How Long Is the Road
In 'Etolan, a coastal Indigenous community in eastern Taiwan, the director and Amis artist Siki Sufin uncover their fathers' shared displacement. They trace a vanished generation of Taiwanese...
Wings for Takasago Giyutai
In Wewak, Papua New Guinea, descendants of Takasago Giyutai and Amis artist Siki Sufin erect the Wings for Takasago Giyutai monument. Honouring Taiwanese Indigenous youth mobilised by the Japanese...
From Island to Island
During the Second World War, Taiwan was part of the Japanese Empire. This documentary traces the lives and experiences of Taiwanese soldiers, doctors, and overseas residents in Southeast Asia during...
Asia Is One
Opening with the Japanese national anthem, the film traces Taiwanese labourers in Okinawa, mass student labour in the Sakishima Islands, and Shōwa-era (1926–1989) coal mining on Iriomote. Travelling...
Beyond the Killing Fields: Refugees on the Thai-Cambodian Border
From 1980, tens of thousands of Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees fled war to makeshift camps along the Thai–Cambodian border. Filmed by Taiwan’s Kuangchi Program Service, this documentary captures...
Songs of Pasta’ay
Centred on the SaySiyat people’s paSta'ay ritual, this ethnographic documentary records the 1986 Great Ritual in Wufeng, Hsinchu, held once every ten years. Structured around fifteen ritual songs, it...
Beyond the Anti-DuPont Movement: Portraits of Some Social Activists
Following the lifting of martial law in 1987, Taiwan entered democratisation as grassroots movements flourished. Proposed by director Lee Daw-ming and funded by the Public Television Service,...
Voice of the People
After martial law was lifted, decades of industrial pollution ignited social movements across Taiwan. Re-editing material suppressed from broadcast, Lee Daw-ming documents four landmark struggles —...
The Blueberry Blues
In Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, summer brings the blueberry harvest, as workers from different walks of life bend side by side before the first frost. Through gentle observation, the film celebrates land...
Geographies of Solitude
Geographies of Solitude immerses viewers in the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote Atlantic outpost, guided by naturalist Zoe Lucas, who has lived there for over forty years. Shot on 16mm, this...