Two films by Taiwanese directors are to be featured at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, which opens today, the Ministry of Culture said yesterday.
<i>Dorm</i> by director So Yo-hen (蘇育賢) and <i>The Lucky Woman</i> (逃跑的人) by director Tseng Wen-chen (曾文珍) have both been selected for the festival’s New Asian Currents program, the ministry said in a statement.
In his 54-minute film, So documents the experiences of migrant workers in Taiwan and invites Vietnamese women working in a factory to participate in discussions in the form of a workshop, the ministry said.
The film is based on real events that happened at a