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shareFor the 15th 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 Taiwan Film Showcase films playing at the AMC UTC are FREE for UCSD students, faculty, and staff with a valid ID. Students must present their Student IDs at box office to receive a free ticket.
Sun, Nov 8
Good Neighbors
Directed by Lee Hsing
The Chen family, new arrivals from China, open a traditional-medicine clinic beside the Ng family’s Western one, creating small frictions in language and customs. Everything shifts when the younger generation falls for one another.
12:30 pm
AMC UTC 14
Beyond the Smiles: Yani Tseng
Directed by Frank W Chen
The historic and unparalleled rise, fall, and epic comeback of global golf icon Yani Tseng who returns to the golf course and embarks on a quest to explore her life’s purpose.
2:30 pm
AMC UTC 14
Arrested Memory
Directed by Sabu
After developing amnesia, Lee is assigned a new case: the kidnapping of the son of a Japanese businessman. As his memory continues to fade, Lee can only rely on his instincts—which, against all odds, lead him to the criminals.
5:00 pm
AMC UTC 14
Will You Still Be My Friend
Directed by Lu Po-shun
Jun, a naive thirteen-year-old boy from a village in southern Taiwan, shares a secret bond with his best friend, Jasper, who moved from Singapore with his parents after they began buying land for solar farms in the village.
7:00 pm
AMC UTC 14
Mon, Nov 9
I Blew Out the Candles Before Making a Wish
Directed by Chao Koi-Wang, Hu Chin-Yen
A broke man and a young girl with unusable casino chips form an unlikely alliance, hoping to outplay fate and win back their happiness.
5:30 pm
AMC UTC 14
Dust
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
The Walker passes a Basque farmer, a silent man, a woman who drinks water incessantly, and a woman who smokes incessantly. Along the stormy coast, he lingers before Eduardo Chillida’s The Comb of the Wind.
8:00 pm
AMC UTC 14
Fri, Nov 13
Will You Still Be My Friend
Directed by Lu Po-shun
Jun, a naive thirteen-year-old boy from a village in southern Taiwan, shares a secret bond with his best friend, Jasper, who moved from Singapore with his parents after they began buying land for solar farms in the village.
8:55 pm
UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley
Sat, Nov 14
SHORTS: TAIWAN TALES
Shorts from Taiwan that explore the stuff of lore with a beloved from a past life, a missing cow, midwife apprentices, and hypnosis as a portal to a complicated home.
2:40 pm
UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley
Arrested Memory
Directed by Sabu
After developing amnesia, Lee is assigned a new case: the kidnapping of the son of a Japanese businessman. As his memory continues to fade, Lee can only rely on his instincts—which, against all odds, lead him to the criminals.
5:20 pm
UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley
