HIFF.ORG ASIAN SHOWCASE
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
TAIPEI EXCHANGES
DI SANSHILIU GE GUSHI NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
sUnDay, OCTObER 17 12:45 Pm REgal DOlE TUEsDay, OCTObER 19 6:15 Pm REgal DOlE TaIWan 2010 | manDaRIn W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 82 m
DIRECTOR: Ya-Chuan Hsiao sCREEnWRITER: Ya-Chuan Hsiao PRODUCERs: Hsiao- Hsian Hou, Jui-Lan Hsiao CInEmaTOgRaPhER: Tse-Chung Lin CasT: Lun-Mei Gwei, Han Chang, Zaizai Lin
TAIPEI EXCHANGES is the charming story of two sisters running a coffee shop that come up with a unique method of attracting customers: the shop, Doris’s Cafe, is filled with items that can be swapped for the customers’ items or services, if the customer can convince Doris’s free-spirited younger sister that it’s a fair trade.
The film, which is cute without being cloying, celebrates the joy of a well- told story and the concept of “personal value” as romance brews between Doris, who’s never left Taipei, and a pilot who tells her thrirty-five stories of his travels around the world. As the sisters learn and grow from the people they meet in the coffee shop, they and their customers swap trash and treasures, stories and songs, wisdom and art, recipes and secrets, hopes and dreams, jobs and careers, and even entire lives. As light and delicious as Doris’s tiramisu, TAIPEI EXCHANGES is an ethereal treat that leaves you wanting more. —Sat Freedman
THE TIGER FACTORY UNITED STATES PREMIERE sUnDay, OCTObER 17 | 2:00 Pm | REgal DOlE
malaysIa, jaPan 2010 | malay, manDaRIn, CanTOnEsE W/ Eng. sUbTITlEs | 84 m DIRECTOR: Ming Jin Woo sCREEnWRITER: Ming Jin Woo , Edmund Yeo PRODUCERs: Ming Jin Woo , Kohei Ando, Edmund Yeo CInEmaTOgRaPhER: Chun Hung Wan CasT: Fooi Mun Lai, Pearlly Chua, Susan Lee
Ping Ping is 19 and wants to go to Japan to work in a car parts company. She’s under the guardian of her aunt, Madame Tien, who shuffles her between two jobs; working in a pig farm, and cleaning dishes in a rundown restaurant. Tien is also involved in a ‘baby factory’ scheme, pairing young women with migrant workers and then selling the babies for money. Both Ping Ping and Tien survive with each other in a love-hate symbiotic manner, until a truth about her aunt is revealed to Ping Ping.
The prolific and award winning director Ming Jin Woo is considered one of Malaysia’s best filmmakers, with his past films going to major film festivals around the world. THE TIGER FACTORY is no different, having debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A tale of Southeast Asian despair, this film lyrically paints a story where dreams are perennially shattered, but sometimes, there is that small ray of hope.
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THE FOURTH PORTRAIT / PINOY SUNDAY
RED DRAGONFLIES / CIN(T)A
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