Festival 2020

A woman returns to Macau and looks back at the intense relationship she had with a massage parlour colleague in Tracy Choi’s haunting melodrama. Macau-raised orphan Sei returns to her birthplace after 15 years in Taiwan, still guilt-ridden after the abrupt break-up of her relationship with her...

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The Shepherds (UK Premiere)

Documentary, Focus Taiwan, Online, UK Premiere

30 Oct – 05 Nov

Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh

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This documentary charts the struggles of LGBTQ+ Christians in Taiwan, and the challenges they face in making their voices heard. In 1996, a heterosexual female pastor founded the first Taiwanese church to affirm LGBTQ+ people, finally providing them with a safe haven. Today, while the founder has p...

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Nobody (UK Premiere)

Feature, Focus Taiwan, Online, UK Premiere

30 Oct – 05 Nov

Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh

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Director Chun-Hua Lin’s debut feature reveals the story of an elderly transsexual character, rarely explored in LGBTQ+ cinema. Zhen-zhen breaks into the apartment of a strange old man, intending to spy on her father, who is having an affair in the building opposite. The old man ritually takes rid...

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Looking For? (UK Premiere)

Documentary, Focus Taiwan, Online, UK Premiere

20 Nov – 26 Nov

Rio Cinema

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This documentary explores questions of digital and virtual intimacy in contemporary gay communities. ‘Looking for?’ is one of the most commonly asked questions on gay dating apps, but it’s not one that’s easy to answer, at least for the director, Yen. Seeking to discover the different answe...

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Tracey

Brent 2020, Feature

31 Mar – 06 Apr

Focus Hong Kong Film Festival

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This pioneering transgender drama from Hong Kong tells the story of 51-year-old Tung Tai-hung (Philip Keung), who seems to be living an ideal life, with both a successful business and a doting wife, Anne (Kara Wai). But after being notified of a school friend’s sudden death and reuniting with an ...

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Spider Lilies

Feature, Focus Taiwan

26 Apr – 02 May

Vimeo

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Spider Lilies explores the ambiguous relationship between two women: Jade, an 18-year-old webcam model, and Takeko, a tattoo artist. When Jade visits Takeko's studio, she is entranced by the image of the spider lily on Takeko’s arm. She soon discovers that they shared an intense and troubling exp...

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