A Holy Family 2022
After twenty years away, director A-liang returns to his fam…
2026 Festival
Taiwan International Democratic Film Festival
The Freedom Yet to Be
A festival with no fixed venue. Its 37 screenings are spread across 8 months of the year, each one hosted by a local community.
Tour Schedule
37 screenings across 8 monthsOctober, 4 screenings
November, 1 screening
32 screened · tour record
October, 5 screenings
3
14:00
Taiwanese American Center of Northern California
San Jose
The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful
September, 5 screenings
August, 14 screenings
July, 3 screenings
19
12:00
National 228 Memorial Museum
Taipei
Human Rights Film Festival Part 4 of 7: Nowhere Left to Retreat — Space and Generations
12
12:00
National 228 Memorial Museum
Taipei
Human Rights Film Festival Part 3 of 7: Artistic Protest
June, 3 screenings
28
12:00
National 228 Memorial Museum
Taipei
Human Rights Film Festival Part 2 of 7: Memory of Violence and the Unfinished Movement (Taiwanese-language session)
14
10:30
National 228 Memorial Museum
Taipei
Hong Kong Human Rights Exhibition Screening and Talk, Part 1 of 7: Resonance of Despair and Resistance
May, 1 screening
January, 1 screening
2026 Programme
21After Spring, the Tamaki Family 2016
Next: 10/27 (Tue) · Walnut Creek
The Tamaki family waited through many springs before reachin…
All Static & Noise 2023
Finished screening this year
The title comes from a line in a 2017 speech by Chinese Comm…
An Unfinished Film 2024
Finished screening this year
In early 2020 a film crew reassembles near Wuhan to continue…
Finished screening this year
The film records the experience of the Uyghur linguist Abduw…
Black Bauhinia 2020
Finished screening this year
Black Bauhinia is the first feature documentary about Hong K…
Breaking the Wall 2026
Finished screening this year
Directed by Lee Hui-jen and filmed over seven years, Breakin…
Finished screening this year
In the 1980s, after the lifting of martial law, Taiwanese so…
Eagle Hand 2021
My home village of Niudoushan in Chiayi was once a farming c…
Finished screening this year
The documentary Freedom of the Artist chronicles nearly two …
From New Guinea to Taipei 2009
Finished screening this year
Seventy years ago the director's grandfather was conscripted…
Hunter Brothers 2025
Finished screening this year
Hunter Brothers, by the young director Su Hung-en, is set in…
Inside the Red Brick Wall 2020
Finished screening this year
In November 2019 the anti-extradition movement reached its f…
Island of the Winds 2025
Finished screening this year
Island of the Winds, directed by Hsu Ya-ting, is set on a hi…
March of Happiness 1999
Directed by Lin Cheng-sheng, March of Happiness is set in Ta…
Pusu Qhuni 2013
Finished screening this year
Set against the 1930 Musha Incident, Pusu Qhuni records the …
Finished screening this year
On 24 April 1970, three young Taiwanese studying in the Unit…
State Organs 2024
Finished screening this year
State Organs is not fiction but something still happening. T…
The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful 2017
Finished screening this year
Written and directed by Yang Ya-che and starring Kara Wai, W…
The Catch 2021
Finished screening this year
Each winter the Kuroshio carries eel fry from the Philippine…
Wings for Takasago Giyutai 2016
Wings for Takasago Giyutai, directed by Futuru C. L. Tsai, c…
Past Editions
4
About the Festival
The Taiwan International Democratic Film Festival (TIDFF) is organised by the New School for Democracy Association.
The festival uses the moving image as a vehicle for democratic civic education. Working nomadically — touring screenings paired with talks, reaching beyond the divides of city and countryside, wealth and poverty — it looks to film to help audiences discover, see and understand the state of democracy and human rights across the world’s regions.
The festival’s programme notes for each year are published in Chinese. Follow the festival on Facebook for screening announcements.
Contact
E-mail: info@nsd.asia