Asian Vision Competition
Serving as visual bridges across time and space, these films examine the wounds of the past. Through historical reconstruction and narrative re-enactment, they trace lingering resistance and futility...
International Competition
Crossing geographical borders, this programme moves through war zones, borderlands and wildernesses, where moving images take on increasingly complex roles as both weapon and archive. From the...
Taiwan Competition
Selected from 246 submissions, a new creative force emerges. Here, reality appears as an organic entity of infinite possibility, nurtured into diverse and striking forms by skilful hands. Memory...
Contemporary Scenes
Distinct in style yet resonant across the festival circuit, these seven films respond to a world in turmoil by inscribing memory in images and forging connections grounded in solidarity. Personal...
Focus Programme｜Palestine and Its Archiveless Archive
If cinema were a nation’s album of memory, the album called Palestine has been plundered and scattered. Tracing images and sounds across historical ruptures, what is recovered is no longer mere...
Focus Programme｜Sensible but Unsayable — A Retrospective of the Sensory Ethnography Lab
Founded at Harvard University in 2006, the Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) works through audiovisual media to merge sensory aesthetics with ethnographic practice, marking a fertile intersection of...
Salute! Chinese Independent Documentaries
TIDF Article｜Carving into the Heart with a Camera: On the 2026 TIDF 'Salute! Chinese Independent Documentaries' Programme
Stranger than Documentary
Comprising three short-film programmes, this programme highlights innovative and cross-disciplinary approaches to documentary practice. These works respond to and dismantle reality through...
Taiwan Spectrum｜War Memories, Shifting Identities
This programme brings together stories of Taiwanese individuals who were mobilised as Japanese soldiers during the colonial era, some of whom were later conscripted by the Nationalist government. By...
Reel Taiwan｜ The Late 1980s on Film
In the late 1980s, Taiwan underwent social upheaval, coinciding with the transition of the cinematic medium from celluloid to videotape. Returning from the United States, Lee Daw-ming brought back...
Encounters｜The Living Landscape of Contemporary Canadian Documentaries
Co-curated with the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), this programme brings together recent works presented at the festival, reflecting RIDM’s spirit of innovation. Beginning with...
