Following a successful launch in 2018, the 2nd Taiwan Film Festival in Sydney returns. Fresh from film festivals and the Taiwanese box office, this year’s line-up offers 10 feature films, 4 Golden Horse Film Academy shorts and 2 independent short films. With a focus on abstraction in art and cinema, the program explores social themes and current issues to create a vivid snapshot of contemporary and traditional life in Taiwan.

Opening the festival is Ohong Village, directed by Lung-Ying Lim, in competition at the Taipei Film Festival. Capturing the beautiful scenery of remote south western Taiwan in 16mm, the film portrays human greed and desire in seeking the illusory success of an urbanite. After the screening, Lim will be onstage for a Q&A to share the ideas behind his work.

Wrapping up the festival is Ching-Lin Chan’s award-winning The Island That All Flow By, a powerful and confronting portrayal of working-class life during a time of cultural transformation.

“Screened in competition at film festivals, Ohong Village and The Island That All Flow By are debut feature films that showcase the talent of Taiwanese directors. Their humanistic films highlight the inner struggles and hardships experienced by individuals of the working class,” says festival director Benson Wu.

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