Panorama
United States, Taiwan, 2023, 85 min
Director:
VANESSA HOPE
Language and Subtitles:
Chinese and English with translation in Hebrew and English.
Participants
HSIAO BI-KHIM, YU-JIE CHEN, CHEN CHIEN-JEN, CHEN CHU, MICHAEL FONTE
Festivals & Prizes:
Winner, Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary - 2024 Sonoma Film Festival
Winner, One in a Million Award for Best Documentary - 2024 Sun Valley Film Festival
Winner, The Cinema for Peace Honorary Award - 2024 Cinema for Peace Foundation
Winner, Audience Award - 2023 Middleburg Film Festival
Official Selection — 2023 Woodstock Film Festival, Woodstock, New York, USA
Official Selection — 2023 Hamptons International Film Festival, East Hampton, New York, USA
Official Selection — 2023 Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, California, USA
Official Selection — 2023 SIFF DocFest, Seattle, Washington, USA
Official Selection — 2023 New Hampshire International Film Festival, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
Official Selection - 2023 Middleburg Film Festival, , Middleburg, Virginia, USA
Official Selection – 2023 IDFA Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Official Selection – 2024 FIPADOC Film Festival, Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Official Selection – 2024 Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA
Official Selection – 2024 Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Official Selection – 2024 Sun Valley Film Festival, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA
Official Selection – 2024 Luxembourg Film Festival, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Official Selection – 2024 CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
Official Selection – 2024 One World Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Official Selection — 2024 Movies that Matter Film Festival, The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Official Selection – 2024 Sonoma International Film Festival, Sonoma, California, USA
Official Selection — 2024 Cleveland Film Festival, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Official Selection — 2024 Florida Film Festival, Maitland, Florida, USA
Official Selection — 2024 RiverRun Film Festival, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Official Selection — 2024 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, USA
Official Selection — 2024 Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Official Selection — 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum, Oslo, Norway
Official Selection— 2024 Bologna Film Festival, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Official Selection — 2024 Doc Edge Film Festival, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Official Selection — 2024 Galway Film Festival, Galway, Ireland
Official Selection — 2024 Durban Film Festival, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Official Selection — 2024 Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Celebration of Lives Award — 2024 Biografilm Festival, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Official Selection — 2024 Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Official Selection — 2024 Global Peace Film Festival, Winter Park, Florida, USA
Official Selection — 2024 DMZ Docs Intl Documentary Film Festival, Goyang-si, South Korea
Official Selection — 2024 For the Love of Docs, Deadline Hollywood
Official Selection — Port Jefferson Documentary Series, Port Jefferson, New York, USA
Invisible Nation
With unprecedented access to Taiwan’s sitting head of state, director Vanessa Hope investigates the election and tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan. Thorough, incisive and bristling with tension, Invisible Nation is a living account of Tsai’s tightrope walk as she balances the hopes and dreams of her nation between the colossal geopolitical forces of the U.S. and China. Hope’s restrained observational style captures Tsai at work seeking full international recognition of Taiwan’s right to exist. At a time when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated the ever-present threat of authoritarian aggression, the film brings punctual focus to Taiwan’s fight for autonomy and freedom from fear.
