Where is home? To the majority of people, home means where we live and a sense of belonging. But growing up in Taiwan and having lived in New York, England, Germany and now the Netherlands over the past 15 years, there is no a definite answer to me. As a result, I have always wanted to write a story that asks the question.

Where is home? It should be Taiwan since I spent more than half of my life there, and most of my friends and family live there. But I have felt it less and less home when I go back to the country in recent years — my parents have been aging so quickly that I can lose this home of my biological family at any time while my friends have started their chosen family, becoming someone’s husband or wife, father or mother.

Where is home? I try to give an answer in Go Home by shooting a scene in which the protagonist visits the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and a piece named Home Is Where the Heart Is by Taiwanese calligraphic artist, Tong Yang-Tze 董陽孜, enlightens her. The line originates from Su Dongpo 蘇東坡, a Chinese poet and scholar-official of the Song dynasty. He wrote “Home is where the heart finds peace 此心安處是吾鄉” in the 9th century to soothe his mind after a power struggle that led to his relegation to a frontier region.

Go Home is dedicated to people who left their hometown to pursue a life that they want and challenges the definition of "home". The film also wants to inspire people to leave their hometown if things do not work out there. Humans are migratory animals. Home could be where one's heart is.

Go Home is an official selection of 2026 Leiden International Film Festival, as part of the Leiden Dag program.


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