Erweiterte Suche

Nina Wu verlässt eine kleine Theatergruppe auf dem Land und zieht in die Großstadt, um ihren Traum als Schauspielerin zu verwirklichen. Das Warten scheint endlos zu sein, denn sie lebt ein einsames und verdrängtes Leben.

On the night of their high school graduation, three delinquents decide to exchange their darkest, most unspeakable secret.

Two Burmese immigrants fleeing their country's civil war in search of a new life in Thailand.

Six directors each reflect on the Chinese diaspora.

A married couple open a community medical clinic offering affordable care and therapy for various illnesses and disorders. They treat physical ailments as well as provide counseling.

In der Nacht seines 18. Geburtstags begeht Jan-wen eine zufällige Schießerei auf einem überfüllten Nachtmarkt.

In the war-torn Kachin State in Myanmar, waves of poor workers flock to dig for jade, dreaming of getting rich overnight. The director, Midi Z, is the protagonist's youngest brother. Midi tries to find out why his brother became a drug addict and abandoned his family. The film depicts how people struggle for survival in the darkest corners in Myanmar.

A fascinating documentary, shot in the mountainous north of Burma. No filmmaker is welcome there, because, against the background of a civil war, the jade miners enter the deserted mines illegally. With the aid of filming locals, however, Midi Z was able to compile this portrait.

Shin-Hong Wang has been a Burmese guest-worker in Taiwan, but now there have been elections in his country, he decides it's time to return. During the journey from Rangoon to his birthplace, we hear propaganda songs on the radio about the blessings of democracy. When he sees his mother again after 12 years, she asks: 'Have you eaten?' With those same words, the mother of filmmaker Midi Z welcomed her son when he returned in 2008 after an absence of 10 years. In early 2011, soon after the elections, Midi Z went back again. This time he brought his camera, to shoot Return to Burma. Shin-Hong has the sad duty of returning the ashes of a friend who had a fatal accident in Taiwan. But there's also the joy of seeing friends and family. Young people still gather together to sing romantic songs and dream of working in China or even America. Shin-Hong's younger brother is about to leave for Malaysia. Shin-Hong himself would prefer to stay and goes to markets and smuggling centres to see if there are any opportunities for him. Return to Burma reflects a poor yet hopeful society in images that follow the countryside and the people's movements and often have a documentary approach. A rare Tiger too, because we don't see many films from Burma at all.

Shin-hong's mother goes to a fortune-teller for advice on her son's insomnia and life problems. The fortune-teller advises Shin-hong to get 14 apples and take them to a temple in rural Central Myanmar, where he must live as a monk for 14 days, eating an apple a day.

Arranged by a smuggling syndicate, A-Hong and his young teen sister along with a group of Burmese youngsters sneak across the Myanmar/Thailand border and arrive in a remote town called Dagudi in Northern Thailand. A-Hong's sister is taken away by the gangs as her mother has sold her to them. A-Hong goes to Bangkok and works under a tour guide, a wildcatter from Myanmar who has lived in Thailand illegally for years. The flood has killed the tourism business. A-Hong followed this big brother back to Dagudi, trying to sell a batch of medicine that could be made into profitable drugs to local gang leaders. All A-Hong wants is to get the cash quickly and redeem his sister, but he cannot reach the smuggling ring anymore as the phone number never works. San Mei, a young Burmese woman who is assigned a job by the smuggling syndicate to fetch A-Hong's sister, has been taking her risk by smuggling Burmese teenage girls overseas, hoping to get the Taiwanese Identity Card promised by the gang leader for years. After accomplishing the last assignment, she realizes the dream to gain the sense of security is hopeless. Unfolded through two parallel narratives, this is a border town story woven between Tolstoy, amphetamines and Durian.

Simple, yet complex. A man (Shin-Hong Wang) meets a woman (Ke-Xi Wu) on a moored ship, a sort of floating palace decorated like a Buddhist temple. The woman or her spirit struggles with her memories and the man takes on the form of a Buddhist monk in his next life. Complex and yet simple. The man, the woman and the camera move gracefully 'dancing' through the space. Only the thought of escape.