My New Friends(1995)

My New Friends Synopsis

Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.

My New Friends (1995) is a documentary and tv movie film directed by Tsai Ming-liang, released on January 1, 1995 with a runtime of 56m. It stars Tsai Ming-liang, Lee Kang-sheng and Pearlly Chua. Viewers rate it 5.5 out of 10 across 2 ratings.