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NEW TITLE BUSAN MARKET SCREENING

Oct. 8 (Mon) 17:30

@ Lotte Cinema Centum City 10

THE ROPE CURSE

(粽邪)

Director

Shih-Han LIAO

Cast

Kimi HSIA, Jason TSOU, Po-Cheng CHEN, Ke-Fang SUN, Fox LEE

2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Big Screen Competition / Voices

"The Rope Ritual" is a thousand years of tradition, still exists along the coastline of Taiwan. People

believe that after people committed suicide by hanging themselves, a curse resides on the rope.

The ritual would be performed to burn the rope in order to alleviate the Rope Curse and hence called "The Rope Ritual".

Jia-wei makes money on the side via live broadcasting of bizarre events. When Jia-wei is live streaming the process of the Rope Ritual, they found themselves to an unknown and unspeakable horror,

which is further implicated by the involvement of his girlfriend, Shu-yi. With the events unfolded and becoming more dangerous, Shu-yi’s long buried secret gradually revealed from a decade ago.

Can Jia-wei unravel what is truly Shu-yi’s secret, and hold back evil unleashed by "The Rope Curse"?

Taiwan | 2018 | Horror, Drama | Color | DCP | 106 min | Completed

Taiwan Release Date : Aug. 31, 2018

NEW TITLE BUSAN FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

Oct. 6 (Sat) 15:00 Oct. 10 (Wed) 19:30 Oct. 12 (Fri) 10:00

@ CGV Centum City 5 (World Premiere) @ CGV Centum City 2 @ CGV Centum City 1

BUSAN MARKET SCREENING

Oct. 7 (Sun) 18:00

@ Lotte Cinema Centum City 7

THE SCOUNDRELS

(狂徒)

Director

Tzu-Hsuan HUNG

Cast

Kang-Ren WU, JC LIN, Hsin-Ying HSIEH, Nana LEE, Jack KAO, Frederick LEE

2018 Busan International Film Festival - A Window on Asian Cinema

Rui, once a famous basketball player, faces his downfall and works as a street-parking fee collector, who also accepts jobs from a car theft gang.

One night, a robber hijacks Rui when he accidentally spots a seriously injured woman in the vehicle.

Now the police and the public see Rui as the suspect of the bank robbery, and the girl who could clear his name remains unconscious. How can Rui get himself out of this quagmire?

Taiwan | 2018 | Action, Crime | Color | DCP | 105 min | Completed

Taiwan Release Date : Oct. 26, 2018

NEW TITLE

FATHER TO SON

(范保德)

Director

HSIAO Ya-Chuan

Cast

Michael JQ HUANG, CHUANG Kai-Hsun, Aria WANG, LU Hsueh-Feng

2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Big Screen Competition / Voices 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival - Official Selection 2018 Taipei Film Awards - Best Director / Art Design / Music / Opening Film 2018 "Pacific Meridian" Vladivostok International Film Festival - Competition 2018 Film Fest Gent - Official Selection 2018 Montreal World Film Festival - Chinese Film Festival 2018 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival - Competition 2018 Titanic Budapest International Film Festival - Asian Winds

Van Pao-Te, who is now 60 years old, finds himself suffering from a serious illness, instead of getting

treatment, he decides to go to Japan to look for his father who abandoned him 50 years ago with the accompany of his son. At the same time, a young man from Hong Kong who is somehow related to Van Pao-Te’s past comes to Taiwan. Two unknown journeys of self-reconciliation begin…

Taiwan | 2018 | Drama | Color | DCP | 115 min | Completed

Taiwan Release Date: Aug. 17, 2018

NEW TITLE

ON HAPPINESS ROAD Director

SUNG Hsin-Yin

Voice cast

GWEI Lun-Mei, WEI Te-Sheng

(幸福路上)

2018 Tokyo Anime Award Festival - Grand Prize

2018 Annecy International Animation Film Festival - Official Selection 2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival – Competition

2018 Taipei Film Festival – Grand Prize / Best Animation / Audience Choice Award 2018 Seoul International Animation Film Festival – Grand Prize 2017 Busan International Film Festival - Wide Angle Section

2018 Melbourne International Film Festival – Official Selection 2017 Golden Horse Film Festival - Closing Film

2018 Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film - Competition

Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her

childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness?

54th Golden Horse Film Festival CLOSING FILM

GRAND PRIZE

Taiwan | 2017 | Animation | Color | DCP | 111 min | Completed

Taiwan Release Date : Jan. 5, 2018

25th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film COMPETITION

NEW TITLE - 2017

THE VILLAGE OF NO RETURN Director

CHEN Yu-Hsun

Cast

SHU Qi, WANG Qianyuan, CHANG Hsiao-Chuan,

(健忘村)

LIN Mei-Hsiu, Yo YANG, Eric TSANG 2017 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival - NETPAC Award 2017 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival - Official Selection 2017 New York Asian Film Festival - Official Selection 2017 East Winds Film Festival - Closing Film

Once upon a time, in a remote and isolated Desire Village in China, the villagers were caught up in the everyday conflicts and complicated relationships, unaware of Squire Shih’s conspiracy to wipe

out the whole village. One day, a mysterious Taoist priest suddenly dropped in, bringing along a magical

equipment that can erase one’s memory. Since then, all the villagers had forgotten their turbulent past, living on with total different identities. None of them was aware of their false happiness and the fact that they had been involved in a far more dangerous intrigue…

21st Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival NETPAC AWARD

2017 East Winds Film Festival CLOSING FILM

Taiwan, China | 2017 | Martial Arts, Comedy | Color | DCP | 116 min | Completed

Taiwan Release Date: Jan. 26, 2017

Mainland China Release Date: Jan. 28, 2017

NEW TITLE - 2016

WHITE ANT Director Cast

(白蟻)

CHU Hsien-Che WU Kang-Jen, Aviis ZHONG, YU Tai-Yan

2016 Busan International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Award 2016 Singapore International Film Festival - Silver Screen Awards Competition 2017 Hong Kong International Film Festival - Indie Power

Seemingly an ordinary youth from the outside, White Ant is in fact an underwear fetishist who cannot hold back from sneaking out and stealing female lingerie. One day, he receives a DVD containing footage of him stealing female underwear, shattering both his life and sense. While his fear of exposure

eventually leads him to inevitable doom, it turns out that people around him also suffer from their dark side, which is like a gnawing "White Ant" within, and the turning point of their intertwined fate has secretly approached…

FIPRESCI AWARD

Taiwan | 2016 | Drama | Color | DCP | 95 min | Completed

Taiwan Release Date: Mar. 17, 2017

NEW TITLE - 2016

RIPPLES APART

(逐風少年)

HU Mei-Fang, Mark FORD

Director

A documentary shot over ten years, to show what it takes to become the first Taiwanese Olympic windsurfer!

Ripples Apart is the story of windsurfer Chang Hao, who grew up in the Mountains of Nantou, the only region in Taiwan with no coast. Chang and his Australian coach, Alex Mowday, share a unique and rare bond, two athletes separated by years of age and very different cultures, but who hunt the same Olympic dream. The road to the Olympics is long and difficult. Alex and Chang Hao must

beat the odds to qualify, training on the small island of Penghu, off the coast of Taiwan, battling the wind and waves and searching for perfection in the sport of their dreams.

2017 Taipei Film Awards Documentary Competition Nomination

Taiwan | 2016 | Documentary| Color | DCP | 95 min | Completed

FORÊT DEBUSSY Director Cast

(德布西森林)

KUO Cheng-Chui GWEI Lun-Mei, LU Yi-Ching

2016 Hawaii IFF Halekulani Golden Orchid Award - Best Narrative Feature Nomination 2016 International Film Festival & Awards Macao - Official Selection 2017 Beijing International Film Festival - Official Selection

Deep in the barren mountains, a mother and a daughter live an isolated quiet life.

The Daughter looks lean and fragile. She seems unreactive toward her surroundings, confining herself in her own wretched world. The Mother is like a guardian angel who always protects her and takes

care of everything. Before living in seclusion, The Daughter was a pianist who lost her husband

and son. The Mother decided to take her away and hid her in the mountains where no one could ever find them, believing it is the only possible way for her daughter to survive, Nevertheless, they have to face nothing but themselves ever since, as well as to confront the endless forest…

20 16

1st International Film Festival & Awards Macao OFFICAL SELECTION

36th Hawaii International Film Festival Halekulani Golden Orchid Award NOMINATION

Taiwan | 2016 | Drama | Color | DCP | 94 min | Completed

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LE MOULIN Director

THE TAG-ALONG

(日曜日式散步者)

HUANG Ya-Li

Director Cast

CPH:DOX, 2015 - International main competition for DOX:AWARD

CHENG W River HUA Yumi WON

2016 Golden Horse Awards - Best Documentary Award International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016 - Bright Future Section

The highest-grossing locally prod financed Taiwanese horror of all t

It was when Taiwan was in a stable period of cultural assimilation during

Wei’s grandma suddenly disappear

modern art group – Le Moulin Poetry Society – arose in the 1930s, with

their house is well-arranged as us

the past forty years of Japanese colonial rule that the country's first their poetic protest against the colonial power's cultural superiority.

The name reflected the group's orientation towards the West while especially strongly influenced by France. Regarding the Surrealists as

their absolute role models, Le Moulin poets composed poetry in an uncompromising and aesthetically sophisticated style to confront the turbulent era they lived in.

Le Moulin not only tries to record a historical period that paved the way

for a new freedom and self-awareness, but also to explore how Asian

Modernist writers reinvent Modernism through encountering foreign

routines still move on as if she never

prepared for Wei every morning. D

clueless until he finds an uncanny

showing that there was a little girl in r after Wei’s grandma finally returns, it

Struggling to unravel the enigma,

discovers that the mysteries behin

disappearance may be connected to

in Red”, but what’s even worse is y

culture and their contemplation upon identities.

rd Horse Awards 53Golden

Best Documentary Award

2016 Taipei Film Awards BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD

BAFICI AVANT - GRANDE & GENRE COMPETITION

17th Jeonju International Film Festival WORLD CINEMAPSCAPE: SPECTURM

2016 Taipei Film Awards AWARD FOR SOUND DESIGN

Taiwan | 2015 | Documentary | Color / B&W | DCP | 162 min | Completed

2016 Taipei Film Awards BEST ACTOR AWARD & BEST ACTRESS AWARD

Udine Far East FIlm Fes COMPETITIO

32nd Imagine Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION

Taiwan | 2015 | Horror, Thriller | C

G

(紅衣小女孩)

THE LAST WOMEN STANDING (剩者為王)

Wei-Hao ANG, HSU Wei-Ning, NG

duced and time.

Director Cast

Luo Luo SHU Qi, Eddie PENG Yuyan

Romantic comedy starring top-grossing stars SHU Qi and Eddie PENG Yuyan.

rs for no reason, but strangely the

Sheng Ruxi, a white collar woman in her 30s, leads a successful career

sual, and even breakfast remains

are extremely anxious about. However, things change when she meets

r vanished-- the laundry is still done,

Distraught with worry, Wei is totally

y video in his grandma’s camera,

red tagging along her. Oddly enough,

turns out that Wei is missing instead.

Wei’s girlfriend Yi-Chun gradually

while having no love life, which is the issue that her parents and friends her new colleague Ma Sai, a 25 year-old young man who is considerate and attractive. Sheng Ruxi can’t help but waver from her original

perspective because of the unexpected sparks of romance between them, reconsidering about every aspect of her life.

nd Wei and his grandma’s sudden

o the urban legend of “The Little Girl

yet to come……

stival ON

34th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION

Color | DCP | 93 min | Completed

24th Art Film Fest Eastern Promises

China, Hong Kong | 2015 | Romantic Comedy | Color | DCP | 98 min | Completed

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A FOOL Director Cast

ZINNIA FLOWER

(一個勺子) CHEN Jianbin CHEN Jianbin, JIANG Qinqin, WANG Xuebing, JIN Shijia

Director Cast

Tom Shu-Y Karena LA

2014 Golden Horse Awards - Best New Director Award 2014 Golden Horse Awards - Best Leading Actor Award (CHEN Jianbin) 2015 New York Asian Film Festival - Opening Film

2015 Tallinn Black Nights Film Fes 2015 Golden Horse Awards - Bes 2016 CinemAsia Film Festival - Tig

Latiaozi was a farmer who made a living by shepherding with his wife

On the same day, in the same acc

Li Datou, to help release their son. Li takes the money, but there is no

Buddhist rituals give 100 days to mo

Jinzhizi. Their only son gets imprisoned and they bribe a local big shot, sight of his son. Attempting to argue with Li and get his money back,

Latiaozi goes into town to find Li. Being brushed off, Latiaozi doesn’t

get to see Li but meets a lost young man on the street. Out of sympathy, Latiaozi takes him home. Trying to help the young man reunite with his family turns to be the worst nightmare for Latiaozi…

st Horse Awards 51Golden

Best Leading Actor Award

st Horse Awards 51Golden

Best New Director Award

9th Taiwan International Documentary Festival Audience Choice Award

China | 2014 | Drama/Comedy| Color/Flat | DCP | 95 min | Completed

and Ming loses her fiancée, leaving th

lost in a labyrinth, Wei runs around in

up where he began. Ming calmly creep

moving forward, but towards a fat

choose to mourn, the pain and sorr

day approaching, they wonder if the

nd Horse Awards 52Golden

Best Leading Actress

Taiwan | 2015 | Drama | Colo

(百日告別)

THE LAUNDRYMAN

(青田街一號)

Yu LIN AM, STONE

Director Cast

stival - Special Mention st Leading Actress Award ger Beer Jury Award

2015 Festival del film Locarno - Piazza Grande 2015 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival - Competition

cident, Wei loses his pregnant wife

A laundry shop secretly provides the service other than doing laundry.

ourn for the dead, and like two mice

in the disguise of laundry service. One of these professionals, “No.1,

heir world with nothing but emptiness.

n circles, hitting walls, and still ends

ps down a determined path, seemingly

tal dead end. No matter how they

row is all the same. With the 100th

ey will ever be able to say goodbye.

or | DCP | 95 min | Completed

LEE Chung CHANG Hsiao-Chuan, WAN Qian, SUI Tang, YEO Yann Yann

The beautiful shop owner A-Gu enlists a group of contract killers for hire

Chingtian Street”, is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. He seeks the help from Lin Hsiang, a psychic introduced by A-Gu. It turns out

Lin Hsiang is the only one that can also see the ghosts troubling “No.1, Chingtian Street.” She tries to help him get rid of the ghosts, but the

laundry shop hides secrets more than she bargains for. And what “No.1,

Chingtian Street” runs from is not the ghosts of others but the ghosts from his past.

38th Warsaw Film Festival COMPETITION

BAFICI AVANT - GRARDE & GENRE COMPETITION

51th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Midnight Screesinss

Taiwan | 2015 | Black Comedy | Color | DCP | 112 min | Completed

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FLOWERS OF TAIPEI: TAIWAN NEW CINEMA Director

(光陰的故事-台灣新電影)

HSIEH Chin-Lin

PARADISE IN SE Director Cast

Doze, NIU Ethan JUA CHEN Jian

2014 Venice International Film Festival - Venice Classics 2014 Busan International Film Festival - Wide Angle Section 2015 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Signals:Regained section

2014 Busan International Film Fes 2015 Berlin International Film Fes

In 1982, Taiwan is still under severe martial law, a small group of filmmakers

Set in the island Kinmen, often seen a

Asian cinema in the process. Taiwan New Cinema not only inaugurated

the adventure of a boy who serves h

set out on a daring journey to discover their own identity, reinventing

modern cinema in the Chinese world, it also secured a global place in

contemporary filmmaking. Flowers of Taipei is about the vision, talent and impact made on contemporary cinema by Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao

Hsien and their peers. On a journey from Taipei to different cities around the world, a remarkable list of filmmakers, critics and artists, including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Olivier Assayas, Marco Müller, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Jia Zhangke, Tian Zhuangzhaung, Wang Bing and Ai

Weiwei, tell us what this cinema means to them, how it influenced their work, and what is left of that legacy today.

because it’s geographically close to

1969 to 1972, in preparation for a w

Through an unlucky lottery draw res

man from Southern Taiwan has to s

perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is a

a unit noted for the toughest physic

however, that the greatest challenge

Sea Dragon but in Unit 831, a spec

In this peculiar assignment, Pao vo odds.

51st

38th Sao Paulo International Film Festival Official Selection

44th International Film Festival Rotterdam Signals: Regained section

38th Göteborg International Film Festival Classics

Taiwan | 2014 | Documentary| Color | DCP | 109 min | Completed

Golden Horse Awards

Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting actress

69th Edinburgh International Film Festival Directors’ Showcase section

69th Edinburgh International Film Festiva Competition

Taiwan | 2014 | War/Action/Drama/Rom

ERVICE

(軍中樂園)

U Chen-Zer AN, WAN Qian, n Bin, CHEN Yi-Han

THE WALKERS

(行者)

Singing CHEN

Director

stival - Opening Film stival - Panorama selection

2014 Golden Horse Awards - Best Documentary Nominee 2015 Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan - Special Prize

as the most dangerous military base

Filmed for over 10 years, this epic documentary presents the story of

his military service in Unit 831 from

Dance Theatre. Extracting the essential details of Lin’s daily life, the

o China, Paradise in Service follows

war that could erupt anytime.

sult, Pao, a twenty-something young

serve the military in the remote and

assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB),

renowned Taiwanese choreographer Lin Lee-Chen and her Legend Lin film explores the origins of her dance, contemplates the poetic and

ritualistic movements she creates, and delineates her lifetime pursuit of aesthetic concerns.

cal training. It never occurs to Pao,

e in his military service lies not in the

cial task he is later appointed to…

ows to keep his virginity against all

Official Selection

9th Taiwan International Documentary Festival Audience Choice Award

al

mance| Color | HD | 133 min | Completed

Taiwan | 2015 | Documentary| Color/Flat | DCP | 123 min | Completed

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BLACK AND WHITE: THE DAWN OF ASSAULT Director Cast

(痞子英雄首部曲：全面開戰)

TSAI Yueh-hsun LIN Gengxin, Mark CHAO, HUANG Bo, Angelababy (Ying YANG)

BLACK AND WHI

THE DAWN OF JUSTICE Director Cast

TSAI Yueh Mark CHA

Adapted from the highly popular and award winning TV series “Black & White”

USD 15M production with top-no

A fearless junior policeman who can only see right and wrong is willing

Police officer Wu, a hero in Harbor C

death above anything else is struggling to stay out of serious trouble,

peace is only temporary. Panic spr

to do anything to uncover the truth. Meanwhile a gangster, who fears

his risky decisions have left his life at threat. Two people with completely

different perspectives on life come together as partners in a way no

one could ever imagine. Somehow, the fate of the world ends up in their hands, they have 36 hours to resolve a crisis which could destroy Harbor City.

attack, has been keeping the city

explosions take place within hours of

of the horror. Wu is paired with the a out who is behind the explosions.

shocking discoveries that more is to

break out which threatens the exis

men with completely different perso the situation?

19th Fantasia Film Festival Official Selection

Taiwan | 2012 | Action/Comedy | Color/Scope | DCP | 142 min | Completed

15th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festiv Official Selection

Taiwan | 2014 | Action/Police/Comedy |

ITE:

E 3D

SWEET ALIBIS (痞子英雄：黎明再起 3D)

h-hsun AO, LIN Gengxin, HUANG Bo

otch international crew

(甜蜜殺機)

LIEN Yi-Chi Alex SU, Ariel LIN, Matt WU

Director Cast

2014 Udine Far East Film - Competition A tale of murder, greed, revenge, love and chocolate!

City ever since he stopped a terrorist

Chi-yi is a veteran cop, who values his own safety more than anything

reads across the city as a series of

work. Yi-ping, on the other hand, is just graduated from the police academy

y safe, unfortunately however, the

f each other, this is just the beginning

arrogant but intelligent Chen to figure It doesn’t take them long to make

o come, with a deadly virus about to

stence of humanity how will the two

onalities team up and try to reverse

else and is therefore infamous for his cowardice and poor efficiency at and is more than ready to prove herself regardless of any risks. Daughter

of the head of the National Policy Agency, Yi-ping is secretly kept away

from danger by being appointed to team up with Chi-yi. Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy’s accidental death, from eating chocolate, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly dig up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.

A police rom-com with fully-fledged fantasy is sure to blow your mind!

val

34th Hawaii International Film Festival Gala Presentation

Color/Scope | DCP126 min | Completed

17th Udine Far East Film COMPETITION

Taiwan | 2014 | Comedy/Suspense | Color/Scope | DCP | 112 min | Completed

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THE RICE BOMBER Director Cast

(白米炸彈客)

CHO Li HUANG Chien-wei, Nikki HSIEH, Michael CHANG

2014 Berlin International Film Festival - Panorama selection

MEETING DR. SU Director Cast

YEE Chih-Y ZHAN Hua

Directed, written, and produced award winning filmmaker of Blue

Ru grew up when all the rice people enjoyed in Taiwan was home grown

Lefty sees himself as the poorest hig

increased its imported quantity and variety of agricultural products,

in the school storage room. Lefty

in farmlands across the country. Over time the Taiwanese government

eventually leading to acres of abandoned farmlands which turned into industrial landfills, leaving hard-working Taiwanese people without income.

Ru feels obligated to speak out for the farmers, he approaches several

government sectors in search of more support for local farmers, but all

some money, he plans to steal the

Sky coming. Sky also considers himse in Taipei. He has the same plan in

his own sake, but he also never see

in vain. Finally, he decides to voice up for the farmers in his own way,

When two teams of Taipei’s poorest h

agricultural issues, hoping they can take these problems seriously.

makes both Lefty and Sky question

through 17 self-made “rice bombs” reminding the government about

one night, a war erupts. This is a w class. "Not the statue but something

Finally this time on the quiet night cam

planted by Dr. Sun decades ago ma 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival Official Selection

7th Elles Tournent Women’s Festival Official Selection

nd Horse Awards 51Golden

Best Original Screenplay Award

41st Seattle International Film Festival Official Selection

Taiwan | 2014 | Drama| Color/Scope | DCP | 118 min | Completed

Osaka Asian Film Festiva Best Picture Award Audience Award 17th Udine Far East Film Official Selection

Taiwan | 2014 | Drama/Comedy | Co

UN

(行動代號：孫中山)

-Yen ai-Yun, WEI Han-Ting

d by YEE Chih-Yen, e Gate Crossing.

ZONE PRO SITE:

THE MOVEABLE FEAST Director Cast

(總舖師：移動大廚)

CHEN Yu-Hsun LIN Mei-Hsiu, YO Yang, KIMI Hsia

2014 Berlin International Film Festival - Culinary Cinema 2014 Taipei Film Awards - Best Art Direction Award & Best Supporting Actress Award

gh school student in Taipei. To make

More than twenty years ago, there were three Ban-doh (outdoor banquet)

plots, but he never sees his rival,

known as Master Silly Mortal, Master Ghost Head and Master Fly Spirit.

abandoned Dr. Sun Yat-Sen statue

elf as the poorest high school student mind to steal Dr. Sun Yat-Sen for

es Lefty coming.

high school students meet on campus

war of losers and a war eventually

n their destined poverty and social

more substantial we have to claim."

master chefs who dominated the catering business in Taiwan. They were However, the outdoor banquet business has been in decline since Taiwan’s economic take-off, and even the master chefs feel helpless to turn the

tide. Master Fly Spirit wants to pass the family recipes and culinary skills on to his only child, Wan, but she desperately wants to run away

from the family business and to become a fashion model. Nevertheless,

fate proves that Wan is destined to take up the challenge and mission she once shunned …

mpus the seeds of revolution

ay get to sprout.

64th Berlin International Film Festival CULINARY CINEMA

14th New York Asian Film Festival Official Selection 25th Singapore International Film Festival Official Selection

olor/Flat | DCP | 94 min | Completed

28th Washington, DC International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION

13th New York Asian Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION

33th Hawaii International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION

Taiwan | 2013 | Comedy | Color/Scope | DCP | 145 min | Completed

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STEP BACK TO GLORY Director Cast

(志氣)

CHANG Po-Jui KUO Shu-Yau, CHUANG Kai-Hsun

2012 Golden Horse Awards - Best New Performer Award Chun-Ying comes from the countryside. As Chu-Ying’s brilliant performance

in sport wins her a place in a prestigious girls’ high school in Taipei,

she leaves home to study in Taipei on her own. Chun-Ying’s story is familiar to her tug-of-war teammates since most of them come from single-parent

WHEN A WOLF F LOVE WITH A SH Director Cast

HOU Chi-J KO Kai, C KOU Shu-

2013 Taipei Film Festival - Best Te 2013 Fantasia International Film F

families or disadvantaged backgrounds. Nonetheless, these girls are

Tung is left heartbroken by his first l

makes them even more determined to achieve their goal, and staunch

as a photocopier of exam papers, on

is admitted to the school, she knows nothing about tug-of-war.

One afternoon Tung draws a Wolf nex

encouraging Ms Wu, the girls take on the physical challenge, the frustration

prompting an enthusiastic reaction

In the end, their sweat and tears pay off when they win the gold medal

view on love. Still confused about lo

positive and optimistic. The lack of economic support from their families

hoping one day he’ll bump into his

camaraderie is established between them as a result. When Chun-Ying

to appear on the back of some pap

However, trained strictly by Coach Kuo and supported by the tender and

comment as a private joke, but the

and the prejudice against sport from other students and some teachers.

appear on the papers, joining in the

at the World Indoor Tug-of-war Championship. They have shown their

to his first love and move on?

strength and spirit to the whole world.

50Golden Horse Awards nd

Best New Performer Award

22nd Heartland Film Festival (USA) OFFICIAL SELECTION

Taiwan | 2013 | Drama/Sport | Color/Scope | DCP | 124 min | Completed

15th Taipei Film Awards BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

18th Fantasia International Film Fe BEST DIRECTOR

Taiwan | 2012 | Comedy/Romance | C

FALLS IN HEEP

(南方小羊牧場)

Jan CHIEN Man-Shu, -Yau

Technical Achievements Festival - Best Director

love so he moves to Nanyang street

s ex-girlfriend. Tung begins working

ne day he notices a sheep continuing

pers, they’re the creation of Yang.

xt to the sheep and writes a humorous

e papers are sent back by accident,

n from the students. More animals

e conversation and changing Tungs’

ove, can Tung say his final goodbye

ROCK ME TO THE MOON (一首搖滾上月球)

HUANG Chia-Chun

Director

2013 Golden Horse Awards - Best Original Song Award 2013 Taipei Film Awards - Audience Choice Award When a child is born with rare diseases, it is usually the father that

abandons the family. But not the six dads in this film - Wu, Yung, Cheng,

Li, Pan and Ouyang. Coming from different backgrounds, they do their

best to care for their children while making a living to support the whole family. T hese dads certainly need an outlet for the pressure on their mind.

They turn to music and form a rock band called “Sleepy Dads,” implying they have long been sleep-deprived for attending to their kids. With an

average age of 52, they aim to hit the stage of the highly competitive

Sea Music Festival. For this over-aged amateur band, it is as difficult as Apollo missions to the moon. Nonetheless, these fathers show no fear because they already lead their daily life on the edge.

With incurable rare diseases, their children’s premature demise is inevitable and unpredictable. Such realization drives these fathers to live life to

the fullest with their children while they can. There is nothing these fathers cannot conquer because their children’s happiness is their greatest mission of all.

estival R

Color/Scope | DCP | 85 min | Completed

nd Horse Awards 50Golden

Best Original Song Award

15th Taipei Film Awards AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

8th Fünf Seen Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION

Taiwan | 2013 | Documentary/Flat | Color | DCP | 115 min | Completed

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TAIPEI EXCHANGES

(第三十六個故事) Director Cast

HSIAO Ya-Chuan GWEI Lun-Mei, LIN Zaizai

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Director Cast

HSIAO YaLEE JiunnEra WANG

2010 Golden Horse Awards - Best Original Song Award 2013 Taipei Film Awards - Audience Choice Award 2013 Taipei Film Awards - Best Music Award

2001 Cannes International Film Fe 2001 Torino Film Festival - Best F 2001 Thessaloniki International Fi Best Director, Artistic Achie 2001 Vancouver International Film

Doris and her sister Josie start a café that quickly becomes something

Tung-Ching’s life has changed since

presents from friends after the first day of business and the café becomes

told him that his life is no longer c

much more than merely a modest space. The sisters receive housewarming

cluttered with many useless gifts. While Doris gets overwhelmed by the pile of presents, Josie comes up with the idea of a bartering system

The lifeline on his right hand was sc unpredictable since then.

in the store. The idea later proves to be beneficial- as people linger

Three months later, Tung-Ching’s f

personal stories as well. The moods of change and exchange not only

in palm reading, wants to retrieve

in the café looking for things to barter, some of them begin to share captivates Doris, also drives her to go on the journey for her own stories to tell…

12nd Taipei Film Awards AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

12nd Taipei Film Awards BEST MUSIC AWARD

has to take over the family pawnshop

Tung-Ching is apathetic to know wha

with one of his female customers w

2001 Torino Film BEST FIRST FEATU

nd Horse Awards 47Golden

Best Original Song Award

2001 Vancouver International Film Festival DRAGONS & TIGERS AWARD

Taiwan | 2010 | Drama | Color | HDCam | 82 min | Completed

2001 Fukuoka Asi GRAND

Taiwan | 2010 | Drama | Colo

-DIGITAL RESTORATION

GF＊BF (女朋友。男朋友)

-Chuan -Jye, FAN Hsiao-Fan, G

Director Cast

YANG Ya-Che GWEI Lun-Mei, Joseph CHANG, Rhydian VAUGHAN, Bryan CHANG

estival – Directors’ Fortnight First Feature Film ilm Festival evement Festival - Dragons & Tigers Award

2012 Golden Horse Awards - Best Leading Actress 2012 Golden Horse Awards - Audience Choice Award 2012 Taipei Film Awards - Best Leading Actor 2012 Taipei Film Awards - Best Supporting Actor

the car accident three months ago.

Mabel, Liam and Aaron all grew up together in the rural paradise of

controlled by fate but has become

changes their childhood bonds. Nonetheless it’s the 1980s, Taiwan is

cratched off in this incident. A nurse

father has suffered a stroke so he

p. His girlfriend, Eiko, who is interested

e Tung-Ching’s lifeline. However,

at the future holds. He starts to flirt

who he names her “ Know-all”.

m Festiva URE FILM

2001 Thessaloniki International Film Festival BEST DIRECTOR ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

south Taiwan. The three get caught up in an unusual love triangle which

trapped under martial law and the Taiwanese people are battling to gain freedom. Mabel, Liam and Aaron throw themselves into the thick of it, plotting protest movements during their school assembly.

Eventually the time comes to leave their home in the country side and

head to the big city, as students in Taipei they fight even harder for freedom.

During a time of upheaval through emotional hardship and tragedy, secrets are revealed and friendships are tested.

49th Golden Horse Awards BEST LEADING ACTRESS

49th Golden Horse Awards AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

14th Taipei Film Awards BEST LEADING ACTOR

ian Film Festival D PRIX

14th Taipei Film Awards BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

or | DCP | 74 min | Completed

Taiwan | 2012 | Drama | Color/Scope | DCP | 105 min | Completed