In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with Marseille, he decided to make a film as tourist, capturing the beautiful Mediterranean sunshine in the late summer of that year. He also invited famous French actor, Denis Lavant, to appear alongside Lee Kang-Sheng playing Xuanzang. "Journey to the West" was invited to be the opening short film at the Berlin International Film Festival the same year.

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy livin...

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the author...

In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a...

A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the...

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a deter...

Phai is an innocent boy who has been forced to be a monk, with the hope that this would help the ven...

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon fin...

To live and to love at the age of 18, immersing yourself in the carefree summer days and nights, lo...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist m...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Mr. Miyagi decides to take Julie, a troubled teenager, under his wing after he learns that she blame...

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escap...

Khtobtogone begins as a love story between protagonist Zine and the girl of his dreams, Bulma. But i...

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all se...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muaythai boxer who underwent a sex change ope...

With both beauty and wit, Maiko looks for a man who suits her. One night, she finds Taro, a candidat...