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Closing ceremony of TIDF festival New Taipei. Photo by Filip Noubel, used with permission. Taipei hosted the 14th edition of the Taiwan Independent Documentary Festival (TIDF) this month, an event that showcases over 200 movies with a focus on Myanmar, Ukraine, and Taiwan’s own history of documentary filmmaking. The 2024 edition, which ran from May 10–19, presented close to 140 movies from Taiwan and from a variety of countries, from Madagascar to Ukraine, Mali, Palestine, Argentina, Paraguay, and many Asian countries. The festival held in Taipei has taken place every two years since 1998, tha...
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Image featuring Hung Shang-kai, a Taiwanese doctor returning from Gaza. Screenshot of video on Taiwan News Formosa TV's YouTube channel. Fair use. While Taiwan demonstrated official and societal support for Ukraine in the days following the full-scale invasion by Russia, reactions to Israel's war in Gaza have been and remain much more subdued. Most responses endorse the policies of the Israeli government, including within Taiwanese society. However, there are a few Taiwanese, mostly activists, who show support for Palestinians in general, and Gazans in particular. To unpack those narrative fro...
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Portrait of Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry. Photo by Joao Cardoso, used with permission. A pivot country located in the Sahel between North Africa and Central Africa, Chad is rarely discussed in the media as a literary territory. To remedy this gap, Global Voices interviewed the author Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry, one of the most visible representatives of French-speaking Chadian literature. Born in Moundou in southern Chad, Ndjékéry lives in Switzerland where he has devoted himself entirely to writing since April 2021?. To this day, he has published nine books, the two last being “Il n’y a pas d’arc-en-ciel...
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