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Damp
Taiwan / South Korea | 2024 | 12 min | LGBTQ |
Mandarin Chinese / Thai
Director: Etsen CHEN
Screening Time：10/19/2025
11 am-12:22 pm
Synopsis:
Yen, a young man with cerebral palsy, longs for both romance and a body like his caregiver Suriya’s, while his overprotective mother harbors complex feelings for Suriya. As tensions rise, Yen starts to believe his body is no longer the same.
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About The Director
Etsen CHEN
Graduated from Taipei National University of Arts, majoring in film acting. An alumnus of the Busan Asian Film Academy, he speaks Mandarin, Taiwanese, English, and Thai. His first short film, "The Younger," was featured in many LGBTQ film festivals, and his co-directed short film, "Lipstick," premiered at Busan International Film Festival. He recently received the Taiwan National Script Award, and his debut film project, "No Money, No Honey," won the Taiwan Kaohsiung Film Script Development Fund.
Director's Statement
This story is inspired by the director’s experience as a volunteer for an NGO advocating for the sexual rights of people with disabilities. The daily life of those with severe disabilities is marked by passivity and a lack of privacy. Through intimate, boundary-less physical interactions and mundane tasks from which they are often excluded by the able-bodied, we explore the purity and darkness within a disabled youth. The mind’s ability to wander freely becomes a gateway to otherwise unreachable places. In this journey, we come to know deeper layers of the self.
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