Another guest of this year's Ji.hlava will be the award-winning director, a leading representative of the Taiwanese New Wave, Tsai Ming-liang. Seven of his films, as well as a Masterclass, will be offered in the Tribute: Tsai Ming-liang section. The programme includes the classic Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), a cinephile farewell letter to Taipei cinema (Critics' Award at the Venice Film Festival), as well as the later Where (2022), which belongs to the director's famous “Walker” series of films, the hero of which is a Buddhist monk walking very slowly. Between slow cinema, conceptual art and performance, his films deal with themes of loneliness, time and memory. The Tsai Ming-liang retrospective was supported by the Ministry of Culture Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Prague.
