Dialogue Among Tribes | Taiwanese American Center of Northern California
11:30–12:30 Screening: Dialogue Among Tribes
12:30– Post-screening discussion
Films screened
Dialogue Among Tribes
In the 1980s, after the lifting of martial law, Taiwanese society was undergoing rapid economic and social change. Indigenous people were moving to cities and leaving the mountains for wage labour. Three lives — the director's father Pan Ming-fu (Du-Ya), the Amis and Kavalan artist Duwake, and Lai-Sa-Gai-Nu of the Xiangbi community — unfolded separately yet intertwined, each shaped by the hard necessity of leaving home.
Yet none of them stayed in the city and turned away from where they came from. In an era when Indigenous identity counted for little, they faced their own identity and worth squarely, and held on to their culture and to who they were.