2022
Golden Horse Awards
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Giloo presents a curated selection of finalists and award-winning works from the Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF), capturing the trajectories of individual lives shaped by era shifts, social structures, and cultural traditions. The narrative scope expands from the frontlines of war and resistance to everyday anxieties, the complexities of tradition, and philosophical reflections on the soul. The lens shifts from macro-level upheavals to an intimate gaze. We witness individuals seeking exits from systemic oppression, debating existence through traditional rituals, and attempting to summon lost souls through song and imagination amidst the embers of trauma. This is a profound dialogue that delves into the subtle nuances of life, inviting you to experience the true weight of memory and action.
Along fragmented paths, we come to glimpse landscapes elsewhere. When these everyday moments brush against lived experience, we are suddenly carried back in dreams—to a past once lived in our homeland. By weaving together the experience of being away from home with what has already passed, a vision emerges that belongs to us alone, singular and unrepeatable. This film selection, jointly curated by enclave partners from different countries, reflects the concerns they observe through their own eyes. Within this rising enclave, we see, encounter, and exchange… and continue moving forward.
Times don't always move forward, and the lessons of history must not be forgotten. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera
In resonance with the 2024 TIDF (Taiwan International Documentary Festival) theme, Giloo has curated 10 past TIDF nominated or award-winning films. We invite you to explore an alternative reality of the world through the lenses of labor, protest, and migration.
Try entering the keyword "intellectuals" and shift the timeline to the period after the Cultural Revolution. What kind of landscape emerges from the intricate intertwining of history and individual lives? Is it the yearning for freedom, the pursuit of art, unrestrained sexuality, or perhaps the spoken and unspoken madness and rebellion between people? The 1980s can truly be called a magnificent cultural renaissance for China.
After returning home from a social movement or protest, you can watch these films together.