Fashion as art, fashion as living

Fashion is the era’s aspiration. We explore the aesthetic revolutions and the legacies of taste left by legendary masters. Through the eyes of critics and journalists, we witness Chanel liberating women from their constraints during the World Wars, Dior restoring a sense of “elegance” through a romantic soul, Saint Laurent playing the role of the bourgeois rebel, and Yohji Yamamoto’s more recent foray into Black Philosophy and humanistic reflection. As it turns out, our modern lives and aesthetics all stem from these "Creators of Beauty" who reflected their generations.

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

A curated selection of ten 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.

New Perspectives in Japanese Cinema

Echoing the Golden Horse Film Festival’s “Selection of Japanese Mid-Career Directors,” Giloo continues its long-standing commitment to Asian auteur cinema with this curated program, New Perspectives in Japanese Cinema. The selection focuses on a new generation of filmmakers who have recently emerged on the international stage and are steadily establishing their creative positions, while also seeking to expand and supplement existing perspectives on contemporary Japanese cinema. From the Okuyama brothers—Hiroshi Okuyama and Yoshiyuki Okuyama—whose delicate visual language captures the subtle flow of human emotions, to Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who reshapes everyday narratives through long takes and dialogue; from Shiori Ito, who confronts social structures and gender issues head-on, to Sho Miyake, who persistently portrays urban margins and the conditions of youth; and additionally, Yusuke Morii, selected for this program for his distinctive narrative approach to the fragmented realities of contemporary Japanese life—these filmmakers not only demonstrate strong auteur sensibilities but collectively respond to the social realities of present-day Japan.

Those mists and clouds have never dispersed

Even though Taiwan has embarked on the path of democratization, the shadows left behind by the authoritarian era have yet to fully fade. Giloo curates a selection of films that focus on the 228 Incident and the White Terror—some directly interviewing victims of the authoritarian period, others reconstructing a silenced era through powerful imagery. Only by confronting this history can we continue moving forward in the faint yet enduring light of democracy.