World premiering at the 2010 Hong Kong Film Festival, this Taiwanese production marks the debut of directors Liu Essay and Wang Yu-Lin, Distributed by Cheng Cheng Films, “Seven Days in Heaven” adapts, through a melancholy and insightful comedy about the formalities of dying, Essay Liu’s autobiographical story which won a Lin Rong-San Literary Award.
“Seven Days in Heaven” is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema
Lin Guo Yuan (Po Tai) has passed away. His daughter Mei (Garance Wang Li-wen) travels to her hometown with family members from both home and abroad in order to participate in the Daoist seven-day mourning rite. Within seven days of her father’s passing, back to her agricultural community in central Taiwan, she is reminded of the simplicity and superstition of the villagers upon her return. After the funeral, the woman packs up her grief and her loss before departing for her bustling city. But...
“Seven Days in Heaven” is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema
Lin Guo Yuan (Po Tai) has passed away. His daughter Mei (Garance Wang Li-wen) travels to her hometown with family members from both home and abroad in order to participate in the Daoist seven-day mourning rite. Within seven days of her father’s passing, back to her agricultural community in central Taiwan, she is reminded of the simplicity and superstition of the villagers upon her return. After the funeral, the woman packs up her grief and her loss before departing for her bustling city. But...
- 9/25/2023
- by Federica Giampaolo
- AsianMoviePulse
Taipei’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) has selected 25 titles this year with filmmakers including Tsai Ming Liang, Midi Z, Zhang Ming and Stanley Kwan attached.
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee today announced the project market’s line-up selected from 127 submissions from Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, France, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, the UK and Thailand.
This year’s Fpp has 13 feature debuts including A Small Place, produced by auteur filmmaker Tsai Ming Liang and directed by Ong Chao Hong. The story is about two siblings renewing their lives after the death of their father.
Golden Horse Film Academy alumnus Midi Z (Ice Poison) is in the Fpp line-up with The Road To Mandalay. Set in Bangkok, the film follows the loves and lives of bottom-rung illegal immigrants.
Other projects include Zhang Ming’s Memoirs Of The Darkness, in which a group of girls and boys are isolated in the wilds shooting a film...
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee today announced the project market’s line-up selected from 127 submissions from Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, France, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, the UK and Thailand.
This year’s Fpp has 13 feature debuts including A Small Place, produced by auteur filmmaker Tsai Ming Liang and directed by Ong Chao Hong. The story is about two siblings renewing their lives after the death of their father.
Golden Horse Film Academy alumnus Midi Z (Ice Poison) is in the Fpp line-up with The Road To Mandalay. Set in Bangkok, the film follows the loves and lives of bottom-rung illegal immigrants.
Other projects include Zhang Ming’s Memoirs Of The Darkness, in which a group of girls and boys are isolated in the wilds shooting a film...
- 9/25/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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