For the 8th year in a row, the San Diego Asian Film Festival presents the Taiwan Film Showcase, the largest annual presentation of Taiwanese cinema outside of Asia. Every year, the Showcase highlights the diversity of perspectives, languages, stories, and genres by filmmakers in Taiwan today.
Admission to MON 11/11 screenings of THE CHIEF OF YANCHENG DISTRICT and WE ARE CHAMPIONS includes a special screening reception.
The Taiwan Film showcase is sponsored by the UCSD Chuan Lyu Foundation for Taiwan Studies, the UCSD Taiwan Studies Lecture Series, the Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles, and the Taiwan Ministry of Culture.
ALL FILMS ARE PRESENTED AT THE UCSD PRICE CENTER THEATER AND ARE FREE FOR UCSD STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF.
TAIWAN FILM SHOWCASE @ UCSD
THE CHIEF OF YANCHENG DISTRICT
There once was a song / about sensuous spirits / that had everyone in Taiwan / aching to hear it. / But the story grew complex / because it combined politics and sex / and now we need a documentary / just to believe it.
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HEAVY CRAVING
Ying-Juan just wants to be recognized for her cooking. Despite the popular dishes she cooks for kids, she’s considered too heavyset to be the face of their school, and instead is pressured into a dispiriting weight-loss program. But two unlikely friendships set her on a surprising comedy of self-discovery.
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IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD SHOW
To appease the mob, a TV executive needs to lower the network’s value as quickly as possible. His solution: strip its budget and hire the worst performers and writers. To his astonishment, his young hires come up with ingenious, low-budget solutions that turn the network into a surprise hit.
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THREE MAKES A WHOLE
Zero Chou pays tribute to director Liu Li-li with a biopic in the mode of the soapy melodramas that made her famous in the 1970s-80s. We meet Liu as a young woman finding her narrative voice in the stage, and later film, while juggling romance with a married director.
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WE ARE CHAMPIONS
When beef between once-inseparable brothers interferes with basketball glory and dreams for a better life, they must struggle to work it all out while on opposite teams in the prestigious Taiwanese High School Basketball League tournament.
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WILD SPARROW
Deep in the Taiwan mountains, quiet young Han’s life with his great grandma is interrupted when his absentee mother relocates him to Taipei, where he watches her unstable life as an escort spiral out of his control.
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