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shareFor the 13th straight year, SDAFF presents the Taiwan Film Showcase, the largest annual spotlight on Taiwan cinema in North America. The showcase is sponsored by the UCSD Taiwan Studies Center, UCSD Chuan Lyu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, and the Taiwan Academy. All screenings are FREE for UCSD students, faculty, and staff with ID.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
SHORTS: ANIMAL INSTINCTS
Two- and four-legged encounters, the winged and the wondrous. These short films from Taiwan feature animals to track the footsteps between the ecological, the economic, and the enigmatic.
12:40 pm
Edwards Mira Mesa
Dead Talents Society
Directed by John Hsu
A raucous coming-of-undead comedy, a timid new ghost has 30 days to scare the living with flair, enough to earn a license or completely disappear. Challenged by a rising ghost celebrity, she enlists a washed-up urban legend as her trainer. Bloody hijinks ensue!
2:25 pm
Edwards Mira Mesa
Mahjong
Directed by Edward Yang
A young French girl comes to Taiwan to rekindle her romance with an older man but finds herself entangled in Taipei’s shady underworld in Edward Yang’s farcical masterpiece.
5:15 pm
Edwards Mira Mesa
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Light of the Setting Sun
Directed by Vicky Du
Equal parts unflinching and compassionate, Vicky Du sifts through her family’s history during Taiwan's tumultuous post-war decades, striving to create a language for the violence, both political and interpersonal, that she and her family have endured.
3:00 pm
Edwards Mira Mesa
Pierce
Directed by Nelicia Low
Zi-Jie always felt that his brother was wrongfully imprisoned for killing an opponent during a fencing match. So when his brother is released, Zi-Jie secretly lets him back in his life – as a fencing coach. Sharp, nimble, and in full control, Nelicia Low’s thriller is a showstopper.
5:10 pm
Edwards Mira Mesa
Dead Talents Society
Directed by John Hsu
A raucous coming-of-undead comedy, a timid new ghost has 30 days to scare the living with flair, enough to earn a license or completely disappear. Challenged by a rising ghost celebrity, she enlists a washed-up urban legend as her trainer. Bloody hijinks ensue!
7:45 pm
Edwards Mira Mesa
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Mahjong
Directed by Edward Yang
A young French girl comes to Taiwan to rekindle her romance with an older man but finds herself entangled in Taipei’s shady underworld in Edward Yang’s farcical masterpiece.
5:15 pm
Edwards Mira Mesa
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Abiding Nowhere
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
The 10th installment of Tsai Ming Liang’s epic Walker series, in which a monk moves with mesmerizing slowness - this time across Washington DC. Inspired by a 7th century monk’s pilgrimage from China to India, a riveting experience of muscular control, vocabularies of time, and the sheer effort of presence.
5:20 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
Pierce
Directed by Nelicia Low
Zi-Jie always felt that his brother was wrongfully imprisoned for killing an opponent during a fencing match. So when his brother is released, Zi-Jie secretly lets him back in his life – as a fencing coach. Sharp, nimble, and in full control, Nelicia Low’s thriller is a showstopper.
5:20 pm
Edwards Mira Mesa
