The Lucky Woman (2020)
• October 18th, 2020 • 1h 27min
Documentary
Overview
This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers due to harsh working conditions and lack of medical care. How will living this way for more than a decade shape their lives?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
VIET≈NAM ≈ HANOISE
Released on:
Documentary
Hanoise is a portrait of the little known, but very rich, experimental music scene from Hanoi, the c...
Latvian Coyote
Released on: 2019-12-01
Documentary
An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigran...
Taiwan: A Digital Democracy in China's Shadow
Released on: 2021-07-06
Documentary
One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of Taiwan. But China under President Xi Jinping want...
YAYA
Released on: 2018-12-09
Documentary, Family
YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the d...
Freedom Runners
Released on: 2016-04-07
Documentary
Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for...
Die industrielle Reservearmee
Released on: 1971-04-01
Documentary
Interviews and images from the work and leisure time of guest workers in the Federal Republic are co...
Border
Released on: 2021-09-25
Documentary
In the middle of the strait between Kinmen and Xiamen, China, there are patches of sea filled with f...
Come Hungry: A Day in the Luzhou Night Market
Released on:
Documentary
As dawn breaks over Taipei, a whole world comes to life around the Luzhou temple night market, only ...
Once Upon a Time
Released on: 2014-03-23
Documentary
Every year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thank...
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Released on: 2014-10-01
Documentary
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country se...
See You, Lovable Strangers
Released on: 2017-10-29
Documentary
Follows Vietnamese migrant workers, to examine the reasons behind their numerous escapes and to trac...
Landscape of our Body
Released on: 2024-05-24
Documentary, History
As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at t...
Youth (Spring)
Released on: 2023-11-10
Documentary
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang...
Exploited
Released on: 2022-01-21
Documentary
Cheaters and cheated, wage dumping and moonlighting – up close and personal with the labor market in...
The Islands
Released on: 2022-05-07
Documentary
This documentary film follows the journey of former student activist and current political staffer C...
Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story
Released on: 2018-10-12
Documentary
The first and only Taiwanese player for the New York Yankees, Chien-Ming Wang held many titles: Amer...
Nurse Unseen
Released on: 2024-10-04
Documentary
Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on ...
The Art of Nôm
Released on: 2017-12-01
Documentary
The Art of Nom explores an ancient and nearly extinct Vietnamese script called Chu Nom and the five ...
In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship
Released on: 2008-02-01
Documentary
The essence of progress in civilization has always been handiwork. In traditional Chinese civilizati...