Farewell to the Ark

The threat of public exposure drives a closeted fetishist’s life into peril, setting a catalyst that will change the lives of those around him.

A violin teacher from a working-class background embarks on a brave journey in search of true love. The absurd process gradually makes her realize that returning to her true self is the only shortcut to happiness.

Three stories which each focus on one of three types of relationships: family, friendship, and love. The first story is about conflicted manager on a business trip who is intrigued by an elderly worker and investigates his life. The second story is about a young father who receives a letter that brings him to a foreign land, where old emotions come unburied. The last story is about a visiting professor from overseas who sets a student's heart fluttering, while having to deal with his own.

Chou, a sensitive teen craving independence, struggles as the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis hits his family's finances and worsens tensions at home. He secretly works at a billiard hall, forming a bond with gang leader Button, but faces setbacks like Button's enlistment and peer conflicts. Caught by his father, their relationship worsens. At school, his crush Min leaves due to war fears, and pressure from a teacher deepens his uncertainty.

The sound of wings reverberates through the air. In the murky half-light, race pigeon 043 has finally returned after seven years. The family's barely-maintained peace after their son's missing is shattered by 043's return, as the daughter brings a street boy home. Things begin to change gradually, so do the people. In the aftershock of the storm, what course should the wounded follow?

Liang’s simple, humdrum life in his deceased father’s dilapidated boathouse on the Shezi island takes a totally unexpected turn when he saves a mysterious young woman from drowning. A woman with her own painful past meets a man haunted by nightmares.

With a week before final exams and summer vacation, a substitute teacher must prove himself worthy of rehiring.

The memories on the taste buds, are those of growing up, of life, of past recollection, of families. In a sultry morning, on the top floor of an old apartment building in downtown Taipei, where a private kitchen is about to open, the female owner Li Xin-Yue has gone missing, abandoning the male owner of the private kitchen, her boyfriend Ji Wei-Ran, along with the unorganized storefront. In the old town area of Tainan, the roof of the old family Li mansion gets hit by a gusty wind, blowing away a piece of tile and leaving a hole on the rooftop. The wind follows through the hole, blowing into the Li’s, launching an upcoming family storm. The three sons of the Li who live separately have all returned. As they debate about the repair work, the conflicts hidden among their relationships start to surface.

At Home of Happiness, a devoted social worker struggles to reform troubled youth while the institution falls into crisis. A bullied boy clings to his late mother’s teddy bear as his world collapses. A former resident, lured into a telecom scam, faces a moral dilemma that threatens his life. Across different paths, each must confront the scars of the past and decide whether to fall into darkness or fight for a way forward.

In a declining small town, an idle boy encounters a heartbroken girl. Trying to escape, they devise a secret plan and set off for a one-way journey.

Up in the mountains in the darkness of the night, a young logger who illegally cuts down Formosan cypress trees meets a middle-aged solo trekker who broke his leg after falling off a cliff. The trekker offers the young man ten times the price of a Formosan cypress to carry him down the mountain. Will the deal help the trekker survive? Will the logger get his reward? The fates of two souls who trek alone intertwine briefly.

Taiwan is overrun by zombies. A-Huo along with his wife, Gui-Chun, runs to a fishing harbor but misses the ferry they want to take. They decide to hide in an office of Fishermen's Association and get some rest. Gui-Chun is so exhausted. It is not until the moment when she asks him, 'what will you do if I am bitten by a zombie?' that A-Huo notices a bleeding bite on her arm.

Xiang’s husband borrowed money from a loan shark and soon disappeared. Millions of debt and the vicious collectors drive Xiang suicidal. The loan shark threatens to sell her son’s organs as an offset. Xiang changes her mind and agrees with the loan shark: accident insurance and staged murder.

An epic tale of love and sacrifice unfolds in an era of turmoil. The time is 1943. Drawn together by their shared ideals, rebellious girl Chiu Hsueh and gifted student Li Chun-Hsien fall in love and marry, but they are forced apart by the February 28 Incident. Chun-Hsien is exiled to Korea, while Chiu Hsueh and their daughter must live under concealed identities during the White Terror. After several decades, a letter from Korea reveals long-hidden secrets. In this turbulent age of chaos, the untold stories of two generations and three households recount a tale of unfailing love and selfless sacrifice.