Dedicated Catalogue｜Palestine and Its Archiveless Archive
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2026 TIDF Award-Winning List
Asian Vision Competition
Grand Prize
Until the Orchid Blooms
Polen LY｜Cambodia
For its holistic balance between subject and form, the film not only exposes the issue of the loss of native land to corporate takeover but also brings us into the lives and culture of its people, the beauty of nature, and childhood innocence and wonder, offering a wistful evocation of time and place that even flood waters cannot erase.
Jury Prize
CycleMahesh
Suhel BANERJEE｜India
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2026 TIDF Express #3
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2026 TIDF Express #2
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2026 TIDF Express #1
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Jury of TIDF 2026
Jury of Asian Vision Competition
Philip CHEAH
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2026 Festival Brochure
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Suspended Duty: Taiwan Military Training Regiment
Formed in 1950 under General Sun Li-jen, Taiwan's Military Training Regiment recruited over 4,000 young men to build a new army. Abruptly ordered into 'suspended duty', they waited decades without discharge. Through interviews and satirical propaganda-style narration, the film examines how politics disciplines bodies, silences dissent, and asks: who were they meant to fight for?
Shonenko
Shonenko documents 8,419 Taiwanese teenagers mobilised to Japan to manufacture military aircraft during the Second World War. Drawn by promises of education, they were later caught amid post-war politics and shifting regimes in Taiwan, Japan, and China. The film brings into focus quiet endurance, fractured belonging, and personal histories long left untold.
O for Opium
As part of the filmmaker' s metaproject The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia, the film takes the letter 'O' to poetically conflate 'Opium' and 'Ocean'. It revisits the opium trade that underpinned British colonial expansion, contending with how opium may be understood, perceived and represented. Found footage and layered voices link Singapore' s port history to narcotic economies.
