2019
Taiwan International Documentary Festival
台灣競賽入圍
Directed by 李亦軒
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As human beings, we are social animals, yet hopelessly alone. In states of solitude, each of us often encounters our own power animal.
“If a person stays in a place long enough, part of their soul will remain there.” These words, spoken by the protagonist of my documentary, not only profoundly shaped the way I see my hometown and the places where I grew up, but also became a kind of revelation. I used to fear that these places would become unfamiliar, or even disappear entirely. Yet this sentence taught me how to look gently at disappearance and loss. The films in this program gaze upon living, breathing lives, observing how each person leaves a part of their soul in the places where they have lived, wandered, or stayed.