Taiwan Film Days

Taiwan Film Days
November 6-8
Landmark's Opera Plaza

The San Francisco Film Society in association with Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco, Taiwan's Government Information Office and Taiwan's Tourism Board presents Taiwan Film Days. This most recent addition to the Film Society’s expanding fall season highlights the best of contemporary Taiwanese cinema and provides Bay Area audiences with unique opportunities to view bold new Taiwanese films and engage with visionary filmmakers.

Friday, November 6
6:30 pm Cape No. 7 Opening Night
The story of the unlikely rise of an exceptional rock band comes bounded by a postwar tale of unrequited love in this spirited small-town epic, Taiwan’s all-time box-office blockbuster.
9:00 pm Opening Night Party with complimentary wine and appetizers at Bambuddha Lounge, 601 Eddy Street.
9:30 pm Cape No. 7

Saturday, November 7
2:00 pm Beyond the Arctic
Veteran documentary filmmaker Yang Li-chou profiles the three-man Taiwanese team on the 2008 Polar Challenge, a multinational race to the magnetic North Pole.
4:15 pm Somewhere I Have Never Traveled
A scrappy, color-blind 15-year-old girl and her beloved older cousin engage in imaginative travels far beyond their small seaside town in this gently nuanced coming-of-age story.
7:00 pm God Man Dog
The tenuous place of human beings between heaven and earth links three disparate stories in filmmaker Singing Chen’s thoughtful second feature that reveals the contradictions in modern Taiwanese society.
9:30 pm Yang Yang
Writer-director Chen Yu-chieh’s second feature is an intimate, beautifully acted drama about a half-French competitive runner for whom family, career, and love become a tangle of contradictions.

Sunday, November 8
2:00 pm What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?
A TV star (Doze Niu Chen-zer, playing himself) needs funding for his breakout film and gets mixed up with the mob in this cutting satire of Taiwan’s film industry.
4:30 pm Beyond the Arctic see 11/7
6:15 pm No Puedo Vivir sin Ti
When a poor, single father has his daughter taken from him by government order, his desperation leads to a showdown that becomes a worldwide media event.
8:30 pm Yang Yang see 11/7

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