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2007|113 min|Color|Narrative Feature|Mandarin & Taiwanese | Subtitles: English
A recording engineer who just broke up with his girlfriend travels to fulfill their dream of recording the sound of Formosa. A girl trapped in her office works receives packages which are not sent to her and sets foot on a new journey. A psychologist who is able to point out the cruelest truth to help his patients realizes that he himself is the one who needed help.
The three characters, with their own purpose, arrive at the east coast of Taiwan, looking for chances and changes for their lives. Parallel narrations follow the three characters through their isolation. Isolation nonetheless is not branded as something negative, but instead constitutes a space for the characters's elf-reflection and painful discovery of who they are.
In contrast with other films that observe their characters’ process of self-recognition, The Most Distant Course avoids perfunctory or simplistic solutions.
2017|90 min|Color|Narrative Feature|Mandarin|
2017 Taipei Film Awards - Best Supporting Actress
2017 Kaohsiung Film Festival - Trans-Border Taiwan
HAN Shuen-Yun, a 60-year-old woman, retires from an administrative position at a university. Unmarried, she lives with her mother in an old hillside community that is facing relocation. As both her siblings are married and have emigrated to the US, HAN takes on the responsibility of caring for her mother, making her susceptible to her mother’s emotional blackmail. They torture each other, yet they need each other. HAN should have started a new chapter in life like other retirees, but she is stuck in a toxic loop that sees no end.
Set against Taiwan’s aging society, family moral drama Cloudy (2017) is told from a female perspective and revolves around two women who have devoted their whole life to their family. Shuen-Yun and her mother’s way of life truthfully reflect the style of living of Mainland immigrants and baby boomers, and family relationships in Chinese society. Images are subtle and realistic. As the two women’s lives unfold in detail, the suffocating air between mother and daughter thickens, leading to a story that is not only heartbreaking but heartwarming.
Director|WANG Ming-Tai
Born in 1966, WANG graduated from the National Institute of the Arts and became an assistant director for veteran filmmakers TSAI Ming-Liang and CHEN Yu-Hsun. His first feature film Brave 20 (2002) received nominations at the Three Continents Festival, while Fall in Love (2005) was nominated at the Venice Film Festival.
2018 | 26 min | Color | Narrative Short| Mandarin & Taiwanese| Subtitles :English
A-Mian, a middle-aged woman, has been living alone for years since her husband and daughter are always away from home. After finding out about her husband's affair, she starts to search for a new focus in life. To do so, she comes to a ping pong club in a basement to meet her old school pal who looks much younger than her.
To her surprise, the moms at the club are full of unbelievable energy and always seem to have a light mood. An unlucky accident changes A-Mian's body dramatically, which might give her a way to make her daughter stay with her forever. This time she is determined to find the perpetual happiness.
2019 | 90 min | Color | Narrative Feature| Mandarin| Subtitles :English
Thirty years old and 105 kilograms of weight, lunch lady Ying-Juan was dealt a bad hand. She works at her mother's childcare center and has a harder time fitting in than a T-Rex in a petting zoo. On her birthday, Ying-Juan's mother signs her up for a weight loss program. To earn her mom's approval, Ying-Juan reluctantly joins the class. But things change when Ying-Juan meets Wu, a deliveryman who bears a checkered past underneath his radiant smile.
Encouraged by Wu, Ying-Juan becomes more determined to lose weight. Meanwhile, Ying-Juan discovers Xiao-Yu, a straight-A student at the childcare center, is secretly transgender, and a special bond begins to form between them. Just when things are getting on the right track, Ying-Juan's passion for cooking and life seem to be fading away due to her overaggressive diet. Bitterly, Ying-Juan finds herself standing on the brink of a meltdown, both physically and psychologically.
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