From stories that dig into Taiwan’s past to lives of everyday Taiwanese, these documentaries show the multi-faceted culture of Taiwan.
Documentaries
Small Talk 日常對話
One of Taiwan’s most widely-acclaimed documentaries, and the first such film to be selected as Taiwan’s submission to the Academy Awards, Small Talk is an intimate portrait of the director herself, Huang Hui-chen (黃惠偵), and her mother, A-nu, a Taoist priestess in rural Taiwan. Through a series of long-shots, Hui-chen interviews A-nu about her troubled…
Our Youth in Taiwan
“This is Chen Wei-ting. He’s Taiwanese. This is Cai Boyi. She’s Chinese. I’m Fu Yue. I’m Taiwanese. I think I take part in the social movements by making documentaries and trying to make changes. I regard Wei-ting and Boyi as my comrades.” This is the beginning of the trailer and it captures everything. With the…
Not Simply a Wedding Banquet
Amid both controversy and celebration, Hsu Yousheng (許佑生) married his American partner, Gray Harriman, on November 11th, 1996 in Taipei, marking Taiwan’s first public gay wedding. While highly celebrated, the marriage did not become official until Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage in 2019. “Not Simply a Wedding Banquet (不只是喜宴),” a film directed by Mickey Chen (陳俊志)…
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