2021
Golden Horse Awards
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Directed by 金華青
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No matter where you are, not just in Taiwan, international movie fans can easily watch too! The first wave of films from emerging creators are now live in our international section. Featuring top selections from prestigious film festivals like Golden Horse Awards and Golden Harvest Awards, as well as many highly anticipated emerging works for you to explore anytime, anywhere!
Giloo presents award-winning festival favorites, buzzworthy films, and thought-provoking documentaries, bringing together diverse themes and compelling stories. Step into the Spotlight Screening selection and discover films that have captured attention, sparked discussion, and are well worth revisiting.
CNEX Originals brings together documentaries produced by CNEX, telling stories from Taiwan, Asia, and beyond. From culture, history, and industry to society and individual lives, these films capture moments of change and offer distinctive perspectives on the world we share. Created from real stories and shaped by filmmakers with unique voices, this dedicated library is exclusively available to supporters of CNEX Foundation programs—inviting you to discover CNEX Originals and join us in supporting documentary filmmaking and the next generation of storytellers.
I’m drawn to those films where love is fearless and all-consuming—like an addiction I can’t escape… They believe in love, and love their beliefs. Every glance feels like it’s on fire.
Through documentaries, we are able to step into issue frontlines that are often inaccessible in everyday life. Gender, LGBTQ+, labor, ethnicity, migrant workers, environmental protection… This curated list showcases a selection of documentaries that delve deeply into diverse social issues. From the dark corners of child sexual abuse to plastic recycling factories at the end of the global waste stream, these films lead viewers to confront hidden realities and listen to voices that deserve to be heard.
Every documentary begins with a pitch—a single sentence, a fragment of footage, an unfinished idea spoken aloud on a stage, met with both scrutiny and anticipation. CCDF (Chinese Doc Forum) is precisely such a starting point, a place where ideas are given the chance to be seen. This collection brings together works that were once presented on the CCDF stage, and which went on to complete the long journey of filming, editing, and finally reaching an audience. What began as a single pitch was shaped and refined over years, becoming images that could truly be watched, discussed, and remembered. Through this curation, we hope to look back at the long, often unseen distance each of these works traveled—from being pitched to being finished. That distance is, perhaps, the most honest and most difficult journey a documentary filmmaker undertakes.
Within a life ever tightening in length, we move with faltering steps, seeking space continually crushed by reality. Life races past like a hastily drawn 2D sketch, and existence seems reduced to endless trades of bargaining chips. Only when utterly exhausted do we pause, sighing at the passage of time and life. Some call upon companions; others walk alone. The journey becomes a deviation from the norm—a path that, though unconventional, brings peace. Even if we cannot cast everything aside without hesitation, we still dance unrestrained in memory, in separation, in life and death, gazing upon the fleeting radiance within and beyond the cinematic frame.
