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Future Shock

In 1970, American futurist Alvin Toffler's iconic work Future Shock was published. One year later, a translation by Zhiwen Publishing House hit the market in Taiwan, thus introducing the writer's theories to readers of Chinese. The premise of the book can be summed up as: “A future that comes too quickly creates more apprehension than that of a foreign land. Future society will be stricken with a plethora of choices, throw-away society, information overload, and unethical technology.”

Future Shock

NR 2019
Home Sick

On one deep-sea fishing ship, a seasoned captain; a chief engineer who is retiring soon; a experienced Filipino worker who speaks a bit of Taiwanese and English; an unskilled Indonesian comes working on the ship because the agency told him that he could earn money faster. Everyone on the ship has his own purpose and longing. In the ocean, their world is only made with the deck, and the cabin. Emotions can be magnified, collide and intertwine with each other in this cramped space, and no one can escape from it.

Home Sick

NR 2019
Me and My Condemned Son

The film centres around three condemned prisoners who committed different crimes, with one still serving his sentence, one who has taken his own life in prison, and one already executed. Consisting of unembellished interviews and news footage, the film shows the director’s concern for the condemned prisoners and their families as human beings; moreover, it examines the contemporary history of capital punishment in Taiwan and questions the current judicial system.

Me and My Condemned Son

NR 2019
Archiving Time

In Taiwan, there is a group of people participating in this race against time. They are hidden inside the film archive of New Taipei City’s “Singapore Industrial Park”, where the 17,000-plus film reels and over a million film artifacts have become their spiritual nourishment. Day after day, they shuttle back and forth inside, carrying their doubts, their learnings, and their faith. What they are doing is awakening these long-neglected film reels, then piecing together the no-longer-existent social atmospheres and lives of distant pasts recorded on them. And spending time in this archive has become everyday life for these film archivists and restorers.

Archiving Time

NR 2019
Wong, Bitter Gourd

A story, between father and son, happened round dinner table in the kitchen. "Bland lunch, day after day. the father who lives in the fridge. Discontented son. Inside the kitchen. Repast. Communication. Genes. On the verge of breaking out." Father and son came into a conflict because of a decision made by the son. To indicate the relationship between them through their reaction on that circumstances. We are all have some dissatisfaction with our parent’s personality,but meanwhile,we will gradually find them in yourself when you are growing up. The trepidation and the contradictory state.

Wong, Bitter Gourd

NR 2019
Ding Feng Po

The film is based on the Founder of Causeway Bay Books - LAM Wing-kee’s experience after he was temporarily released back to Hong Kong after 8 months of detention in Mainland China. LAM was demanded by the authorities to retrieve his computer in the bookstore in Hong Kong, alongside with the information of his customers. Only when he found out that his colleague handed over to him the wrong computer, should he start to think about possibilities besides submitting to authorities from Mainland China. The film re-enacts the events happened in the two days he was allowed to return to Hong Kong and explores LAM’s decision to defy, and refuse to leave his homeland.

Ding Feng Po

6.0 2019