Tracing the Borders of Reality: The Bodyscape of Contemporary Taiwanese Documentaries
Diversity has gradually lost its usefulness as a way of describing recent Taiwanese documentaries, as it no longer adequately captures the nuanced visions filmmakers bring to the screen. After all,...
The Living Landscape of Contemporary Canadian Documentary Cinema
This collaboration between the Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) and the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) brings together a selection of films that reflect the...
Neither the End of History nor a Record of the Past: On 'Palestine and Its Archiveless Archive'
From the displacement of Palestinians in 1948, to the 1982 invasion of Lebanon during which the archives of the research centre and film institute were looted by Israeli forces, and on to...
Jury of TIDF 2026
Jury of Asian Vision Competition Philip CHEAH Philip Cheah is a film critic and programme consultant, advising film festivals in Shanghai, Yogyakarta and Hanoi, and serving as Spiritual Advisor to...
The Director's Statement on Punishment Park
Editor's Note: The following excerpt is drawn from a 2005 self-interview by Peter Watkins on Punishment Park. In his introduction, Watkins reflects on how his long-standing critique of the media has...
Videotage × Forum Lenteng： Scales of Passage
Throughout history, 'mobility' has been a fundamental means of survival, while 'diaspora' describes the migration and displacement of entire communities. While the terms differ by a single character...
Defending a Space That Is Never a Given — On Viewpoint Receiving the TIDF Outstanding Contribution Award
To trace the origins of Taiwan's public broadcasting system is to confront a paradoxical point of departure — one that is bound up with documentary film, yet equally shaped by political intervention...
A Retrospective Perspective: On 'War Memories, Shifting Identities'
In 2024, director Lau Kek-huat completed the five-hour documentary From Island to Island, examining the Southeast Asian theatre of the Second World War. The film directly confronts the role of...
2026 TIDF Brochure Errata & Adjustments
【Sold Out Films】 Sold Out：https://www.opentix.life/sold_out/2039636973652447233?o=tfai 【QA Adjustments】 5/5 TUE 15:40 Shin Kong Cinema 1, Paikar, QA Cancelled 5/6 WED 21:20...
Sensing Reality Beyond Words: A Retrospective of the Sensory Ethnography Lab
Lucien Castaing-Taylor: 'It is also, to be sure, the realm of the nonverbal and the nondiscursive, or, in Foucault's neo-Kantian terms, the "seeable" (though why privilege sight? Why not simply...