以紀錄片《乘著光影旅行》（第七屆）、短片《跳格子》拿下台北電影節百萬首獎和金馬獎最佳創作短片獎的導演姜秀瓊，北陸日本最美的海灣能登半島，夥拍女星永作博美和佐佐木希拍下家之物語。在東京開小咖啡館的老闆娘毅然回鄉，只求看到自幼就棄家不顧的父親一面；鄰家的小吃店老闆娘是位年輕的單親媽媽，獨力照顧兩個孩子加上經濟窘迫的重擔，令她身心疲累。姜秀瓊凝望著這處被認定為「家」的地方，探討現代社會的親情、夫婦親子以及生老病死的主題，《海邊咖啡屋》見證了家的變遷與動盪。
Taiwan filmmaker Chiang Hsiu-Chiung (Let the Wind Carry Me) makes her Japanese film debut with this poignant drama about identity, grief and the things that define a family. Eight years after her father disappeared in the sea, Misaki (Nagasaku Hiromi) returns to her hometown at the tip of Japan’s Noto Peninsula to start a new life. She transforms the old boathouse her father left her into a small café and becomes friends with her neighbor Eriko (Sasaki Nozomi), a single mother of two children who works as a hostess. Over time, the two women and Eriko’s children form a tentative family unit at the edge of the world.
亞洲新導演獎
