Cannes, Annecy-Winning ‘Iron Boy’ Producer Eddy Cinema Backs Memory-Erasure Animation ‘Wilderness of the Greenriver’ at Taiwan Creative Content Fest

A man who has no memory of his past finds out that a patient is the sister he lost in “Wilderness of the Greenriver,” an animated feature from Barcelona-based Hong Kong director Ellis Kayin Chan that is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. The film is set in a world where technology […] Ellis Kayin Chan’s animated feature ‘Wilderness of the Greenriver,’ about a man with no memory of his past, at TCCF in Taipei. A man who has no memory of his past finds out that a patient is the sister he lost in “Wilderness of the Greenriver,” an animated feature from Barcelona-based Hong Kong director Ellis Kayin Chan that is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei.

The film is set in a world where technology lets people wipe out painful memories. When Arin learns that a patient named Zia is his sister, the discovery shakes what he believes and unlocks memories of a childhood he had forgotten. He has to decide whether to uphold the system or embrace his own humanity. The story is rooted in Chan’s own loss. He says the film grew from a simple conviction: “Pain is not the enemy of being human –