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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Chung xing (A Journey in Spring), the first feature film from Taiwanese filmmakers Tzu-Hui Peng and PingWen Wang follows a man overcome with remorse as he mourns his wife’s death. At the press conference that they gave yesterday after the screening of their film in the Official Selection, they described it as “a film about the things you don’t see”. The doctrine of Wasisabi had been one of their most important references, which had led them to aim to capture life’s imperfect, incomplete and impermanent nature. Asked why they had used super 16mm, they said that not using digital film reflected the character of the old man in the film who could not let go of his feelings and memories of the past, as they had wanted the film to be a reflection on the transience of life. This philosophy was also behind the decision to make Taiwanese Hokkien rather than Mandarin the main language in Chung Xing. It has been increasingly marginalised since the KMT retreated to the island after their defeat in the Civil War but they felt that the language was full of living and historical traces left behind by past generations and they also had a strong emotional attachment to it.
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