Hotel Iris

Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and

What Time Is It There?

A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.

Vive L'Amour

Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who u

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-

The Wayward Cloud

Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city o

Past Present

A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwa

Sleeping on Dark Waters

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Ming-liang Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.

Sonata of Wave

Dong Bin has opened a surfing shop by the sea where Xiao Fang started working. The young man, howeve

The Hole

In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ra

Face

Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that

The River

A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobo

Help Me, Eros

Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a sui

Wandering

This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan, where t

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors fore

Rebels of the Neon God

Within the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existentia

Walker

In 2012, the Hong Kong International Film Festival invited Tsai Ming-Ling to make the opening short

Everything Is Unknown

While he was in Macau, Pan Yiming unexpectedly receives a will from his father. They haven't seen ea

Stranger Eyes

After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos an

Transformation

In order to recreate a photograph, two actors undergo a transformation.

Black Ox

The life of a man, transitioning from a hunter-gatherer existence in the mountains to a life in the

Fantasy · World

A cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet another c

Absence

Short film directed by Lang Wu. In 2021, Absence was nominated for Best Short Film at the 74th Canne

Stray Dogs

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely

No Form

In 2011, Tsai Ming-Liang staged a play, "Only You", for Taiwan's National Theater and Concert Hall.

Journey to the West

In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Fi

A Drifting Life

After his wife dies during childbirth, Ku-cheng leaves his children behind in their rural village wh

Sweet Degeneration

With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sh

The Skywalk Is Gone

A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.

Lost in Forest

Asheng, once a gang member of the Zhongshan District, was sent to jail for 12 years after saving his

Beautiful 2012

A collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae

To Each His Own Cinema

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brou

The Moon Is Gone

Tsai Ming-liang directed in 2001 this episode of the popular Taiwanese TV children show Fruit Pie (《

Abiding Nowhere

The walker with the shaved head and dressed in a red robe is barefoot. He walks slowly but determine

The Wind Will Say

Chen’s daughter is returning from the UK after her university graduation. On the weekend of her retu

Boys

A junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at the

Walking on Water

In 2013, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui to make a short film for an

No No Sleep

In 2015, Tsai Ming-Liang was once again invited by the Hong Kong International Film Festival to make

Where

The ninth opus of his Walker Films series, which was shot at Centre Pompidou.

Sleepwalk

A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk who w

Diamond Sutra

In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving v

Absence

After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is booming, hi

Sashimi

A Japanese porno actor, HIV positive, commits suicide. Natsumi, a popular porno actress who has ofte

Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou

Blue Sun Palace

A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Na

Ordinary Heroes

Ordinary Heroes is a narration about the life stories of an advocate, a prostitute, a social worker,

Afternoon

Lush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies storytelli

The Tenants Downstairs

A loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a lusty

One & Zero

Tsai Ming-liang has been living in an abandoned house in the mountains since 2014. Around the same t

Autumn Days

A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a screen

Single Belief

Ximending was once the trendiest area in Taipei, and it's also where Kang-sheng Lee's first film was

The Deserted

Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the boundaries of

A Way We Go

For the past forty years, Ah Long has headed up a traditional Chinese musical troupe. But times are

Letters from the South

Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Mala

Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water

The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". H

Your Face

Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's

Sand

In 2018, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area Administr

Days

Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their d

My New Friends

Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's n

Abyssal Spider

Rescue member Jie and his companions rescued a reef tanker in the storm, but met the captain who was

Looking for Tsai

Human shortcomings in the pursuit of an idol. Two film school students travel to interview Taiwanese

The Rope Curse 2

Jia-min, who was born sensitive to the paranormal, tries to summon "Yi-A-Gu" with two streamers. Huo

Sunny Doll

Hsin-He, a high school sophomore who can get along just fine on her own, lives with her father. At s

Come and Go

Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama

Grit

Croc is a young gangster who goes back to work for his former boss at a city councilor’s office afte

Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters

The film continues to blend myths, legends, literature and folktales to further expand his narrative

Beautiful 2015

Understanding "beauty" for 2015... From Beijing, Huang Jianxin wonders if it's nobler to sleep or n

The Rope Curse 4: Kuntilanak

A forbidden exorcism is livestreamed in Indonesia, awakening the legendary female spirit Kuntilanak.

Night Journey

A sleeping city, streets without people. A figure in a red robe walks slowly — across a carpet of le

The House On The Moon

Chang Er, a fairy maiden, embarks on a journey to the dark side of the moon to search for her lover

It's a Dream

Shot in an abandoned cinema in Malaysia, Tsai Ming-Liang's home country, It's a Dream evokes the fil