Kaohsiung City, Yancheng District, Fubei Road, No. 31 (2021)
庭中有奇樹
dir. Chiang Wei Liang
Taiwan
18 min | 4:3 | Color | 5.1 | DCP
As a storied apartment complex awaits its eventual demolition, its inhabitants teeter on the edge of poverty - unaware that the deadliest building fire in the city's history will soon arrive.
Festival
Kaohsiung Film Festival - Commission
13ᵉ Taiwan International Documentary Festival
24ᵉ Taipei Film Festival - Best Sound Design
59ᵉ Golden Horse Awards
Nothing in the cries of cicadas (2020)
一抔黃土
dir. Chiang Wei Liang
Singapore
17 min | 4:3 | Color | 5.1 | DCP
When the dead have to make way for the living, a son and his father contemplate their impending mortality in land-scarce Singapore.
Festival
32ᵉ Singapore International Film Festival
58ᵉ Taipei Golden Horse Awards
57ᵉ Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
Only the mountain remains (2018)
山行
dir. Chiang Wei Liang
Taiwan
30 min | 360° Stereoscopic 3D VR | Color | Spatial audio
At a deserted petrol station in the mountains, a man and a woman, both foreign to the country, are waiting for their contact. Travelling in an unidentified vehicle, their plans are abandoned when a run-in with the police forces them to flee abruptly. As night falls, a mist descends - obscuring their paths and blurring the lines of reality.
Festival
55ᵉ Golden Horse Film Festival (Festival Commission)
76ᵉ Venice Film Festival
27ᵉ Raindance Film Festival
25ᵉ Geneva International Film Festival
10ᵉ Festival Séries Mania
10ᵉ Beijing International Film Festival
The mountain remains (2020)
行山
Taiwan
16 min | DCP | Color | 5.1
A 2D companion piece to the VR film Only the mountain remains.
Festival
22ᵉ Taipei Film Festival
Nyi ma lay (2017)
ညီမလေး
dir. Chiang Wei Liang
Singapore
19min | 4:3 | Color | 5.1 | DCP
In a high-rise private residential estate in Singapore, a girl sits precariously on a ledge but nobody knows why. Faraway in rural Myanmar, a village gathers. Quietly, nary a whimper in the afternoon breeze, the cycle continues.
Festival
28ᵉ Singapore International Film Festival - Commission
51ᵉ Chicago International Film Festival - Special Mention
18ᵉ Kaohsiung Film Festival - Asian New Wave Award
20ᵉ Taipei Film Festival
24ᵉ REGARD Saguenay International Short Film Festival
Luzon (2018)
海中網
dir. Chiang Wei Liang
Taiwan
13min | 4:3 | Color | 5.1 | DCP
Tagalog, Taiwanese, Mandarin | English subtitles
Somewhere in the South China Sea, a Chinese nuclear waste barrel draws a Taiwanese fisherman and his Filipino counterpart into a maritime conflict.
Festival
17ᵉ Kaohsiung Film Festival - Grant Awardees' Showcase
40ᵉ Golden Harvest Awards - Grand Prize, Student Category
20ᵉ Taipei Film Festival
29ᵉ Singapore International Film Festival - Best Singapore Short Film
Anchorage prohibited (2015)
禁止下錨
dir. Chiang Wei Liang
Taiwan
16min | 4:3 | Color | 5.1 | DCP
Vietnamese, Mandarin, Taiwanese | English Subtitles
Without means to put down roots and settle, two migrant workers seek solutions on an island where anchorage is prohibited.
Festival
52ᵉ Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
66ᵉ Berlin International Film Festival - Audi Short Film Award
38ᵉ Golden Harvest Awards - Best Narrative Film: Student
40ᵉ Hong Kong International Film Festival
32ᵉ Hamburg International Short Film Festival
18ᵉ Taipei Film Festival - Best Short Film
31ᵉ International Film Festival of Valencia Cinema Jove
27ᵉ FIDMarseille (Campus Screening)
19ᵉ Guanajuato International Film Festival
69ᵉ Locarno International Film Festival (Academy Screening)
21ᵉ Split Film Festival
52ᵉ Chicago International Film Festival
14ᵉ International Film Festival Tofifest
14ᵉ Morelia International Film Festival (Berlinale Spotlight)
46ᵉ Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
16ᵉ Kaohsiung Film Festival - Online Audience Award
17ᵉ San Diego Asian Film Festival
20ᵉ Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
04ᵉ Hanoi International Film Festival (Berlinale Spotlight)
06ᵉ KLEX Kuala Lumpur (Berlinale Spotlight)
14ᵉ Kalpanirjhar International Short Film Festival (Berlinale Spotlight)
27ᵉ Singapore International Film Festival - Best Singapore Short Film
22ᵉ Hong Kong ifva Awards - Asian New Force Category: Gold Award
Soulik (2015)
蘇力
dir. Chiang Wei Liang
Taiwan
24 min | 4:3 | B&W, Color | 5.1 | DCP
Mandarin | English Subtitles
A couple is forced indoors as typhoon Soulik makes landfall.
Festival
26ᵉ Singapore International Film Festival
20ᵉ Festival de jovenes Realizadores de Granada
45ᵉ Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival
20ᵉ Thai Short Film & Video Festival (S-Express)
02ᵉ Minikino Film Week (S-Express)
When the cold wind blows (2013)
當冷風吹起
dir. Chiang Wei Liang
Taiwan
20min | 2.35:1 | Color | 5.1 | DCP
Mandarin | English Subtitles
On their last night together, a young couple takes a walk through the streets of Taipei.
Festival
50ᵉ Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
29ᵉ Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
36ᵉ Asian American International Film Festival
10ᵉ Naoussa International Film Festival
54ᵉ Brno16 International Competition of Short Non-commerical Fiction Film - Special Mention
19ᵉ Hong Kong ifva Awards
