Back Home (Hui Jia)

Tsai Ming-liang

Anong returned home to Laos, accompanied by the director Tsai Ming-liang. Herds wandered, the wind stirred the trees, and lights flickered beneath the water. In this no man’s land, the abandoned houses stood silent—yet each seemed to bear a different face, quietly telling its own story. A camcorder. A camera. And a film was made.

Taiwan 2025, '65

DIRECTOR: Tsai Ming-liang

CAMERA: Tsai Ming-siang

MONTAGE: Jhong-yuan Chang

PRODUCERS: Claude Wang

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Venice FF
São Paulo IFF
New York FF
Busan IFF
Viennale
Tokyo FILMeX

Tsai Ming-liang

Tsai Ming-liang was born in Malaysia in 1957, Tsai Ming-liang premiered his debut feature, Rebels of the Neon God, at the Berlinale in 1992. His sophomore film, Vive L’ amour (1994), won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival while The River (1996) won the Jury Award at Berlin, thus solidifying his status as a major filmmaker. In 2009, Face became the first film to be included in the collection of the Louvre Museum’s “Le Louvre s'offre aux cineastes”. In 2023, Tsai was awarded with the Pardo Alla Carriera (Leopard of Honour) for his distinguished careers in cinema. In recent years, Tsai has also received attention in the art world, having been invited to participate in various art exhibitions and festivals, and for putting forth such aesthetic ideas as the “Hand-sculpted Cinema” and “The removal of industrial processes from art making”. In 2012, he began his “Slow Walk” series and has since completed ten short films, screened at art festivals and galleries around the world. Aside from cinema, he continuously develops stage plays and art exhibitions.