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STRANGERS AND THEIR BABIES

Following the Fall/Liberation of Vietnam in 1975, nearly one million people fled by sea; countless lives were lost in the process. Among the survivors were those held in two unlisted refugee camps in the offshore Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait.

These camps are not included in UN records, and there, 106 babies were born into a chapter of history that was nearly forgotten.

Decades later, four of these children—raised across the U.S., Penghu, and Taiwan—retrace their families’ harrowing escape and navigate their own search for identity across borders.

The documentary invites the audience to revisit those fragments the refugees feared to forget and feared to remember—the visible and invisible memories drifting between the Indochina Peninsula and the sea.

  • Asio LIU Chihsiung
    Director
  • Asio LIU Chihsiung
    Writer
  • Tony SU
    Producer
  • Genn LAU
    Key Cast
  • Awei LIU
    DP
  • Asio LIU Chihsiung
    DP
  • Asio LIU Chihsiung
    Editor
  • Adiong LU
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    family, history, war
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 29 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 15, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    110,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada, China, Russian Federation, Taiwan, United States, Vietnam
  • Language:
    English, Mandarin Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 16mm
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • PTS Taiwan Broadcast Announcement
    Taipei
    Taiwan
    July 29, 2025
    World Premiere
    Selection
  • PTS Taiwan Broadcast

    Taiwan
    July 31, 2025
    Taiwan Premiere
  • Streaming Platform: PTS+ Online.

    Taiwan
    July 31, 2025
  • The 3rd Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Film Festival
    Tainan
    Taiwan
    March 22, 2026
Distribution Information
  • Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation (PTS)
    Distributor
    Country: Taiwan
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Asio LIU Chihsiung

Asio Liu Chihsiung is the founder/director of MIMEO FILMS Ltd. and the founding president of the Chiangmei Refugee Archive Association (CRAA). His latest VR work, SOMEWHERE UNKNOWN IN INDOCHINA, was selected for the 2024 Venice Immersive Biennale College Cinema VR program.

His cinematography, short films, documentaries, and VR works have been showcased at various festivals and venues, including the Sundance Film Festival, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Asia Culture Center (ACC) in Gwangju, MoMA in New York, the International Festival of Films on Art (Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Le FIFA) in Montreal, and the Cambodia International Film Festival.

[Filmography]
2025 STRANGERS AND THEIR BABIES
2024 SOMEWHERE UNKNOWN IN INDOCHINA - VR
2023 CHIN LIU TAO
2019 THE DEAD, THE DAY AFTER
2015 JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED ISLAND
2007 PORTRAIT TAIWAN II: HUANG HAI-DAI
2007 EXOTIC EXOTICISM: PLANT WARS
2007 EXOTIC GIRLS
2006 KNIVES@SCHOOL
2004 MONUMENT TO MOMENTS
2001 AND SHE WASN'T

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Director Statement

"Those who made it ashore are not always visible,
while many others remain invisible, still adrift at sea."