This documentary unveils the complicity between the academics and the bureaucratic system in Taiwan. It reveals to the audiences many undisclosed secrets and stories behind the façade created by government offcials. Due to the inaccessibility and abstruseness of public health expertise, the lies are hard to be exposed and the potential crisis has become a ticking time bomb…
This is an epic documentary spanning thirteen years. Both the Filipino caretakers and the elderly suffer from homesickness in the Taipei nursing home. The caretakers comfort themselves by singing. No money, no honey'. What price do they have to pay for love and livelihood? Can their dreams ever come true?
Founded in 1979, Lanlin Theatre Troupe is the first ever theatre group in Taiwan. It has inspired and nurtured important figures in the theater industry of Taiwan during the past 30 years. This is a story about the rise of a generation and the fall of the oldest theatre troupe in Taiwan. Having spent their early life in this troupe, these artists are devoted to bridging traditional Chinese theater and modern art form.
《說白賊》Kong Peh Tshat Or : How I Learned to Tell a Lie 郭尚興 GUO Shang-Sing
台灣 Taiwan│2012│HD cam│Colour/B&W│30min
世界首映
迪迪被雜貨店老闆娘誤會偷竊，扭送警局。這時警局竟還來了個醉鬼！迪迪要怎樣才能離開警局，自僵局脫身？
Didi, a country boy wrongly accused of theft and detained, struggles and loses his innocence by his encounter with the oppressiveness of the real world.
This documentary is about a famous Chinese painter, Liu Xiao-Dong. After leaving his hometown at the age of 17 to study art, he now becomes an internationally famous artist. Thirty years later, he returns home to paint his family and friends he grew up with, trying to capture the frozen moments infused with his childhood memories and current existence.
Ming-Cheng started his ambitious plan about taking self-portraits of himself hand standing in different places around the world at the age of 26. In less than 3 years, his first voyage is accomplished with a series of breathtaking photos featuring various picturesque Taiwanese locales. His one-man show Transparent Kingdom inspired by his journey is then awarded the prestigious Taishin Arts Award.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature used to consider the expansive tidal flats connecting the Dadu and Zhuoshui River estuaries in southeastern Taiwan as one of Asia’s most significant wetland areas. This area was once one of Taiwan’s most important bird habitats as well. But the passage of time has increasingly distanced local fishing villages from the sea and its sustenance.
Who says the elderly can only wait for their deaths? A group of them, 70 years old on average, are determined to break this stereotype. They not only form a cheerleading squad, but fight for the opportunity to perform at the opening ceremony of the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung.
Bergman is one of the world's most important and influential filmmakers. In his home at the seashore, Ingmar Bergman talks about the childhood that shaped him. He speaks of how he used his own life in the cinema, and how the art of film was often a comfort to him. He tells, too, of love and death - and lists his worst demons.
