The Chinese Independent Film Foundation (CIFF) is a
not-for-profit screen culture organisation dedicated
to showcasing new and old art-house Chinese-language
cinema across Australia. Founded in Narrm/Melbourne,
CIFF works with collaborators across mainland China,
Hong Kong and Taiwan to present films that
rarely receive theatrical release locally.


TERRORIZERS
恐怖份子 (1986)  Directed by Edward Yang 楊德昌 (Taiwan) 
Program: Once Upon A Time In 華語 CinemaEdward Yang 楊德昌’s Terrorizers follows a group of loosely connected characters—a photographer, a novelist, a young delinquent, and a disillusioned couple—whose lives intersect through a prank call and a chain of coincidences. With calm, precise long takes and geometric compositions, Yang captures the quiet alienation of urban life and the subtle unraveling beneath its surface. Celebrated as a landmark of New Taiwan Cinema, the film explores how isolation and chance shape life in a rapidly modernising society. Its cool formalism and fragmented structure reveal Yang’s sharp insight into the social and emotional rhythms of the city.
February, 2026

Past event.
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CIFF acknowledges the Traditional Owners of
the unceded land on which we work and create,
the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong
peoples, and the wider Kulin Nations.