Festival Reviews
Taiwan Film Festival 2020 Short Films
Taiwan Film Festival is back in 2020 with this virtual edition streaming online from July 9 to 30, 2020.
Rolmar Baldonado
July 19, 2020
Check out these three documentaries competing for the Documentary Australia Foundation Award as part of the Sydney Film Festival 2020 On-Demand program.
DESCENT
“When you learn to cope with cold water immersion, it’s going to help you cope with stress, fear, anxiety, and all other kinds of negative emotions.” This is a quote from this healing film that pushes your limits on comfort, tolerance, endurance, pain, and danger.
THE PLASTIC HOUSE
A hypnotic contemplative reflection of the past through the present. This is quite a very quiet film as it painstakingly plows through the garden of familial memories of an Asian-Australian upbringing.
A HUNDRED YEARS OF HAPPINESS
Starts with a humble slow cooking of sour eel vegetable stew and fried fish by the mother of the bride-to-be and culminates with a Vietnamese wedding to her Korean husband. Along the way is a fascinating portrait of countryside Vietnam with all its dainty and exotic customs, colours, and flavours.
Taiwan Film Festival is back in 2020 with this virtual edition streaming online from July 9 to 30, 2020.
The Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) is already midway at the Ritz Cinema in Randwick, Sydney, which started from 18 February up to 24 March 2021. There have been plenty of films screened, including a diverse selection of documentaries on various themes and topics.