24th New York Asian Film Festival

July 11-27, 2025

North American Premiere

Family Matters

我家的事

The day 18-year-old Spring discovers she's adopted, her working-class Taiwan family's long-held secrets begin to surface. Director Pan Ke-Yin's compelling feature debut spans four time periods and seasons, revealing how her father's mounting gambling debts, her mother's heartbreaking fertility struggles and a decision involving a sperm donor, and her brother's search for identity all connect across 24 years, threatening to unravel the only family she's ever known. Shot in the director's hometown of Changhua County, this intimate multi-generational drama made history at the 2025 Osaka Asian Film Festival where all four lead actors won simultaneously—a first in 20 years. Expanding his acclaimed short film My Sister, Pan crafts an emotionally resonant portrait of how families navigate love, secrets, and difficult choices. Some truths can only survive in silence—until they can't.

Director: Pan Ke-Yin
Cast: Lan Wei-Hua, Alexia Kao, Tseng Jing-Hua, Queena Huang, Yao Chun-Yao
Languages: Min Nan, Mandarin with English Subtitles
2025; 99 min.
Country: Taiwan

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 26, 1:30pm
SVA Theatre

2025 NYAFF Uncaged Award Nominee. Intro and Q&A with director Pan Ke-Yin

Pan Ke-Yin
潘客印

Pan Ke-Yin is a director, scriptwriter, editor and voiceover artist. He graduated from the Mass Communication Department of Tamkang University in Taipei. He was nominated for a Golden Bell Award for Best Editing for his work on the short Hit and Run, an episode of the series Til Death Do Us Part. His first short film, My Sister (2021), received a production grant from the Taiwanese Ministry of Culture. He expands on that short film, reuniting the same cast, for his 2025 feature debut, Family Matters.