Bread lovers and bagel heroes: a queer cinema outing in Neiwei
Three shorts by Chien Li-ying, Wang Yan-ping and Jack Hsu screen together for 84 minutes. October 17, 21 and 26 at Neiwei Arts Center; NT$150.
Buddy Lien · Neiwei, Kaohsiung
I Knead You: a face held in two hands
Jack Hsu (director) · 2026
I Knead You (2026), directed by Jack Hsu. Film still published by Kaohsiung Film Festival. Editorial use.
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One cinema ticket for bread-making, hero fantasy and grief at an astronomical institute.
In the still from I Knead You, two hands cradle a face marked with brown patches. Warm light meets a blue background. The synopsis supplies the strange ingredient: a heartbroken baking apprentice makes a life-sized bread lover. The tenderness has me thinking about the signs that tell customers not to squeeze the bread.
Jack Hsu's I Knead You shares the programme with Wang Yan-ping's Bagel GO, a fantasy about becoming a hero for someone you love, and Chien Li-ying's This Very Second, about a grieving partner working at an astronomical institute. The three Taiwanese queer shorts make one 84-minute programme.
Arrive 15–30 minutes before your screening. The October 17 session is marked for a filmmaker appearance; the other two are evening screenings. October 26 is a confirmed Monday festival session, despite the centre's usual Monday closure.
Get there
Public transport
From the Neiwei Arts Center light-rail stop, walk one or two minutes along Makadao Road. TRA Museum of Fine Arts Station is about 600 metres and eight to ten minutes away.
Sources
- OPENTIX: three-film programme ↗ — Three films, 84 minutes, price and admission
- Festival: This Very Second ↗ — Story, director and three screenings
- Festival: I Knead You ↗ — Story, Jack Hsu and film still
- Neiwei Arts Center: arrival ↗ — Address, light rail and TRA walking arrival