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
Everything changes; the only constant is change itself. Young people who encounter life-altering upheavals face life and death, joy and sorrow. At life’s turning points, the choices they make reveal who these protagonists truly are. Within these stories, we may see reflections of ourselves—or find lives far removed from our own. Yet they always help us understand one another, allowing us, over ten to a few dozen minutes, to experience, grow, and comfort each other together. In a world of ever-shifting circumstances, perhaps cinema is a faithful companion that walks alongside us.
Before settling into the stability of adulthood, we are all perplexed students navigating the currents of life. This selection focuses on a group of Hong Kong teenagers who have yet to enter the working world. The life circumstances, social shifts, and even familial relationships they encounter are unprecedented experiences. The journey from attempting to understand, learn, and overcome these challenges, to ultimately accepting their self-determined fate, broadly reflects the collective atmosphere and mindset of Hong Kong as a whole
The land carries memories. From afar, I often think of Hong Kong’s sea and Taiwan’s mountains. The days of my childhood—doing nothing, daydreaming in the warm summer breeze—remain vividly etched in my mind. Only after growing up, only after feeling lost, did I come to realize that beneath the soil lie many complex and thought-provoking stories: stories of colonialism and postcolonialism; stories of escape and homesickness. Through stories that flow between sea and sea, mountain and mountain, we hope to invite everyone, in the new year, to reflect across nations on the meaning of land and identity.
The Postman's White Nights
K-family Affairs
Wild Tides
The Sea Within
Who’ll Stop the Rain
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
