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Taiwan Film Festival of Boston X New Taipei City Documentary Film Award | Virtual Film Festival

波士頓臺灣影展 Taiwan Film Festival of Boston
感動，無所不在新北市紀錄片系列活動 New Taipei City Documentar

10 films

The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston is dedicated to showcasing Taiwan’s diverse cultures and social landscapes through cinema while fostering meaningful exchange between Taiwanese filmmakers and North American audiences. Since 2011, the New Taipei City Documentary Film Award has supported documentary filmmaking and encouraged creators to engage with their times, capturing lived experiences and social realities through the moving image. Together, the two organizations present this virtual film festival, featuring outstanding works from past editions of the Taiwan Film Festival of Boston and the New Taipei City Documentary Film Award. By bringing Taiwanese stories of ecology, culture, identity, and coming of age beyond geographical boundaries, this collaboration invites audiences around the world to discover Taiwan through the lens of documentary filmmaking and engage in cross-cultural dialogue. Through the power of documentary cinema, the festival seeks to foster greater cross-cultural understanding, celebrate the creativity and vitality of Taiwan’s documentary tradition, and strengthen connections between New Taipei City, Taiwanese filmmakers, and international film communities. New Taipei City Documentary Award Section Title | Habitats of Life Envisioning a Sustainable Future Where People and the Environment Thrive Together From oceans and forests to where Indigenous communities and cities meet, life seeks ways to survive, grow, and belong. Where the Bees Belong, Hearing from the Dolphin, The Elimination, A Tayal, and Childhood In Between explore ecological conservation, wildlife conditions, cultural heritage, and identity, revealing complex relationships between people, nature, and society. As habitats shift and generations change, each story shows how life responds to environmental and social challenges while seeking new possibilities for coexistence. Echoing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this program invites audiences to reconsider habitat not only as a physical place, but also as an ecological, cultural, and emotional home—and to imagine a more diverse, inclusive, and sustainable future.

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新北市紀錄片獎優選作品

Leaving 10.11

Hearing from the Dolphin

Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story

The Cinematography Behind Millennium Mambo & In the Mood for

Let the Wind Carry Me

2022 Golden Horse Best Narrative Short

Can You Hear Me?

Giloo Exclusive

On Happiness Road

Cape No. 7

The Inconvenient Conversation on Gender

TAIWANfest Vancouver 溫哥華台灣節

8 films

Vancouver TAIWANfest describes itself as “a festival that wildly encourages dialogue.” But when it comes to gender, there are often many reasons not to talk about it. To save face, to protect the bigger picture, to keep family harmony, or simply to avoid discomfort. When words feel difficult, could film offer another way into the conversation? Through moving images, documentaries, and the intimate realities of individual lives, these works bring us closer to one another. Before rushing to say yes or no, we invite you to first sit with the complexity, diversity, and beauty of being human. Special thanks to our film selectors: Nathalie CHANG(CHANG Yi-Hsum) (Novelist), Rachel (Guitarist, P!SCO), Ted LIAO (Chef, Monsoon), Charlie SMITH (Editor, Pancouver), and Luna (TAIWANfest team).

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Girls' School

Moving In Between

Breezy Day

Praying Mantis (Director's Cut)

LGBTQ+ Pioneer Chi Chia-wei

When The Dawn Comes

Sundance Best Animated Short

Night Bus

Female Political Prisoners Speak Out | 2002 Golden Horse Bes

Spring: The Story of Hsu Chin-Yu

UNKNOWN

The Untold Stories of Migration

TAIWANfest Toronto 多倫多台灣節

7 films

Nearly one quarter of Canada’s population was born outside the country. Every path that leads someone here is far more than a straight line between two points. These paths may differ greatly, yet they resonate with one another. Centred on diaspora communities, this film series hopes to explore, through these works, the long negotiation with memory, language, identity, and belonging that people face after crossing national borders. Along these winding paths of migration, we are invited to rethink what home means. Equally important, we are invited to consider how we might better understand one another. Special thanks to our film selectors: Helena WU (Assistant Professor, UBC Asian Studies), Charlie SMITH (Editor, Pancouver), and becky (TAIWANfest team).

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Asian Sundance | Dreams Between London and Taitung

MAMU

Giloo Exclusive

The Lucky Woman

2023 Golden Horse Best Narrative Short

Before the Box Gets Emptied

Fir (Czech: Jedle)

The Things I Have Never Told You

Mao

Taiwan's First Oscar Documentary Short Nominee

Island In Between

AniSEED: Selected Korean Independent Animation

AniSEED

12 films

The Korean Independent Animation Filmmakers Association (KIAFA) has established a distribution team called AniSEED, dedicated to protecting the rights of animation directors, safeguarding the copyrights of animated works, and actively advancing distribution and marketing efforts. The name "AniSEED" symbolizes the act of planting seeds, embodying a commitment to nurturing the boundless potential and vitality of independent animation. As KIAFA's distribution team for independent animation, AniSEED sets out on this journey with the goal of managing and preserving works while creating diverse screening opportunities. Guided by the philosophy of planting small seeds and patiently watching them grow, AniSEED is committed to cultivating a sustainable ecosystem for independent animation.

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Reborn with You

House of Loss

KKUM

The Death Vendor

BELIEF

Saturday's Apartment

Seesaw

Before&After

The Game of All

Deer Flower

ARTIST-110

On the Way to School

Pacing Back and Forth at the Real Scene

陳梓桓

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Sometimes, you’re drawn back to the scene by an unseen force—treading carefully, almost fearfully. The crime scenes where bloodstains have long been washed away, the streets where fervent slogans have faded, and the lives forever frozen in a single moment of history—all compel creators to pick up the pen, to lift the camera, and to tell their stories in countless ways. Rooted in reality, the act of creation becomes a delicate balance. Is it a faithful record, an excavation of truth? A transformation of reality? Or a search for meaning in the present? Imagination may run wild, but what is the thread that keeps pulling him back—again and again—to the real?

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