Virtual Taiwan Film Festival in Berlin gets underway Aug. 21

2020/08/10

The virtual Taiwan Film Festival in Berlin gets underway Aug. 21, offering cinephiles a selection of nine peerless pieces drawn from multiple genres over five decades.
 
 Organized by Impression Taiwan with support from the Taipei Representative Office in Germany, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan Film Institute’s Taiwan Docs and Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute, the 10-day TFFB is accessible via video-sharing network Vimeo.
 
 The lineup comprises “Formosan B.B. is Coming” (2019) by Mai Chueh-Ming; “Taipeilove*” (2019) by Lucie Liu; “The Gangs, the Oscars, and the Walking Dead” (2019) by Gao Bing-quan; “Small Talk” (2017) by Huang Hui-chen; “City of Jade” (2016) and “Ice Poison” (2014) by Midi Z; “Taiwan B-Movies” (2005) by Hou Chi-Jan; “On the Society File of Shanghai” (1981) by Wang Chu-Chin; and “Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters” (1968) by Chen Hung-min.
 
 Sideline activities include two Facebook-livestreamed prescreening forums: Black Movies, Black History and Taipeilove* and Queerlove. The former features TROG Rep. Shieh Jhy-wey sharing his experiences as a student during martial law-era Taiwan, while the latter involves Berlin based-Taiwan novelist Kevin Chen discussing techniques for telling LGBTQ stories.
 
 First staged in 2018, TFFB uses the power of film to deepen cultural dialogue between the people of Taiwan and Germany.

Source: Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)