This experience will be FREE to the public and will be available in-person at the Entrepreneurs Sandbox NOV 20 & 21 from 12:00PM – 6:00PM. Visitors are REQUIRED to register in advance for a time-slot to participate. Registration will open soon. Check back here, or on the HIFF XR page. On a volcanic island located …
This experience will be FREE to the public and will be available in-person at the Entrepreneurs Sandbox NOV 20 & 21 from 12:00PM – 6:00PM. Visitors are REQUIRED to register in advance for a time-slot to participate. Registration will open soon. Check back here, or on the HIFF XR page. In this interactive VR experience, …
A televised adaptation of Wu Ming-yi’s collection of short stories by the same name, this 10-episode series premiered in Taiwan earlier this year. Set in the 1980s and mainly in the now-demolished Zhonghua Market (formerly located near Taipei Main Station), the central character is Xiao Butian, an imaginative elementary student who is the son of …
In 1994, the famed music composer Bao Yuankai, who was based in Beijing, was invited to a music conference in Taiwan. This would be the start of a decades long journey, as he became immediately enamored with the sights, sounds, and unique culture of the island nation. Bao would spend years on various compositions including …
Fei (Kai Ko from YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE) works illegally as a gay hustler in order to support his family, yet when he realizes they are willing to accept his money but not his way of life, there is a major breakdown in their relations. Through his relationship to the headstrong Long, …
Budget cuts and a small student body cause Jiu Pu Elementary to be threatened with closure. In an attempt to prove their value as an institution and keep their doors open, the school enters a choir competition with the hopes of winning. The school tends to children from the Bunun tribe, an indigenous group from …
In Lily Ni’s directorial debut, a young Taiwanese boy, Shi-Nan, suddenly has stomach cramps, and he even begins to urinate blood. After collapsing at school, his parents find a urologist and are quickly informed that Shi-Nan is intersex. Shocked and dismayed, they avoid informing him of his diagnosis, attempting to deflect shame and to coerce …
