Giloo International Selections | Festival Highlights

Since 2024, Giloo has officially launched its international viewing service, joining hands with creators around the world to present a curated selection of over a hundred acclaimed films. From award-winning festival titles and popular feature films to thought-provoking documentaries, Giloo brings together diverse themes and compelling stories — inviting you to a cinematic feast that transcends borders.

Searching for a person to spend the night with me

李駿碩

The theme of this program is hookup films — stories of young men and women in the city, some by chance, others by design. Each work carries a strong sense of space: homes, subways, laundromats, saunas — online and offline, full of contemporary texture.
Sex is the desire to live; when facing death, I feel small, and each night becomes a luxury.
At some point, I stopped saying “forever” and began saying “the rest of my life,” though what remains may be only tonight.
In one scene, he asks, “Why do you make films?” She answers, “Because I like it.”
Because I like it — that’s how simple the reason is for this generation.

Records, Re-Exposures: A Selection of Master Directors’ Documentaries

A curated selection of six documentaries, re-illuminating what lies hidden within cinema. They recount timeless masterpieces—sometimes weaving in interviews, sometimes dissecting layer by layer. These films are pathways into cinema, ways to approach their authors, and lessons in filmmaking themselves. Through them, we catch a glimpse of the spark of creation.

The struggle of memory against forgetting

Times don't always move forward, and the lessons of history must not be forgotten. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera

Art, Society, and the Times: Rap Artist Yang Shuya 

楊舒雅

What is the relationship between art and society? Is it possible for art to exist outside of society, as a kind of “pure land”?
How does art reflect the evolution of an era—or even move ahead of its time to drive change? This has been the central question I’ve explored since I first began creating.
From the great creators of East and West, to protestors striving for change, and finally to local actors taking action on the ground. “Living in this era, what dreams can we still hold on to?”
In pragmatic despair, I pragmatically believe that both creation and action, like water, can flow into and fill the cracks that our times so urgently need.