9th Taiwan Film Festival in Australia

The 9th Taiwan Film Festival in Australia comes to Melbourne for three days only.

This year's Melbourne program showcases an exciting lineup.

Opening Night Film: Lucky Lu, a gripping Cannes Directors' Fortnight selection following a delivery rider's fight to rebuild his life in New York.

Hero! Hito!, from the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Lungnan Isak Fangas, captures the extraordinary journey of Taiwan's national baseball team as they fight their way to a historic world championship.

I blew out the candles before making a wish follows an unexpected partnership forged out of desperation, peeling back the affluent neon facade of Macau to expose its fracturing underbelly.

Queerpanorama, directed by Jun Li, is a bold and hypnotic exploration of identity and intimacy from one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Asian queer cinema.

Elephant Gym: More Real Than Dreams, directed by Alulu Kuo, offers an intimate look behind the ambitious 23-country tour of one of Taiwan's most distinctive independent bands.

The Short Film Competition Package curates outstanding short films from emerging Taiwanese filmmakers, bridging them to the international stage.

Levitating immerses audiences through a genre-bending adventure that blends mythological folklore with realism. With a hypnotic and electrifying soundtrack, this bold eco-thriller is not one to be missed.

Full program on the website.