Golden Horse Awards run without mainland Chinese film
The Golden Horse brings together Chinese, Hong Kong and of course Taiwanese filmmakers in Taipei.
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It is nicknamed “the Oscars” of Chinese-speaking cinema.
The Golden Horse ceremony will be held this Saturday evening, November 27 in Taipei.
But for three years, the festival has been done without Chinese films after Beijing boycotted the festival in 2019.
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With our correspondent in Taipei,
Adrien Simorre
It was until 2019 “the” festival of Chinese-speaking cinema.
The Golden Horse brings together Chinese, Hong Kong and of course Taiwanese filmmakers in Taipei.
But this faltered in 2018 after Taiwanese director Fu Yu spoke: “
I really hope that one day our country can be considered a completely independent entity.
"
A cinema that escapes Beijing's censorship
The sentence enraged Beijing, which refuses to recognize Taiwan's independence.
Result: this year and for the third consecutive edition, hardly any Chinese film takes part in the competition.
But the crisis has pushed the festival to reinvent itself to gradually become the showcase of a cinema that escapes the censorship of Beijing.
Symbolic, a documentary devoted
to the demonstrations in Hong Kong
is also nominated in the category of best documentary film.
A film obviously censored in China as in Hong Kong.
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