My New Friends
1995, Chinese. Directed by Tsai Ming-liang.
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.
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- 0h 56m
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- Language
- Chinese
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- Released
- 1 January 1995
- Original title
- 我新认识的朋友
- Country
- Taiwan
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My New Friends isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1995. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed My New Friends?
My New Friends (1995) was directed by Tsai Ming-liang and stars Tsai Ming-liang, Lee Kang-sheng, Pearlly Chua.