Taiwan / 2016 / DVD / Colour / 58min
Mulas Ismahasan
Mulas Ismahasan belongs to the Bunun tribe
from Kaohsiung Taoyuan area. She left her tribe to seek for better education
opportunities. Han culture is embedded with competition philosophy. Therefore,
she uses documentary as a media to reveal the situation of the disadvantaged
and also as a tool to reflect on oneself.
CHANG Su Cheng
CHANG Su Cheng graduated from Graduate
Institute for Social Transformation Studies of Shih-Hsin University. He was
once Chief of a Village in Taipei city. He has been filming documentaries for 8
years.
Synopsis
“Farmers cannot afford any sickness. Any
sickness can collapse the whole family.” This is a story about a farming family
in China try to fight against poverty. The narrator is a female worker born in
1990s. She talked about her dream and her complaints about her current stands.
The compare and contrast of her words and deeds points out the dilemma of a
migrant worker in China.
