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All Good, Father

Jay wonders about the nature of the fear that he has towards his father. Where does it come from? Where should it go? To learn about their relationship, Jay uses a camera to observe their daily interactions. He investigates the grandfather he never knew and gradually discovers a strong intergenerational bond among all of them. As he learns, he begins to feel bolder and uses the camera to have a dialogue with his father about what he never dared to ask: about his identity and the politics surrounding gay marriage laws in Taiwan.

All Good, Father

NR 2021
To Stride with Pride: A Human Rights Movement in Thailand

A short film about about brave Thai people who are striving toward attaining civic equity and societal equality. This is in a country where social activism is largely forbidden and can be quite dangerous. With a blending of seriousness and light-heartedness, this film brings you to the lively streets of Chiang Mai, Thailand. There, you stride with pride in the 2020 Chiang Mai Pride Parade, with hundreds of others who are standing up for human rights.

To Stride with Pride: A Human Rights Movement in Thailand

NR 2021
Mr. Zhang

Zhang Yonghong is a papercutting artist with osteogenesis imperfecta. His daughter also inherited the disease. A family of three came to Beijing in 2008 for her daughter's treatment. From then on, they stayed in Beijing by selling handmade papercutting for a living. After divorcing his wife, Mr. Zhang struggled alone in Beijing. In recent years, because business is not good and Beijing's cleanup of "Holes in the Wall", Mr. Zhang has difficulties finding a house and frequent move. Despite the enormous pressure to survive in Beijing, Mr. Zhang is reluctant to return to his hometown. To stay in Beijing, he dated a Beijing girl and hoped to marry her and have children with her. But the road to becoming a Beijinger is fraught with difficulties…

Mr. Zhang

NR 2021
MAHOROBA

At the Hudsucker corporate headquarters, a salaryman (“Me”) is the constant target of his hulking, bald, perverted boss’ violent retribution. Bittersweet childhood memories of Me’s late grandmother keep him going, but his brutal work life pushes him to the breaking point. Me gets sweet revenge and hightails it out of Tokyo, only to have his airplane violently hijacked. He’s dumped into the Pacific Ocean and onto the shores of remote island Mahoroba (an ancient Japanese word describing a far-off utopia).

MAHOROBA

NR 2021
K-Saram: Tale of the Pig Head

About 500,000 Koreans reside in the former Soviet Union. Most of their ancestors were forced to flee during the Japanese occupation / annexation (1910-1945). The name they gave themselves is Koryo-saram. Their language, Koryo-mar, is descended from the Hamgyöng dialect (province of North Korea) and many other variants of Northeast Korean. The documentary sets up a multi-voice narrative characterized by shamanic rituals, digital glitches, voiceovers, texts and sound panoramas. At the same time inter-subjective and deeply personal, the film recounts migration, the diaspora and death with humor and lightness.

K-Saram: Tale of the Pig Head

NR 2021
1/3600000

In 2051, an insect plague the world has never seen falls upon the human race. “Bugs” have become the biggest enemies to humans, that they manufactured 3600000 “cleaners”, a type of intelligent humanoids, to fight against the pest. Leaving the heritage behind, they disappeared into the deep night. Among the remains of insects and the smell of monocrotophos, one of the “cleaners” found a pair of VR glasses. Under the mysterious summoning, she broke away from the never-ending routine of killing, and cast a glimpse into the virtual dreamland human have built for themselves.

1/3600000

NR 2021
Eagle Hand

My hometown, Niutoushan, Chiayi, used to abound with lotus roots. in the 1980s, able to bulk export to Japan and Hong Kong. For the villagers, digging for lotus roots equaled digging for gold. But the prosperous era has lost to history, the population has plunged from more than 100 households to only 27. The very few who are unwilling to break their connection to land insist on growing lotus roots and self-worth thereof. For the elders, their value is carried in their “eagle hands,” a mark of their lifelong hard work. As for the youth who choose to stay even though most of their peers turn to seek work in the city, they discover their merit along this journey features ups and downs, and the inevitable stagnation of traditional industry, the farmers persevere and continue to dig out their long-lost cultural values with their “eagle hands”.

Eagle Hand

NR 2021