Taiwan president

In the presidential elections in Taiwan 2024, a candidate for independency is elected by his great surprise.
The election is followed by an overflowing enthusiasm. However, an uncertain doubt takes him to his childhood village.
He meets with the local farmers and even himself as a child with his own mother.
Everything seems like a dream.

  • Stefan Libiot
    Director
  • Stefan Libiot
    Writer
  • Stefan Libiot
    Producer
  • Jamie Lee
    Key Cast
    "Jamie"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 55 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 6, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2/35
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Stefan Libiot

Stefan Libiot has been working in the field of cinema for 30 years.
Alternately assistant director, notably with Krzysztof Kieslowski
on Three colors: Blue and Three colors: White, director in advertising and
in video clip and director of short films.
Since 2013, his cinematographic research has led him to Portugal
O que vai ao lume ? / 82 min / 2013),
to Madagascar
Un film mémoire, Madagascar/ 78 min / 2015)
and Taiwan
3 letters to Tsai Ming-liang / 121 min / 2017).
Undying / 56 min / 2019
Taïwan President / 115 min / 2021
Gugageimu (I like you) / 76 min / 2022
He undertakes fictions with several voices with people met on the spot.
Travel abroad, or from abroad, then becomes each time a way to invent narrative forms.
He has been teaching cinema at “les beaux-arts “ Poitiers, France, l’EESI, Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l’Image from 2016 to 2021.

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Director Statement

I would just like to show how a man who has just been democratically elected president of his country can want to give up his mandate.