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In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the realm was thrown into chaos. Cao Cao campaigned against Dong Zhuo, welcomed the Emperor, and fought at Guandu, emerging as a hero of his time.
Oct 2025
Gloria, a 10-year-old girl, is spending her vacation in the hospital with her mother, a working-hard nurse. While exploring the facility, Gloria meets Sofia, a girl convinced that her great-grandmother’s worsening health is a result of her hospital admission. Bonding over their shared desire to leave, the two girls find solace in each other’s company. As departure becomes inevitable, the girls and their mothers head to a countryside retreat to spend the final days of an unforgettable summer.
Nov 2025
*Haati Haati Paa Paa* follows a young woman and her elderly father as they navigate love, duty, and loneliness in a changing world. It portrays the daughter’s struggle to care for her aging father, highlighting modern family conflicts and the deep, unspoken bond that transcends generations.
A woman investigates her sister's mysterious suicide and shocking past, only to become entangled in a dangerous corporate conspiracy, leading to a perilous battle for truth and survival.
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A vengeful tracker is brought in to hunt down a large grizzly bear that starts attacking humans once a new Montana resort begins being built.
Aug 2025
After an injury, Staff Sergeant Kelly Brandt returns home for the holidays and her family pushes her to get involved in the annual Christmas Cup against the rival town; with that, she teams up with Fire Captain Quinn Stokley.
A serial killer disrupts a live streaming true crime podcast and challenges the hosts to nightmarish tasks, that expose their darkest transgressions, for the chance to uncover their identity.
Dec 2025
Kento, a love hotel employee, gets caught up in a lovers' quarrel between two guests. After managing to defuse the situation, he ends up having what appears to be a one-night stand with Mika, the woman whose lover has been stolen from her. One day, Kento returns home from work to find Mika standing at his front door, carrying a bag full of cash... (R15+ version premiered at the OP PICTURES+ Festival 2025).
Inspired by a true incident rooted in Taiwanese folk beliefs, To Set a Spirit Free begins with a religious fish-release ritual that takes an unexpected turn—someone brings a fish home instead of setting it free. Days later, an elderly man named Sheng-Bo mysteriously disappears. A local temple deity declares that he may have blocked a wandering soul’s path to reincarnation—and has been taken by a ghost. What begins as an act of kindness spirals into fear, accusation, and superstition. As rumors multiply and blame shifts from one person to another, the community slowly confronts an unsettling truth: sometimes, there is no one to blame. When facts fail us, what do we choose to believe—and why? With dark humor and quiet spiritual tension, the film explores faith, folklore, and the stories people create to make sense of the unknown.
Aug 2024
Family pains and abdominal cramps—anyone can allow their body to endure the turbulent intrusion alone. After living in Norway for years, Ling brings her foreign boyfriend home to Hong Kong. The family reunion is seemingly harmonious yet unspoken rifts and resentment will be revealed through family therapy. Will it end in reconciliation or a split-up? Bobby YU Shuk-pui, winner of Best Director at the 17th Fresh Wave, brings her family’s story to the silver screen. With real-life family members appearing on screen, the film examines intergenerational conflict through the lens of the young. With scenes of conversational therapy shot like direct cinema and shifting between fiction and reality through switching aspect ratios, the film faithfully and naturally presents the emotional vortex among family members.
Seolhee and Hwajeong make an impromptu trip to the East Sea while waiting to hear the results of their recent job interviews. The purpose of the trip is to make a wish while watching the sunrise, but nothing happens as they hope. The two argue during the trip and have an accidental meeting while going their separate ways.
After the wrap up of filming the lead actor, Chung-gil, decides to confesses his feelings to his co-star, Hyun-kyung. However, Hyun-kyung feels uncomfortable with Chung-gil's confession. Their relationship becomes awkward, and an unexpected event unfolds in the midst of this tension. Three months later, both Hyun-kyung and Chung-gil visit Busan for different reasons and coincidentally run into each other. This encounter gives Chung-gil another opportunity to confess his feelings.
Two estranged cousins who never knew each other try to make amends for many generations of family dispute.
Oct 2024
Karmele is a Basque nurse exiled to France towards the end of the thirties. There, she meets Txomin, a master trumpeter, with whom she shares a love story and political commitment between Paris, Caracas and the Basque Country. Together, they build a family and seem to have a great mutual understanding; until the time comes to choose between loyalty to family or ideas.
The Malaysian father, Beng Soon, came to Taiwan to investigate the disappearance of his son, Kah Choon. During the process, he gradually realized his lack of understanding towards Kah Choon, while also discovering the changes in Kah Choon.