Wind and View
Taiwan, Korea | Film 80min, TV 50min | 4K | Color
Logline
Before memories fade, a young indigenous man delves into his grandparents' epic multi-cultural love story that spans a century of East Asian history, while murmurs of war haunt this island’s past and future.
Synopsis
Wind (= 風 fēng) and View (= 景 jǐng) means ‘landscape’ in Mandarin and is the name of a grocery store in a small little indigenous village in Southern Taiwan. Their owners, Grandma ‘Eleng, the village chief, and Grandpa Kang, an exiled Chinese soldier, have been running the store together for over 60 years, although they don’t speak the same language. Their grandson Kang Yuan-jin is revisiting his grandparents’ love story that spans 100 years of East Asian history to look for answers to questions of belonging, identity and the island’s future.
Director's Statement
Wind and View is primarily set in an indigenous village, but I believe that it tells the story of Taiwan.
Being born and raised in Taiwan, I’ve struggled with questions of identity: what it means to belong, to remember, to not be erased.
Through Grandpa Kang and Grandma 'Eleng, I came to understand identity as a living, evolving process.
This film is not just a project. It’s a way of honoring the trust they gave me, and it is a promise to tell their story with honesty, tenderness, and deep respect.
Director HSIEH Sheng-hung
Sheng-Hung HSIEH is an independent filmmaker focusing on documentary filmmaking, cinematography, and photography. In 2022, his first feature-length documentary Our time on the Grass world premiered at the Taipei Film Festiva. Sean is an IDFAcademy alumni.
Producer Ina HON
Ina is a German-Taiwanese film producer with aspirations to connect East and West. She has gained experience in various fields of the film industry, including production management, orld sales and film festivals such as Berlin International Film Festival.