Taiwan Film Days
October 14–16, 2011
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
This exciting three-day showcase highlights the best of contemporary Taiwanese cinema and provides Bay Area audiences with unique opportunities to view new Taiwanese films and engage with visionary filmmakers.
Download the program (pdf)
Taiwan Film Days Sponsors and Supporters
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
This exciting three-day showcase highlights the best of contemporary Taiwanese cinema and provides Bay Area audiences with unique opportunities to view new Taiwanese films and engage with visionary filmmakers.
Download the program (pdf)
Taiwan Film Days Sponsors and Supporters
Opening Night Party
Celebrate the best of contemporary Taiwanese cinema at the Opening Night of Taiwan Film Days. A limited number of tickets are available for a festive postscreening reception. Join us for light appetizers and sponsored wine following the screening of Formosa Mambo. Read more...
Friday, October 14, 9–11 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Formosa Mambo
Wang Chi-tsai (Pao tao man po, Taiwan 2011)
When a band of kidnappers attempts to collect a ransom for their young hostage, the boy’s family dismisses it as a prank. Stuck with a youngster to care for and on the lam, the stage is set for a dark comedy of errors. We get this and much more with delicious plot twists and a growing pile-up of fraud and double crosses.
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Friday, October 14, 7:00 pm, 9:45 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Taivalu
Huang Hsin-yao (Chen mo chih tao, Taiwan 2011)
The island nation of Tuvalu is the first country expected to be eradicated by rising sea levels associated with climate change. This winner of the Grand Prize and Best Documentary Prize at the Taipei Film Festival examines the situation in Tuvalu and draws parallels to flooding in the Taiwanese town of Tainan, pointing to systematic ecological neglect as the common denominator between Tuvalu’s problems and those of Taiwan.
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Saturday, October 15, 1:30 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
You Are the Apple of My Eye
Giddens (Na hsieh nien wo men yi chi chui te nu hai, Taiwan 2011)
Ko-teng has a crush on the beautiful class overachiever Shen Chia-yi, as do most of his close-knit group of roguish friends. When a friendship serendipitously blossoms between the two, romance may seem inevitable, but what develops is infinitely sweeter. This hit of the Taipei Film Festival (the directing debut of megastar novelist Giddens) renews one’s belief in the possibility of unconditional love and true friendship. Read more...
Friday, October 14, 4:30 pm; Saturday, October 15, 6:00 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Honey Pupu
Chen Hung-i (Hsiao shih ta kan, Taiwan 2011)
A young man named Dog, the key to a young woman’s love life, disappears, and she aims to track him down through his social media network. In Chen Hung-i’s exploration of networked communications and virtual friendships the ensemble cast begins combining their online lives with their real ones, while coming to grips with what it means to be living in an age that is constantly accelerating into the future. Read more...
Saturday, October 15, 9:00 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
The Coming of Tulku
Cheng Tsun-shing (Hua cheng tsai lai jen, Taiwan 2011)
A man of gentle paradox, 90-year-old poet Zhou Meng-die displays a particular economy of speech, gesture and expression belying his racing mental acuity. Viewers are quickly eased into his rhythm as Zhou’s life unfolds slowly and with purpose, thick with small pleasures. Those who allow themselves to be swept into his perspective will find themselves gently nudged into experiencing another mode of being. Read more...
Sunday, October 16, 1:00 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Bear It
Cheng Fen-fen (Hsiung hsiung ai shang ni, Taiwan 2011)
In this comedy, Peter is a travel guide and chaperone for teddy bears sent on tours by their families. When he is in an auto accident and three of the bears go missing, his attempts to replace them result in human entanglements that his work with inanimate wards was designed to help him avoid. Soon he is enmeshed in a roving band of misfits far more unpredictable than his usual passengers. Read more...
Sunday, October 16, 4:15 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema 1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Ranger
Chienn Hsiang (Kuei tu, Taiwan 2010)
A convicted murderer is released from prison after 25 years. Finding himself immediately reimmersed into the violent brotherhood of Taiwanese mobdom, he risks ostracism and worse when he becomes protective of the abused child of the mob boss. He soon finds himself on the run in a riveting story of multigenerational violence and retribution whose cycle can only be broken from within. Read more...
Sunday, October 16, 9:00 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Pinoy Sunday
Ho Wi-ding (Tai pei hsing chi tien, Taiwan/Philippines/Japan/France 2009)
In this charming comedy, two Philippine immigrants who have come to Taipei lured by the promise of a better life are laboring under the strict regulations of the factory where they work. On their one day a week of freedom they come across a discarded red sofa. Determined to bring it back to their foreign workers dorm before curfew with no means of transportation, the two begin a humorously epic journey across town. Read more...
Saturday, October 15, 4:00 pm; Sunday, October 16, 7:00 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
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