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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Hou Hsiao-hsien

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Hou Hsiao-hsien at IFFR

  • The puppetmaster

    Hou Hsiao-hsien | 142' | Taiwan | -

    Hou’s sublime film is the story of the puppeteer Li from the Japanese occupation of Taiwan up to the US bombardment during liberation.
  • Beiqing chengshi

    Hou Hsiao-hsien | 158' | Taiwan | -

  • Jam Session – Kikujiro no natsu koshiki kaizokuban

    Shinozaki Makoto | 93' | Japan | -

    The formidable Kitano Takeshi in the ‘making-of’ of his last film Kikujiro. Plus an unforgettable encounter with the Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien.
  • Reflections

    Yao Hung-i | 87' | Taiwan | None

    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
  • Three Times

    Hou Hsiao-hsien | 135' | France | None

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

    Hou Hsiao-hsien | 90' | Taiwan | None

    Hou Hsiao-hsien started his unsurpassed career with three commercial, melodramatic trivialities that were intended as vehicles for the now almost forg
  • Le voyage du ballon rouge

    Hou Hsiao-hsien | 113' | France | None

    Imagine that a French director who doesn’t speak a word of Chinese wants to make a Taiwanese film, then you would politely advise him against.…
  • Dongdong de jiaqi

    Hou Hsiao-hsien | 102' | Taiwan | -

  • The Assassin

    Hou Hsiao-hsien | 105' | China | None

    Hundreds of martial art films have been made in the wuxia genre over the years, but the Taiwanese master of the modern Chinese outlook on…
  • Growing Up

    Chen Kun-hou | 100' | Taiwan | None

    Written and produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Growing Up tells the tale of a recomposed family: a man from the mainland and his native Taiwanese wife.…