Docs by the Sea is Asia’s premier international documentary lab and forum, held annually in Bali, Indonesia. Since 2017, it has championed visionary nonfiction storytelling from across Asia, fostering global collaboration and distribution. Alumni projects have reached over 100 leading international industry forums and more than 200 film and broadcast festivals, earning accolades and attention worldwide. Through strategic partnerships with world-class platforms such as the Marché du Film - Cannes Docs and Berlinale EFM Doc Toolbox, Docs by the Sea showcases outstanding Asian documentary talent, connecting bold voices with influential decision-makers and expanding the global reach of their stories.
When an unplanned baby Guava enters the lives of a conservative mother Cuc, a mentally ill daughter Mai, and a detached gay son Quang, the trio travels back in time through their family diaries and photos to mend ruptured bonds and prepare for a new cycle of motherhood.
Mikael, 20, embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about his family. His grandmother Oma Net, 85, wants to reveal her tragic history, while his other grandmother, Granny Tualaka stands in the way.
Sandan Love Garden is a story about young Balinese couple who breaks from tourism and back to the village becoming an organic farmer, living in a slow routine while the massive industry forced the island.
TAICCA drives the global growth of Taiwan’s cultural and creative industries. TAICCA supports the production, distribution, investment, and marketing of audiovisual content, digital content, music, comics, performing arts, publishing, gaming, immersive content, and more. With investment programs, co-production initiatives, market intelligence, and global partnerships, TAICCA enhances the international reach of Taiwan’s creative sector and vibrant content ecosystem.
Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI) is the only administrative institution in Taiwan dedicated to preserving national audiovisual heritage. TFAI’s core mission is to preserve, restore, research and promote Taiwan’s audiovisual heritage, aiming to make its holdings available to the public.
Taiwan Docs, an initiative of TFAI, is dedicated to promoting Taiwanese documentaries at home and abroad. Through collaborations with film festivals, industry events, media, and cultural institutes, it supports local filmmakers in building international connections and reaching wider audiences.
In a land that no longer builds slate houses, Darasong still lays slate by slate so that he would become the man his tribe once honored, like his father before him.
An unruly body breaks its frame, pushing against the mainstream tide.
Through voices, fading archives, and poetic imagery, a generation confronts the unspoken Macau–Taiwan migration that marked their childhood.
In these houses, everything left behind is unwanted trash—portraits of parents still hanging on the walls, a dinner left untouched on the table, and secrets written on the walls that can never be taken away.