An award-winning documentary that retraces the footsteps of a man from New Zealand who searched for his missing son in Taiwan officially opened in theaters across Taiwan on Friday.
Phil’s Journey by Taiwanese director Chen Yeong-rury (陳勇瑞) chronicles the experiences of New Zealand sculptor Phil Tchernegovski, who lost contact with his son Reuben in 1998 after the son disappeared during a solo backpacking trip in the Alishan (阿里山) area.
It retraces the steps the father took to find his son on six trips to Taiwan between 1998 and 2002, and the affinity he developed for Taiwan and its people during that time,