Left-Handed Girl

Taiwanese-American director Shih-Ching Tsou has been collaborating with Sean Baker, best known for the Oscar-winning Anora, for over twenty years. Together they have written, produced, directed and edited several films, and Shi-Ching has also appeared as an actress in Baker's films on a number of occasions. She directed Left-Handed Girl on her own, but they worked together on the production, screenplay and editing.

After years of living in the countryside, single mother Shu-Fen has returned to Taipei with her two daughters, I-Ann and I-Jing. There, she tries to earn a living by working hard as the owner of a noodle stall. As if that weren't enough to worry about, the rebellious teenager I-Ann has dropped out of school, while five-year-old I-Jing has a completely different problem. She is left-handed, which her grandfather disapproves of, calling it “the hand of the devil”. From this, she concludes that she is not responsible for what her left hand does. That conclusion does not remain without consequences.