A Letter to Spring Garden
Lai He-Yin
Taiwan〡2023〡Doc〡Color〡72 min〡Mandarin, Taiwanese
✧2024 台灣國際女性影展臺灣競賽 入圍
✧2024 桃園城市紀錄片影展
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This is the tale of a daughter wielding a camera to capture her father's struggle. However, the filming unexpectedly plunges the family, including herself, back into a vortex of negative emotions just as they are beginning to recover from the ordeal. The director starts to question herself: Was her indignation solely driven by her father's injustice, or did her LGBTQ identity contribute to her empathy? Or perhaps, it was simply a projection of her own desires?
Director
Lai He-Yin
Born in 1979, Lai He-Yin graduated from Taipei Municipal Teachers College's Special Education Department before earning a master's degree in Art Creation from National Taipei Teachers College. Now an educator, Lai He-Yin ventured into documentary filmmaking in 2016 to help exonerate her wrongfully imprisoned father. This led to her first documentary short, Dad Goes to School, and subsequent funding from the Ministry of Culture's Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development, enabling her to complete A Letter to Spring Garden, her first feature-length documentary.
11.11 ㊀ 17:45〡台南新光影城 4 廳〡★ Q&A session with the Director
The director focused on the life and actions of the victim’s family in the film to picture the look of this wrongful legal conviction case from their perspective. Spotlighting the continuing daily lives after the miscarriage of justice, the intent is to draw attention back to “people”, thereby publicizing this case thoroughly and hoping to bring about understanding and reflection in society.
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