In Character
The Chinese Mayor
Flight of the Red Balloon
KJ: Music and Life
A Young Patriot
The Wages of Resistance：Narita Stories
Wild Tides
Master Sheng Yen
Chen Uen
Small Oyster Rock in Kezailiao
The Hostess
The Walkers
Su Beng, the Revolutionist
The Edge of Night
The Rocking Sky
Spring: The Story of Hsu Chin-Yu
The Shepherds
Do Not Go Gentle in Taipei
In Memory of The Chinatown
Night Bus
My World
Layover
Dayang Bersiong - The Sinful Cook
Taste of Wild Tomato
Between the Stars and Waves
Along fragmented paths, we come to glimpse landscapes elsewhere. When these everyday moments brush against lived experience, we are suddenly carried back in dreams—to a past once lived in our homeland. By weaving together the experience of being away from home with what has already passed, a vision emerges that belongs to us alone, singular and unrepeatable. This film selection, jointly curated by enclave partners from different countries, reflects the concerns they observe through their own eyes. Within this rising enclave, we see, encounter, and exchange… and continue moving forward.
Before the Box Gets Emptied
The Fall of Icarus：Narita Stories
Remember Me
The Hostess
When The Dawn Comes
And Miles to Go Before I Sleep
Collaborating with Giloo, Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival has created its own online streaming platform where the past short films will be launched in turn. This platform not only provides the audience with viewing the short films again but also strives for getting in touch with more people. The first-round released short films are those award-winning titles from international or local film festivals. There will be more features coming up. Please stay tuned with us!
My World
Before the Box Gets Emptied
3 Generations 3 Days
A Long Ride
The Sea Within
This Is Not the End
Old Man And a Dog
Almost Home
The Gentle Madness
Trek of an Extinct Bird
The theme of this program is hookup films — stories of young men and women in the city, some by chance, others by design. Each work carries a strong sense of space: homes, subways, laundromats, saunas — online and offline, full of contemporary texture. Sex is the desire to live; when facing death, I feel small, and each night becomes a luxury. At some point, I stopped saying “forever” and began saying “the rest of my life,” though what remains may be only tonight. In one scene, he asks, “Why do you make films?” She answers, “Because I like it.” Because I like it — that’s how simple the reason is for this generation.
Grandma and Her Ghosts (Digital Restoration)
Night Bus
Gold Fish
Monsoon Blue
Minus Plus Multiply
Bloody Dairy
The surreal often emerges from everyday life. The rituals, urban legends, and folk beliefs in this selection may appear as distant as myths, yet they are deeply embedded in our daily experience, touching the most potent emotions and sense of awe within us. I have always believed that the surreal is not the strangeness of the external world, but an enlargement of what lies within. Between the mysterious and the mundane, the landscapes of Asia give rise to their own authentic and singular tales. These films move through the cracks between reality and myth, illuminating the subtle, ineffable connections between people and the world, between faith and the void.
The Poison Cat
Dayang Bersiong - The Sinful Cook
The Walkers
One to Ten
When dreams return in fragments, when memories slip away, when the past comes rushing in, when the storm circles back—take a few minutes, just drift for a few minutes. The everyday can transcend time and space; abstract animation and imagery capture colors we cannot speak aloud, like elephants hidden in a castle, a head holding onto its last strand of hair, someone lost in a midsummer dream, or a fierce cyclone swirling outside. We all need—and deserve—these few minutes.
These films document the everyday through diverse experimental forms, reflecting the entanglement of self, gender, and history. From the fissures of collective memory to fragments of perception, each work reimagines the boundary between life and politics, body and identity. Within the everyday lie emotion, memory, and unease — a quiet dialogue between self and world, extending into technology, belonging, and the imagination of the future.
