Wide Angle
Post HumanThis sci-fi animation delight satirizes the Taiwanese government′s severe disregard for public apprehension for nuclear power and the people′s request to experiment with other power-sources. The government′s stubborn push for nucl...
World Cinema
Prisoner of the MountainsDirector’s comment Not long ago, I decided to make only movies which I really love and that I am dying to make. When you love something, you have the chance to tell the truth. We made because it’s a great story. It mixed tragedy...
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Pure LandToday′s cast of trends and dialogue. Son: "I′d be a millionaire if only I became a star." Man: "I′m leaving you to earn some money." Woman: "Please don′t let me be pregnant." The Chinese Restaurant working child: "We′ve all been h...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Red PersimmonThis film follows a family′s struggles to survive in a new land based on the real life director′s grandmother. In the 1940s, she leaves China to settle in Taiwan. Three days before their family′s escape, the grandmother hides in a...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Red Rose, White RoseRed Rose Jiao-Rui is a passionate woman with a western sense of naivete and self-assurance. She is trapped between the bondage of a husband she doesn′t love and the husband′s friend Zhen-Bao who she is hopelessly in love with. She...
Wide Angle
Rock Hudson′s Home MoviesRotterdam Film Festival catalogue 1993: The most important theme of Rappaport′s brilliant film is the discrepancy between the public figure Ruck Hudson-the star, the Don Juan with his Hollywood airs and his homosexuality and priv...
Wide Angle
RunningA girl′s backpack is stolen by the neighborhood delinquent and a chase ensues. The girl and her friends run after the thief, but he is always one step ahead.
Wide Angle
Second WatchAn encounter between an Israel and a Jordanian soldier. The story of a very special watch...
Opening Film
Secrets and LiesHortense is a young black optometrist who, following the death of her adoptive mother, goes in search of her real mother. She duly discovers Cynthia, an unmarried factory worker who lives and argues with her daughter Roxane, a...
Special Programs
Shanghai GrandWith China drifiting in the tide of international turmoil between Japan and Taiwan in the 1910′s, Chinese youth were frustrated by, yet nonetheless resisted, the pessimism brought about by Japan′s imperialist ventures. Chinese nat...