Its purpose is to offer its audience a new approach to cinema; to promote a cinematographic culture made of a plurality of sights, styles and perspectives; and, most of all, to introduce attendees to a new sensory and intellectual experience Throughout the years, the Lucca Film Festival has dealt with the various contrasts of today’s cinema: Attendees to the LFF have included important directors, actors and international artists, like Kenneth Anger, Jonas Mekas, Tsai Ming-liang, Michael Snow, Paolo Taviani, , Lou Castel, Abel Ferrara, Philippe Garrel, György Pálfi, Antoni Padrós, Benedek Fliegauf, Peter Greenaway, John Boorman, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam, William Friedkin, George A. Romero, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Sorrentino.
Patrick Bokanowski (born 23 June 1943 in Algiers, French Algeria) is a French filmmalker who makes experimental and animated films.
Vive L'Amour is a 1994 Taiwanese New Wave film by Tsai Ming-liang.
 It is Tsai's second feature film and premiered in the 51st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Golden Lion.
 The film features striking images and sparse dialogue on urban alienation and loneliness, with three main characters unknowingly sharing an apartment in Taipei.
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Chinese: 黑眼圈 Hēi yǎn quān) is a 2006 Malaysian-Taiwanese romantic drama film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang.
 Lee Kang-sheng stars in a dual role as a brain-dead patient and as an injured homeless man.
 The film also stars Norman Atun and Chen Shiang-chyi.
Rebels of the Neon God () is a 1992 Taiwanese film by Tsai Ming-liang.
 It is his first full-length film.
 It tells two stories of Taipei youth.
 One details alienated buxiban student Hsiao Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) and his troubled interactions with his family.
 The other shows two petty hoods, Ah Tze and Ah Ping, along with Ah Kuei, Tze's erstwhile girlfriend.
 An idle act of violence brings the two groups into collision, and an act of revenge at the end completes the circle.
 It is a story of troubled youth, dissatisfaction, and the alienating effect of urban life.
Stray Dogs (, French: "Les Chiens errants" ) is a 2013 Taiwanese-French drama film.
 The Chinese title of the film is "Jiaoyou", which means "Excursion."
 It was written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang and starred Lee Kang-sheng.
Tsai Ming-liang () (born 27 October 1957) is a Taiwanese filmmaker.
 He has written and directed 10 feature films and has also directed many short films and television films.
 Tsai is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese cinema.
 His films have been acclaimed worldwide and have won numerous film festival awards.
 Tsai is considered to be an auteur.
The River is a 1997 Taiwanese film directed by Tsai Ming-liang and starring Lee Kang-sheng, Miao Tien, and Lu Yi-ching.
 The plot centers on a family who has to deal with the son's neck pain.
 In 2003, a critic called it Tsai's "bleakest film."
Journey to the West () is a 2014 French-Taiwanese film directed by Tsai Ming-liang.
 The title is inspired by the 16th century Chinese literary classic of the same name.
 It had its world premiere at the "Panorama" section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014.
 It is an entry in Tsai's "Walker series" of films.
Rafał Syska (born July 18, 1974 in Kielce) is a Polish film historian and writer.
 He is an associate professor in the Audiovisual Arts Department of Jagiellonian University in Cracow.
 At the beginning of his career he was specialized in the phenomenon of violence in cinema (Ph-D thesis "Film and Violence.
 Ways of Film Violence Representation"), then he focused on strategies of authorship in American cinema (post Ph-D., habilitation dissertation "Keep the Distance.
 Film World of Robert Altman").
 At present he is an expert of the contemporary minimalistic slow-cinema, especially its neomodernism tendencies (e.g. works of Alexander Sokurov, Béla Tarr, Bruno Dumont, Sarunas Bartas, Fred Kelemen, Tsai Ming-liang, Lisandro Alonso, Carlos Reygadas.

Question: Between the filmmakers, Tsai Ming-liang and Patrick Bokanowski, which is acclaimed worldwide and have won numerous film festival awards?
Answer: Tsai Ming-liang