In Taipei, the young Taiwanese director meets homeless people with respect, listens to them sympathetically and sensitively tells their life stories. Inspired by the sound of her inner music, she follows their dreams, which give each one their own identity.
15th Festival Internationale du Films de Fribourg
11.03.2001 to 18.03.2001
Fribourg
Yi Yi (© trigon-film)
On Sunday, March 18, the 15th Filmfestival Friborg came to an end. During eight days nearly 22,000 visitors took the opportunity to discover foreign worlds and their ways of life and thinking in the works of filmmakers from the South. Asian cinema was strongly represented among the twelve films of the international competition. This is also reflected in the winners of the festival: All main prizes of the various juries went either to one of the three films from Taiwan or to the Chinese contribution. The Ecumenical Jury of the churches awarded its prize of CHF 5,000 to the Taiwanese film "Wo Jiao A-Ming La" (Bundled) by director Singing Chen. In addition, the Ecumenical Jury awarded a Commendation to the film "Hacerse El Sueco" (Playing Suede) by Daniel Diaz Torres, Cuba. The International Jury's Grand Prize went to "Yi Yi" (A One and a Two) by Taiwanese director Edward Yang, who recounts a middle-class family history of Tai peh. The film will soon be shown by the distributor trigon-film in Swiss cinemas.
Awards
Bundled
Directed by:
2000
Playing Suede
Directed by:
2001
