The Home Promised
Directed by Betty Xie
Description
THE HOME PROMISED focuses on an urban neighbourhood on the brink of demolition – the Shaoxing neighbourhood in Taipei, Taiwan – whose story encapsulates the dilemma faced by a generation of Taiwanese torn between their ideological stance as mainlanders and the reality of losing their long promised home. Facing eviction, elderly residents of Shaoxing band together and find a home they never knew they had. Winner of Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival’s pitch competition.
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THE HOME PROMISED (SHORTS)
Shorts
Full of fierce truths and nostalgia, THE HOME PROMISED is elusive. Displaced Japanese internees, undocumented immigrants, children on Treasure Island, homeless people in Marin — all embody the search for home in these poignant shorts. Searching, finding and returning to THE HOME PROMISED.In This Program: The Home Promised, Hotel 22, Leftover, Reflections of Union Square, Tadaima, TNT (Always on the Run), Treasure Island
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