My New Friends
Brief Synopsis
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Coined as the first AIDS documentary to emerge from Taiwan, a survey which challenges social taboos around discretion and sexual disclosure through a telling interview with an HIV-positive young man. The interviewee, rendered anonymous through careful and imaginative camera angles reveals a culture
Cast & Crew
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Tsai Ming-liang
Director
Film Details
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
1995
Technical Specs
Duration
53m
Synopsis
Coined as the first AIDS documentary to emerge from Taiwan, a survey which challenges social taboos around discretion and sexual disclosure through a telling interview with an HIV-positive young man. The interviewee, rendered anonymous through careful and imaginative camera angles reveals a culture living in denial about the AIDS pandemic in Asia.
Director
Tsai Ming-liang
Director
Film Details
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
1995
Technical Specs
Duration
53m
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at Fifth Annual New York Video Festival July 26 - August 4, 1996.
Shown at New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival June 6-16, 1996.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival October 4-20, 1996.
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