高菊花（Paicu Yata'uyungana），作家兼音樂家高一生（Uongʉ'e Yata'uyungana）之女，是戰後台灣的音樂明星。她也是一位才華洋溢的學者，曾獲得獎學金進入哥倫比亞大學深造。 1952年，她的父親因政治活動被捕，1953年被處死。自此，高菊花背負著沉重的政治烙印，一直被懷疑從事顛覆性政治活動，並被調查。她也承擔起照顧弟妹的重任，只好放棄獎學金。出於對自身生命和政治後果的擔憂，高菊花從未錄製過任何音樂作品，她昔日的明星記錄也僅限於照片和報紙報導。 Read More
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Documentary “About Face: Disrupting Ballet” chronicles a pair of ballet professionals and their journey to adapt their performance art to modern sensibilities. Read More
Gao Juhua (高菊花, Paicu Yata'uyungana), the daughter of the writer and musician Gao Yisheng (高一生Uongʉ'e Yata'uyungana), was a musical star in Taiwan in the postwar period. She was also an accomplished scholar who received a scholarship to attend Columbia University. Her father was arrested in 1952 for his political activism and executed in 1953. Since then, Gao had a mark on her back, always being suspected and under investigation for subversive political activities. Gao also took on the responsibility of taking care of her siblings and had to give up the scholarship. Fearing for her life and political repercussions, Gao never recorded music, and the only records of her being a star at the time were photographs and newspaper articles Read More
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The 2025 drama implants today’s Taiwanese with the emotional memory of a silenced generation, as younger progressives seek out “make-up classes” to learn lost history. Read More
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Lungnan Isak Fangas’ documentary rewinds Taiwan’s rare athletic win on the international stage, though merely whispers the Indigenous heritage of championship athletes. Read More
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First, there was “American Girl” in 2021. Now we have “Left-handed Girl”, and, naturally, the succinctly titled “Girl”—two more coming-of-age dramas centred around young women (and the mothers who raise them). But where the former film is about a Taiwanese diasporic family returning from the US, these two new films are purely grounded in Taipei Read More
Documentary "The Homeless" offers a valuable look at the lives of unhoused individuals in China, but with deficiencies in storytelling Read More