Synopsis Synopsis This story takes place in a small cotton village in China during the chaotic Cultural Revolution, sometime in the ‘50s. A young village boy, MA Cheng Gong (played by SU Yio peng), is mesmerized by the charms of FANG Bi Yu (played by NING Jing), an older sister figure to him and his co-worker. Because she is engaged to the son of the head of the village, one day FANG has the rare privilege and opportunity to travel to the province’s cotton factory to work. She takes MA with her, and they finally have the chance to get out of this small village. A new life begins for them in the big factory, with many new faces—both friend and foe—and many new tasks. MA is befriended by LEE Zhe Gao (played by TUO Zong-hua), who becomes a big brother figure to him. But when a romance develops between FANG and LEE, MA is stuck in the middle, his innocent mind puzzled and disturbed. For the first time, the young boy experiences the bittersweet taste of love. Passion and lust, wildness and imagination create turmoil in this remote factory. The white cotton fields are no longer so pure and white…
Casting: Kang-Yi LEE、Chih-Wei FAN、Shu-Shen HSIAO、Kang-Sheng LEE
Synopsis Synopsis Hsin-he, a high school sophomore who can get along just fine on her own, lives with her father. At school, the days pass slowly by, as if in perpetual anticipation…One day, just when her mind is Wandering off yet again in the middle of math class, the teacher assigns her to be the student teacher. Hsin-he, a self-acknowledged math dunce, is left frustrated and annoyed. Knowing this, Teacher Tan orders that Fang Ke-lei, a male classmate who is a math whiz and student teacher of a different class, tutor Hsin-he in math and that Hsin-he assist Ke-lei with administrative tasks. Ordered to work together like this, the two find themselves not getting along; Ke-lei is reticent and arrogant, and Hsin-he writes him off as an egomaniac. Hsin-he thinks that he won’t be back to tutor her again, and she can go back to her happy, solitary life. But one day, Ke-lei shows up unexpectedly on the school bus. Making a sincere effort, he says that he has decided to use this time to tutor her. But he explains that on rainy, he will still take his family car. It’s the rainy season, and Hsin-he is sitting by herself on the school bus. Whether it’s at school, at home, or on the street, she keeps feeling this inexplicable discomfort, perhaps due to the oppressive, wet weather. So she makes a miniature “sunny doll” to ask for sunny weather…..
Synopsis Synopsis She’s five. She lives in a fantasy. Reality is too hard for her to understand, and she creates a fantasy world to escape the harshness of daily life, namely, her constantly fighting parents. Reality is the embarrassment of violence and humiliation in this dysfunctional family. But in the eyes of the little girl, it’s something else… She’s a rebellious 17-year-old and desires a change. She lives with her mother—or rather, they live together but in their separate worlds. She feels lonely and desperately wants to escape reality, so she steals ID cards and pretends to be other people. Then one day, a mysterious young man appears with no background, no identity, only a willingness to adventure with her… She is a woman of 30 with a secret that nobody can share. She comes to her mother’s sickbed, and their relationship turns from sarcastic quarrels to verbal violence to dead silence. But she has to compromise at some point before she becomes a mother herself…
Synopsis Bun-liong is a gentle, quiet young man whose only desire in life is to play his music. The movie alternates between scenes of his life traveling with a Taiwanese opera troupe and of each of his troubled visits to the village of his childhood by the Sand River. The story weaves a complex tapestry of a tragic life beginning in a destitute family and culminating in a failed marriage and the heartbreak of unrequited love. And through it all is his music, first the trumpet, then the saxophone, then the sad strains of the clarinet, filtering through the Sand River dusk, telling of a life of wanderlust and dreams unfulfilled. This film is rich with the atmosphere of Taiwan in the post-Japanese occupation years and includes many scenes of traditional Taiwan ge zai opera. It is adapted from the acclaimed Taiwanese author Chi Teng Sheng’s 1976 novel Lament of the Sand River, which is based on the real-life experiences of the author’s older brother.
