Just months after swept the 97th Academy Awards with “Anora,” Sean Baker Make a tangential return to the Oscar race. The author wrote and edited ”Left girl” Solo debut by Hans “Take out” co-director shih-cheing tsou, which has been selected as Taiwan’s official Oscar submission.
Like “Take Out”, “left-wing girl” is located in the restaurant industry, following a mother-daughter-daughter relationship in Taipei when the family tries to open a food business. An official synopsis for film “Reads:” A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei after several years of the countryside to open a tripod in a buzzing night market. Each will have to adapt to this new environment in order to end and maintain the family’s unit. But when their traditional grandfather prohibits their “Genera,” devil from
“Left-Hand Girl” stars Janel Tsai, Nina Ye, Teng-Hui Huang, Shih-Yuan Ma. Tsou, Baker, Mike Goodridge, Jean Labadie and Alice Labadie serve as executive producers.
The film premiered in the critics week section of the Film Festival 2025, where many critics praised their realistic story.
“Tsou applies the restless energy in her long collaborator’s beloved social-realistic work portrait of men and women working against their class station to find a better living to” left-handed girl “, which rests on the skilfully targeted performance of a five-year-old girl (Nina Ye, a small child who affected the camera”, in the lead) in the lead Indieview Ryan Lattanzio wrote in his Cannes review. “The movie, even when tracking the older daughter I-Ann (Shih-Yuan Ma) and mother Shu-Fen (Janel Tasi) who constitutes this heartwarming family trio, is always in the eyes and ears of the little girls, looking at the world from a place for wonder and confusion that she tries to know an adult. Part of an adult world.
“Left Hand Girl” opens in selected theaters on November 14 before streaming on Netflix on November 28. See the trailer below.
