Taiwan’s Golden Horse FPP Unveils 48 Projects For Features Section
Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (FPP) has selected 48 projects for this year’s edition of its Features section, including 38 In Development Projects and 10 Works-in-Progress (WIP).
As previously announced, Golden Horse Film Project Promotion has also selected 11 projects for its Series section (see here for more details).
Works-in-Progress include thriller animation A Banquet For Hungry Ghosts, directed by Su Chun-Hsu and Spencer Ooi; A Ghost In The Market, directed by Chin Chia-hua (Trouble Girl), which reimagines a Taiwanese rural legend of female revenge; and Laha Mebow’s Sali Maku - Rock The Mountain, a family comedy about a young indigenous Taiwanese man who encounters his ancestral spirits.
The WIP line-up also features four documentaries, including Hong Shiouwen’s Dirty Roger, about a middle-aged motorcycle racer taking on Northern Ireland’s road-racing circuit.
In Development Projects include several dealing with female-centred narratives, family life, social issues and gender identity. Taiwanese-American TV host Janet Hsieh has turned to writing and directing with Menopause: The Ultimate Guide to Giving Zero F#&*s!, while Pixar storyboard artist Chang Yung-han is attached to direct The Wicked One, which re-examines a 1990s case centred on a wife’s killing of her husband.
Three Hong Kong filmmakers are also bringing projects to Golden Horse FPP: Philip Yung is adapting Her Version Of The Truth from the narrative journalism piece of the same name; Vincent Chui confronts the trauma of Hong Kongers living in exile in the aftermath of social movements in Reunion; and Pang Ho-cheung’s Echoes In Eternity looks back on the heartbreaking fate of young intellectuals lost to history in an era of revolution.
Several genre projects have also been selected for the In Development section, including Press Start, Prime Minister!, from Hung Tzu-hsuan (96 Minutes), about an esports showdown involving a Japanese prime minister; while Jimmy Hung, son of martial arts legend Sammo Hung, teams up with action choreographer Wu Jun-xi (The Bridge Curse: Ritual) to direct Once Upon A Time In Taiwan.
Projects from overseas include Becoming A Tree from Japan’s Akira Ikeda (Anatomy Of A Paperclip); Singaporean writer-director Huang Jun-xiang’s black comedy about the housing crisis, Build To Order; and Malaysian director Chong Keat-aun’s Blossom In Darkness, about comfort women in Malaysia during the Second World War.
Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (FPP) is taking place November 17-19 during Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (November 6-22). The 63rd Golden Horse Awards Ceremony is scheduled for November 22.
GOLDEN HORSE FPP 2026: FULL LINE-UP
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS:
A Banquet For Hungry Ghosts (Taiwan, Singapore)
Exec Prod: Ervin Han
Producer: Bruce Yao, Mason Yao
Screenwriter: Ervin Han, Su Chun-Hsu
Director: Su Chun-Hsu, Spencer Ooi
Prod Co: Xanthus Animation Studio, Robot Playground Media
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Logline: In a restaurant beyond time, a ghostly host serves up four Chinese dishes. As each tale is told and every ghost joins the banquet, a reckoning stirs beneath the table.
Butterfly Odyssey (Taiwan)
Exec Prod: Maso Chen
Producer: Andrie Huang
Director: Chan Chia-Lung
Prod Co: The Classic Vision, Wild Road Production
Genre: Environmental Documentary
Logline: For 30 years, director Chan Chia-lung has followed purple crow butterflies, documenting their seasonal migration and the world's first butterfly highway conservation initiative.
Dirty Roger (US, Taiwan)
Producer: Nathan Freise
Director: Shiouwen Hong
Prod Co: Slow Spin Films
Genre: Drama, Sport, Family
Logline: At 60, Roger Chen is the only Taiwanese motorcycle road racer competing on the world's deadliest roads. He races not for victory, but for Taiwan, rejecting the “Chinese Taipei” designation.
A Ghost In The Market (Taiwan)
Exec Prod: Eva Wang
Producer: Eva Wang
Screenwriter: Chin Chia-Hua
Director: Chin Chia-Hua
Prod Co: Geppetto Film Studio
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Logline: Ahai accidentally beats his wife Jiayun to death, but Jiayun miraculously comes back to life the following day and resumes her daily routine. However, her body begins to decay.
Naiad (Taiwan)
Producer: Cho Ting-Wu, Amanda Tseng Man-Yin, Ivy Y.H. Chiang
Screenwriter: Chao Hsuan, Ting Chi-Wen
Director: Chao Hsuan
Prod Co: Trance Cinema
Genre: Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+, Family
Logline: A female teacher struggles to maintain a dual life of pursuing freedom and meeting family expectations between Taipei and Hualien, until a train accident completely shatters her ideal balance.
One More Good Day (Taiwan)
Exec Prod: Vincent Wang, Steven Liu
Producer: Nobu Tsai Hsin-Hung
Screenwriter: Natasha K. Sung, Alex Lin
Director: Natasha K. Sung
Prod Co: House On Fire International
Genre: Drama
Logline: A nearly blind physicist is forced to share a hospital room with a woman photographer suffering from dementia; together they embark upon a colourful journey yearning for one more good day.
Parachute Kids (Taiwan, US)
Producer: Huang Hui-Chen, Yvonne Welbon
Director: S. Leo Chiang
Prod Co: Your Sister Films, Walking Iris Media
Genre: Family, History
Logline: At 15, I was sent to the US unaccompanied and undocumented. Forty years later, I finally find the courage to face what my family sacrificed for the American dream.
Queens Ballroom (US)
Producer: Lin Han-Sen, Chen Si-Yi
Director: Chen Si-Yi, Lin Han-Sen
Prod Co: Queens Disco Production LLC
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Musical
Logline: In a New York ballroom, Asian American immigrants are transported through dance, revisiting worlds they left behind and lives created anew.
Sali Maku-Rock The Mountain (Taiwan)
Exec Prod: Elreng Ladholoa, Spiqan Bulan
Producer: Chen Yi-Chen
Screenwriter: Hsieh Hui-Ching, Yayut Icyang, Laha Mebow
Director: Laha Mebow
Prod Co: SPI Tayal
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Family
Logline: Returning home to save his grandmother’s campground, a young man becomes the only person who can see ancestral spirits.
Syzygy Of Love (Taiwan)
Exec Prod: Gene Yao, Muni Wei
Producer: Jennie Lei
Screenwriter: Chen Hung-i, Zhu Xin-chen, Jade Lien, Zoey. H
Director: Chen Hung-i
Prod Co: Red Society Films
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Crime, Romance, LGBTQ+
Logline: Six strangers, one Valentine’s Day, one seaside police station: souls that align for a moment, then fall out of orbit. Love? An April Fools’ trick.
IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS:
After Crossing (Singapore, Indonesia)
Producer: Alina Qiu Yan, Yong Mun-chee
Screenwriter: Yeong Show-chang, Yong Mun-chee
Director: Yong Mun-chee
Prod Co: Big Machine Films
Genre: Drama
Logline: A domestic worker in Singapore risks quick cash minding a friend's drugs, then flees back home to a mother's clutter, a son's distance — belonging no longer hers to reclaim.
Ana's Way Home (Taiwan, Indonesia)
Executive Producer: Roger Huang, Lin Yu-hsien
Producer: Lin Yu-hsien, Roger Huang, Justine O., Yulia Evina Bhara
Screenwriter: Lin Chia-hsin, Wang Li-wen
Director: Chuang Ching-shen
Prod Co: Jumpboys Films, KawanKawan Media
Genre: Drama
Logline: After she and Indonesian caregiver Ana are diagnosed with breast cancer, a difficult Taiwanese grandmother learns to care for Ana until her death, honoring her final journey home.
Ash (Taiwan)
Producer: Yvonne Fu, Chang Chen-yu
Screenwriter: Lee Chia-hua
Director: Lee Chia-hua
Prod Co: Organic Solidarity Integrated Marketing
Genre: Drama
Logline: After his daughter dies in a traffic accident, a grieving father infiltrates the driver's home seeking revenge, only to confront his own grief and capacity for forgiveness.
Becoming A Tree (Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong)
Producer: Yosuke "Wall-e" Kikuchi, David Tang, Zhao Jin
Screenwriter: Ikeda Akira
Director: Ikeda Akira
Prod Co: LesPros Entertainment Inc, Rise Pictures, Parallax Films
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Crime, Family, History
Logline: In rural Japan, a mysterious illness turns Yae into wood, sparking a tense struggle between a gentle escaped convict, a ruthless mother, and a detective in a haunting tale.
Before We Exhale (China)
Executive Producer: Geng Jun
Producer: Jing Shu
Screenwriter: Gary Tsang
Director: Gary Tsang
Prod Co: Umbrayis Picture
Genre: Drama, Family
Logline: A widow starts over in Hegang, drawn to a man linked to her husband's suicide. Haunted by unanswered questions, she begins to intrude into his life.
Between Seasons (UK, Taiwan, Hong Kong)
Producer: Lui Yuen-ping
Screenwriter: Mani Man Pui-hing
Director: Mani Man Pui-hing
Prod Co: Crested Studio, Movement Studio
Genre: Drama
Logline: A daughter secretly secures UK residency for her mother, hoping to keep her by her side. When the secret is exposed, she is forced to confront her mother's own choice.
Blossom In Darkness (Malaysia)
Producer: Wong Kew-soon, Zoey Teng
Screenwriter: Chong Keat-aun
Director: Chong Keat-aun
Prod Co: Southern Islet Pictures, Janji Pictures Production
Genre: Drama, History
Logline: On her wedding night, Yumei recoils from her husband's touch, revealing the trauma of being forced into sexual slavery as a comfort woman during the Japanese occupation.
Build To Order (Taiwan, Singapore)
Executive Producer: ArChin Yen, Lim Teck
Producer: Chiu Ping-yu, Macarius Chia
Screenwriter: Huang Jun-xiang, Luke Somasundram
Director: Huang Jun-xiang
Prod Co: WWWind Studio, Clover Films, Dropkick
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Logline: Priced out of their dream home, a real-estate couple sells foot photos online. They accept a risky offer, only to find their dream comes at a higher price.
Champ (Taiwan)
Producer: Chen Po-yu
Screenwriter: Lin Hsing-che, Huang Hsiao-shan
Director: Huang Hsiao-shan
Prod Co: Gujie Design
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Logline: Talented high school saxophonist Jun, humbled by a transfer student, struggles through despair to rediscover the pure joy of playing freely.
Dear My Lin Yujing (South Korea, Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Lee Do-yun
Producer: June Kim
Screenwriter: Lee Ho-hyun
Director: Lee Ho-hyun
Prod Co: Pocket Studio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Logline: A man on a journey to find his first love from 20 years ago decides to let go of his past, and it leads him to find a new love.
Don't Fxxx Me Up (Taiwan)
Producer: Kuo Jo-chi, Su Ting-ruei
Screenwriter: Hsia Jui-chien, Su Ting-ruei, Tony Wu
Director: Hsia Jui-chien
Prod Co: Kingyo Productions, Good Terms Production
Genre: Drama, Action, Crime, Comedy
Logline: A virgin rookie cop and his chaotic partner go undercover in a porn studio, accidentally becoming a comedy star while exposing a drug conspiracy and police corruption.
Echoes In Eternity (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada, Korea)
Executive Producer: Chen Kuo-fu, Subi Liang
Producer: Charles Kim Choo-sul
Screenwriter: Pang Ho-cheung
Director: Pang Ho-cheung
Prod Co: Dunkirk Pictures, Epik Pictures Inc
Genre: Drama, Action, Romance, War, History, Adventure
Logline: In 1911, Chinese students in Japan are recruited to smuggle arms home for a doomed Guangzhou uprising, forcing them to choose safety or surrender their lives to history.
A Family Of Our Own (Taiwan)
Producer: Where Huang Ling-hui
Screenwriter: Lin Po-yu
Director: Lin Po-yu
Prod Co: Teamwork Entertainment, Where Film Co
Genre: Drama, Family
Logline: Found accompanying his father's body, an eight-year-old boy is taken in by a foster family running a lemon orchard, he clings to the hope of reuniting with his birth mother.
Girl, Boy, The World's End (Taiwan)
Producer: Lin Shih-ken, Luna Pan
Screenwriter: Tsao Shih-han
Director: Tsao Shih-han
Prod Co: Life Scenery Films
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Logline: Ru, a girl in funeral band, and her gangster boyfriend Nickel set a honey trap to escape poverty. After crossing a powerful man's son, they flee into doomed youth.
Half And Half (Hong Kong)
Producer: Ivy Shen Yu-hua
Screenwriter: Chu Hoi-ying
Director: Chu Hoi-ying
Prod Co: Good JuJu Films, Current Films
Genre: Drama, Family
Logline: A father's death reunites two estranged siblings. When she realizes her brother believes the old family joke that she was adopted, she secretly takes the test, then can't look.
Half Lives (Singapore, Estonia)
Executive Producer: Ong Kuo-sin
Producer: Charlyn Ng, Yeo Yann-yann
Screenwriter: Seah Wee-thye
Director: Seah Wee-thye
Prod Co: Kusu Films, Byleft Productions
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Logline: When a Singaporean man collapses abroad, his legally powerless partner is forced to host the man's oblivious mother for a week, hiding their relationship while navigating deep grief.
Her Version Of The Truth (Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Tung Cheng-yu
Producer: Esther Lin
Screenwriter: Philip Yung
Director: Philip Yung
Prod Co: Mirror Fiction Inc, Word By Word
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Logline: From writer Hu Mu-ching's view, trace Lin Yuru's tragic fall from an ordinary Tainan girl to a convicted murderess on death row.
Jazzmine (Taiwan, US)
Producer: Brian Yang
Screenwriter: Bertha Pan Bay-sa
Director: Bertha Pan Bay-sa
Prod Co: Raison D'Etre Stories
Genre: Drama
Logline: She grew up resenting jazz as the greatest competitor for her father's affection until her convictions fail and she is forced to explore dad's greatest expression of love.
Like Father Like Mother (Taiwan)
Producer: Joanne Deng, Chen Tzu-yang
Screenwriter: Chen Tzu-yang, Joanne Deng, Chiu An-chen
Director: Chen Tzu-yang
Prod Co: Eleventy Creatives
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+, Family, History
Logline: A taxi driver searching for his father uncovers a queer love buried by White Terror—and in facing his own failures, rediscovers what family means.
Menopause: The Ultimate Guide To Giving Zero F#&*s! (Taiwan, US)
Executive Producer: Terris Ko, Tseng Han-hsien
Producer: Jane Wu, Dalton Zongshian Lu
Screenwriter: Janet Hsieh
Director: Janet Hsieh
Prod Co: CTK International
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
Logline: A comedic, brutally honest look at menopause through Josephine, a US-Taiwan diplomat in Taipei balancing high-stakes trade negotiations, domestic complications, and a body staging a hostile takeover.
My Mother, The Goddess (Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Tseng Han-hsien, Chen Shin-chi
Producer: Chen Ling-li, Zou Wan-zhen
Screenwriter: Zou Wan-zhen
Director: Fang Yu-chi
Prod Co: The Tag-Along Co
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
Logline: An unemployed son impersonates an online goddess to scam his elderly mother—only to discover that the absurd deception becomes her final way of raising him into adulthood.
Once Upon A Time In Taiwan (Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Liu Chiao-en
Producer: Song Chih-ting
Screenwriter: An Bon
Director: Jimmy Hung, Wu Jun-xi
Prod Co: He Jia Fu Entertainment
Genre: Action, Crime, Adventure
Logline: After an investment scam drives his parents to their deaths, a martial arts disciple teams with a disgraced detective to destroy the criminal empire and restore his family's stolen honor.
Performing Soldier Nic (Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, US)
Producer: Huang Yin-yu, Tachibana Aika
Screenwriter: Huang Yin-yu, Kobayashi Tatsuo
Director: Huang Yin-yu
Prod Co: Moolin Films, Moolin Production
Genre: Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+
Logline: An Okinawan youth seeking freedom drifts through intense relationships with a U.S. soldier and a retired elite diplomat, only to find himself dancing alone in military discipline.
Press Start, Prime Minister! (Taiwan, Japan)
Producer: Kj Chang, Inch Lin
Screenwriter: Kj Chang
Director: Hung Tzu-hsuan
Prod Co: Ladder Cinema
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Logline: A Japanese Prime Minister's hidden past as an arcade legend resurfaces when his rival returns after 18 years, forcing him to choose between political ambition and forgotten dreams.
Reunion (Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Vincent Chui
Producer: Choy Ka-iu
Screenwriter: Vincent Chui, Choy Ka-iu
Director: Vincent Chui
Prod Co: Narrow Gate Film Company
Genre: Drama
Logline: Fai, living in exile in Taiwan, reunites with old comrades after a fellow protester's release from prison. Trauma and forgetting force them to confront their PTSD during the journey.
Reunion Dinner (Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Phoebe Ma
Producer: Phoebe Ma
Screenwriter: Lin Pin-chun
Director: Hung Tzu-peng
Prod Co: Make A Deal International Production
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Logline: After a timid deaf teenager returns home for Lunar New Year, her family is cursed by death. She must uncover a century-old secret to save them.
Run! Butterfly Ah-Mum! (Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Sanvy Hsieh
Producer: Gao Ruo-ming
Screenwriter: Jie Zhan
Director: Fish Wang, Lin Pei-xuan
Prod Co: Run Butterfly Run Co
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Family, Adventure
Logline: Mad Max meets "Coco": A fierce grandmother hijacks the Reincarnation Express to protect her family's legacy, battling the King of Hell and her own deepest guilt along the way.
Soul Beat (Taiwan)
Producer: Yu Shun-wen, Cha Zoo-han
Screenwriter: Yeh Chih-wei
Director: Chang Jung-chi
Prod Co: Project A Films
Genre: Action, Thriller, Horror
Logline: Psychic antique dealer Xing trusts objects over people. But when a relic's spirit possesses a lost boy, this selfish opportunist risks his life for someone else—for the first time.
Static Murder (Singapore, Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Andrew Lau
Producer: Zoe Xue, William Wen
Screenwriter: Zhang Wei, Adrian Lau, Lucas Liu
Director: Adrian Lau
Prod Co: Motif Pictures, Yanshan Pictures
Genre: Drama, Crime, Family
Logline: A dying daughter stages her own perfect murder and turns everyone in her family into a suspect.
Taipei Orphan (Taiwan)
Producer: Kuo Ming-jung
Screenwriter: Hu Chin-ya
Director: Hu Chin-ya
Prod Co: Island X Pictures
Genre: Family
Logline: After his father's sudden death, wrestler An searches for a missing silver medal vital to his team's funding, uncovering the truth about his father and his reason to keep wrestling.
The Demon Beneath (Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Aileen Li, Alain Hao
Producer: Shawn Chuang
Screenwriter: Huang Yen-chiao
Director: Tseng Ying-ting
Prod Co: Lots Home Entertainment
Genre: Horror
Logline: A Taiwanese dollmaker and a Japanese onmyoji confront a legacy of family grief to seal away a century-old evil once more.
The Wicked One (Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Lu Wei-chun
Producer: Claudia Tseng, Anne Wu
Screenwriter: Chang Yung-han
Director: Chang Yung-han
Prod Co: Lucksparks, Two Dogs Fighting Entertainment
Genre: Drama, Crime, Comedy, Family, Other
Logline: Reunited with her first love, middle-aged Shu-mei fights for a fresh start, but her husband's death and rigid societal traditions threaten to crush her freedom.
The Witches Of Pataauw — The Movie (Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Sheep Wu
Producer: Anthea Lee
Screenwriter: Nina Peng
Director: Lee Hsin-tien, Shearling Yang
Prod Co: Aries Creative Studio
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Logline: A witch's misfortune is the source of their power. To survive White Company's hunt, they exploit, betray, and turn against one another. No hard feelings, sisters, just trying to survive!
Til Death, Or Granny Do Us Part (Taiwan)
Producer: Hou Shuai-an
Screenwriter: Wen Huei-ming
Director: Yu Jhi-han
Prod Co: Force Films
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy, LGBTQ+, Family
Logline: A marriage-phobic gay couple faces pressure to wed for their ailing grandma. When she passes right before the wedding, will they still tie the knot?
Time After Time (Taiwan, Singapore)
Executive Producer: Ryan Tu, Lemmon Wong, Lim Teck
Producer: Jeffrey Chick, Boe Chen
Screenwriter: Silver Hau
Director: Chen Kuan-chung
Prod Co: Master Our Muse Company, Clover Films
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Logline: A bankrupt man guides a girl to pursue his 17-year-old self through time, but pushes her toward death. To save her, he abandons his quest to rewrite fate.
Tokyo (Taiwan)
Producer: Luisa Chen, Lin I-ting, Kuo Bo-tsun
Screenwriter: Cari Chang Wan-erh, Nien Han-wen
Director: Cheng Fen-fen
Prod Co: Blue Studio
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Logline: Sold to a blind masseuse as a child, A-Hao spends a lifetime mistaking love for abandonment, until one final journey reveals the masseuse she hated was also her home.
Turns Out It's Not BL But BFF (Taiwan)
Executive Producer: Steve Wang
Producer: Mimi Wang
Screenwriter: Lee Chung, Chen Jr-kai
Director: Lee Chung
Prod Co: Critical Hits Production
Genre: Romance, Comedy, LGBTQ+, Family
Logline: To dodge college, fujoshi Dai-Dai casts her twin brother and her gay childhood crush as BL-comic leads—until real feelings scramble everyone.
When The Wind Stopped In Takao (Taiwan)
Producer: Irene Chen
Screenwriter: Wang Yung-luan
Director: Tso Chih-chung, Wang Yung-luan
Prod Co: Synthetic Dosage Digital Sense
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Family, History
Logline: In 1947 Kaohsiung, a teenage aspiring lawyer watches his future disappear as his city collapses during the six days following the February 28.
