Taiwan Film Festival makes its post-covid return
The festival will take place on December 15 in New Delhi
The annual Taiwan Film Festival 2022 will take place in New Delhi on December 15. Organised by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center (TECC), India, the festival will screen two renowned Taiwanese movies – Listen Before You Sing by Shine Yang, an inspirational movie for the students, and Long Time No Sea by HEATHER TSUI, which is based on a true story.
His Excellency Baushuan Ger, Representative of TECC in India will be the ‘Guest of honour’ at the premier. The festival seeks to strengthen the cultural ties between the two countries and bring Taiwanese cinema, people and the destination itself, closer to the people of India. The festival films will be screened at INOX, Nehru Place, New Delhi.
The 113-minute ‘LISTEN BEFORE YOU SING’ is a story of trials and tribulations of a mountain tribe (Bunun) who are risking the closer and withdrawal of funding to their only school. The movie shows how some very simple people who lack in skill and experience can rise above overwhelming odds and initial setbacks to be resource and distinguish themselves.
Based on true events, ‘LONG TIME NO SEA’, is an emotional journey of hope and despair of Manawei, a Yami (Tao) boy, living on Orchid Island, yearning for his father and a pair of shoes and a young teacher who doesn’t see his future on the remote island and wants transferred. All characters except the teacher are portrayed by non-professional actors from the Yami (Tao) ethnic group.
Bathed on the spirit of ‘our culture, our pride’, the film depicts an authentic, rarely seen side of Orchid Island, and engages issues of family relationships, love, abandonment, and grandparenting problems against the backdrop of the Yami (Tao) cultural fault line.
