Your Name Engraved Herein

Your Name Engraved Herein (刻在你心底的名字, 2020) is a Taiwanese coming-of-age drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Patrick Liu Kuang-Hui and starring Chen Hao-Sen and Tseng Ching-Hua. The setting is 1987 — the year Taiwan lifted forty years of martial law — and two boys at a Catholic high school are caught between a country changing faster than the people around them and a world that still has no room for what they feel.

Jia-han and Birdy are inseparable in that compressed, wordless way of adolescence: shared music, shared silences, shared risk. The school administration, their families and the blunt homophobia of the era press in from every direction. The film follows what they do with that pressure — and what it costs them both, years later.

Shot with restraint and a very specific sense of time and place, this became the highest-grossing LGBTQ+ film in Taiwanese cinema history. Liu resists sentimentality without losing warmth, which is harder than it sounds. Stream Your Name Engraved Herein (2020) online on iFILM.