Film archive, 2025

Awake Before Your Gaze

Name: Awake Before Your Gaze
Released: 2025
Duration: 20 min

你夢見我時，我已醒來

Director Lin Yi-Chi

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In a ruined American military dormitory, two mixed-race children of the U.S. military in Taiwan, one speaking Hakka and the other Taiwanese, uncover a history their faces and words cannot anchor. Through hypnotic narrative, the work resists fixed ways of seeing and speaking, and gives shape to voices and bodies long held in silence.

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Director: Lin Yi-Chi
Country/Region: Taiwan
Year: 2025
Length: 20min
Original language: Chinese

Director

Lin Yi-Chi 林羿綺

A Taiwan-based artist and filmmaker, the founder of To Island Films. Working across documentary, experimental cinema, and moving-image installation, she explores intergenerational memories of war, migration, and Cold War history. Her works have been selected for IFFR, MIFF, and other international film festivals.

From Women Make Waves International Film Festival 2026, No. 33

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Director

Lin Yi-Chi

Producer: 鄭烱揚
Cinematography: 黃泰誠
Editing: 陳浤
Music: 馮志銘
Sound: 馮志銘
Production design: 陳必綺

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Awake Before Your GazeWomen Make Waves International Film Festival 2026, No. 33Taiwan Competition

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Women Make Waves International Film Festival, 2026Taiwan Competition, Competitive section

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Lin Yi-Chi 林羿綺

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