Ned Flanders would quickly go bust at the Taipei night market.

Left-handedness, so I’ve learned from some cursory googling after watching Shih-Ching Tsou’s splendid and glowing solo feature debut Left-Handed Girl, is stigmatized by the old guard in Taiwan. When the adorable moppet I-Jing (Nina Ye) is caught eating lefty at a family dinner, her grumpy grandpa (Akio Chen) warns her not to favor “the Devil’s hand.” The silly remark lands hard with I-Jing, one of several examples in this sharply tuned film reminding us how children can sometimes focus on something most adults would find inconsequential, while unaware of larger issues around them.

And I-Jing is indeed in the middle of a brewing drama. She, her older half sister I-Ann (Shih-Yua Ma), and mother Chu-Fen (Janel Tsai) have just re

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