The Taiwan Film Festival UK has teamed up with independent Dalston-based Rio Cinema and its online platform, Rio Player, to host a programme of socially distanced in-cinema screenings and online films this November and December.
The Festival will feature UK film premieres with live Q&As, short films, live music, dance and spoken word performances – as well as a screening of a book club discussion led by abducted Hong Kong bookseller, Lam Wing-Kee of Causeway Bay Books in support of freedom of speech and independent press.
Building on the programme which kicked off in March 2020, this second chapter of the Taiwan Film Festival centres around the theme ‘Wounded yet Healed’. Its line-up features six feature-length documentaries that confront worldwide issues, including the struggle for democracy and freedom of speech, protesting industrialisation, and giving voice to the climate crisis.
“The Rio Cinema has a long history of supporting diverse cultures and telling their stories,...
The Festival will feature UK film premieres with live Q&As, short films, live music, dance and spoken word performances – as well as a screening of a book club discussion led by abducted Hong Kong bookseller, Lam Wing-Kee of Causeway Bay Books in support of freedom of speech and independent press.
Building on the programme which kicked off in March 2020, this second chapter of the Taiwan Film Festival centres around the theme ‘Wounded yet Healed’. Its line-up features six feature-length documentaries that confront worldwide issues, including the struggle for democracy and freedom of speech, protesting industrialisation, and giving voice to the climate crisis.
“The Rio Cinema has a long history of supporting diverse cultures and telling their stories,...
- 10/30/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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