Hou Hsiao-hsien

Golden Horse Awards

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: T...

Dragon Girls!

Yves Montmayeur takes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the starting point for his study of the new female warr...

Taipei Story

A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her...

The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned d...

The Boys from Fengkuei

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their...

That Day, on the Beach

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just ba...

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to es...

Keep Rolling

One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's...

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has bee...

I Wish I Knew

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as...

Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'

A new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of "Flowers of Shanghai," featuring behind-the-s...

My Father Was a Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse's Life Story

Pascal Lamorisse is the son of filmmaker Albert Lamorisse. He is also the little hero of some of his father's f...

Talking with Ozu

A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Cla...

A Special Day

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series,...

When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang

From the 1980s to the 1990s, New Taiwanese Cinema gained international attention for adopting a completely diff...

Past Present

A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwanese Cinema...

Soul

Ip Cheung and her husband, a senior police inspector, had been happily married for 18 years. One day, Ip runs i...

Let the Wind Carry Me

Focusing on Mark Lee Ping-bin, one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers in Asia, the movie detail...

The Bike & I

Taiwanese comedy film.

Our Time, Our Story

Richly illustrated with film clips and interviews, OUR TIME, OUR STORY tells the still-evolving story of the Ta...

In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship

The essence of progress in civilization has always been handiwork. In traditional Chinese civilization, the emp...

Métro Lumière

French-made documentary, "Métro Lumière", which actually does help provide some of the context for Hsiao-hsien'...

Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class

Chinese film school students and the professors from the Greater China Region gathered together at Hong Kong Ba...

I Love Mary

Sunless Days

Director Shu Kei travelled to Venice, Canada, London and Hong Kong, collecting accounts of the Tiananmen impact...