The 5th Productions—Theme"Youth and Citizenship"

  • Young Jigme
  • LIU Cuilan
  • China /2014 / 82 min
  • Not long after this 17-year-old shepherd dropped out of school to become a monk in a small temple in Amdo, Tibet, one half of the monks left the temple for various reasons. Now, he is starting to reconsider his choices.
  • The Forgotten City
  • Gary SHIH / HOU Ning
  • Taiwan & China2013 / 53 min
  • Jointly directed by filmmakers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, The Forgotten City tells the story of how Taiwan and China each built special housings to meet the need of an era, and how, as time went past, these housings became ruins. The residents
  • The Other Side
  • TSAI Tsung-lung
  • Taiwan /2012 / 70 min
  • KE, an unsuccessful Taiwanese company owner, accepts a managerial job in China trying to set up a different career. Lili, a female worker migrating from inland to the coastal city of Shenzhen, China, prepares herself for a new life with her keypal-turned-
  • Mothers
  • XU Hui-jing
  • China /2013 / 68 min
  • ZHANG Qing-mei is a birth control chief in a small village. When she's off work, she also serves as a psychic in a temple that worships the "Goddess of Child-giving." This year, the supervising township office commands that sterilization cas
  • Bazaar Jumpers
  • HAO Zhi-qiang
  • China /2012 / 70 min
  • Two Uigur brothers and a friend are in love with parkour, a kind of extreme sport. Regardless of opposition from their worried mothers, the boys train themselves to be the best in an upcoming parkour event in Beijing while managing to iron out additional
  • Fu-jia’s Home Movie
  • CHANG Yung-ming
  • 台灣 Taiwan /2012 / 70 min
  • Fu-jia the farmer grows lemons on a riverside flood-land. He borrowed a camera in 2009, saying that he would make a documentary on why market price for lemons remains low.
  • Dialogue Between Blue & Green
  • FU Yue
  • Taiwan /2012 / 72 min
  • Taiwan's democracy is the envy of Chinese people all over the world, but when this two-party system—"blue" and "green"—get at each other's throats, it seems to cast a dark cloud over this beacon of advancing democratization.