By Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Taipei Film Festival will go ahead in June, making it one of the first significant festivals to do so in the post-coronavirus era.
While its film selection is international, audiences will be entirely local. Organizers announced Monday that the festival will open on June 25 with the world premiere of Taiwan-made “Silent Forest.” It will close on July 11, with a screening of “Days,” by Tsai Ming-liang, which appeared in competition in Berlin and earned a special mention in the Teddy section for gay film.
Based on real events, “Silent Forest describes a cruel game in which deaf teenagers discover the last row of the school bus, and how the joy of integrating into a new life instantly becomes fear.
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