Watched as part of the Austin Asian American Film Festival's PRISMATIC TAIWAN, a 6-film retrospective series of Taiwanese queer cinema spanning from 1970 to 2016.

One of Taiwan's most widely-acclaimed documentaries, and the first such film to be selected as Taiwan's submission to the Academy Awards, Small Talk focuses on the director herself, Huang Hui-chen, and her mother, A-nu, who have had estranged relations for nearly four decades, despite having lived under the same roof.

This documentary proves the power…