Two Indonesian poets meet in Tainan Park at night, orating and transforming their daytime encounters into poetry, as they take the wearied remainders of the everyday into nocturnal reveries. The park, long a gathering place for migrant workers, becomes a whimsical site of possibility: at once a refuge, a space of imagination, as well as a zone of invisibility.

Blurring the boundaries of reality and illusion, between storyteller and story, Taman-taman (Park) unfolds like a game, constantly shifting its own rules in playful, unexpected ways.

Winning awards at both Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) and IDFA, the film continues Your Bros. Filmmaking Group’s long-term collaboration with Taiwan’s migrant community. Founded in 2017, the group works through field research, creative workshops, and collective storytelling that give form to the lived realities of migrant workers.

The screening will be followed by an online Q&A with the filmmakers So Yo-hen, Tien Zong-yuan, and Liao Hsiu-hui.

Presented as part of Sine Screen’s Whose Homeland 25-26 film season, with the support of the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding.

Sine Screen is a London-based screening collective dedicated to showcasing independent cinema and moving-image works from across East and Southeast Asia. It aims to create space for critical dialogue around dominant representations of ESEA cultures and histories through diverse programming, and has received support from the British Film Institute and Arts Council England.