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Edward Yang, Taiwan

«I always wanted my films to be like letters, as sincere as possible, sent to absent friends». This is how Edward Yang saw his form of cinema. After starting out in television, he participated in the collective film In Our Time, a work that marked the birth of the Taiwanese New Wave in 1982. A spearhead of this movement, with his compatriots Hou Hsiao Hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, Edward Yang made films that were distinguished by their urban settings, through which he portrayed the development of …