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Taipei, Jan. 22 (CNA) "Greatest Works of Art" (最偉大的作品), the first album by Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou (周杰倫) in six years, remained popular in the market.

The audience finds out in the opening scene of Phil’s Journey (費爾的旅程) that protagonist Phil Tchernegovski never finds his son. Reuben went missing in 1998 while hiking in the Alishan area, and his father’s ordeal searching for him received much public and media attention. So why make a documentary about it now? Why bring up old trauma if there haven’t been any further developments over the past two decades? It turns out that as painful as losing a child is, Phil’s time here was quite cathartic and soul-changing as he received an outpouring of local support and made numerous ...

An award-winning documentary that retraces the footsteps of a man from New Zealand who searched for his missing son in Taiwan officially opened in theaters across Taiwan on Friday. Phil’s Journey by Taiwanese director Chen Yeong-rury (陳勇瑞) chronicles the experiences of New Zealand sculptor Phil Tchernegovski, who lost contact with his son Reuben in 1998 after the son disappeared during a solo backpacking trip in the Alishan (阿里山) area. It retraces the steps the father took to find his son on six trips to Taiwan between 1998 and 2002, and the affinity he developed for Taiwan and i...

Taipei, May 27 (CNA) An award-winning documentary that retraces the footsteps of a man from New Zealand who searched for his missing son in Taiwan officially opened in theaters across Taiwan on Friday.