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Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty Japanese woman (Nahana) and her lonely...
Hotel Iris
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
What Time Is It There?
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her...
Vive L'Amour
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street....
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the...
The Wayward Cloud
A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwanese Cinema. Saw Tiong Guan clearly established a...
Past Present
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Ming-liang Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.
Sleeping on Dark Waters
Dong Bin has opened a surfing shop by the sea where Xiao Fang started working. The young man, however, seems to be on the run from himself, not being...
Sonata of Wave
In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. As rain pours down...
The Hole
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
Face
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.
The River
Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a suicide helpline.
Help Me, Eros
This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan, where the eight films in his Walker series were being...
Wandering
On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the...
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Defying his parents, disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in...
Rebels of the Neon God
A metaphor for mourning as much as it is a reminder to slow down, Tsai Ming-liang's stunningly beautiful Walker features his acteur fétiche...
Walker
While he was in Macau, Pan Yiming unexpectedly receives a will from his father. They haven't seen each other in 30 years, still father left Pan...
Everything Is Unknown
After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realizes someone has been filming their daily...
Stranger Eyes
In order to recreate a photograph, two actors undergo a transformation.
Transformation
In the Meiji Period, in the 19th century Japan, transitioning towards modernization, BLACK OX explores the relationship between man and ox, inspired...
Black Ox
A cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet another case of sexual assault. Thirteen years ago, Zhang...
Fantasy · World
Short film directed by Lang Wu. In 2021, Absence was nominated for Best Short Film at the 74th Cannes. After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu...
Absence
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better...
Stray Dogs
In 2011, Tsai Ming-Liang staged a play, "Only You", for Taiwan's National Theater and Concert Hall. In it, there was a powerfully moving scene where...
No Form
In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with...
Journey to the West
After his wife dies during childbirth, Ku-cheng leaves his children behind in their rural village while he finds work on a construction site in the...
A Drifting Life
With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable,...
Sweet Degeneration
A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.
The Skywalk Is Gone
Asheng, once a gang member of the Zhongshan District, was sent to jail for 12 years after saving his friend Shaou. He is released and returns to...
Lost in Forest
A collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae-yong on an emotional imposture, Gu Changwei on...
Beautiful 2012
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...
To Each His Own Cinema
Tsai Ming-liang directed in 2001 this episode of the popular Taiwanese TV children show Fruit Pie...
The Moon is Gone
Mr and Mrs Chang live in Taipei's Hsi-Men-Ding (the city's entertainment/red light/nightlife district) with their teenaged kids. The parents work as...
All the Corners of the World
The walker with the shaved head and dressed in a red robe is barefoot. He walks slowly but determinedly through the forest, over stones and...
Abiding Nowhere
Chen’s daughter is returning from the UK after her university graduation. On the weekend of her return, Chen accidentally learns her secret...
The Wind Will Say
A junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at the hands of some older students.
Boys
In 2013, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui to make a short film for an anthology film, "Letters from the South". Tsai...
Walking on Water
In 2015, Tsai Ming-Liang was once again invited by the Hong Kong International Film Festival to make the opening short film. This time, he selected...
No No Sleep
The ninth opus of his Walker Films series, which was shot at Centre Pompidou.
Where
A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk who walks very slowly.
Sleepwalk
In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving visuals for their exhibit at the Venise...
Diamond Sutra
After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is booming, his childhood friend is now rich. Searching for...
A Japanese porno actor, HIV positive, commits suicide. Natsumi, a popular porno actress who has often worked with him, learns that she is also HIV...
Sashimi
Viennale-Trailer 2015: Two-minute homage to Lee Kang-sheng, Xiao Kang.
Xiao Kang
Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou
A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking...
Blue Sun Palace
Ordinary Heroes is a narration about the life stories of an advocate, a prostitute, a social worker, and a priest during the social movements from...
Ordinary Heroes
Lush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies storytelling and goes beyond conversation on cinema. Tsai...
Afternoon
A loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a lusty gymnastics teacher, a geeky college student, a...
The Tenants Downstairs
Le voyage en Occident
Tsai Ming-liang has been living in an abandoned house in the mountains since 2014. Around the same time, his persona, actor Lee Kang-sheng, wanted to...
One & Zero
A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a screenwriting collaborator, a script supervisor, and a...
Autumn Days
Ximending was once the trendiest area in Taipei, and it's also where Kang-sheng Lee's first film was shot. Twenty years ago, director Ming-liang Tsai...
Single Belief
Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the boundaries of VR film. The Deserted stripped away traditional...
The Deserted
A Way We Go
Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar, the...
Letters from the South
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face...
Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's digital experiment turns the human face into a...
Your Face
In 2018, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area Administration to make this film, his eighth in the...
Sand
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
Days
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring...
My New Friends
Rescue member Ajie and his companions rescued a reef tanker in the storm, but met the captain who was stubborn and unwilling to give up. At the same...
Abyssal Spider
Human shortcomings in the pursuit of an idol. Two film school students travel to interview Taiwanese film director Tsai Ming-liang and actor Lee...
Looking for Tsai
Jia-min, who was born sensitive to the paranormal, tries to summon "Yi-A-Gu" with two streamers. Huo-ge helps Jia-min subdue the spirit when the...
The Rope Curse 2
Hsin-He, a high school sophomore who can get along just fine on her own, lives with her father. At school, the days pass slowly by, until one day,...
Sunny Doll
Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah...
Come and Go
Croc is a young gangster who goes back to work for his former boss at a city councilor’s office after his release from jail. Croc’s...
Grit
The film continues to blend myths, legends, literature and folktales to further expand his narrative of history and weird tales. The story, set in...
Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters