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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Funeral Parade of Roses

Feature

Friday 18 December / 8:00pm

Catford Mews

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Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s. Loosely adapted from Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and set in Tokyo’s dazzling underground gay scene, the film follows Eddie (played by the androgynous actor Peter), a tra...

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The Wedding Banquet

Feature, Focus Taiwan

Saturday 19 December / 7:30pm

Catford Mews

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Director Ang Lee’s second feature film is a romantic comedy about Wai-Tung Gao (Winston Chao), a Taiwanese immigrant to the USA who lives happily with his partner Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein) in Manhattan. Despite having achieved success as a real estate investor, Wai-Tung faces pressure from hi...

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