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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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  • Beiqing chengshi

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  • Darkness and Light

    Kang-yi helps her blind father in his massage salon. She meets Ah Ping, the son of one of his customers and a member of a…
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  • The Lady Avenger

    One of the most typical so-called Taiwan Black Movies (see also the documentary in this programme about a B-film genre that has disappeared) in terms
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  • Close to a Breeze

    Special White Light performance by the charming Taiwanese veejay Sunny Hu. With music by Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s composer Lim Giong. It becomes hypnotic and
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  • Desolate Silence

    No one understood why two successful female students committed suicide in an anonymous hotel room in Taipei. The film provides a picture of today’s Ta
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  • Reflections

    Debut film by Taiwanese talent, Yao Hung-i, the former assistant director to Hou Hsiao-hsien. That the influence of the great teacher is recognisable
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  • Three Times

    Three love stories in three different eras (1966, 1911 and 2005) in Hou’s characteristic, philosophical and aesthetic style. The different couples are
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  • Blue Cha Cha

    Subtly told, sad story about a young attractive woman who has to find a place in life after jail. Working in a bar is no…
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  • Taiwan Black Movies

    A prickling documentary that brings back to life a Taiwanese film genre that was given up for dead. In a time of strict political censorship,…
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  • Endless

    Abstract film in which the course of time has literally eaten away at the material.
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