First of all, we want to apologize for having to miss the Asian Am Film Fest screening of the Taiwanese comedy on Tuesday -- we got sick. We're totally going to try and see it if it ever makes it back to the US in wide release!

Okay, onto Wednesday night's feature. Wednesday's documentary series at the Kabuki was loosely themed around remembering Taiwan (ben-shen edition). The crowd seemed a little older than the crowds we've been seeing -- and definitely more Taiwanese. A lot of well-heeled twenty-somethings out with their parents, some of whom were festooned with green hats and pins for the Taiwanese DPP Party (you know, the party of the guy who may or may not have faked his own attempted assassination and who's currently in the big fight with the mainland right now?)

The movies screened were two Taiwanese short docs, one about a man who makes paper airplanes and one about an opera troupe. The feature film, 62 Miles was directed by Bay Area filmmaker Anita Wen-shin Chang and is about her Taiwanese family. All three of the movies share a common theme of how Taiwanese history continues to affect the Taiwanese people today.

Misunderstandings, misconceptions, and misremembrances, all after the jump.

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