MUMBAI: Citing concerns that festival organisers could use the occasion to assert Beijing‘s sovereignty over the self-ruled island, Taiwan pulled out eight films from the Shanghai Film Festival beginning today.

The Taipei Film Commission withdrew the works from the Shanghai International Film Festival after noticing that organizers of a recent TV festival in the same Chinese city identified TV series from Taiwan as originating in ‘Taiwan, China‘. 

The eight films that have been pulled off include Monga, Au Revoir Taipei, Hear Me, More Than Close, Orz Boys, Yang Yang, Three Times and Tonight Nobody Goes Home.