Director │ Stephen Gurie WOO
Producer │ Alfred SUNG
This is a story about a century-long rise and fall of sewing business in Shanghai and Hong Kong. It is also about reuniting with a group of relatives as well as facing my own experiences during the worst time. A family-run sewing shop turned out to keep the most precious lesson for life, together with the footsteps of generations of Chinese as they decided whether to stay or to leave. It all started in 1995, when I was eighteen and found two old sewing shop receipts from the 50s.
Director│ PAN Zhi-qi
China has experienced a shift from a predominantly agricultural-based economy to a new industrial society. As a result, cities in China grew, more and more farmers migrate from rural area to large metropolises. This documentary follows Mr. SUE, Guo-qiang and Ya-ning, those who are seeking new life in the city. We embark with them on a life –changing journey, beginning with the anxiousness that embodies leaving one’s home to overcoming the struggles that come with assimilating into the fast-paced city life.
Director, Producer│SU Qing, Mina
Producer│ SU Qing, GUO Xiao-dong
This is a story about a group of children who are blind, deaf or mute: CAO Han-zi, a growing kid seeking answers to her endless questions; ZHANG Dan-tong, trained in Henan Opera since young in hope of changing her destiny through reality shows; LI Cong ,fights to be accepted by her grandma for her handicap; WANG Yi-wen, desires to produce and act in an Italian Opera. Can their wishes be fulfilled?
Director │ LIAO I-ling, CHU Po-ying
Producer │ LIAO I-ling
LI Yuan-chia was born in China during the turbulent period of WWII and became an orphan growing up in Taiwan. In order to get rid of the conservative frame of after-war feudal society of Asia, he went far away to the west to embrace the freedom of creation. He wandered a lot and created his artworks wherever he went. Finally he settled to build a museum for all by himself in an English village, where also became his home. Abiding by his will, his best friend Nick SAWYER has taken care of his works since he had passed away for 20 years. Now he is already aged and this museum might need to be sold in auction for paying tax.
Director │ Lola LIU
Producer │ Wolfgang BERGMANN
During the past 10 years, CHEN Si saved over 200 people from jumping to their deaths from the Yangtze Bridge in Nanjing. Together with those he has rescued, he takes a look at why they ended up on the bridge. The journey together to the individuals pasts, both in the city and in the country, and thus learn the deeper reasons that drove them to them to decide to commit suicide-reasons of a social nature, the underlying causes of which are found in the rapid transformation of Chinese society. We accompany these travels with the camera, thus creating a rare and nuanced image of the inside of China.
Director │ HUANG Yin-yu
Producer │ Tetsujiro YAMAGAMI
More than 800 immigrants from Taiwan and their descendants still live on the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa. Originally recruited as farmers by the Japanese government, they witnessed the history of colonial Taiwan, the end of World War II, Okinawa under the US administration, and its return to Japan in 1972. They lived 30 years without nationality but eventually became naturalized. In Okinawa history, they were once referred to as “the stateless people”.
Director │ FEI You-ming、LIU Shuo
The film focuses on the Internet during a period of rapid transformation in China. Rising from obscurity, an ordinary girl suddenly makes the headlines of major news websites and becomes the center of attention of millions of people. The 25-year-old puts the rest of her life in the hands of netizens. She shows up in people’s life and helps realize their wishes. This incident breaks out of the Internet and attracts domestic and international media alike. Behind all this stands LI Er, the man who has been manipulating the event since its beginning. The film reveals how LI Er creates a series of sensational drama through the Internet and how he takes advantage of human desire to ignite public revelry. What is left after the revelry? Progress, or regress?
Director │ JUAN Jiang, Jeffery CHENG
Three young people of different occupations co-founded the first China Women Film Festival as a part-time project. All amateurs, they obtained international films through their unique means. They contacted as many curators of different film festivals as possible for experiences and supported the Festival out from their own pockets. Despite all the mistakes during the Festival, it was nonetheless charming for being truly unrefined. However, one could sense some subtle tells in the relationships between the three curators. With that, where would the CWFF go?
Director │ ZHANG Nan
Producer │ ZHANG Yong
ZHANG Nan’s My Dear Lines follows the journey of a young girl born and raised in a lower-class, family. She is gifted with the talent of drawing. She realizes that, she can make her own place in society through her talent, and not live by the one that was given to her. She sacrifices her whole life in order to achieve her goal.
Director, Producer │ Hau Man WAN
Hau Man WAN’s All About Myself gives us insight into one of humanity’s greatest complexities, identity. Hau Man’s documentary follows the life of a “born female” who identifies as a male. Along with facing an internal struggle with the inharmonious configuration of Hau Man’s soul and body, Hau Man also faces the exterior struggle of societal pressure. This film opens new avenues of thought: Is gender strictly defined by female or male? Or is there a possibility for more identities?
Director │ Brian YANG
Producer │ Jack CHANG
In the mid-90s to 2000s, scandals rocked Taiwanese baseball and its popularity waned. But as negative impact from these incidents subsided and the focus became more about the talented players, Taiwan proved it could compete internationally and the Major League teams started to notice by recruiting Taiwanese players. We will tell the story of baseball and its place in Taiwan through the eyes of players playing abroad and at home, officials, agents, fans, and other figureheads. We will examine how players train, follow the ups and downs of several players, and we will show how baseball is not just a sport in Taiwan, but a way of life.
Director │ WANG Wen-ming
Producer │ Eason WANG
At the source and the mouth of a river respectively lived two families with a life of joy and satisfaction. However, as climate change reduced glacier water, the surging herds of goats on the snowy mountain indicated the ecological burdens of the grasslands, while the magnificent desert implied the crisis of desertification. Worrying consequences were revealed within years. Will they meet more harsh challenges for survival?
Director │ Suzie MA
A love story centered around a Chinese private detective who has been chasing mistress and cheating husbands around the world for the last 20 years. It can also reflect Chinese views on love and marriage.
Director │ CHI Yueh-chun, Richard HSIAO
Producer │ TSAI Tsung-lung
As a detective, the director investigated and filmed a kidnap and murder case happened 18 years ago. As the truth was dug up during the filming process, what was once called true was later found to be counterfeited.
Director, Producer │ Larry CHAN
Producer │Edmen LEE, Panda CHAN, Chelsea NG
The opening of gambling right in Macau has brought great fortunes as well as social problems. In an ethos of injustice and distorted values, young people generally became indifferent to politics and kept their mouths shut. SOU Ka-hou, CHAO Teng-hei, and YANG Wan-ting were three youths who embarked on street politics, after losing legislative election. However, at the back of their burning youth was an enormous pressure from the society and their families. How do the citizens define them beyond their fighting? Heroes or rebels? The answer will be revealed in three years after the election.
Director │ MAK Chun Kit
Producer │ Cindy ZENG
Little people chase their dreams in China’s controversial dwarf theme park. We trace their pursuit of happiness in spite of the odds against them. The observational documentary traces the journeys of a few employees who have joined the theme park for different reasons. A change of heart, a secret escape, a struggle to find true love and a venture beyond the confines of“The Dwarf Empire”lead to vastly different experiences. Connected by a will to pursue their dreams and a life of happiness, these little people take their chances in an uncertain world.
Director │ GUO Hai-tao
Producer │ Joe BINI
Mr. FANG Yu-ling is a 65 year old Peking Opera master witnessed the peak and fall of the Peking Opera-the greatest classic performing art in Chinese theatre. Crushed by Mao’s Cultural Revolution and the social changes in modern China, the great tradition of passing on the art form from master to pupil is being lost. Now living in exile in New York and feeling his skill diminish with age, FANG Yu-ling staged an opera on June 24th, 2012. Though he knows his cast is amateurish, he uses all his skills and charisma’s to inspire them to commit to the performance. Even this rough approximation of the real opera makes him feel like a star again. He cannot help but put his heart and soul into it. Though he knows the world he was trained in as a boy will soon be lost, he fights with honor and integrity to fulfill his life-long mission to perform an opera in New York.
Director | Sean W.H KUNG
Mr. YANG had a working holiday in Australia, where he completely refused jobs on the farm. However, he had a dream about his grandfather’s pineapple fields on a train in Thailand. He found that the palate in his childhood memories was fading, just like that of his grandfather. Therefore, he decided to return to the fields, hoeing again, in the hope to once again savor that taste in his childhood. Organic agriculture is a tough and time-consuming business in Taiwan, especially when he and his father are the only laborers on the farm. Unexpectedly, a letter to the Taiwanese president changed it all.
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