2017
Taipei Film Festival
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最佳導演獎
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台灣學生獎
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亞洲新力量組銀獎
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The land carries memories. From afar, I often think of Hong Kong’s sea and Taiwan’s mountains. The days of my childhood—doing nothing, daydreaming in the warm summer breeze—remain vividly etched in my mind. Only after growing up, only after feeling lost, did I come to realize that beneath the soil lie many complex and thought-provoking stories: stories of colonialism and postcolonialism; stories of escape and homesickness. Through stories that flow between sea and sea, mountain and mountain, we hope to invite everyone, in the new year, to reflect across nations on the meaning of land and identity.
Once upon a time, there were stories in the landscapes. A mother’s quiet anxiety stretched across the winter plains of Inner Mongolia; a boy grew up in the windswept fishing villages of Taiwan; two scruffy children plotted their passage to adulthood in a withered cornfield; an artist-filmmaker captured the homesickness of the Burmese Chinese community on Huaxin Street, New Taipei; and a goldfish fable unfolded within the narrow, suffocating streets of Hong Kong. In these films, landscapes are more than mere cinematic settings; they are rich with symbolism and reflect the inner worlds of the characters.
Predicaments are complex equations of structure and choice. To survive in the cracks is to constantly navigate a tug-of-war between dignity, morality, and belief—yet how much room to move exists within the walls of the siege? Even in moments of survival against all odds, the inner storm—relentless and overwhelming—never truly subsides. Survival is never mere luck. And there is no need for apology.
In the cracks along the city’s edge, a hippie loses their way, while a stray dog watches humankind. A boy bids farewell to confinement and walks into the sea. There are no parties on the prairie—everywhere feels the same.