Shih-Ching Tsou's 'Left-Handed Girl' marks her return to directing after 20 years, co-created with Sean Baker, featuring themes of family dynamics and Taiwanese culture. This film focuses on a mother and her daughters who go back to Taipei to run a food stall at a night market, interweaving humor and serious issues across class divides. Tsou emphasizes her growth as a filmmaker through collaboration, aiming to portray authentic stories drawn from her own life experiences. The film combines personal history with the stylistic influences of Baker's filmmaking.
"I have learned so much working with Sean, because everything in his films is hands-on. I was doing a lot of things on set, from learning the research process to talking to people from the community. We tried to tell the story as real as possible."
"This fleet-footed, darkly funny intergenerational drama about a mother and her two daughters returning to Taipei to open a stall at one of the city's iconic night markets feels very personal and reflective of my childhood."
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