The “Kaohsiung Shorts” Film Program is an annual initiative that selects emerging creators through an open call, encouraging diverse themes and creative expressions in short film production. To date, the program has supported over 100 works. The eight new short films from the 2023 cycle have gone through a one-year journey from initial concept to final creation. These films explore themes ranging from familial bonds and struggles, the desires and regrets of love, the resistance and confusion of growing up, to the fading and brilliance of life. Each piece offers a distinct perspective and cinematic language, carving out a fresh new chapter in the landscape of short film artistry.
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!
The Gentle Madness
Trek of an Extinct Bird
A Long Ride
The Sea Within
This Is Not the End
Almost Home
For the first time ever, the Taiwan Film Festival of Boston (TFFB) is hosting a virtual edition in collaboration with Giloo, offering audiences across North America a new way to experience the festival. This year, the TFFB team has curated a selection of ten films—a poignant mix of short films and one animated feature—that explore the intimate, often fragile dynamics within families. Seen through the eyes of children, women, and the elderly, these stories delve into emotional landscapes shaped by absence, silence, duty, and love. Together, these works offer a layered and unflinching portrait of family—not as a fixed ideal, but as a space of negotiation, resilience, and transformation. Many of the featured filmmakers are women, whose voices bring depth and urgency to questions of identity, care, and emotional survival. This program invites us to reflect on what we inherit, what we choose, and how we carry those choices forward.
The 2025 Urban Warehouse Culture Games takes “Cultural Estuary” as its theme. On October 25–26, we will arrive at Dadaocheng Wharf and the Tamsui River! Thirty years ago, the Tamsui River drew attention to pollution and urban development through an environmental art exhibition. Today, its riverbanks have been completely renewed. This year, 19 groups of artists are invited to collaborate, creating 8 sets of art-based game checkpoints and 2 workshops, extending further to river cruises, an outdoor cinema, and a low-carbon experimental exhibition. Join us as we sail toward the cultural estuary and embark on a cultural shuttle run for the city!
The 10th New Taipei City Student Film Awards – Call for Entries! The New Taipei City Student Film Awards proudly celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2025. It committed to encouraging students to engage in film creation and becoming the next “New Director”! Application Deadline(Junior High School filming proposal) : By 12:00 p.m., 16 May, 2025. Application Deadline(High School and General categories) : By 12:00 p.m., 10 July, 2025.
Island In Between
A Night with Moosina
Who’ll Stop the Rain
The Hostess
March: The Southern South
Burning
On Another's Sorrow
In 2017, Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise was published. Its distinct literary style immediately captivated readers, but the brutal reality and agonizing introspection presented beneath the exquisite yet sharp prose caused an even greater storm when the author, Lin Yi-Han, chose to take her own life shortly after the novel's release. To this day, this novel is constantly referenced whenever Taiwanese people discuss gender issues. For eight years, no one has forgotten Fang Si-Chi and Lin Yi-Han. However, even after the wounds have been exposed, we still hope for the possibility of repair and healing—not only for Si-Chi and Yi-Han but also for all the real pains that have been spoken and those yet to be uttered. If stories once brought dark wounds into the light, then in 2025, we hope to use the power of stories to rise powerfully from heartbreak, becoming a light for ourselves and for others.
The War of Roses
Call Jane
Her Field
Tiger Stripes
Just want to share some of my personal favorites that, for various reasons, remain little-known cult classics. Some of these works are irresistibly cool; some are inexplicably weird; some cost hundreds of millions only to flop, while others were small productions that directly confronted the zeitgeist. But my shared sentiment remains all the same: they deserve to be remembered by more people.
