
Each bookstore forms its own poetic landscape: gentle hands restoring old books, a bookstore owner guiding customers on herbal hikes, an eco-activist protecting mountains through reading, and a woman from a fishing community preserving local memories. Director Hou Chi-jan captures these intimate narratives through lyrical imagery, portraying 15 independent Taiwanese bookstores and preserving fading stories and quiet cultural resilience.
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Naqoyqatsi

McQueen

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Baraka

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Seduced and Abandoned

Public Speaking

Love, Marilyn

Halloween: 25 Years of Terror

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

Powaqqatsi

Directed by John Ford

Champs

My Mom Jayne

John Candy: I Like Me

Heart of a Dog

To Be Takei

Downloaded

A Plastic Ocean

A Decade Under the Influence

