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Why mess with the world?

Lu Xiaofan is a fresh graduate who has just left the university campus and entered the society. He came to IFS First Agency Studio and became an agent assistant. He was responsible for an artist named Tang Zhe. Tang Zhe was not a good person. He often squeezed Lu Xiaofan at work and even tried to frame him repeatedly. In the end, Lu Xiaofan fell into Tang Zhe's conspiracy and lost his job. Lu Xiaofan, who was angry, decided to take revenge on Tang Zhe. He participated in the Internet star talent show held by IFS Company. Who knew that he was favored by the company's president Gu Han in the talent show. Lu Xiaofan joined IFS Company as an artist. Gu Han gave Lu Xiaofan many resources that should have belonged to Tang Zhe. The leading role of the movie that Tang Zhe had been thinking about was also replaced by Lu Xiaofan.

Why mess with the world?

NR 2017
Taiwan Banzai

Chenggong Town (Taitung County) has a population of approximately 15,000 people. This area, located in the southeastern part of Taiwan and surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and mountain ranges, has been home to many Japanese and Han Chinese people since the completion of the fishing port in 1932, creating a fishing and agricultural town. Japanese immigrants brought swordfish fishing with a stick, and this fishing method is still used today. Atsuko Sakai depicts the people who have lived facing the sea and the land even as times have changed, living their lives honestly, placing "prayer", "gratitude for life" and "family" at the center of them. The final chapter of Sakai's Taiwanese trilogy.

Taiwan Banzai

NR 2017
Lilies' Talk

Lily is the nickname of lesbian girls and lesbian phenomenon in Chinese language. Lilies' Talk is a feature length documentary film that portrays the life and thoughts of young Chinese lesbian/bisexual girls living in three cities: Beijing, Chengdu and New York. Twelve girls aging from 19-29 opened their heart and showed their stories in front of our camera. It is not just about Chinese lesbian group, but also about youth and love. The lesbian/bisexual girls are actually no different from heterosexual girls in life except for the fact that they are attracted to the same sex.This film hopes to draw attention to this unique subculture and eliminate the myth and horror around it, as love is love after all.

Lilies' Talk

1.0 2017
A Journey of 35

Five Taiwanese teenagers, faced with sweeping and untested educational reforms in 1996, revealed their dreams in the CommonWealth Magazine documentary "A Generation Freed." Their lives were then revisited in 2006 in the film "A Generation Freed - 10 Years Later" to see how the more liberal education system had affected them. Now, another decade later, we find out in "A Journey of 35" if indeed they were able to chase their dreams and if their horizons have grown brighter with adulthood or become more cynical.

A Journey of 35

10.0 2017
Caspiar

In 1998, the island of Caspiar sinks, forcing all its inhabitants to flee and become refugees in places such as Hong Kong. Su’s fictional story about one such refugee unfolds through a seemingly stoic interview. The interviewee – a French-speaking white man – works as a domestic worker, a role that subverts colonial expectations of the white expatriate living in Hong Kong. The video concludes with a quotation from the famous “madeleine” passage in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, foregrounding the centrality of memory and recollection in the reimagination of places, identities and histories.

Caspiar

5.0 2017
Requiem (Internationale, Goodbye Malaya)

Requiem depicts now-elderly former communists reclaiming memories of their political participation, war, deportation, exile, and socialist dreams, in the form of song. In their youth, they were guerrilla fighters who took on the British in the jungles of Malaya (present-day Malaysia and Singapore) in the anti-colonial war of 1948-1960. Two versions of this work exist, single and double-channel video installation with sound. The double-channel version was shown as part of solo exhibitions in Hong Kong and New York. The single-channel version was shown at the Venice Biennale 2024 as part of The Disobedience Archive curated by Marco Scotini.

Requiem (Internationale, Goodbye Malaya)

NR 2017
Dialogue Among Tribes

In 1987, as Taiwan had just lifted martial law, society and the economy were undergoing rapid transformation, and Indigenous peoples faced a wave of urban migration and labor relocation. An Amis man Du-Ya Pan Ming-fu, his childhood friend Duwake, a Kavalan artist, and Lai-Sa-Gai-Nu Tian Acheng in Xiangbi Village, have different but intertwined lives. Though the three men were compelled by economic hardship to leave their homes, they did not bow to fate nor choose to remain in the city forever. In an era when Indigenous peoples were overlooked, they each steadfastly confronted their identity and cultural values, forging life paths that intertwined in unique ways.

Dialogue Among Tribes

NR 2017