Ballroom Dancer

Slavik is a former World Champion in Latin American Dance. He is about to make his final comeback as a professional dancer with his partner and lover Anna. Slavik is addicted to the limelight and the dance. His body, however, is causing him aches and pains and his flaring temper puts his relationship with Anna at stake. The pressure from outside and the demons within bring Slavik into an existential crisis as he strives for the throne one last time.

Nostalgia: Looking at the Migrant Aboriginal Workers

Located in the suburb of Taichung city, Mao-Sheng Industrial Service is the so-called “Tapau” for aboriginal laborers. Every morning the music from the speaker wakes up those laborers to wash and dress up. No matter how bad the weather is in summer or winter, their laboring bodies are in different construction sites, exposing to the sun and rain all the time. They ask for nothing but the basic needs for family and the future for their kids.

Taichung Railroad Station

Huang Ten Wang, a 74-year-old senior employee of Taichung railroad station, has worked there as a shoe-shiner for more than 60 years. He witnesses various changes of the station. What value he insists on work and the concept on gender reflects a the crystal-clear and unregretful emotion.

Zhongxin Market 2012

Located in the center of Taichung City, Zhongxin Market is at an alley surrounded by aged townhouses. In the morning, greengrocers and shoppers gathered here, when the night comes, it is artists and cultural workers filled the space. People say that a trend of urban renewal is about to come. Zhongxin market carries the memories of the city and activates its cultural vitality. Will all these be erased so easily?

Land Justice

Located in Nantun district in Taichung, Nantun Catholic Church was established by Fr. Delos A. Humphrey from the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America in 1963. In the past 50 years, the church has mainly provided services for the elderly and children in the community. In 2004, when the Taichung City Hall encouraged the citizen to apply for land reformation, the fate of the church started to change.

The Taste of Home

This is a story about leaving home and the taste memory of home in Taichung.

Poems

An architect remodels a house, a street artist makes a passerby laugh, a historian finds the way home, where all comrades get onto the streets for revolution. In the end, they all finish a poem with a poet.

22:30

His job is to put up printed posters on the wall of buildings. Because of the environmental striction, he often does it during midnight. While he works in gasoline station at midnight, with the clear but empty lane along the gasoline station, the unexpectedly appeared cars are just like unique faunas emerging at the dazzling night. In the moment of re-breathing, they gaze at the same city.

Opening Films

Films

22:30

22:30

2012
Taiwan
12min
江偉華
CHIANG Wei-Hua

Ballroom Dancer

Ballroom Dancer

2011
Denmark
84min
克里斯坦‧邦克、安得列‧科佛
Christian BONKE& Andreas KOEFOED

Land Justice

Land Justice

2012
Taiwan
19min
黃淑梅
HUANG Shu Mei

Nostalgia: Looking at the Migrant Aboriginal Workers

Nostalgia: Looking at the Migrant Aboriginal Workers

2012
Taiwan
15min
柯妧青
KE Wan-Ching

Poems

Poems

2012
Taiwan
15min
吳星螢
Kilasme WU

Taichung Railroad Station

Taichung Railroad Station

2012
Taiwan
13min
朱賢哲
CHU Hsien-Che

The Taste of Home

The Taste of Home

2012
Taiwan
12min
劉嘉圭
Beat LIU

Zhongxin Market 2012

Zhongxin Market 2012

2012
Taiwan
19min
林靖傑
LIN Jing Jie
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