Berlin feasts on Taiwan snacks

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Festival News

Three Asian films are among eleven features and four shorts screening in the 6th edition of Culinary Cinema (12-17 Feb) within the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.

The highlight is TSAO Jui-yuan 曹瑞原's Joyful Reunion 飲食男女　好遠又好近, producer HSU Li-kong 徐立功's long-mooted sequel to Ang LEE 李安's Eat Drink Man Woman 飲食男女 (1994).

Like Hsu's most recent production, Emily LIU 劉怡明's Great Wall My Love 追愛 (2011), it is a China-Taiwan co-production featuring China-Taiwan romances between different generations, including an elderly couple separated during the Civil War in the 1940s.

It stars Kenneth TSANG 曾江 as a Hangzhou-based chef, Rose KUEI 歸亞蕾 as his long-lost first love in Taipei and HUO Siyan 霍思燕 as his daughter, together with Blue LAN 藍正龍 and Joseph CHANG 張孝全.

The family drama is a co-production between Hsu's Taiwan-based Tang Moon International Productions Co Ltd 唐盟國際影視股份有限公司 and China's Beijing Taihe Universal Film Investment Co Ltd 北京太合環球影業投資有限公司.

It is scheduled to open in Taiwan on 23 March.

The two other Asian titles are Monika TREUT's documentary The Raw and the Cooked Das rohe und das gekochte (2011), a German-Taiwan co-production, and South Korean thriller Hindsight 푸른소금 (2011), in which a gang boss and his assassin meet over cooking lessons.

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