Spotlight Taiwan 2022

Welcome to Stockholm Spotlight Taiwan 2022! Open to the public, the festival will present the best of Taiwanese culture, arts and cinema.

 

Built around an eight-week Taiwan Film Festival, the program will feature Taiwanese films and documentaries, followed by talks given by their directors. In conjunction, there will be a digital lecture series in which scholars from Taiwan and Europe talk to us about a variety of interesting topics related to Taiwan’s cultural, historical, ecological and political landscape. Come and bring your friends to explore, enjoy and debate Taiwan.

Spotlight Taiwan 2022 in Sweden, led by Professor Irmy Schweiger, is organised by the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Stockholm University, in collaboration with Asiatiska Filmfestivalen, the Museum of Ethnograpgy (Stockholm), Bio Grand (Stockholm), the Museum of World Culture (Gothenburg), and the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan.

September 12 - November 7, 2022.

Free access to the digital lectures. Film venues, ticket and access information in title links below.
John Chung-En Liu

12 September 10:00-12:00 CET Digital lecture: Environment and Society in Taiwan (Prof. Dr. John Chung-En Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

14 September 17:00 CET Film screening and Q&A with Director at Etnografiska, Stockholm: Me and My Condemned Son 我的兒子是死刑犯 | Director: Lee Chia-hua | Documentary | 2019 | Taiwan | 74 min | Mandarin - English subtitels.

18 September 14:00 CET Film screening and Q&A with Director at Världskulturmuseet, Göteborg: Me and My Condemned Son 我的兒子是死刑犯 | Director: Lee Chia-hua | Documentary | 2019 | Taiwan | 74 min | Mandarin - English subtitels.

19 September 10:00-12:00 CET Digital lecture: Unearthing the Future Past: Taiwanese Documentary Film between Atrocity and Hope (Prof. Dr. Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

21 September 18:00 CET Film screening at Grand, Stockholm: Goddamned Asura 該死的阿修羅 | Director: Lou Yi-an | Feature film | 2021 | Taiwan | 114 min | Mandarin - English subtitels.
Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley

26 September 10:00-12:00 CET Digital lecture: Intersectional and Cultural Identities in Taiwanese-Language Port City Cinema (Prof. Dr. Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Research Associate, SOAS University of London)

28 September 17:00 CET Film Screening at Etnografiska, Stockholm: Eagle Hand 老鷹之手 | Director: Lai Li-chun | Documentary | 2021 | Taiwan | 103 min | Chinese Min Nan - English subtitels.
Gunter Schubert

3 October 10:00-12:00 CET Digital lecture: Is Taiwan the most dangerous place on earth? Domestic perceptions of Taiwan’s geopolitical predicament (Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert, Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Dear Tenant

5 October 18:00 CET Film Screening at Grand, Stockholm: Dear Tenant | Director: Yu-Chieh Cheng | Feature film | 2020 | Taiwan | 106 min | Mandarin, Taiwanese - English subtitels.
Min-Xu Zhan

10 October 10:00-12:00 CET Digital lecture: Taiwanese Millennial Writers and Their Writings After the Sunflower Movement (Prof. Dr. Zhan Min-xu, Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan)

12 October 17:00 CET Film Screening and Q&A with Director at Etnografiska, Stockholm: Llyong Topa 拉流斗霸 | Director: Kao Jun-honn | Documentary | 2021 | Taiwan | 90 min | Chinese, Japanese - English subtitles.

16 October 14:00 CET Film Screening and Q&A with Director at Världskulturmuseet, Göteborg: Llyong Topa 拉流斗霸 | Director: Kao Jun-honn | Documentary | 2021 | Taiwan | 90 min | Chinese, Japanese - English subtitles.
Detention

19 October 18:00 CET Film Screening at Grand, Stockholm: Detention 返校 | Director: John Hsu | Feature film | 2019 | Taiwan | 103 min | Mandarin - English subtitels.

26 October 18:00 CET Film Screening at Grand, Stockholm: Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale 賽德克巴萊 | Director: Wei Te-sheng | Feature film | 2011 | Taiwan | 150 min | Seediq, Japanese, Taiwanese - English subtitels.

2 November 17:00 CET Film Screening at Etnografiska, Stockholm: Song of the Reed 蘆葦之歌 | Director: Hsiu-Ching Wu | Documentary | 2013 | Taiwan | 76 min | Mandarin, Taiwanese - English subtitles.
Irmy Schweiger

7 November 10:00-12:00 CET Digital lecture: Writing Back Across the Pacific: Taiwanese American Writer Shawna Yang Ryan (Prof. Dr. Irmy Schweiger, Stockholm University)

Tickets will be available for purchase early september on the websites and on site at the respective venues.

ASIATISKA FILMFESTIVALEN/The Asian Film Festival

Film information and tickets www.asiatiskaff.com/taiwanspotlight-2022/
ETNOGRAFISKA/Museum of Ethnography

Tickets: 60 SEK Purchase on www.etnografiskamuseet.se
Address: Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 34, Stockholm
GRAND

Tickets: 100 SEK | REDUCED 80 SEK* Purchase on biljettkiosken.se/asiatiskaff or on site one hour prior to a screening.
Address: Sveavägen 45, Stockholm

* Reduced price for students, unemployed, disabled, pensioners benefits.
VÄRLDSKULTURMUSEET/Museum of World Culture

Tickets: 60 SEK Purchase on www.varldskulturmuseet.se
Address: Södra vägen 54, Göteborg

Screenings in Stockholm:
Free access for the students enrolled at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Stockholm University (limited to 50 students per screening).
Please make sure to register your presence to johan.fresk@su.se

The digital lectures are organized by:
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Stockholm University.

Last updated: 2025-10-20

Source: Department of Asian and Middle Eastern studies

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