Jump Boys!

The documentary follows seven boys. They are all primary school age. They live in Yilan in Taiwan. They are on the school gymnastics team. When school ends they do not go off to play. They go straight to the gym. Training runs every day. Each of the boys is a different sort. One bores quickly, another will not give in. The coach is the director’s own older brother. His name is Lin Yu-hsin. The film shows the training and the competitions together, and what small bodies are being asked to do. The eighty four minute documentary took best documentary at the Golden Horse awards, a Taiwanese production Lin Yu-Hsien finished in 2005.