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Title:Alis's Dreams
Director Salone ISHAHAVUT
Year
2011 Genre Documentary short
Duration 64 min Nation Taiwan
Origin spec. Digi-Beta Subtitled in Traditional Chinese、English
Color Color
Award Records 2011 Kaouhsiung Film Festival
Issue about Diaspora, Immigration and Exile、Race and Ethnicity、Biography and Life History、Aborigines
Keyword 2011女性影展
Association
Year 2011 Theme 18th 2011 WMWFF
DVD
Activity classification Taiwan Best
Preserve spec. DVD

Film Status

Use in the association only
Copyright Infor. Salone ISHAHAVUT
E-mail: [email protected]
Introduction
The typhoon Moracot shattered the tribes in the mountains, damaged the road for transportation, and made the aboriginal people homeless because of the monstrous floods and landslides. After the catastrophe, farms became barren; the road damaged. Due to the weakly organized reconstruction plan of the government, they were forced to move into the prefabricated houses which are miles away from home.

The seventy-four-year- old Cina ALIS is one of the few Bunun natives who refused to move into the prefabricated houses which were provided by the insensitive charity organizations for free. As a matter of fact, the tribe of Cina ALIS and her native people has been evicted and replaced for six times by different authorities. They had moved for five times since 1939 under the Japanese reign, and their reluctant migration had started in the deep of the Central Mountains Range. Each time they moved, they settled down closely to the lower mountain zone. But this time Cina ALIS and her son won’t consent to the deal to live in “the land belonged to other people.” They currently had been living in a town near Hucida, and they hope they will be able to go home one day…
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