2012 WMWFF Official Blog -《Fearless 19》

 
Body Phenomenon
I-Chieh PAN
Taiwan│2010│Experimental│Digi Beta│Color│21min
There are three physical narratives in the film: sleeping, eating, and moving. From sleeping, eating, to moving, finally back to sleeping, the body forms a loop in order to present the mental state in fixed and empty daily life with the film’s photogram, found-footage, as well as the conversion of different media.

 
I Am Not Ready, Yet
Ying-Kuan CHEN
Taiwan│2011│Experimental│Digi Beta│Color│6min9sec
I still don’t know about love and death, and I record my experience about returning, leaving, and a family member’s funeral. I extend them to the distance between me and my family. All the images are re-shot, the heavy noise impact my foggy memories, and I already forget the way home.

 
Island in Me
Mu-Yun LIN
Taiwan│2011│Fiction/Animation│Digi Beta│Color│20min
Wu LI is a student of fine arts in college, but her real life isn’t beautiful at all. She is pregnant, and her boyfriend is not responsible at all. She is almost desperate. Fortunately, she has her brushes and her mother as her companies. After struggling over and over again, she decides to do the right thing…

 
Awakening-The River of Forgetfulness
Kitty LIN
Taiwan│2010│Experimental│Digi Beta│Color│8min
A woman’s soul travels back to her youth after she died, and she unveils a buried secret that has haunted her for years and hinders her from moving onto the next life. Taking the task, she undergoes an unexpected but the last passage of her life to deal with love, friendship, and betrayal.

 
In the Midst of Vagrant Ocean
Pin-Chun LIN
Taiwan│2011│Fiction│Digi Beta│Color│30min
Each of them earns her own living in the same space with different body, and the body hurts, so does the soul. The men entered their bodies and left. The flakes speed up the abandoned lives. Life is ambiguous, and we just have to ask: To be or not to be?

   
As If I'm Not There
Juanita WILSON
Ireland│2010│Fiction│Digi Beta│Color│109min
The life of a young woman from Sarajevo is shattered by a soldier who walks into her apartment and tells her to pack her things, and she is imprisoned in a warehouse in a remote region of Bosnia. When she realizes that surviving means more than staying alive, she has to make a decision which will change her life forever.

 
Money and Honey
Jasmine Ching-Hui LEE
Taiwan│2011│Fiction│Digi Beta│Color│95min
This documentary depicts the lives of the Filipino migrant workers who look after the aging people in a nursing home in Taipei. The joyful and sorrowful stories repeat in their lives. What is the price they pay for love and bread? Will their dreams ever come true? The film also records a unique female friendship between the director, the migrant workers, and their families.

 
The Hairdresser
Doris DÖRRIE
Germany│2010│Fiction│35mm│Color│106min
Kathy loses her job because of her way-too-fat body, but Kathy won’t be so easily defeated by the fact. She decides to run her own salon next to the shop of her former employer. Expectedly, she needs to face a long, hard battle against banks, bureaucrats, and bad advisers. But good people are never absent on the way of her life.