
Taiwan Film Festival Iceland
The inaugural Taiwan Film Festival in Iceland will cover a broad range of topical issues that are both particular to Taiwan and also speak to a global audience
The inaugural Taiwan Film Festival in Iceland will cover a broad range of topical issues that are both particular to Taiwan and also speak to a global audience
The story involves gods, the middle-aged men’s sexual desire and the conversation between ghosts and humans. Maybe the audience will find it preposterous, but isn’t life itself a farce?
Six short films exploring different subjects and visual styles will be shown in this screening.
An impressive debut tells an uplifting, family-friendly tale from the indigenous Tao community of Taiwan
The lives of the three groups of characters converge and their lives are changed as a result.
Wei Te-Sheng’s epic film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale reclaims an extraordinary episode from 20th-century history which is little-known even in Taiwan
Wei’s debut film is a big-hearted comedy and one of the most successful Taiwanese films ever.
Featuring a wealth of documentation and narrative accounts by the descendants of the rebels, this film takes a rare look into the dark corners of the Wushe Incident: the Seediq people rising up against the oppressive rule of the Japanese government eighty years ago.
Baseball is beloved and treasured by Taiwanese people. Kano tells the story about the first truly multi-ethnic baseball team in Taiwan under the colonial rule. It marked the starting point of baseball talent cultivation and local sport promotion.
A discussion of contemporary poetry by award-winning translators
Award-winning translators introduce four poets from Taiwan: Yang Mu (楊牧), Chen Li (陳黎), Hsia Yu (夏宇), and Ching Hsiang Hai (鯨向海).
Winner of Best Film at the 54th Golden Horse Awards
“the kind of understated quality film that deserves strong recommendation “
Nominated for Best Film at the 55th Golden Horse Awards
Best Screenplay Winner at the 1995 Golden Horse Awards
class struggle in an unstable, globalized world
Young directors ponder Taiwan in 2028
Winner of the 2018 Taipei Film Festival Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction
A modern masterpiece remastered to a brilliant quality
“One of the ten greatest films of all time“
Join us on our cinematic journey through Taiwan
A highlight on the global cultural calendar
Critically Acclaimed Author & Journalist Invited to International Festival
‘The Author of a Generation’ to participate in International Festival
Celebrated Children’s Author Invited to International Festival
Back for the fifth consecutive year
Chou Set to Wow Liverpool
Mazu’s Annual Pilgrimage Procession comes to the UK
The Hit Movie is Coming to the UK!
The Pioneering Taiwanese Video Artist Debuts his First UK Exhibition
Dispossessions responds to the radical flourishing of Indigenous performance & installation art despite – & in response to – social & environmental disruption, instability & change.
The Fur.
If we trusted biographical profiles, we would hardly know anything about The Fur. apart from the fact that the band formed in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, that its members answer to the aliases Savannah (vocals, guitar), Zero (guitar), Ren (bass) and Wenwen (synthesizers), and that they are working on a debut album that we suppose (and hope) is imminent. But if we listen to the few tracks that they have shared with the world, we can deduce quite a lot about the band. Mainly, that their mind-set is in the eighties, on the island of that dream pop that starts off demure and builds up thanks to the synthetic impulse of a drum machine. And that, although they sing in English, for this quartet the universal language is indie rock.
Outlet Drift
To the western ear, the music by Outlet Drift has as many familiar elements as it has exotic ones: the most recognisable is its power trio format, made up of the brothers Wusang and Putad Pihay (guitar and bass, respectively and alternating vocals), and Kurt Ken on drums and then there is its alignment with grunge with an abrasive touch of psychedelia. Beneath this rock facet are different underlying tonalities, including a powerful and ancestral current that takes us to the musicians’ roots as members of the aboriginal tribe of the Amis. The resulting sound of all this -whose fruits are the album Drowning (2015) and a reputation as an explosive live act- thus emulate the journey of Outlet Drift, from deep-seated tradition to global appeal.
Learn about one of Taiwan’s 16 aboriginal groups
Lin Hwai-min’s final ode to Taiwan