Asian Vision Competition
The portrayal of the lives in the neighbouring countries caught in a still moment, eternally etched in nations’ memories and remembered by those who travel away from home. With our eyes, ears and...
International Competition
As far as the imagery can reach, internal fires shall ever be burning and never go out. All kinds of repression, exile, or loss represents one's search for ultimate freedom and the history of...
Taiwan Competition
Selected from the 198 entries, the 15 selected titles tackle a broad range of issues through a cinematic language resonating in the present. Telling the stories of an island encrypted in countless...
Contemporary Scenes
A selection of films captures the past and the present of our turbulent world, and observes their interconnection with the innermost of our mindscapes, in order to see the world as it really is.
Malleable Docu/Memory: Archival/Found Footage and More
Once recorded and documented, pieces of memory are sealed in reels, cassettes, photographs, papers and digital files– safeguarded by various forms of carriers. Nevertheless, a process of fading and...
Filmmaker in Focus: William KENTRIDGE
William KENTRIDGE was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Versatile and prolific, with creative works spanning drawing, film, sculpture and theatre, he is regarded as one of the most...
Focus Programme|Necessary Fictions: Negotiating Realities in Post-national Philippine Documentaries
Given the complexity of the history of the Philippines, when Philippines documentaries rooted in realism are bridged with the idea of 'necessary fiction', nuanced meanings can be observed in such...
Taiwan Spectrum|Triviality that Speaks Volumes: Personal Cinema of Female Directors Since the 1990s
Documentary theorist Michael RENOV once reflected upon the importance of the feminist movement in creating new forms of documentary that investigate the subjectivity and identity of the filmmaker....
Reel Taiwan: A Selected Series of The Portrait of Hundred Occupations (1986-1991)
Before the Public Television Service was established in Taiwan, the television programs produced by the Broadcasting Development Foundation were entrusted with the mission of public education. From...