Flowers of Taipei

Director: Chinlin Hsieh

2014 / 109min / DCP

Using a treasure trove of interviews and film clips, Hsieh’s documentary tells the thrilling story of New Taiwanese Cinema in the 1980s—an explosion of formally daring Taiwanese art films that engaged, often critically, with past and present life in the tropical island nation. Innovator Edward Yang and standard-bearer Hou Hsiao-hsien are both central figures here, while their legacy is discussed by admirers around the world, including Jia Zhang-ke, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Olivier Assayas.