A City of Sadness – 4K Restoration
with a Q&A after the screening
When
Sat 24 May 2025
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See the digitally restored 4K version of the classic Taiwanese film, first released in 1989.
A City of Sadness depicts a deaf-mute doctor whose family is caught up in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
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