Taiwan Film Festival: And Miles to Go Before I Sleep

90 Min. | TW | 2022

Language: OmeU | Original language: Mandarin, Vietnamese

Director: TSAI Tsung Lung

 

 

2024 Taiwan International Documentary Festival – Taiwan Competition

★ 2023 One World Film Festival, Czech Republic – International Competition – Right to Know

★ 2023 Yogyakarta Documentary Film Festival

★ 2023 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival

★ 2023 Macao International Documentary Film Festival

★ 2023 Taipei Film Awards – Nominated for Best Documentary, Best Director

★ 2023 Macao International Documentary Film Festival

★ 2022 Golden Horse Awards – Best Documentary Feature Award

In 2017, Vietnamese migrant worker Fei was shot by the police and eventually bled to death.

This incident once again highlights the long-term situation of foreign migrant workers in Taiwan, as well as the excessive police enforcement of laws against missing migrant workers.

Much like the stories of the 700,000 other migrant workers in Taiwan, Vietnamese man Fei, who enjoyed singing, became a runaway worker in the ugly and complex migrant worker system.

With his expertise in construction work, he was a leader of a group of migrants to work in Hsinchu. He dreamed of saving up enough money so he could start his own business back in his home country. Unfortunately, one day in 2017, NGUYEN was reported for a car theft and ended up being shot nine times by policeman officer CHEN Chung-wen. NGUYEN bled to death on the way to the hospital. The Taiwanese public supported CHEN’s use of firearms against the runaway migrant who resisted arrest and with records of drug use. Were the nine shots the only cause of NGUYEN’s death? When the perpetrator isn’t necessarily the true perpetrator, is the imperfect victim the one to blame?