In 1999 Lekal Makor, the head of an Indigenous Amis community in Taiwan, recorded their oral history. He recounted an 1877 ambush by Qing soldiers at a banquet in the Amis village of Cepo’. The events of the massacre in modern day Hualien have been buried for more than a century. The Cepo’ War is a deliberate gap in…
The director unexpectedly overheard stories about his mother’s family and decided to pick up a camera to explore a century-old history: Topa, a Tayal tribe that once lived in Sanxia but was displaced to Taoyuan’s Fuxing District due to Japanese rule. The main subjects of this documentary are descendants who are striving in their own ways to…
2024 神腦原鄉踏查紀錄片競賽一般組最佳影片
導演意外聽聞了自己母親的家庭故事，於是拿起攝影機，開始探尋被塵封百年的歷史：大豹社，一個曾經居住在三峽的泰雅族部族，因為日本統治的緣故，後裔被迫離散到了桃園復興區。而本片中的主角們，都是現今為了保存大豹記憶，而用自己的方式在努力的族裔，尋回失落的家族故事，想找到族群認同對自己的意義，透過這些，他們的生命與歷史的連結，如今一個個重見天日。