Early on in Shih-Ching Tsou's Left-Handed Girl, one of its protagonists, an adorable Taiwanese girl named I-Jing (Nina Ye), is told by her grandpa that her left-handedness is a curse. "Don't use ...

Depending on where and when you went to school, you may have heard of educators looking down on or even forbidding students from using their left hand over their right when learning how to write.

Set amid the buzz of a Taipei night market, “Left-Handed Girl” marks the solo directorial debut of New York-based Taiwanese filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou. The film, which was shortlisted this week for the ...