Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Bangkok 2018 is set to open Aug. 30, showcasing eight titles including an award-winning feature about a lesbian mother, according to Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand.
Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, the four-day event will create a new channel for the two sides to strengthen cultural ties and foster filmmaking exchanges, TECO said.
The festival opens with Huang Hui-chen’s “Small Talk,” which won the 2017 Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film, a prize at the Berlin International Film Festival for movies on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes. It focuses on the relationship between the director and her mother, a lesbian Taoist priest.
Other award-winning titles in the lineup include “Le Moulin,” an experimental film examining 1930s Taiwan poets that won Best Documentary at the 2016 Golden Horse Awards—Taiwan’s equivalent of the Oscars. Also set to be screened is “The Mountain,” a movie highlighting indigenous people’s history feted by the Taiwan International Documentary Festival the same year.
The program’s remaining films are “Sunflower Occupation,” “Stranger in the Mountain,” “The Immortal’s Play,” “The Silent Teacher” and “Time Splits in the River.” This is the first time for Bangkok to host a Taiwan documentary film festival. (CPY-E)
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