Women Make Waves International Film Festival

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    Opening Film

    The Way Things Go: Notes on Existence

    Seeing in the Dark

    Distilled Landscape

    Special Screening: Salute to Trailblazers!

    Master in Focus: Chantal Akerman

    Queering Voices

    Unruly Desires

    Cinemini

    Taiwan Competition

    Sci-fi Reimagined: The Body as an Alien World

    Guest-curated by KUO Ming-Jung, this program focuses on how female directors utilize sci-fi elements to explore the blurred boundaries between body and environment, perception and power, and technology and emotions. Abandoning the cliches of alien territorial conquests and doomsday competition, the films featured in this program often depict the body as a space for outside invasion and mingling. From sensory manipulation to non-human perspectives, these films divert sci-fi’s motif from planetary relations towards self-perception and reflections on humanity’s impact on Earth. The body is not just a subject that journeys to alien worlds, but the alien worlds themselves.
    Invisible Adversaries

    Austria|1977|DCP|color|110min
    H.

    USA, Argentina|2014|DCP|color|96min
    Planet A

    France|2008|DCP|color|8min
    The Human Hibernation

    Spain|2024|DCP|color|91min
    A Demonstration

    Germany, Netherlands, UK|2020|DCP|color|25min
    My Want of You Partakes of Me

    UK, Netherlands|2023|DCP|color|55min
    It Is Night in America

    Italy, Brazil, France|2022|DCP|color|66min
    Six Knots

    Canada|2024|DCP|color|29min