【Hirer Programme】Project: Extending Reality into Imagery | Homesick Eyes

- 1997 Golden Horse Awards - Best Documentary

- 1997 FIPRESCI Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

- 1998 Berlin International Film Festival “International Forum for New Cinema” - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

The growing number of foreign workers and new immigrants often has a significant impact on the local economy and society, including Taiwan. These foreign workers are uprooted from their home countries, exploited by their employers, and left in conditions of boredom, frustration, and isolation...

In the early 1990s, Taiwan's large factories named their foreign workers after numbers: No. 5391, who suffered from the pain of his family's separation for a long time and whose girlfriend left him, but at the same time was burdened with huge agency fees and the need to earn a living for his family; No. 5418, who spent his off-duty time making glutinous rice balls and pickling Chinese New Year's Eve meat for other people, and also grew cilantro to pickle it, which made him feel as if he were back in the old days when he was farming in his home country...

Director: Hsu Siu-ming