In the organizer's words:

On Sunday, January 11 at 11:00 a.m., we will be showing Edward Yang's "Yi Yi" for the last time - a central work of modern world cinema and a milestone of the Taiwanese New Wave.

In this precise chronicle of a middle-class family in Taipei, Yang creates a multi-layered web of generations, relationships and perspectives. Yi Yi is not a family drama in the classical sense, but a cinematic model of time: observation instead of escalation, duration instead of dramaturgy, openness instead of resolution. The characters move through urban spaces, offices, apartments and streets, while existential questions inscribe themselves in casual moments.

Formally, the film combines a strictly composed mise-en-scène with an extraordinary sensitivity for rhythm and emptiness. Reflections, framing and off-screen moments structure the view. The childlike attempt to make "the backsides of things" visible becomes a poetic and theoretical commentary on cinema itself: Seeing as a fragmentary, incomplete act.

Yi Yi was awarded the Director's Prize in Cannes in 2000 and is now regarded as Edward Yang's legacy - a film whose calmness, clarity and humanistic attitude point far beyond the time of its creation.

🗣 Original version (Mandarin) with German subtitles

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