2025 台北電影節 Taipei Film Festival 影展

Former bomb disposal expert, Song Kang-Ren, and his fiancée, Huang Xin, board a high-speed train that contains a bomb. At the same time, Liu Kai, a well-known physics teacher who was involved in an affair scandal, also boards this same train in order to win back his wife, Ting Juan, who took the prior high-speed rail to return home in frustration… After all, can the bomb be successfully defused this time? and resolve the crisis?

In 1992, five years after Taiwan lifted martial law, Jiang, a high school student destined for a top medical college, secretly joins the school’s marching band to chase his passion for music. When the band faces closure due to its outdated focus on martial music, Jiang and his fellow members rally together, determined to save it and reclaim its honor in a prestigious competition.

Damien grew up in Geneva, never knowing his father. At thirty-two, he suddenly learns that he is the direct heir of an Englishman living in Taiwan. Damien flies to Taipei where he meets his Taiwanese half-brother Steven. Their inheritance is suspended, on account of two other missing heirs. Damien and Steven set out to find them on the island.

A group of strangers' lives fatefully intertwine as they navigate budding love, confront profound loss and encounter old flames.

Each bookstore forms its own poetic landscape: gentle hands restoring old books, a bookstore owner guiding customers on herbal hikes, an eco-activist protecting mountains through reading, and a woman from a fishing community preserving local memories. Director Hou Chi-jan captures these intimate narratives through lyrical imagery, portraying 15 independent Taiwanese bookstores and preserving fading stories and quiet cultural resilience.

裕文、蕭與卡馬爾，三人的命運在台北交錯。裕文從卡馬爾身上接過一份工作，蕭則將與裕文在生命的轉捩點會合。作品於台灣拍攝，從蜜蜂到賽鴿，人物口白穿插於詩意流動的影像，台英混血音樂家吳罕參與演出並跨刀助陣配樂，從中探索野性堅韌的生命質地。

A young housewife’s mundane life is stirred when she suspects someone of gazing at her through her shower window.

A stand-up comedian performs a routine about his father's sudden passing, only to be met with silence from the audience. However, an unexpected incident exposes his deep longing for his father's love. His absurd yet heartfelt performance ultimately earns him a roaring ovation.

A sudden blackout spreads through the community, and as rumors circulate among the residents, a power outage somehow becomes a harbinger of war. Amidst the panic and fleeing crowds, Liu reacts very differently — he simply wants to keep his fish alive. The fish, however, isn't just any fish; it speaks. On this strange night, with an arrogant fish in tow, Liu embarks on a journey to explore the possibility of mutual understanding.

Fantasy bleeds into reality when 16-year-old Lolo becomes entangled in a Freudian loop centered around a strawberry shortcake and her mother, Norma. As Lolo sinks deeper into this surreal loop, the boundary between reality and the dreamscape becomes increasingly blurred.

XIXI, a professional mourner, is hired to cry at a funeral but while performing, she suddenly loses control over her emotions. She is not able to cry on demand anymore. She gets caught between two contrasting emotions …while finding her life.

A sculptor finishes her final work after receiving a terminal diagnosis. As her body loses strength, the statue seems to take on a life of its own.

2015 wuxia film by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien

1989 Hong Kong film directed by Jacob Cheung

A mother flees her homeland with four children, leaving behind a traumatic secret to settle in rural Taiwan. Eldest son Sung Min becomes romantically involved with beguiling local Ri Hwa (Vivian Sung), while their shady realtor aggressively pursues Ri Hwa and digs into the family's affairs. As a dark specter from the past resurfaces, violence erupts, forcing Sung Min to protect his family at all costs. This evocative remake of the 2017 thriller Marrowbone features compelling performances, striking cinematography, and production design that amplify each shocking twist.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

Elder sister, Spring, seeks her origins before heading to university, Autumn, the mother, grapples with conceiving a child through artificial insemination, Summer, the younger brother, tries to engage with a paternal figure he barely knows just before his military service, and Winter, the father, desperately tries to change his fate as problems mount up.

Liang’s simple, humdrum life in his deceased father’s dilapidated boathouse on the Shezi island takes a totally unexpected turn when he saves a mysterious young woman from drowning. A woman with her own painful past meets a man haunted by nightmares.

In a remote village in Xinjiang, a young Kazakh boy named Arsin, who finds solace in the company of plants. He soon meets Meiyu, a spirited Han girl whose unpredictable nature reminds him of a rare, otherworldly plant. As their friendship blossoms, it deepens into a delicate, dreamlike allegory that blurs the lines between reality and the enchanting world of botany.

The coming-of-age film follows Musa, who lives with his father – a man who provides rabbits for the greyhound races in their village. He also forces Musa to learn how to act like a disabled child because he wants him to go to a school for disabled children. Musa obeys and finds himself in a classroom full of disabled children and other kids faking a disability, where the only thing that he is interested in is Nergis, the cleaner girl who teaches children how to act like disabled people.