Taiwan selects “Hang In There Kids!” as foreign Oscars contenderSeptember 23, 2016 - 12:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Taiwan has selected “Hang In There Kids!” (aka “Lokah Laqi!”) as its contender in the Academy Awards foreign-language category. The announcement was made by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, according to Variety. The film, directed by Laha Mebow, is the story of a group of indigenous rural children who discover that their teacher (Albee Huang) has a fantastic singing voice. They decide to travel to Taipei to kickstart the teacher’s music career. The film played at the Taipei Film Festival earlier this year and collected five awards including best narrative feature, the grand prize and best director. It had it commercial release in Taiwan in March. Laha Mebow is from one of Taiwan’s 16 officially recognized tribes. Her first feature, 2011’s “Finding Sayun” was a period drama about a schoolgirl who was killed during Japan’s occupation of the island. Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Turkey extends military presence in Azerbaijan The Turkish parliament has adopted a bill submitted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan to extend the mandate of Turkish troops. Russia to begin assessing migrant workers' speaking skills Rosobrnadzor is planning to change the Russian language exam for migrant workers and include an assessment of speaking skills Armenian, Saudi Foreign Minister meet in Riyadh The two commended the positive dynamics of the development of political dialogue between Armenia and Saudi Arabia Pashinyan: Azerbaijan’s proximity shouldn’t worry border residents At the same time, he said that he “does not guarantee [the security of villagers] one hundred percent”. |