Mongrel

Mongrel (2025) is a stark social drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Chiang Wei-Liang. It's set deep in Taiwan's mountains, where undocumented migrants from Southeast Asia are funneled in to nurse the elderly and the severely ill.

Oom (Wanlop Rungkamjad) is one of them — no papers, no formal training, just steady hands and the patience to care for people everyone else has given up on. But the gray-market system he's trapped in wrings him out, and a point comes when he has to choose between his own survival and holding on to his dignity.

Slow, unflinching, almost wordless filmmaking about invisible labor and the cost of compassion — for viewers after a festival drama that refuses to comfort. Stream Mongrel (2025) online on iFILM.