Driftlines Film Festival | The Lost Sea 刪海經 (2014)
Date: Sat May 09 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) at 09:30 - 12:00
Location: SG1, Alison Richards Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP
About this event Screening and discussion with Director Hung Chun-Hsiu 洪淳修 (joining online) Participants About the film Set on Kinmen, a Taiwanese island just miles off the coast of China, The Lost Sea weaves together the stories of horseshoe crabs and the fishing community of Houfeng Harbor. Director Hung Chun-Hsiu depicts the many ways people and horseshoe crabs share their lives with the sea, through figures such as Hong Teh-sun (洪德舜), a self-taught marine ecologist, and Hong Mu-chu (洪木櫸), a fisherman who practices sustainable net-fishing and fertilizes his garden with horseshoe crab shells. Filmed over seven years, the documentary tells the story of a poorly managed government initiative to construct a commercial port in the harbor. Propelled by cross-strait Taiwan-China politics, capi
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