Directed by Jofei Chen Taiwan, 2001, video, 61 min. South Florida Premiere

This journey of chance and two souls connecting begins on Taiwan's coastal highway. Ching (Su-Li Wu), a student visiting from New York is emotionally distraught and distracted, having just broken up with her girlfriend. On impulse she picks up hitchhiker Hsiang (Wan-Jung Wang), an older artist thumbing a ride to visit close friends who live on a remote farm. In wanting to move beyond the idea that films about lesbians are just about lesbianism, director Jofei Chen confronts universal themes of loss, peace overcoming sadness, departure, friendship, support, inner strength, emotional contentment and respect and love for oneself and each other. Meditative and sensual, the grandeur, beauty and tranquility of the Taiwanese landscape is captured in stunning camerawork by Berg Liou and Chih-Yuan Chang. The landscape, the hypnotizing serenity of the rivers, mountains and forests, preserved in Hsiang's line-drawings and captured in Chen's grand cinematic palette, overwhelm the senses. It is the grandeur of the natural world that finally allows Ching and Hsaing to slow down, to find solace in the companionship of others, and emotionally reconnect with themselves. In Chinese with English subtitles.

Preceded by "firepussy". Dir. Laurel Almerinda, US, 2002, 35mm, 19 min.
Florida Premiere. A Latina pyromaniac shares her memories as we are guided on a passionate visceral electrically charged journey into the heart of the Yucatan jungle.

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