Set amid the buzz of a Taipei night market, "Left-Handed Girl" marks the solo directorial debut of New York-based Taiwanese filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou. The film, which was shortlisted this week for the ...

Director Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Girl (now on Netflix) arrives with the muscle of newly minted Oscar honoree Sean Baker – the filmmaker behind Anora – behind it. Tsou and Baker are longtime ...

The characters at the center of "Left-Handed Girl" are like individual stations of the cross on a long road to womanhood. Little I-Jing, for example. I-Jing is 5 years old, and when we meet her she's ...

Ma Shih-Yuan's own name tells you everything about the character she plays in the new Taiwanese film, Left-Handed Girl, which is already generating Oscars buzz for 2026 as it nears its Netflix release ...

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Early on in Shih-Ching Tsou's Left-Handed Girl, one of its protagonists, an adorable Taiwanese girl named I-Jing (Nina Ye), is told by her grandpa that her left-handedness is a curse. "Don't use ...

Director Shih-Ching Tsou and co-writer-producer Sean Baker could not find the financing for this Taiwanese Oscar contender for decades. Now it has critics on its side, festival awards under its belt, ...

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The filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou tells a sensitive story of a mother and her two daughters struggling to get by in Taiwan. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...