2025 華語獨立影像展 Screening of Sinophone Independent Films
September 20–28, 2025Screenings across multiple venues — details available at ticketing points.*Students: $6 admission with valid school email address不到十年光景,中國的獨立電影,從曾經的蓬勃生長,到如今的斷壁殞垣,磚石瓦礫遍地。倖存者與新來者拾起這些碎片,試圖重塑希望的光影。由非營利機構JF Books 季風書園和 SCAI,CIFA主辦、聯合GW、GU兩所大學、USCET和CAF舉辦的「2025首届華語獨立影像展」,展開中國底層社會的真實畫卷,交織著台灣紀錄片、香港、維吾爾、菲律賓及非洲的多元視角,在廢墟上勾勒出獨立電影的靈魂剪影。本屆影展的主題是「真實邊界:流動世界中的身份,境遇與記憶」China’s independent film scene, once vibrant, now lies in ruins—shattered bricks and scattered debris. Yet survivors and newcomers continue to gather these fragments, seeking to rebuild hope through the power of cinema. Co-hosted by Non-profit JF Books and the Sinovisual Culture and Art Institute and CIFA, in collaboration with George Washington University’s Sigur Center, Georgetown University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, USCET, and CAF, the inaugural 2025 Screening of Sinophone Independent Films opens a raw and authentic window onto China’s grassroots realities. At the same time, it interlaces Taiwanese documentaries with voices from Hong Kong, Uyghurs, the Philippines, and Africa—together sketching the silhouette of independent cinema’s resilient soul amid the ruins.Theme of the festival: “Real Edges: Identity, Struggle, and Memory in a Shifting World”