S1.E8 ∙ Le Festival du Nouveau Cinéma et de la Vidéo de Montréal et ses invités

Exploring parallels between the desolate landscape of East Texas and the strange routines of a lonely grandmother. A fragmentary document of her day to day life, the film investigates themes of memory, loss, and isolation. The video and sound tracks were composed entirely from materials collected in Midland, Texas at Christmastime.

Sometimes life gets in the way of your dreams. And sometimes...it just takes you awhile to get around to them. This is such a sometime. This is a story of 9 band members who answered the call to follow the music home.

Can two people form a family solely for the sake of love? Guy and Henry, a couple deeply in love, had willingly travelled all the way from Hong Kong to Vancouver, Canada in order to get married, when such marriage is not even recognized legally in their hometown. Why did they made such a big effort to do this? What is the true meaning of marriage? Under the mentality of Chinese families in a post-colonial society like Hong Kong and through their marriage, how did the couple realize their family members' hope regarding their union? As the couple got married in a relatively open society like Canada, how are the newlyweds influenced by the western society's mentality and its marriage regulations?

After 30 years of cold war, Taiwan and China finally opened cross-strait trade and tourism in 1980. However, through decades of political and educational vilification of their counterparts by the KMT and CCP, and despite close economic and cultural ties, what lies beneath the diplomatic relations is a disconnect and mistrust that cannot be denied. KE is a failed business in Taiwan who hopes to start over as a 'Taiwanese Expat' in Shenzheng, China with a Taiwanese company. Lili, a laborer from China, meets her Taiwanese husband online and moves to Taiwan in hopes of a better life. Both KE and Lili cross the straits in hope of achieving what they cannot find in their homeland. But how much do they really know about that country across the straits?

A short vignette about family, tradition and relationships. Hannah visits her grandparents at their bakery and learns the family recipe for making bread.