短片競賽 Ⅰ

Les Cascades
Tzuman Tseng, Czech Republic, Taiwan, 2026, 21 min. Mandarin, French, English, Cantonese with English subtitles

Liquor
Yi-Chen Huang, Germany, 2025, 5 min. Mandarin with English subtitles

ma.
Szu-Fan Chung, Taiwan, United Kingdom, 2025, 18 min. Mandarin, English with English subtitles

The Fissure Of The Red Sight
Wei-Heng Kao, Taiwan, 2025, 12 min. Mandarin with English subtitles

Lethe
Liang-Hsin Huang, France, Taiwan, 2025, 7 min. Mandarin with English subtitles

Three Things I Learned in France
Te-Gao Hong, France, Taiwan, 2026, 16 min. English, French, Mandarin with English subtitles

Content warming graphic violence

The first shorts program explores displacement, memory, family and the ghosts of the past. Les Cascades centres on a young woman confronting the gap between her aspirations of living abroad and its often jarring reality. In Liquor, a daughter attempts to save her mother from an illness that threatens to drown her memories and emotions. ma. offers an intimate portrait of a mother and child, reflecting on memory, silence and the traces of love across time. In The Fissure Of The Red Sight, a search for hidden cameras brings the statues of Taipei New Park to life, confronting the city’s colonial and authoritarian past. Lethe journeys into the underworld of memory, where a sculptor encounters his works and relives moments with his daughter. Finally, Three Things I Learned in France offers a playful reflection on the experience of being Taiwanese in France, and the things that prove more difficult than learning French.