of Young Cinema in Italy, where it won a Special Jury Prize in the International Feature Film Competition for Hou Hsiao-hsien. When it screened in January 1988 at the AFI Fest, The Washington Post wrote, "Hou Hsiao-hsien has the slickness that gives Daughter of the Nile the most East-West crossover appeal. In September 1988 it screened at both the Toronto Festival of Festivals and the New York Film Festival. After the NYFF screening, Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote the film "...is not about alienation as much as it is an example of it. It is an artifact from a revolution taking place elsewhere". When it aired at the Chicago International Film Festival in October, 1988, Lloyd Sachs of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote "slow and grudgingly revealing, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Daughter of the Nile" does not lend itself to easy description". In October 1999 the film was screened as part of a Hou Hsiao-hsien retrospective by New York's Anthology Film Archives. In October 2000 it was screened in a Taiwanese film retrospective at both the National Gallery of Art and the Freer Gallery. In April 2002 in screened at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema in Argentina, and in 2005 it screened at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece. In December 2006 it screened as part of a Hou Hsiao-hsien retrospective at the Canadian National Film Repository. Daughter of the Nile will have a dual format (Blu-ray and DVD) home video release in May 2017. Awards Daughter of the Nile won the special jury prize at the 1987 Turin International Festival of Young Cinema, and entered into the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival. Further reading Literary culture in Taiwan: martial law to market law by Sung-sheng Chang Senses of Cinema, "Hou Hsiou-hsien's Urban Female Youth Trilogy", by Daniel Kasman New Chinese cinemas: forms, identities, politics, by Nick Browne Envisioning Taiwan: fiction, cinema, and the nation in the cultural imaginary, by June Chun Yip References External links 1987 films 1987 drama films Films about siblings Films directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien Films set in Taiwan 1980s Mandarin-language films Films with screenplays by Chu T’ien-wen Taiwanese drama films