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The Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh is dedicated to Taiwanese film production of various genres and epochs. This year, in one of its sections, it presents works that are counted among the so-called Taiwanese New Wave, which in the 1980s stood for a cinema that was interested in the social realities of the country, using the aesthetics and means of realistic storytelling. As one of the examples of the ongoing influence of this school on a newer generation of filmmakers, the festival presents “When Love Comes” by Tso-chi Chang.

“When Love Comes“ is screening at Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh

This mixture of social drama and tragicomedy won the award for Best Film at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei, when it was released in 2010, which could not have been more deserved. Sensitive, humorous and exciting, Chang tells the story of the everyday life of an unusual family. He unites four...

The Golden Horse Awards were held last night. They're often thought of as the Chinese Oscars because the tradition goes back the furthest and honors a wide pool of Chinese language films from multiple countries (China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, etcetera). Though neither Monga, Taiwan's submission for Oscar's Foreign Language Film competition, nor Aftershock (China's submission), were nominated for Best Picture they both had multiple nominations .

Monga, a popular youth crime drama we've mentioned before, won Best Actor for 28 year old Ethan Ruan (left), who amusingly brought a cardboard cutout of his  co-star who was not nominated. And yes he brought the cutout with him onstage when he won. He said...

Woo! Sorry, I brought my buddy along. [mimicing his co-star] 'Hi everyone. I'm Mark Chao'...to big laughs from the crowd.

Here's the Best Actor presentation. The clips begin at 2:25 after Li BingBing and Tony Leung Ka Fai (yes,...