweet and sour taste of growing up.

Xiangning's only son Zhongze shows abnormal behaviors and claims he is the incarnation of god, Xiangning is convinced he can be modified by force of Lien-Shi, her religious group. With enormous stress and obsession, she enters into a mysterious space.

An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is about to appear in.

Xiaoyan and her husband have been married for many years. To make a living, she has been running a food stall from home. Is love the only reason why the couple managed to get along for so long, or is it something else?

In the fall of 2022, in the midnight rain at the February 28th Peace Park, 'I' met a strange man who told me that he often came to play at midnight, and in the fall of 1954, in the midnight rain at the New Park in Taipei, Huang met a strange man who told him that he often came to play at midnight lately. These two intertwined periods of time and space reveal the encounters and emotional connections between gay men in Taiwan at different times.

Through the process of a family from their hometown, who left their hometown to work in the city, the film expresses the emotional changes of the family. Although the shape of love is not the same, it will always be there.

Joanna's son has been missing for years. Before forgetting him due to dementia, she decides to embark on a final journey to find her son. Taxi driver Peng, who immigrated to Taiwan from Hong Kong in his early years, still cares about his hometown. In the process of assisting Joanna, Peng also got redemption from the melancholy of leaving home.

Double-crossed after a bank heist, a team of professional thieves attempts an even more challenging mission: returning the money they stole.

College freshman Si-ying gets a part-time job at “Cafe. Waiting. Love” coffee shop, where she befriends Abusi, a tomboyish barista who can make any coffee the customers request, the beautiful and mysterious cafe owner, and Zeyu, the boy who always sits in the same spot in the cafe who seems to be very popular with girls and on whom Si-ying develops an instant crush.

The three retired middle-aged men have been ignored by their children and family. After a fall-out with their family, they become internet celebrities to prove themselves to the younger gen-eration, promote social integrity and carry forward the craftsmanship. During the journey, they try to be singers with their own album, singing and dancing, to debate with youngsters about the true meanings of life, a bungee jump with first love, to be a one-day mayor and to re-alize the dreams of their fans... Also, they try to tell people that a 60-something man can have his own dreams! However, they need to fight against not only those youngsters, but also their declining strength, high blood pressure, diabetes...

In a stormy harbor city, the orphan Dayou grows up learning dark rituals from his master. Years later, he faces eerie hauntings, vengeful ghosts, and reckless youths who stir the spirits. As desires and curses intertwine, no one can tell angel from demon in the shadows.

When April, a Filipino migrant worker, returns home with the ailing Taiwanese grandpa she cares for, while the grandpa's recently released son comes home only to find the house empty.

Xiao Chi, a driven girl who's been looking for love, gets asked out by a hot guy on the eve of Valentine's Day. As she anticipates her first date, she wakes up the next morning and finds that the Valentine's Day has mysteriously passed.

Lu Xia was shooting a short film at the entrance of the alley. After returning to the coffee shop, he discussed life with Xiao An in his fantasy and wanted to make this idea into a 90-minute hero film. The two began to fall into fantasy. , in the conception of these stories, Luxia also constantly instilled in himself the message of believing in himself, making choices in life, etc., but was interrupted by his colleague Xiaomei when the climax of the story was conceived, and Luxia forced Xiaomei to participate together In the decisive battle in the story, in the middle of the plot, the daydream was interrupted by Xiaomei, reminding Luxia to return to reality. Although Luxia was depressed, he was still working reluctantly. After finishing the day’s work, his mind started again. The fantasy of a superhero plot. At this time, Lu Xia made a choice to pursue his dream.