Taiwanese Director Edward Yang’s Films to Be Featured at Toronto Int’l Film Festival
July 16 2024 - 8:55AM
Business Wire
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will present a
retrospective film series screening titled "Edward Yang's Taipei
Stories" from now until July 30, inviting audiences to revisit the
social and generational conflicts that Taiwan faced during its
rapid urbanization in the 1980s through the perspective of the
filmmaker.
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“Taipei Story” was nominated for Best
Leading Actor at the 22nd Golden Horse Awards in 1985 and won the
FIPRESCI Award at the Locarno International Film Festival. (Photo:
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Curated by TIFF senior curator Andréa Picard, the Taipei
Cultural Center in New York and the Toronto International Film
Festival have collaborated to present a selection of seven feature
films and one short film by Edward Yang. The films are presented in
three sections: the urban trilogy featuring “That Day, on the
Beach,” “Taipei Story,” and “Terrorizers;” the novelistic works
including “Expectations,” “A Brighter Summer Day,” and “Yi Yi;” and
the social satires “A Confucian Confusion” and “Mahjong.”
Edward Yang is one of the most iconic and internationally
acclaimed film directors of the 1980s Taiwan New Wave Cinema. He is
also the first Taiwanese to win the Best Director Award at the
Cannes Film Festival. He has received the Special Jury Prize at the
Berlin International Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the
Singapore International Film Festival, as well as Lifetime
Achievement Award, Best Narrative Feature, and Best Original
Screenplay at the Golden Horse Awards.
International film critics, including Shelly Kraicer, director
of Mercer Union's modern art center Theresa Wang, and Ryan Krahn
from the cultural sector, as well as Yuetong Liu, curator of the
Mulan International Film Festival, have also been invited to
participate in a post-screening discussion with the audience to
share their insights on Yang's works.
Retrospective Exhibition “Edward Yang's Taipei Stories”
Location: TIFF Lightbox (350 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3X5,
Canada) Tickets:
https://tiff.net/calendar?series=taipei-stories&list Official
Website: https://tiff.net/events/taipei-story-with-introduction
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