Director: Shih-Ching Tsou
Family survival plays out beneath the neon and noise of a night market in Left-Handed Girl, a 2025 drama that follows three women learning to hold each other up while the ground under them keeps shifting.
What is Left-Handed Girl about?
When a single mother moves with her two daughters to Taipei, the family's fresh start hinges on a modest night market stall that has to succeed for them to stay afloat. The older daughter takes on responsibilities well beyond her years, quietly absorbing pressures the household can't afford to name out loud, while her younger sister, left-handed in a culture layered with superstition about which hand a child should favor, faces her own small daily battles over identity and belonging. The film moves between the three women's perspectives, showing how each copes with displacement, financial strain, and the friction of rebuilding a life in an unfamiliar corner of the city. Small moments, a sold-out night at the stall, a disagreement over old customs, an unexpected kindness from a stranger, accumulate into a portrait of a family testing whether love alone is enough to hold them together.
Cast & crew
The film centers on its three female leads, with Janel Tsai as the mother navigating the pressures of single parenthood and small-business survival, alongside young performers Shih Yuan Ma and Nina Ye as her daughters. Brando Huang, Akio Chen, Xin-Yan Chao, Hsia Teng Hung, and Alvin Lin fill out the night market community that surrounds and occasionally tests the family.
Context & significance
Director Shih-Ching Tsou, an international co-production spanning France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, and Singapore, sets the story against Taipei's night market culture, a setting that has become a recurring backdrop in recent Taiwanese cinema for stories about labor, family, and urban change. The film's grounded, observational style favors lived-in detail over melodrama.
Where & how to watch
Left-Handed Girl streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the family's story in their own language from the first scene. Browsing this page costs nothing; watching the film requires only a free K-Time account login, part of a Persian-language streaming experience built for the Iranian diaspora.