My Egg Boy
Even in modern-day Taipei, women feel the societal pressure to get married and have children before the clock runs out. Thankfully, there is a solution: freeze your eggs and prolong…
Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast
More than 20 years ago, there were three “Ban Dou” master chefs who dominated the catering business in Taiwan. However, the street banquet business has been in decline since Taiwan’s…
Yi Yi
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…
A City of Sadness
The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror”, mainland China’s political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.
Daughter of the Nile
Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working…
Taipei Story
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung…