TIDF Announces Focus Programme “Metaphor of the Times: The Reality Named Myanmar" 26 Cross-genre Films documenting Various Facets of Myanmar’s "Reality"
The Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF), organized by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI), scheduled for May 10-19, 2024, has unveiled its Focus Programme titled "Metaphors...
Atirkül in the Land of Real Men
Only played by men, Buzkashi has been a popular sport in Central Asia for centuries. The aim of the game is to steal the trophy of a dead goat from the rival team of riders while on horseback....
Damnatio Memoriae
This documentary, composed of various video clips and footage, is an exploration to search for some missing jigsaw pieces in history. Something that turned someone into a hero, or an absolute jerk....
Far From Michigan
Armenia and Azerbaijan are engaged in a multi-secular conflict. A war breaks out again. In Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, men are at the front, while women hide in the cellars....
Flickering Lights
In a village on the Indo-Myanmar border, seventy years after Indian independence, news arrives that electricity might come. People are sceptical, and let down too often before. A woman dreams of a...
I Look Into the Mirror and Repeat to Myself
Growing up, a difficult home life was all the filmmaker and her sisters knew. Now as adults and with their parents on the cusp of separation, the filmmaker explores the meanings of their given names...
K-Family Affairs
Arum's parents, part of South Korea's 386 generation, aimed to secure democracy. But Arum's perspective shifts at 18 with the Sewol ferry disaster. Even her father's involvement in its aftermath...
Lost a Part Of
Stagnation in the body cannot keep up with the changes in real life. When the memory of the trembling hand is constantly haunting, when the cavity is filled by artificial materials—if the body...
My Stolen Planet
Farah, born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life and is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people's...