SHOWWE, Taipei, 2024
Do you know that two films from both sides of the Taiwan Strait made history by winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in the same year?
Do you know that the first female director to ever win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar was from the Netherlands?
Do you know that the Western film genre and the timeless vampire movie both originated in Germany?
Do you know that French composer Camille Saint-Saëns began writing film scores as early as the 1910s?
Do you know that the first Turkish film to win an award at Cannes was completed by the director after he broke out of prison?
Do you know that the film named "best of all time" by global film critics was the masterpiece of a Belgian female director when she was just 25?
What other films have left an enduring legacy on the history of European cinema?
Follow the pages of this book, and let its stories unfold the secrets of cinema's past.