Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/14
By: Christie Chen and Xie Yi-ting

Taipei, Sept. 14 (CNA) Seventy-nine films will be screened at the 24th Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taipei in October to celebrate the works of female filmmakers from around the world.

The 79 films, documentaries and animations will be shown at the Spot Huashan cinema at the Huashan 1914 Creative Park from Oct. 13-22.

The festival will open with “Chavela,” a documentary about the iconoclastic life of Mexican singer Chavela Vargas, and close with “The Gulls,” a Russian drama about an unhappy wife who wants to leave her fisherman husband but is afraid of the unknown.

Since long-term care has become a much-discussed topic in Taiwan in recent years, festival organizers said they have introduced a new section this year called “The Entangled Dance,” which screens films about caregivers, care-receivers, their struggles and the intertwined relationships between them.    [FULL  STORY]