2022
Taipei Film Festival
最佳短片、最佳新演員、傑出技術提名
最佳短片、最佳新演員、傑出技術提名
台灣獎未來之星獎
A good story doesn’t need to be long! Giloo presents nine short films by emerging Taiwanese directors, delivering bold and punchy cinematic language that challenges everything you thought you knew about film.
Starting abruptly, ending just as suddenly, the short story in literary awards is an art of precise cuts. Often, the entire piece serves a singular, rare, fleeting thought, or the echoing aftermath when hearts collide—once the meaning is conveyed, it can conclude. There's no clinging or indulgence, just a crisp detachment, like a wind chime in summer, leaving no trace after the breeze passes.
An elderly political prisoner battling Alzheimer’s, a ghostwriter who starts a martial arts film company after release, a teenage boy drifting between virtual networks and real life, an old woman singlehandedly raising her intellectually disabled son, a directionally challenged writer carrying 37 keys, a father whose voice is ignored both in life and death, and a banyan tree that has silently witnessed decades of neighborhood change. How do they confront the challenges and setbacks brought by society? Continuing the acclaim of the previous three editions, Giloo now presents the fourth wave of its “Taiwan Shorts Knockout” series—seven powerful short films that delve into the everyday struggles and stories unfolding in Taiwanese society.