Sinophone Filmmaking Sinophone Filmmaking: 老狐狸 (Old Fox, 2023) 112 mins.
- Date in the past
- Wednesday, 26. November 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
- CATS Auditorium (010.01.05), Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
- Barbara Mittler
- Yi-ching Cheng
- Xiaojie Chang
Directed by Hsiao Ya-Chuan蕭雅全 and produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien侯孝賢, this award-winning film is a family drama about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world (and many things his own poor father would never be able to teach him).
Address
CATS Auditorium (010.01.05)
Voßstraße 2
69115 HeidelbergEvent Type
Film Screening
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All Dates of the Event 'Sinophone Filmmaking: Utopia—Dystopia—Heterotopia: Lifeworlds on two sides of the Taiwan Straits—Cinematic narratives'
In a cooperation between the Taiwan Studies Program, the Worldmaking Project and the Confucius Institute, we are offering a series of films this semester from Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China, depicting complex and conflicted sinophone realities and illustrating different ways of worldmaking, as
—prescribed in the form of “main melodies” by the powers that be, on one side of the Taiwan Straits: we unravel grandiose political narratives of revolution and revival, between dystopia and utopia.
—described as reflections of the everyday, on the other side of the Taiwan Straits: we are given glimpses of “cotidian lives” among the petty, the poor, the marginalized, uncovering their function as heterotopia.
As these films depict multiple “worlds within worlds”, from the point of view of those above, those below and those in between—from gangster boss, to ardent believer, from the young boy playing truant, to an old housewife, dressed to kill, they draw our attention to different types of subjectivities, vulnerabilities, desires and aspirations as effects of everchanging biopolitics in the sinophone world.
