About TIDF
Founded in 1998, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, TIDF, is one of the major professional platforms for documentaries in Asia, looking for documentaries that are creative, relevant to...
Truth Shall Not be Confined
In recent years, Chinese independent documentary production has been suppressed by the Chines authorities, and as a result, it is getting even more difficult for the filmmakers to work on their...
The Master of First-Person Films - Alan Berliner
Whilst "a director without a camera" may sound a bit odd, it is the most important feature in Alan Berliner's films. With an overwhelmingly huge database of film archives, a...
The Best Time to Meeting OGAWA Shinsuke
One of the most famous and difficult-to-view bodies of film in the world is the oeuvre of OGAWA Shinsuke (1936-1992). Only one of the works is available on (unsubtitled) video. So when...
Review | The Lost Sea
The horseshoe crab, a marine species that has lived on earth for more than 200 million years , made its first documented appearance in Chinese literature in The Classic of Mountains and Seas (山海經),...
Report | Wang Wenzhi - The Bihu Weaving House
Bihu Park (碧湖公園), in Neihu District, is surrounded by green hills, and at its center, Bihu attracts significant numbers of egrets, geese, ducks, and other waterfowl. Close by, on Section 2, Neihu...
A Feast for Movie Fans
The 9th Taiwan International Documentary Festival – An Exchange Platform for International Best-of-Genre Creations Hosted by Taiwan Film Insitute (國家電影中心, formerly the Chinese Taipei Film Archive...
The Heart Breaking Story of Samsung Semiconductor Workers
For Park Min-sook, 41, the seven years she spent working at the Samsung Electronics semiconductor plant in Giheung were an exciting time. Park got a job at the factory on Jul. 4, 1991, while she was...
Interviews In Recording, Reality In Memories
In the book, Directing the Documentary, it says, "Interviews are the core of documentary." In A Man Vanishes , we see IMAMURA Shohei interview the fiancée, family and friends of the...
Imagination Is Welcome In Reality, Life Is Open To Be Explored
If you have seen Wide Awake, this film about the filmmaker's insomnia must have left a very deep mpression on your mind. In this film, after Alan BERLINER has finished his coffee, a drink that he...