THE LAST HUNTER

Produced by Wei Te-sheng and directed by Umin Boya, THE LAST HUNTER stars Paiwan musician and actor Baobu Badulu and Golden Horse Award Best Newcomer nominee Rosen. Blending Paiwan hunting culture with the mountain landscape, the film explores identity, memory, and heritage through the tension between tradition and modernity, and between cultural values and survival—offering a distinctly Taiwanese Indigenous story with universal emotional resonance.

Baru, an Indigenous man, is on an illicit hunt to prove himself worthy of his pregnant girlfriend. As an army deserter, he is in turn hunted by mountain patrol Sam and poacher Sakinu. A fateful encounter with the sacred Black Bear reconnects him to the wisdom of his father and ancestors. A poetic journey into the spiritual heartland of the Paiwan tribe, set during the 90s Indigenous Name Rectification Movement.