Hsiao Mei-Ling
2021斷線風箏
Hsiao Mei-Ling
The filmmaker lives in a dark and cold stone-paved town, far from her homeland in Taiwan. Leafing through photographs, her grandmother unravels a memory. Meanwhile, the French-speaking son of a Chinese man, who had arrived in France as a coal mine worker one century ago, speaks about his life. This film captures the emotions of wanderers caught between nations and history.
The Falling Kite
Somewhere Over the Cloud
Hsiao Mei-Ling
A series of emails that the filmmaker wrote to her late mentor, the renowned American documentary filmmaker Robert KRAMER (1939- 1999), are woven throughout the plot of a story as the boundaries of life, distance, language, identity and nationality are re-examined from the perspective of Elodie, her daughter.
Somewhere Over the Cloud
