

At the peak of his choreography career, Bulareyaung felt lost. He returned to his hometown, Taitung, to work with young Indigenous performers, creating art inspired by their lives. These mostly untrained dancers pursued their dreams in their homeland, and their free-spirited personalities reminded him of his own youth. Surrounded by dancers who feel like family, childhood friends, and a disapproving father, he gradually realizes that returning to his Indigenous community through dance rekindles the child within him.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer HUANG Yu Fang on Zoom.
Wang Cheng Yi graduated from the Applied Media Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts. Short films "Please Insert Coins" and "The Good Days" were nominated for the Taipei Film Festival's Theme Award and Colden Harvest Award. Focusing on documentary cinematography work in recent years, and "Dancing Home" is his first feature-length documentary as a director.

曾經為了夢想離開,如今舞蹈又帶著他回來。排灣族編舞家布拉瑞揚在職業生涯高峰,站在世界舞台上,卻想與族人共享榮耀。於是他回到故鄉台東創立舞團,帶著一群年輕的原住民舞者,一同入山勞動、臨岸吟唱,用身體將生活跳成舞作。看著這群隨性又自由、多非科班出身的孩子,彷彿看見當年奮力從部落朝外跳的自己────同樣渴望登台縱舞,同樣難獲父輩認同。
捨棄美學論述與傳記敘事,導演王政一跟拍舞團多年,以布拉瑞揚與舞者們的原鄉為起點,記錄下共同生活的痕跡。從兩廳院的國家級殿堂,到部落巡演的活動中心;練舞發想、靈性共振,唱卡拉OK紓壓⋯⋯,除了將鏡頭回歸到「人」的狀態,更留下創作者的孤獨身影與迷惘痕跡,在這跳進部落的旅程中,喚醒著曾經是部落的孩子。
影片播放完畢將有製作人黃郁芳的映後座談
王政一,畢業於臺灣藝術大學應用媒體研究所。劇情短片《用不完的十元》入圍2008年台北電影節台北主題獎,《美好的》入圍第三十六屆金穗獎學生組。近年致力耕耘紀錄片攝影工作。《跳進部落的孩子》為其首部紀錄長片作品。

TAIWANfest Toronto is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, that is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered here, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples of this land while we engage in meaningful conversations of culture and reconciliation.