The 7th Taiwan Film Festival in Australia
25 July - 8 Sep 2024
SHORT FILMS | 短片介紹
After Death《滿七》
2020 | 29 mins | UNCL G
Australian Premiere 澳洲首映
FA Talents: Galilee Ma, Lee I-hui, Chen Yi-Kai, Aw See-Wee, Qian Ning, Lo Chen-Wen, Liu Shih-Wen, Chung Ai
學員：馬慧妍、李怡慧、陳奕凱、歐詩偉、錢檸、羅晨文、劉世文、鍾艾
Cast: Patty Lee, Chuang Yi-Tseng
演員：李霈瑜、莊益增
Mentor: John Hsu
導師：徐漢強
‘49 days after death’ is a tradition of Buddhism that the family mourns and has a ritual for their lost one, with prayers conducted every 7 days, for 7 weeks. Ji-Hong and his family perform the last ritual for his deceased wife, when a mysterious event happened——her bedroom door is locked. He believes it’s his wife’s spirit trapped within. During this ordeal, he also struggles to connect with their daughter, who is experiencing excruciating period pain.
滿七法事以後，亡妻的房門突然上鎖了。在一扇打不開的門外，志宏始終未能猜透妻子無法安心離開的原因；在空蕩的家中，志宏努力修補與女兒嘉安日久疏遠的關係，但她正在經歷的劇烈經痛，志宏卻不知如何應對......。
Growing Pains《少年阿堯》
Director Lin Po-Yu 林柏瑜 | 2020 | 25 mins | UNCL G
Australian Premiere 澳洲首映
2020 Hawaii International Film Festival - Short Film Competition Best Actor
第40屆夏威夷國際影展 最佳男演員獎
2020 First International Film Festival - Official Competition
第14屆 西寧FIRST青年電影展 正式競賽
2020 Boston Asian American Film Festival - Official Competition
第12屆 波士頓亞美影展 正式競賽
Yao, a boy in a high school track and field team with worn-out shoes. All he wanted was a pair of brand new shoes to help him run faster and not be sneered by his classmates. Only if the family hit the jackpot and things would be different..
擔任高中田徑隊的阿堯，卻穿著一補再補的舊鞋。期望著能有雙新鞋，所以可以不被同學鄙視，同時讓他的跑步更順暢。但家庭卻面臨著重大的金錢壓力，如果他們能夠贏得一張樂透，一切都會變得不一樣。
Family Day《溫馨家庭日》
Director Leong Siew-Hong 梁秀紅 | 2021 | 25 mins | UNCL G
Australian Premiere 澳洲首映
A society where mass surveillance is conducted and every citizen is implanted with an identity chip——anyone who is against it will be treated as a rioter and get taken away. Rong accidentally sees her mother in the riot archive footage and starts questioning the mother’s disappearance. She takes the family to their holiday house, a blind spot for the government’s tracking, but at the same time a potential for dangerous crime.
一個全民被高度監控的社會，每個人都被植入電子晶片，反對者將被視為暴動者。陳蓉某次上課觀看錄像時，在暴動群眾裡發現失去已久的母親，讓她開始懷疑母親失蹤的真實原因。為了套問父親真相，她帶著全家來到一個位於盲區的旅館，以為可以避開監控，蟄伏此間的卻令人出乎意料......。