An examination of the great influences one's birthplace has on one's life. Realizing the importance of knowledge in determining her children’s fate, ZHANG Zhi-li decides to take her son to the city in pursuit of an education. YANG Xiu-qing has brought her son and daughter from the countryside…
The film explores the hidden face of poverty in one of the world's most affluent and capitalistic cities. Directed by CHEUNG King Wai (KJ: Music and Life), the film follows five Hong Kong families of different backgrounds that receive government subsidies. How do the poor get by in a glossy city…
A documentation of four home schooled Taiwanese children from very different background. This film looks at four different families – the Polish and Taiwanese CHEN-WERNIK family, the traditional ZHAN family, the LUO family, who adjusted to traditional education yet still chose homeschooling, and…
Chinese and Taiwanese people regard one another as enemies due to the year-long propaganda implemented by both the KMT and the Communist Party. However, some still are willing to take an extra step and see what lies on the either side of the straight. The films follows KE, a businessman from Taiwan who…
In China, HAN has sold off all the family’s home valuables and now works in Xi an city to make money for his son to go to college. HAN firmly believes that knowledge has power to change their destiny. “Around 2013 or so, roughly my sixties, Sheng-li will take our family to Beijing for a sightseeing…
Workers, peasants, soldiers, students and merchants were five groups of Chinese society in the 1950s, after the so-called elimination of the exploited class. Borrowing this concept, the umbrella is taken as the clue to rediscover changes in various social classes after the economic reform, and to analyze…
A documentation of a new business model emerging at the break of the financial crisis in 2007 in Taiwan. The Check Fun Store is an innovative business model. Every store is divided into hundreds of small checks to display and sell a wide range of creative products provided by people who rent these…
Filmmaker Hao Wu follows students in China as they audition for a production of the American musical "Fame." China's top drama academy stages the American musical "Fame" - China's first official collaboration with Broadway - as the graduation showcase for its senior class.…
In 2016, the last textile weaving factory from the communist era in North-West China was demolished. "Weaving" follows two textile worker families during the five year demolition process as they struggle to adapt to outside change while trying to keep their families intact. Where old and new…
Duan Cun High School has hundreds years of history. Its original site was a temple in the Ming dynasty. This film documents the last moments of this school in its very last year. While teachers sign in as routine and students kill their youthful time eating, chatting, playing cards, only Teacher HO still…
We head south from Olomouc towards Austria – we start at Přerov an industrial town of 50,000 situated at the southern end of a triangular junction: west to Olomouc and Prague – east to Ostrava and Poland. This is Czech transit corridor 2 (TEN23): Sweden and Poland – to Austria and Italy…
La inspiradora historia de Arnold Beisser psiquiatra Gestalt, entrenador y autor de "Teoría Paradójica del Cambio". A los 25 años, campeón nacional de tenis de los Estados Unidos, el Dr. Beisser fue atacado por la poliomielitis y permaneció cuadripaléjico…
