Two Indonesian poets meet in Tainan Park at night, orating and transforming their daytime encounters into poetry, as they take the wearied remainders of the everyday into nocturnal reveries. The park, long a gathering place for migrant workers, becomes a whimsical site of possibility: at once a refuge, a space of imagination, as well as a zone of invisibility.

Blurring the boundaries of reality and illusion, between storyteller and story, Taman-taman (Park) unfolds like a game, constantly shifting its own rules in playful, unexpected ways.

Winning awards at both Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) and IDFA, the film continues Your Bros. Filmmaking Group’s long-term collaboration with Taiwan’s migrant community. Founded in 2017 by artist So Yo-hen, architect Tien Zong-yuan, and art historian Liao Hsiu-hui, Your Bros embodies an irreverent filmmaking ethos rooted in decentralised collaboration and collective care

Across their three feature-length works, the group interrogates migrant experience through the politics of space: from temporary shelters, re-constructed dormitories to the layered geographies of Tainan Park. Combining field research, participatory workshops, and collective storytelling, their artistic practice is situated within the material and social realities of migrant labour.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers So Yo-hen, Tien Zong-yuan, and Liao Hsiu-hui, hosted by Phuong Le.