Taiwanese Short Films
The sun rises as usual, yet beneath the calm facade of everyday life, inner storms quietly brew. One turns from a failed voice actor into a ruthless debt collector; another faces high-risk labor with youthful restlessness and longing. A model student secretly hones a dragon dance finishing move, while someone else searches through a sea of strangers for their fated goose. Some mourn the passing of animals; others silently plan to forget a lost love. Following the success of the first and second waves, Giloo now presents the third installment of “Taiwan Shorts Knockout”, featuring six exceptional Taiwanese short films that invite you to step into these characters’ hidden inner worlds.
6 films
Eating Grapes without Spitting Out the Skin
Unforgettable Darkness of the Stained Spirit
Revolt with Dragon
Butterfly Jam
Penguin Girl
In Their Teens
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Those irreversible slices of life
Recently, in a novel I've come to love, I found myself grasping the weight of life's slices. In the story, there is a wicked sorcerer who freezes people in the instant just before tragedy strikes—suspending everything, sealing it into a crystal ball, and building an entire museum from these frozen moments. And isn't film, in its own way, just as cruel? As viewers, we are little more than instruments for collecting tissue slices—slipping into a character's world for a single fleeting moment, wandering through it in passing, only to return, in the blink of an eye, to the reality that is our own.