With a knock-out performance by incomparably charming child actress Nina Ye, Left-Handed Girl is a colorful, fast-paced dramatic comedy about a single mother and her daughters’ struggles to vanquish the power of outdated ideas after relocating to working-class Taipei. World-weary Shu-Fen (Janet Tsai) opens a food stall while trying to keep track of her girls— I-Ann (Shih-Yua Ma) a sassy, resentful, young woman navigating the seedy underworld, and inquisitive I-Jing (Ye) who discovers the magic and temptations of the night market where her mother sells her wares. As the trio confronts how to keep the family business afloat, twists of fate and heartfelt pathos unfold. This suspenseful, madcap romp is director Shih-Ching Tsou’s solo debut feature—a sure-footed, well-crafted film that builds from the picturesque to the operatic— hallmark features of its editor and co-writer, Tsou’s longtime creative partner Sean Baker (Anora, MVFF47; The Florida Project, MVFF40). —Topiary Landberg
Shih-Ching Tsou
Shih-Ching Tsou made her directorial debut Take Out in 2004 in collaboration with longtime collaborator Sean Baker. Left-Handed Girl (2025), winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Gan Foundation Award for Distribution, is her first solo feature. Among her producing credits are Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017), and Red Rocket (2021).
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