2012 WMWFF Official Blog -《Fearless 19》

 
Calling and Recalling: The Sentiments of Women's Script (Nüshu) 
Yu-I KUO ｜2012 ｜Taiwan ｜Documentary ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 74min

Screening Date & Time:
10/21 (Sun.) 19:00 ★ (2012 WMWFF Closing Film, Filmmaker's Attendance)
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Nüshu is a female-specific writing system, circulated in Jiangyong
County, Hunan Province, China. Women in Jiangyong have been
using nüshu to write biographic laments, make sworn sisters, and
release sentiments of misery. This script has been silently practiced
in this area for many hundred years. In that allegedly dead script
still lives a woman who can write in nüshu – He Yanxin.

   

 
Transcending LOVE
Hui-Mei CHEN ｜2012 ｜Taiwan ｜Documentary ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 92min

Screening Date & Time:
10/12 (Fri.)    21:45 
10/15 (Mon.) 13:50 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
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Taiwan's Modern Women's Foundation invited 13 abused women
to take on an impossible challenge: climbing mountains across
Taiwan. Its purpose is to help the survivors of domestic violence
to heal themselves in this adventurous journey, in which these
abused women gradually built up trust among them, and started
to talk about the experience they can hardly bear.

   

 
Crossings Love
Shiao-Yun KUO｜ 2012 ｜Taiwan ｜Documentary ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 82min

Screening Date & Time:
10/14 (Sun.) 16:40 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
10/16 (Tue.) 11:00
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Sometimes, destiny is like a photocopy machine that copies
several generations of a family. Characters in this file decide to
speak up and act out to face family conflict. The director tries
to discuss the issue of domestic violence in trilateral angles,
mother, father and child to explore abused children in domestic
violence about how such experience would influence them when
they grow up.

  

 
Dream Hair Salon 
Wen-Chen CENG ｜2011 ｜Taiwan ｜Documentary ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 57min

Screening Date & Time:
10/15 (Mon.) 22:00
10/20 (Sat.)  12:40 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
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This story is about three female immigrants from Vietnam,
Indonesia and China, whose life in Taiwan are documented,
and their ideas are shared and heard. The story unfolds their
experience as a foreign spouse. We are going to see how they
survived with strength and courage, and fought for their rights
to pursue their dreams.

  

 
Dear Taiwan 
Lih-Kuei CHEN ｜2011 ｜Taiwan ｜ Documentary｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 83min

Screening Date & Time:
10/14 (Sun.) 10:30
10/20 (Sat.)  14:40 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
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"Who am I?", is a simple question that the Taiwanese have never
had an easy answer to. In the past century, the Taiwanese have
fought against foreign ruling, and have continued pursuing
democracy and freedom, seeking truth and justice along the
way, and slowly developing a sense of nationalistic identity.

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My Pregnant Dream
Yi-Chun CHEN ｜2012 ｜Taiwan ｜ Documentary｜ Color ｜ HDCam ｜ 28min

Screening Date & Time:
10/14 (Sun.)  20:50 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
10/17 (Wed.) 11:00
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Through a simulation of pregnancy, we come to learn about
the hard work of mothers raising children. Having the plan to
"raise a child" is a privilege that is not shared by everyone, even
though starting a family seems to be a fundamental right as a
citizen. As a lesbian couple in Taiwan, even if we are willing to
give birth to and raise a child together, we are thwarted by the
lack of protection for the rights and interests of LGBT couples.

  

 
I'm the Queen 
Chen-Yun CHAN ｜2012 ｜Taiwan ｜ Documentary｜ Color ｜ BetaSP ｜ 47min

Screening Date & Time:
10/15 (Mon.) 22:00
10/20 (Sat.)  12:40 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
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At her 20, Lin-Siang LIN (aka Dudu) was an amusing car dancer,
and her husband left her for her occupation, and took her child
away. What's even worse, her father passed away, and suddenly
she became the only financial resource in her family. For that,
she even suffered from melancholia, but all the frustrations
didn't beat her down, instead, she became a "Queen."

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Returning Souls 
Tai-Li HU ｜2012 ｜Taiwan ｜Documentary ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 85min

Screening Date & Time:
10/16 (Tue.) 12:50
10/21 (Sun.) 14:30 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
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In the historically most famous ancestral house of the
matrilineal Amis tribe in Taiwan, the carved pillars tell legends.
After a typhoon toppled the house in 1958, the pillars were
moved to a museum. Recently young villagers, with assistance
from female shamans, pushed the descendants to communicate
with ancestors in the pillars. They eventually brought the
ancestral souls back and began reconstructing the house.

 

 
The CloTHING 
Wu-Chiao HUANG ｜ 2011 ｜Taiwan ｜Documentary ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 57min

Screening Date & Time:
10/16 (Tue.)  21:40 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
10/18 (Thur.) 10:00
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What happens when something as distant as fashion design
occurs in everyday life?
She is only a freshman in the day-time program, and she is a
senior in the night-time program. Maybe they haven't reached
perfection, maybe frustration can't be avoided. Yet, they still
manage to create their very own "The CloTHING".

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Inky Soul 
Hui-Mei CHEN ｜2012 ｜Taiwan ｜Documentary ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 78min

Screening Date & Time:
10/16 (Tue.) 16:45 
10/19 (Fri.)   11:00 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
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"Inky Soul " is a self-discovering journey exploring the true
meaning of human's value. Yang, who lost his right hand in
his childhood, devotes himself to creating an extraordinary
aesthetics of tattoo art. Hua, the only female tattoo artist, gives
up everything for her tattoo dream. Yung vows to pass down all
his tattoo skills to his daughter- the first tattoo family in Taiwan.

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The Golden Child 
Xu-Wei ZHOU ｜2012 ｜Taiwan ｜Fiction ｜ Color ｜ HDCAM ｜ 88min

Screening Date & Time:
10/13 (Sat.) 10:00 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
10/19 (Fri.)  14:50
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A hotel is going to be built in a small town. The property and
the tourism are about to boom, so the whole town falls into a
frenzy. Kam is the only one that seems calm. He is a pig farmer
whose purposes in life are having numerous piglets and getting
his mother to accept his girlfriend, who is now too old to bear a
grandson that his mother has long expected.

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Feedamily 
Der-Lu CHAN ｜2012 ｜Taiwan ｜Fiction ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 38min

Screening Date & Time:
10/14 (Sun.)  20:50 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
10/17 (Wed.) 11:00
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Hung-Tsun went out to find his child, Mei, and they got along
with each other in a strange atmosphere. After Mei brought
Hung-Tsun home, the memory started to flash back. By
depicting the uncertainty of Mei's gender identity, the film
implies the national identity complex which has appeared on
most children of postwar Taiwanese family.

  

 
Reborn in the Sea 
Hui-Wen LIN｜ 2011 ｜Taiwan ｜Animation ｜ Color ｜ BetaSP ｜ 5min

Screening Date & Time:
10/14 (Sun.) 22:30
10/16 (Tue.) 18:30 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
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She traveled on the sea towards her goal, while a hurricane
made her ground on an island. Hiding in a suitcase where she
found comfort and security, yet she realized that hiding herself
would not be secure forever. Eventually, she left the secure
zone, and made the wooden suitcase and cords a raft, and sailed
in tides towards freedom.

 

 
Eternal Return 
Fan-Tzu LIU ｜ 2012 ｜Taiwan ｜Experimental ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 6min

Screening Date & Time:
10/16 (Tue.)  21:40 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
10/18 (Thur.) 10:00
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Eternal return may exist in our soul, which wonders on earth in
infinity. It may surround our mind, life in our subconsciousness,
or fade in and out our dreams. However, the disruption will not
fade away eternally, but is oppressed under surface, and exists
in another representation. It is just we fail to be aware, and we
accept the eternal return without opposition.

 

 
Sipping the Juice of Memory Silently 
Der-Lu CHAN ｜2012 ｜Taiwan ｜Experimental ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 9min

Screening Date & Time:
10/16 (Tue.)  21:40 ★ (Filmmaker's Attandence)
10/18 (Thur.) 10:00
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The story starts from a girl with a drawing board wandering in
the street. She meets a girl looks very alike to herself. Both of
them are dancing in the forest, and at the end, the girl starts to
paint in a room. The story has many interpretations: a painter
looking for red color; at the same time facing herself; the
emotion flow between two girls; a dream that..