Impression Taiwan e.V. is a non-profit association established in 2019 by Germen and Taiwanese initiators in Berlin. The major concern of the association is to support creative initiative for cultural exchanges between Taiwan and Germany and to bring the diverse stories from Taiwan to the Berlin public.
Taiwan Echoes of Democracy | Taiwan Democracy and Social Movements Documentary Exhibition
Taiwan Echoes of Democracy | Taiwan Democracy and Social Movements Documentary Exhibition will take place in Berlin from 6 to 16 May 2026, bringing together a photography exhibition, film screenings, and public talks across Cineplex Alhambra, SINEMA TRANSTOPIA, and Culterim | Gesundbrunnen. Through images, film, and dialogue, the project revisits how Taiwan moved toward democracy through historical trauma, civic action, and the ongoing defence of freedom, while placing this experience in dialogue with Europe’s current public debates.
Programme
Photography exhibition
📅 7 - 16 May 2026
🕕 Monday–Saturday | 14:00–20:00
📍 Culterim Gesundbrunnen, Berlin
Featuring photographers including Hsieh San-Tai 謝三泰, Hsu Po-Hsin 許伯鑫, Huang Tzu-Ming 黃子明 and Pan Hsiao-Hsia 潘小俠, this exhibition brings together powerful images documenting Taiwan’s democratic movement from the 1980s onward. Shaped by 38 years and 56 days of martial law, these photographs reveal not only historic events, but the lived struggle for freedom, capturing resistance, memory, and collective will.
Panel Talks
📅 9 & 16 May 2026
🕕 14:00 –16:00
📍 Culterim Gesundbrunnen, Berlin
Film Screening
The film programme will unfold across SINEMA TRANSTOPIA and Cineplex Alhambra, bringing together A Foggy Tale, The Price of Democracy, The Accidental Politician, Eyes on Democracy, and A Chip Odyssey. While the opening film A Foggy Tale is a fiction feature, the other four documentaries approach Taiwan’s democratic experience and social transformation from multiple angles, including historical witness, grassroots activism, institutional politics, political economy, technology, and geopolitics. Eyes on Democracy will also be presented in a special version newly re-edited by the director for its Berlin screening.
A Foggy Tale 大濛
📅 6 May 2026
🕕 19:30
📍 Cineplex Alhambra, Berlin
The Price of Democracy 狂飆一夢
📅 7 May 2026
🕕 20:00
📍 Sinema Transtopia, Berlin
The Accidental Politician 民主，練習中
📅 8 May 2026
🕕 18:00
📍 Sinema Transtopia, Berlin
Eyes on Democracy 民主之眼
📅 9 May 2026
🕕 18:00
📍 Sinema Transtopia, Berlin
A Chip Odyssey 造山者
📅 15 May 2026
🕕 19:30
📍 Cineplex Alhambra, Berlin
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