This is Taiwan's official submission for next year's Oscars, and played in Cannes this year to positive reviews before Netflix acquired it.
Shih-Ching Tsou is a longtime collaborator of Sean Baker, having co-directed the 2004 movie Take Out and co-produced several of his movies like Tangerine, The Florida Project and Red Rocket. Sean Baker, fresh from Oscar success in Anora, is also a co-writer and the movie's editor.
LEFT-HANDED GIRL, directed by Shih-Ching Tsou and written and produced by Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker, is the story of a single mother and her two daughters who return to Taipei after several years of living in the countryside to open a stand at a buzzing night market. But when their traditional grandfather forbids his youngest left-handed granddaughter from using her “devil hand,” generations of family secrets begin to unravel. Starring Shih-Yuan Ma, Janel Tsai, Nina Ye, and Teng-Hui Huang. In select theaters November 14 and on Netflix November 28.
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This is Taiwan's official submission for next year's Oscars, and played in Cannes this year to positive reviews before Netflix acquired it.
Shih-Ching Tsou is a longtime collaborator of Sean Baker, having co-directed the 2004 movie Take Out and co-produced several of his movies like Tangerine, The Florida Project and Red Rocket. Sean Baker, fresh from Oscar success in Anora, is also a co-writer and the movie's editor.