The Lucky Woman

Archiving Time

In Taiwan, there is a group of people participating in this race against time. They are hidden inside the film archive of New Taipei City’s “Singapore

2019

Island in Between

The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese

2023

Migrant Dreams

When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would pro

2016

Border

In the middle of the strait between Kinmen and Xiamen, China, there are patches of sea filled with floating styrofoam and endless sand pilfering acros

2021

A Tomato Tragedy

In southern Italy, stateless migrants pick the tomatoes the rest of the world will taste. But what about these workers’ European dreams? Will they be

2023

The Last Insurrection

Martial law was lifted in Taiwan in 1987. Since then, all kinds of reform and democratization were raised. However, in May 1991, four young people wer

2015

Taiwan: The Generation After Martial Law

This program illustrates how video activists have developed sophisticated use of small format video, with poetic and powerful imagery, complex mixes o

1990

In Foreign Soil

In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return to

2001

Unfinished Progress

Giraffe-like construction cranes are avid eaters. They forage around in the woods and fields for their feeds: the collective longing for development a

2017

Come Hungry: A Day in the Luzhou Night Market

As dawn breaks over Taipei, a whole world comes to life around the Luzhou temple night market, only to be dismantled by sunrise. In COME HUNGRY, Oscar

The Man Who Died Once

Tragic circumstances bring together the wife and the mother of two migrant workers - one from the east, the other from west Nepal.

2018

La Vie sans Brahim

2003

Saigon, U.S.A

Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vietnamese refugees have built the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam, in Orange County, California. In

2004

YAYA

YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the domestic worker who spent decades away from her fam

2018

The Workers Cup

Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their

2017

Inside Taiwan: Standing Up to China

Taiwan is at the heart of a struggle between two nuclear powers – China and the United States - and there are fears it will become the next global con

2023

Globe Trekker: Hong Kong and Taiwan

Hong Kong and Taiwan are 2 islands inextricably linked by their huge neighbour. Modern metropolises full of eastern traditions, they're forging forwar

2005

Bahadur: The Accidental Brave

Far West Nepal, where maximum labour migration to Bombay happens, is reeling under the impact of an HIV micro epidemic. This documentary is an in dept

2011

VIET≈NAM ≈ HANOISE

Hanoise is a portrait of the little known, but very rich, experimental music scene from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It showcases a diverse array of

Exploited

Cheaters and cheated, wage dumping and moonlighting – up close and personal with the labor market inspectors Frédy, Regula, Marcos, Stefan and Chrümu.

2022