Taiwanese director Huang Hui-chen's film Small Talk was selected as Taiwan's entry into the Best Foreign Language Film category for the Oscars. This was the first time that Taiwan had entered a documentary into this category.
This film is about the relationship between a mother and a daughter. The daughter knows that her mother is a lesbian who only got married because of social pressure. The mother ends up in a bad domestic violence situation and is very silent a lot of the time. Eventually, the mother and the daughter start to communicate with each other over meals.
