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When the Night Meets Light

This is the first non-fiction film to document, through real footage, the stories of children seeking help — and finding self-rescue — amid psychological and emotional struggles. Through intimate, unfiltered moments at schools, in families, and inside hospitals, the film captures the children’s interactions with teachers, parents, and doctors. Over the course of five years, the director — a veteran journalist — immersed herself in classrooms, medical institutions, and social organizations, conducting hundreds of interviews with children, parents, educators, and mental health professionals. Drawing from tens of thousands of real cases and records, she uses documentary cinema to explore the urgent question: how can we better understand and support children in their journeys of growth, care, and education?

When the Night Meets Light

NR 2025
Land Sailing

Land Sailing 边境航行 tells the story of an Asian immigrant returning to the UK after an ordeal crossing the England Channel due to the refusal to board a plane and legally entering the UK. This road movie is mainly shot by action cameras, documenting from a first-person perspective a journey back from Paris on a Flixbus, via Calais and Dover by a ferry, illustrating a ten-hour crossing of the border and the geographic distance. This works tells a heartbreaking and serious story from a naive and innocent tune; it is feminine, gentle and poetic, containing shadow puppetry, Kazoo, paper boats and many other domestic and childlike elements.

Land Sailing

NR 2025
Afternoon Hearsay

8.75mm film - a celluloid format unique to China and never circulated elsewhere, was a film format where no camera was made for. This print film stock was primarily used for mobile projection... What is a film without a camera? This question was explored through cameraless filmmaking techniques such as photogramming 8.75 archival prints onto 16mm. Here, the images and sounds of resistance are folded into the tales of the cinematic invention. Reimagining a format that once resisted circulation as a medium through which other forms of narrative appear...

Afternoon Hearsay

NR 2025
Formosa's Paradox

A brief cinematographic exploration on Super8 that examines Taiwan's complex national identity through the prism of political utopia. Shot in emblematic locations such as the Legislative Yuan, Liberty Square, the National Human Rights Museum, 228 Memorial Park, and TSMC headquarters, the film juxtaposes these symbols of democracy and autonomy with monuments from the authoritarian past like the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and Cih-hu Memorial Statue Park. Through these evocative images, the film reflects on the historical, diplomatic, and geopolitical tensions that have defined Taiwan for many centuries and specially since 1949, when the Kuomintang established its government on the island following the Japanese surrender in 1945. This work explores the Taiwanese paradox: a nation functioning as a sovereign democracy while navigating a diplomatic limbo, pursuing a political utopia where its self-determination might be fully recognized.

Formosa's Paradox

NR 2025
Sosowon : The Season of the Flying Fish

Sosowon: The Season of the Flying Fish is a VR tale set on Lanyu, an island in southeastern Taiwan, featuring a boy, Masarey, and his grandfather, Syapen. During the experience, the viewer will join Sosowon, a flying fish who, to escape a fisherman's net, must perform a feat to save his family. Along the way, Sosowon will go through ordeals, will be overcome by remorse, and will retrace his steps to rescue his family. As an intergenerational tale, the experience opens doors to Sosowon's fantastical world, and evokes a universal theme of love and sacrifice for loved ones.

Sosowon : The Season of the Flying Fish

NR 2025
Luckily I Survived

In March 2022, a massive wildfire broke out through Uljin in North Gyeongsang Province and Samcheok in Gangwon Province. The fire threatened not only the lives of the residents, but also the countless animals who shared the area. In the aftermath of the disaster, some animals, especially the cats-known for their territorial nature-were left behind. LUCKILY, I SURVIVED tells the story of the volunteers came from across the country to help with the recovery, and the cats rescued from the site. Among them are 'Snim (monk)' who refuses to leave the burned temple, 'Sandle' who suffers severe burns all over its body, and 'Sagye' once cared for by elderly villagers now ailing after the fire. Through their stories, the film sheds light on the devastating impact of a man-made wildfire and the compassionate efforts of people to save vulnerable lives offering a glimpse of hope for coexistence of human and the rest of nature.

Luckily I Survived

NR 2025
Cha Guo

Nestled between the skyscrapers of Hong Kong, housing some of high finance’s most creative minds, and the gleaming glass and steel boxes of Shenzhen, China’s Silicon Valley where the future is being built, lies a hidden world no less exceptional. In this lost country backwater of mountains and vegetable fields, factories still manufacture soy sauce in century old clay pots; Kenny hand makes concrete spacers that hold up some of the world’s longest suspension bridges. Cha Guo 茶粿 shines light on the lives of the villagers, craftsmen, farmers and business owners who make up this local village’s close-knit community. The people’s philosophy and signature are their resilience and their dedication. They embody “Made in Hong Kong” over generations. Cha Guo 茶粿 celebrates the heroes of Hong Kong and the fabric of what makes it and its people synonymous with warmth and the ubiquitous “can do” attitude.

Cha Guo

6.0 2025