Jonathan Chang

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

A video essay on Edward Yang's 2000 film "Yi Yi: A One and a Two..."

Da Yu, a 15-year-old boy, wanders aimlessly in the lonely city.

A professional hand model Ching suffers from post-natal depression and her architect husband Hsuing is unable to deal with it, driving their marriage to the brink of collapse.

May, a single mother, lives with her son, Kuang. Her life is boring. A VIP card, offering a free massage, changes her life. The masseur, Chou, helps her to open up and seems eager to meet her again. May misses Chou and the smell of lemon grass essential oil.

The Unfinished Return of Yu Man-hon focuses on Cici Wu's cultural imaginary and extensive research into the unaccountable disappearance of Yu Man-hon, a mentally disabled and an autistic boy who crossed the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border into the mainland and disappeared on August 24, 2000.

In a family with an older brother whose young life is going to the end and parents under all kinds of pressures and sorrows, a young girl saw everything pass by alone during the whole journey of growing-up.

The emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah, a New York City schoolteacher and budding novelist with a wife of twenty years and four children and Alison, a young waitress and wife from Montauk at the end of Long Island, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy.