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During World War II, Taiwan was under Japanese rule. This film aims to reveal the hidden memories of the war in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, explores the experiences of Taiwanese soldiers and civilians living under Japanese colonisation..

This story begins with a man's portrait hanging in my family home in Malaysia. The identity of this man has always been a taboo, until one day I discovered it was my grandfather, whose identity was hidden from me because he was a member of the Malaysian Communist Party. This film is a journey to discover the secret history of my country through the eyes of my grandfather.

Derived from the proverb, "What the axe forgets, the tree remembers", the film presents the current situation in Malaysia. For fifty years, the racial conflicts in the 13 May Incident remains a taboo in Malaysia. It marks the beginning of the racial discrimination policies and practice whereas victims are forced to be silenced. This film tackles the origin of racism in Malaysia and the taboo of the racial riot in 1969.

Over the decades, the Malayan Communist Party fought a guerrilla war in the jungle for independence. When a baby was born during the war, they sent it out of the jungle to ensure its survival. Boluomi is one of those babies.

What will our lives be like 10 years from now? Five up and coming Taiwanese directors each offer their own take answering this question. In 2028, Taiwan is suffering from nuclear waste ("The Can of Anido"), migrant workers ("942"), industrial collapse ("Way Home"), low birth rates and diversity in families ("A Making Of"), and insomnia ("The Sleep"). These destructive issues are the results of our present day. One man's old wounds return as environmental pollution disrupts societal relationships, blowing back as an attack on mankind. The film asks, how did things get this bad? And it asks once more, are these problems exclusive to Taiwan ten years from now? Of the five films, only "A Making Of" has a happy ending.

One million people in Malaysia's Sabah are stateless. Fifty thousand are children who have been denied their right to public education and healthcare. They are learning to voice out for themselves.

Kaohsiung served as an important military base under Japanese colonial rule and had incurred heavy casualties during the 228 Incident. The film subtly tends to the deep scars of the witnesses, survivors and their descendants as an act of resistance to oblivion. Memories survive through different eras of oppression and continue to live in people's hearts, just like the wild tomatoes grown in this land.

Nia travels far from her home, the Philippines, to Taiwan, to work as a family maid. Nia likes to keep to herself in her private room, where a door separates her from her employers. This annoys her employer and conflicts arise between them.

Social poverty and criminality: a hopeless young man goes to action, a simple employee and her female boos change their power positions...but after all, will a new understanding taken place?