On Happiness Road 幸福路上 (2017)

(dir. Sung Hsin-yin 宋欣穎) An animated film about a Taiwanese woman coming back home from America. While the story treads familiar ground, the hand-drawn and painted animation is refreshingly idiosyncratic, and there’s a good amount of Taiwanese culture and history shown. The still above, for example, is a primary teacher teaching bopomofo and insisting that a sofa is a shāfā 沙发 (standard Mandarin), not a péngyǐ 膨椅 (Taiwanese dialect). ★★★☆☆