2020 Taipei TIEFF

Fri. 09/25 Sat. 09/26 Thu. 10/8 Fri. 10/16 Thu. 10/29 Tue. 11/24

Friday, September 25, 2020

09:00 screening · National Chengchi University

32 minutes · With post-film Q&A

32KM, 60 years

After being abandoned for nearly seven decades, the old tribal village is difficult to reach with almost no roads leading to it. The only guide on our journey in search of our roots is Wilang, who drags his octogenarian body up the mountain. As we follow Wilang’s footsteps, we travel a tunnel back in time…

Fri. 09/25 Sat. 09/26 Thu. 10/8 Fri. 10/16 Thu. 10/29 Tue. 11/24

Saturday, September 26, 2020

19:00 screening · National Chengchi University

82 minutes · With post-film Q&A

Our Happy Birth Day

Anais and Daisy meet a midwife, a dying profession, and have a new understand of life and death. Since then, they’ve chosen a birthing process that is differently from 99% of the women in Taiwan.

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Thursday, October 8, 2020

19:30 screening · National Chengchi University

59 minutes · With post-film Q&A

Muakai’s Wedding

In 1932, Muakai from the Zingrur royal family of the Kaviyangan village was accessioned into the Taihoku imperial University (former name of the National Taiwan University, abbr. NTU) and stood silently in the corner of the Museum of Anthropology. Considering to applying for the National Treasure, Professor Chia-yu Hu of NTU went back to village since 2014 and discussed related

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Friday, October 16, 2020

09:10 screening · National Taiwan University

75 minutes

Pomelo

Pomelo people live in the heart of the growing city of Hanoi, Vietnam. It is a neighbourhood where people from different rural provinces come and work. Living in the grounds of an ongoing ring road construction, they go through processes of demolition and land eviction.

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Thursday, October 29, 2020

19:30 screening · National Chengchi University

84 minutes · With post-film Q&A

The Solemn Commitment to Palakuwan

“In the Palakuwan not only become good man by yourself. It is the collective all be great and strong!”

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

14:20 screening · National Taiwan University

90 minutes

Main still_The cast together_photo by Christian Vium

Heartbound-A Different Kind of Love Story

An epic drama on cross-cultural marriages between Thai women and Danish fishermen, co-directed by Janus Metz (Armadillo, True Detective, Borg Vs Mc Enroe). Over a decade the directors follow four couples as they struggle to find a way out of poverty and loneliness and see their children grow up to heap the seeds or pay the price of their mothers

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