Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-18
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Eight celebrated documentaries from Taiwan are scheduled to be played in the 2016 Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Brisbane, Australia on September 17-18, 2016.
The eight documentaries depict Taiwan from different angles, with four of them focusing on stories in modern Taiwan and the other four featuring stories in Taiwan’s colonial and post-colonial history.

Taiwan’s first aerial documentary, “Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above” in 2013 won the Best Documentary Award at the Golden Horse Film Festival. The documentary records Taiwan’s beauty and hidden troubles from an angle that had been taken before. “Bridge Over Troubled Water” is about how a group of Taiwanese people faces the aftermath of a natural disaster. “Trapped at sea, lost in time” records the life story on an ocean fishing boat. “Love Songs of Teldreka” shows the contemporary life of a tribe in Taiwan.

“The Rocking Sky” tells the story of Chinese pilots in World War Two; “Shonenko” describes the life of a large number of Taiwan children recruited to make military aircraft in Japan in the final years of World War Two; “Wangsei Back Home” tells the story of Japanese people who were born and raised in Taiwan and deported to Japan after World War Two and captures their strong feeling for Taiwan; and “Su Beng, the Revolutionist” walks its audience through the life of Taiwan’s independence movement pioneer Su Bing, who still insists on advocating Taiwan independence despite of his old age of 98.     [SOURCE]