Taiwan’s first female aboriginal director Laha Mebow is presenting her upcoming feature “The Skull Oracle,” a dark intergenerational story about women of the Tayal indigenous people, at Busan’s Asian Project Market .

Tracing the history of a Tayal shaman family, the project explores how untold ancestral memories resonate into modern times by combining tribal legend, fantasy and romance. The inspiration comes from Mebow’s grandmother, whose name, Laha, is carried within her family.

“I discovered that I come from a family of shamans, yet shamanism has become a taboo in our villages. With this film, I want to reclaim that spiritual dimension we have lost,” Mebow tells Variety.

“The Skull Oracle” follows the dreams of Zhen, a female surgeon who sees herself crossing a mythic bridge form

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