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Taiwanese icon Mavis Fan returns to the movie screen with a stellar performance in The Horse, a poignant film about intimate spaces and nostalgia. As Jing starts packing and prepares to move, a stubborn brown horse unexpectedly appears in her apartment, stirring up a whirlpool of memories and emotions.
These seven superlative short films from emerging and established Asian and Asian diasporic filmmakers explore and reconfigure the relationship between humankind and animals.
Celine Kao is a strategic and highly motivated producer committed to developing projects with international perspectives that reflect contemporary social issues and care for humanity. In 2021, she helped develop the Taiwanese cult crime drama The Amazing Grace of Σ, which was selected at the Series Mania and had its Asia premiere at the Golden Horse Film Festival. From 2022, Celine has primarily worked on the feature film project The Horse, which was selected by Talents Tokyo, Golden Horse FPP, and Focus Asia 2024 in Udine. Based on the same motif, the short film of the same name premiered at the 2023 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and had its international premiere at the 2024 Osaka Asian Film Festival. Currently, she is also actively developing the popular Taiwanese immersive theater-adapted series The Great Tipsy: 1980s and Rocking Against the Tides, a Taiwanese independent music documentary.
