Lim Giong

Girl (2025)

Hsiao-lee, a young girl, finds solace in her friendship with Li-li, who embodies the dreams Hsiao-lee had suppressed. However, Hsiao-lee's aspirations are challenged by her mother's past, which mirrors her own struggles and traps her in a cycle of despair. ...

Caught by the Tides (2025)

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he's settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him. ...

Cherry Ferry (2024)

Since June 2023, another civil war between the government and the rebel forces has been raging on in Myanmar. Midi, the director who has been away for years, comes back to the port, where he waited for six months to obtain his first passport. His anxiety a ...

The Unseen Sister (2024)

Qiao Yan, born in a border town in southwest China, becomes a star actress after much effort and struggle. But despite her aura of glamour, she always feels hidden pressure. When she receives a threatening anonymous letter, her long-estranged sister sudden ...

Karst (2024)

In the karst region of southwestern China, a rural area far from the city. Ziying is a woman who makes a living by raising cows. Her cow got sick and the village clinic couldn't treat it. She went to the town's agricultural and animal husbandry pharmacy fo ...

Be with Me (2023)

This is a story of reminiscence, remembering my long-deceased Grandpa. To remember is to transcend, therefore it's a story of time and space, overlapped and intertwined. It's also a quest of love and work, a spiritual and emotional journey; and through whi ...

Eighth Avenue (2023)

A quiet, Caucasian house painter lives a life of solitude in Brooklyn's Chinatown. On the night of a blackout, he forges a silent bond with his neighbor. ...

Caring for Black-Faced Spoonbill (2023)

A documentary took more than 30 years to pursue a migrating bird, black-faced spoonbill. ...

Salute (2022)

Dancer SHEU Fang-yi's career has been told through her modern dance dramas such as Sparrow, Stranger, Wall, and Martha GRAHAM's Heretic. Martha GRAHAM once said: "A dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painfu ...

Enigma: The Chinese Crested Tern (2021)

Another Brick On The Wall (2021)

With the following motivation: Every brick in the great wall of China was carried up by a man. More than 800,000 men, for more than 20 years. As we follow the reconstruction of a very small part of that old wall, we feel the dimension and Sisyphean effort ...

Miss (2021)

Shen Han comes back to his native village when his father has gone. The Tumor says the old man has died during a massage. He meets there the masseuse... ...

Thé Lumière (2021)

Lim took Huang touring around the downtown streets and rural trails, tracing the path of HUNG TUNG, Lim's favorite artist. ...

Nina Wu (2019)

After years toiling in bit-parts, an actress finally gets her break with a leading role in a spy thriller. The part is challenging, not least because it calls for explicit sex scenes, and the director is often hard on her. But both the industry and the pre ...

Jinpa (2019)

Stoic truck driver Jinpa picks up a silver dagger wearing hitchhiker in the desolate Kekexili plateau. The stranger suddenly reveals he's going to kill the man who murdered his father. ...

Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)

Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget. ...

Looking for Kafka (2018)

In Taipei, a rehearsal for Kafka's Metamorphosis is in full swing as the show's opening night approaches. Lin's girlfriend, Julie, is visiting him from Paris. After the rehearsal, he picks her up at the airport and they spend the night together. ...

Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2018: Journey (2018)

This omnibus film consists of three films made by three directors from three countries. With "Journey" as the theme, each of these films tells about a journey. "The Sea" is a film by Degena Yun (China), telling about mother and child's trip to the sea from ...

Ash Is Purest White (2018)

Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him. ...

Last Year When the Train Passed By (2018)

"What were you doing last year, when I took this photo from a train passing by your house? ...

Is LIFE a Movie (2018)

As the actress arrived, everything about the movie, about the life of director and actress, and about the affection between professor and his student, were revealed and punctured one after another. In the hazy fuzzy afternoon, there is nothing left on the ...

Missing Johnny (2017)

Hsu Zi Qi is a young woman who lives alone in the city. Lee is the autistic son of Zi Qi's landlady, who tries to free himself from his protective mother. Feng is a shy young builder, who struggles with the constant breakdowns of his car. ...

The Foolish Bird (2017)

Lynn lives with her grandparents in Meicheng, a small Hunanese city unsettled by an ongoing rape-murder investigation. With little structure to regulate her life outside of school, where she is bullied, Lynn begins smuggling and reselling confiscated mobil ...

Return (2017)

Two journeys take place in two different periods. One is a train journey across two continents. The other follows an old family photograph back to life during wartime. The rhythmic swaying of the train reveals a forgotten memory. ...

Revive (2017)

Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). In Jia's segment, a Chinese couple in the ancient town ...

The Gangster's Daughter (2017)

A rebellious teen is reunited with her father, a small time Taipei gangster, causing him to question his life of crime. ...

Small Talk (2016)

In the table that symbolizes the value of traditional women, a woman who wants to break free from her family must face her daughter. ...

The Road to Mandalay (2016)

Lianqing and Guo, who hail from Burma, flee their country and seek refuge in Thailand. Gho's feelings for Lianqing may just surpass her feelings for him. ...

Kaili Blues (2016)

Chen Sheng goes off in search of his nephew who has been abandoned by his father. Along the way, he encounters numerous people from his past and also those from his future. ...

City of Jade (2016)

Midi Z visits his oncle who works as a jade miner. ...

Fly, Kite Fly (2015)

The black kite, generally referred to as "the eagle" in Taiwan, used to be very widespread and so common that it is the main character in a well-known Taiwanese children's game. However, it has now become so rare that very few people ever get to see it. SH ...

De Lan (2015)

On his trip to the village, Wong meets a Tibetan girl, De Lan. He later finds that De Lan is married to Rigchin. One day, a young Tibetan man arrives with a woman, and De Lan starts crying. How many lovers does De Lan have? When Rigchin hints Wong that he ...

The Assassin (2015)

9th century China. Ten year old general's daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed i ...

Smog Journeys (2015)

Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys' traces two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining ...

A Touch of Sin (2013)

Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant discovers the possibilities of owning a firearm. A receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young facto ...

Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema. ...

Sock'n Roll (2013)

With a large number of factories in the area, the hosiery industry forms the backbone and economic mainstay of a small rural town. One in two of the population makes their living from the production of socks. "Brother Black Dog" is of one of them and has b ...

Forgetting to Know You (2013)

Young Chinese parents Chen Xuesong and Cai Weihang find their marriage eroding as they deal with financial troubles, jealousy and constant bickering. When Weihang finds a photo of Xuesong and her ex-boyfriend, things spiral out of control. ...

Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy (2011)

One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jincheng, in the province of Liaoning (North-East China), to re-paint again friends and relatives after several years have gone by. With a soundtrack by famed comp ...

A Year in the Clouds (2011)

High in the mountains of Taiwan, is the remote village of Smangus. Inhabited by a unique group of indigenous people called the Tayal, Smangus is the only place in Taiwan that now practices common ownership of land and property. This is a place where nature ...

I Wish I Knew (2010)

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day. ...

Judge (2010)

In a small northern Chinese city in 1997, Judge Tian privately struggles with the loss of his daughter, killed by a stolen car in a hit-and-run accident. On the bench he encounters Qiuwu, a mechanic accused of stealing two cars. Perhaps influenced by his e ...

Yang Yang (2009)

Yang Yang's mother marries her track coach, who then becomes Yang Yang's stepfather, with his daughter Xiao-Ru becoming Yang Yang's stepsister. The two girls seem close, but their relationship possesses a hidden and ultimately damaging jealousy. Xiao-Ru's ...

24 City (2008)

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apartment complex, director Jia Zhangke interviews various people affiliated with it about their experiences. ...

Useless (2008)

Observations of three varied corners of China's garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies against the mass-machine-production of clothes and has created the eponymous hand-made collection called 'Useless' (W ...

Our Ten Years (2007)

Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the two never speak to one another, the girl captures her appearance and life changes during the years through ...

Reflections (2007)

A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jing is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mothe ...

Xiao Jia Going Home (2007)

Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for Still Life (2006). The experiences of his childhood, the people he grew up with, and the c ...

Still Life (2006)

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes. ...

Do Over (2006)

Do Over follows five characters over twenty four hours on the last day of the year. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. By depicting five differ ...

Three Times (2005)

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance. ...

The World (2004)

At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city's suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another wom ...

Robinson's Crusoe (2003)

The film follows Robinson, a very succesfull real estate broker, who lives in a modern hotel in Taipei. But all the success also hides a lonely man, whose relations are becoming distant, including friends and lovers; Robinson's dream is the Crusoe, an isla ...

Summers (2002)

Millennium Mambo (2001)

In 2011, Vicky looks back on her life a decade earlier, recalling her turbulent relationship with her controlling boyfriend Hao Hao and her growing connection to a compassionate gangster amid the neon haze of Taipei's nightlife. ...

Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)

In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which ...

Dust of Angels (1992)

A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, t ...

Thé Lumière (2021)

Lim took Huang touring around the downtown streets and rural trails, tracing the path of HUNG TUNG, Lim's favorite artist. ...

I Wish I Knew (2010)

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day. ...

March of Happiness (2000)

1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl's family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February Inci ...

Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)

In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which ...

Good Men, Good Women (1995)

An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is abo ...

The Puppetmaster (1993)

Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century. ...

Treasure Island (1993)

A group of young Taipei residents is drawn into the city's underworld through the growing obsession of one, the boyish Ah-feng, for the sexy Cantonese mistress of a gang boss. ...

Dust of Angels (1992)

A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, t ...

Blood and Warriors (1991)