TGHFF2021

Savage satire comes with ghosts and cartoonish violence in Fruit Chan's Coffin Homes, a gruesome set of horror tales with Hong Kong's astronomically priced housing market as the backdrop.

The founder of a corporation developing a futuristic cancer treatment is brutally murdered, and a prosecutor sidelined by the illness asks to lead the case, assisted by his newly pregnant detective wife.

This movie contains four separate stories, each by a different director. They are all ghost stories, including themes such as death wishes, prison, and alcoholism. Good and evil women play prominent roles in the various tales.

A small-time gangster clumsily attempts to court a girl he has a crush on. Can he win her over and leave the underworld behind?

During the night of his 18th birthday, Jan-wen commits a random shooting in a crowded night market.

The documentary follows the life of Ah-Tian's family over the course of 7 years and also shows the changes in Myanmar, the dangerous work at the jade mines, and the big rains every year which compel Ah Tian to come back home to look after his family.

A woman returns to her estranged family, and reconnects with a former lover. When the robbery they plan goes awry, she must choose between abandoning her family again or taking responsibility for the chaos she's created.

The intersecting lives and relationships of a group of 20-somethings in Taipei are tested after a tragic incident that connects them all.

During a police raid led by the bent cop Feng and his men, Feng's buddy Chiang gets another idea after seeing the offenders' prized possession. He takes the diamonds, skipping town to a distant village to lie low. Feng has no choice but brings his men Monk and Yang to retrieve the diamonds in 48 hours. Oddly enough, Chiang's cell phone signal suggests that he is in the village, but Feng cannot find him anywhere. Feng can only begin dealing with the seemingly innocent yet weird villagers, entailing everyone playing mind games on one another. Amidst this chaotic situation, a female ghost shows up, making it even worse - Can Feng eventually discover the truth and get his buddy back? Good or evil, the uncertainty leaves everyone unsettling and suspicious.

While quarantining, the relationship between a mother and daughter takes an unexpected turn.

During the SARS outbreak of 2003, 13-year-old Fen returns to Taiwan.

Just out of jail, Fai finds a spot on a street corner where other homeless people welcome him. But he doesn't get much time to settle in. The police soon chase them away, and their possessions disappear into a garbage truck. Young social worker Ms Ho thinks it's time to fight this in court. In the meantime, Fai and his friends have other concerns.

In 2002, WANG and his girlfriend met up at a bridge to discuss the breakup, but then she accidentally fell off the bridge and died. WANG asked a friend to call an ambulance, while his girlfriend's parents later accused them of murder. They weren't prosecuted until a witness claimed the two of them threw the victim off the bridge. Thirteen years later, Taiwan Innocence Project decided to take on the case as there was no evidence apart from that altered witness testimony. In the face of many lingering doubts, what should one believe?

As he turns thirty, a penniless young man is overwhelmed with artistic doubt. In order to forget a recent break-up, his slim figure drifts aimlessly through the streets of Taipei, buzzing with the rumours of the autumn 2019 general elections. Wang Chun-Hong has composed a bewitching piece of documentary autofiction, enhanced by a glossy black and white.

A Facebook post from 5 years ago brings out a piece of memory that Kuo Chinchin doesn't like to recall : the 2 accounts on her blocking list. By reconnecting with them, Chinchin discovers the truth of her unhappiness.

A documentary about dance teacher Lin Ssu-tuan, who is over 80 years old but still fervently pursues her ideals and passions with her body.

A work of visual awe and matter-of-fact spiritual inquiry, Dark Red Forest is a majestic documentary portrait that details the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns to small wooden houses on the vast Tibetan Plateau. With extraordinary intimacy, the camera nestles in with the women of the Yarchen Monastery, who, during the 100 coldest days of the year, learn about-and in some cases experience-profound matters of life and death, suffering and healing, karma and consequence. A document of the experiences of a group of increasingly politically embattled people, Jin Huaqing's film is also a clarifying work of faith and philosophical inquiry, set against a forbidding landscape.

Stimulator champion Du Jieke challenges formula one championships for his crush on formula one driver Lu Lili to a stimulator championship.

Ah-Lun, who has a choice to make in the underworld, decides to be a god of love in Chinese mythology. As he advances with his tasks on Earth, his biggest challenge is to tie a red string with the woman he loved the most.

A man who wakes up from a coma to find himself uploaded with the minds of four dead serial-murder suspects. These hold the only clues for the police to track down the last surviving victim.

18-year-old school girl Shengnan enters a night of adventure in the adults' world.

Due to political restrictions in Hong Kong, this documentary following protestors since 2019, is broken into pieces, each containing interviews and historical context of the conflict.

With young people migrating out of their deep mountain hometown, an elementary school faces being shut down, unless it can prove its worth at a national choir competition.