Li Shaohong, Joan Chen, and Sylvia Chang tell the stories of women in Wuhan, Beijing, and Hong Kong in this tripartite pandemic anthology film.
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The Cabbie (運転手之戀, Chen Yi-wen & Chang Hwa-kun, 2000)
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A Chinese restaurant becomes a kind of home for a disparate collection of travellers and unanchored locals in Li Gen’s poignant drama.
The Fallen Bridge (断.桥, Li Yu, 2022)
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The Two Lives of Li Ermao (他她：李二毛的双重人生, Jia Yuchuan, 2019)
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Canola (계춘할망, Chang, 2016)
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Mama Boy (初戀慢半拍, Arvin Chen, 2022)
A diffident young man begins to step into himself after falling for a middle-aged woman in Arvin Chen’s charming romantic dramedy.
Return to Dust (隐入尘烟, Li Ruijun, 2022)
A farmer and his wife find themselves continually displaced and exploited in Li Ruijun’s soulful rural drama.
Mama’s Affair (阿媽有咗第二個, Kearen Pang, 2022)
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Legendary in Action! (大俠Action！, Justin Cheung & Li Ho, 2022)
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Review: Ordinary Hero (2022)
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Hopeless (화란, Kim Chang-hoon, 2023)
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A Leg (腿, Chang Yao-sheng, 2020)
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No Man is an Island (沒有人該成為孤島, Jay Chern, 2022)
Jay Chern’s hopeful documentary captures the love and care displayed by the staff at a small hotel agreeing to host travellers quarantining after returning to Taiwan from overseas
Huahua’s Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations (花花世界, Daphne Xu, 2022)
Xu’s largely observational doc follows an unlikely streaming star as she overcomes her sense of futility through boundless optimism.
Lotus Lantern (宝莲灯, Chang Guangxi, 1999)
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Newly arrived in Hong Kong young Ip Man finds himself squaring off against a vicious human trafficking ring in Zhang Zhulin & Li Xijie’s action drama.
Heaven Rain Flows Sweetly (Li Shasha, 2023)
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Wuhan Wuhan (武汉武汉, Chang Yung, 2021)
Chang Yung’s exploration of the later stages of Wuhan lockdown provides a more hopeful counterpart to the fear and confusion of 76 Days
Angry Son (世界は僕らに気づかない, Kasho Iizuka, 2022)
A resentful young man comes to a better understanding of his place in the world while searching for his estranged father in Kasho Iizuka’s sensitive coming-of-age drama
Execution in Autumn (秋決, Li Hsing, 1972)
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Drifting (濁水漂流, Jun Li, 2021)
Hong Kong’s homeless find themselves pushed ever further into the margins by an increasingly unequal society in Jun Li’s gritty drama
Cardcaptor Sakura’s Syaoran Li: Her Most Loyal Knight
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Jang-Gae: The Foreigner (醬狗, Chang Chih-Wei, 2020)
An angry young man struggles to reintegrate his fracturing sense of identity in Chang Chih-Wei’s sensitive coming-of-age drama.
Hovering Blade (彷徨之刃, Chen Zhuo, 2024)
The wheels of justice turn too slowly for the father of a murdered girl in Chen Zhuo’s vigilante thriller.
Eternal Summer (盛夏光年, Leste Chen, 2006)
A trio of emotionally displaced teens struggle to define themselves in a constant search for acceptance in Leste Chen’s emotionally intense youth drama
The Silent Forest (無聲, Ko Chen-Nien, 2020)
An idealistic student is caught between justice and complicity when he uncovers a culture of bullying and abuse at a school for deaf children in Ko’s hard-hitting drama.
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The Personals (徵婚啓事, Chen Kuo-fu, 1998)
Fleeing romantic trauma a young woman gains an insight into contemporary dating mores after placing a personal ad looking for a husband in Chen’s sophisticated dramedy
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Just 1 Day (給我1天, Erica Li, 2021)
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Days Before the Millennium (徘徊年代, Chang Teng-Yuan, 2021)
Two Vietnamese women who came to Taiwan 20 years apart and in very different circumstances discover a sense of mutual solidarity in Chang’s migratory epic
Fish Memories (（真）新的一天, Chen Hung-i, 2023)
A middle-aged man’s comfortable if emotionally empty existence is disrupted by his relationship with a pair of teenagers in Chen Hung-i’s poetic drama.