FILM

2024 Spotlight Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland Part I - Time: 7 Oct 15:00-17:00 *Post-screening Q & A with the film director Hong Jun-Yuan 《YIFANG》(義方) 洪鈞元 Hung Jun-Yuan｜臺灣 Taiwan｜2023 | Colour｜14"48 The film director, Hong Jun-yuan, hails from Chiayi, Taiwan, by way of marriage to a local. His work interweaves the remarkable contributions of his wife’s grandfathe...

2022 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Pin-Chuan Chen: Challenge and Change: The History of Taiwanese Independent Documentary Abstract In 2004, Gift of Life (生命), a Taiwanese independent documentary about the aftermath of a severe earthquake that hit central Taiwan in 1999, was released in cinemas. It broke the Taiwanese film box office record for domestic feature-length films, achie...

Tickets purchase via Filmhouse website 23 September 2022 Listen Before You Sing 聽見歌再唱 Director: Shine YANG / 2021 / Taiwan / 113 mins An elementary school located on the deep mountain is facing a crisis of being abolished due to population migration. The PE teacher is assigned to form a choir, and to win the national choir contest in order to solve such crisis. With limi...

Tickets purchase via Filmhouse website 8 October 2021 My Missing Valentine 消失的情人節 Director CHEN Yu-Hsun / 2020 / Taiwan / 119 mins Hsiao-chi (Patty Lee) always rushes when doing everything; she rushes when singing in a choir and jumps into the swimming pool before anyone else; even when taking a picture, she acts at a quicker pace than the rest. Nevertheless, she is qu...

Special Screening Days 日子 17:00 - 19:00, 8th October 2020 (Thursday), Screen 2, Cineworld, Edinburgh Director Tsai Ming-Liang / 2020 / Taiwan / 127 mins   Under the pain of illness and treatment, Kang finds himself living the life of a drifter. He meets Non in a foreign land. They find consolation in each other before parting ways and carrying on with their da...

Taiwan Academy Lecture “Me, the Film Worker” This is a live stream event, please register your space via Eventbrite Lecture by Lee Kang-Sheng Lee Kang-sheng has received recognition for his acting, winning the Best Actor Award at the 2002 Cinemanila International Film Festival for What Time Is It There? He was nominated for a Golden Horse Award in 1994 for Viv...

Taiwan Academy Lecture Hand-crafted Films: In the Age of Film Industrialization  This is a live stream event, please register your space via Eventbrite Lecture by Director Tsai Ming-Liang Tsai Ming-liang has written and directed ten feature films and has also directed many short films and television films. Tsai is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film ...

  13th September 2019 Father to Son 范保德 Director HSIAO Ya-Chuan / 2018 / Taiwan / 115 mins Screening followed by Director's Q&A Van Pao-Te, who is now 60 years old, finds himself suffering from a serious illness, instead of getting treatment, he decides to go to Japan to look for his father who abandoned him 50 years ago with the a...

7 award winning feature films by emerging Taiwanese filmmakers had been handpicked to share with the audience of Edinburgh, each with a unique theme and telling touching modern stories in Taiwan, connected by the common thread of relationship and family. We hope they give a glimpse into the kaleidoscopic life of Taiwan. We are also honoured to have film directors Jung-Chi Chang...