The Asian Art Centre in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius is currently presenting a free, weeklong film series introducing Taiwan and its people through the eyes of documentary filmmakers.<\/p>\n
The exhibition, titled “Independent Taiwanese Documentary,” is being held Nov. 3-9 at Vilnius’ Skalvija Cinema Center, and features a lineup of nine films dating from the 1960s to the present.<\/p>\n
The exhibition kicked off on Thursday with a screening of director Hung Chun-hsiu’s (\u6d2a\u6df3\u4fee) new film “Remember Me,” (\u91d1\u9580\u7559\u5ff5), which follows the stories of three people from various backgrounds on Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen islands.<\/p>\n
Other films in the event’s lineup include the 1960s short documentaries “The Mountain” (\u4e0a\u5c71) and “A Morning in Taipei” (\u53f0\u5317\u4e4b\u6668), as well as “Me and My Condemned Son,” (\u6211\u7684\u5152\u5b50\u662f\u6b7b\u5211\u72af), which centers on three death row prisoners, and “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (\u62d4\u4e00\u689d\u6cb3), regarding the aftermath of Kaohsiung’s Aug. 8, 2009 flood disaster.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the exhibition also includes two recent documentaries on environmental topics — “Black Bear Forest” (\u9ed1\u718a\u68ee\u6797) and “Whale Island” (\u7537\u4eba\u8207\u4ed6\u7684\u6d77), and two films about Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples: “Millets Back Home” (\u597d\u4e45\u4e0d\u898b\u5fb7\u62c9\u5947) and “Hang in There, Kids!” (\u53ea\u8981\u6211\u9577\u5927).<\/p>\n
In addition to films, the event will also feature lectures on Taiwanese history, politics and cinema by Vilnius University faculty members Balys Astrauskas and Konstantinas Andrijauskas, and by Chen Pin-chuan (\u9673\u658c\u5168), head of the cultural division of Taiwan’s representative office in the U.K.<\/p>\n
All film screenings have free admission and are presented with subtitles in English and Lithuanian.<\/p>\n
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Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"