Chien-Ho Wu

Perhaps we form our likings later in life, whereas our childhood memories shape what makes us feel at home. Yuan moves to Hong Kong with her mother from Hunan at the age of eight to reunite with her father. Everything in the city is dazzling and new to her. However, the family faces poverty and language barriers. Worse yet, her father, who is a drug addict, is temperamental and is often sent to prison, causing him to disappear from the family for long periods of time. This certainly is not the dream home Yuan has been looking forward to. All she wants is her younger sister to be reunited with them as soon as possible. Out of fear, the sisters try to please their father in their early years, but as soon as they reach adolescence, they start to resist and escape from him. However, even after they grow up and move away from him, Yuan realises that all the people she loves and treasures turn out to resemble her father in her childhood memories.

As they are going to visit their former teacher, Micky, who is seriously ill, three men who were buddies back in their high school years are reunited. Moreover, they go back to the old cram school, reminiscing about their rebellious youth. In the 1990s, that cram school was known for its strict rules and the trio, who loved making trouble, had given the director a big headache until Micky arrived as a new teacher. He not only tamed the boys but became a good friend to them. Micky often talked about romantic relationships and sexuality to the students and made documentaries to speak up for the gay community. It is because of him that the students got to understand the homosexual or even themselves.

Tai-shian is locked away in his own autistic universe, totally lost to the world. His parents spend every day looking after him, rendering Tai-shian’s little sister Debby completely invisible to her parents…until one day, when both parents are gone, and Debby finds a new task thrust upon her.

이혼 후 새 가정을 꾸린 중년의 신문기자 아캉은 영국 유학을 마치고 돌아오는 딸 아빙을 만나기 위해 전처의 집에 들른다. 하지만 아빙은 버스에서 졸업증명서가 담긴 가방을 잃어버렸고 함께 온 남자친구 아융은 버스기사에게 폭행당했다. 아캉은 경찰서와 병원을 오가며 정의를 요구하지만 현실은 냉정하다. 전처는 새 애인을 사귀며 은근히 아캉을 무시하고, 그와 아융도 서로 거리를 좁히지 못한다. 곧 대도시에 정착할 아빙을 위해선 잃어버린 가방을 찾아야 한다. 아캉은 직접 문제를 해결할 결심으로 암시장에 접근한다.

A shy young man who finds himself attracted to a single mother at a sex hotel.

Ko Chen-tung (You Are the Apple of My Eye, Road to Mandalay) and Angelica Lee (The Eye, The Garden of Evening Mists) make an unusual romantic pairing in this offbeat romantic comedy from director-cinematographer Chen Ta-pu. Ko plays Croc, a young gangster who goes back to work for his former boss at a city councilor’s office after his release from jail. Croc’s latest task is to deal with Ping, a headstrong farmer who adamantly refuses to give up her land for redevelopment. As Croc and Ping develop feelings for each other, Croc is determined to become a better man and hang on to his newfound happiness — even if it means defying his own mob.

It tells the story of a mother’s desperation to locate her child when the abductor dies before her child can be located. With time running out, the child’s mother seeks the assistance of a spiritual medium.

운전 강사일을 하는 아버지와 미용사인 어머니, 그리고 아버지의 큰 기대 속에 의대 입학 재시험을 준비하는 고등학생 형 아호와 이 집안의 유일한 문제아 막내까지, 이 영화는 평범한 네 가족에 관한 이야기다. 막내 아들이 사고를 치고 소년원에 가게 되면서 가족들은 뿔뿔이 흩어지게 되는데...

블록체인과 가상화폐로 부패한 돈의 질서를 바로잡으려는 청년 사업가 '윤자상'은 정부에서 주관하는 샌드박스 프로젝트에 도전한다. 그는 사첩자산운용 본부장 '서청'의 눈에 띄어 프로젝트에 선정되지만, 얼마 지나지 않아 팀원이 독단으로 진행한 신탁 계약 때문에 전부를 잃을 위기에 처한다. 모든 것이 최상위 경제 포식자인 신신금융의 계략이었다는 것을 깨달은 윤자상은 거물을 잡기 위해 점점 더 판을 키우는데…

A film about the tormenting presence of absence. A young shop girl named Xiao Mei suddenly vanishes from her usual existence, without explanation or trace. Has she dissolved, or perhaps redeemed herself somehow? Nine people from her immediate surroundings try to fill the empty space left behind by this supposedly insignificant young woman. In a kaleidoscope of meandering memories, projections, confessions, interpretations, incantations and helpless speculations through which the young escapee wanders aimlessly, they attempt to solve the mystery of her disappearance.

Pao-li is in 8th grade. When Pao-li comes to Jia-jia's rescue, they fall in love. Soon they move in together and have a daughter. However, Jia-jia gradually gets tired of the tedious life and begins an affair with a married man. When Pao-li's mother squanders his savings on gambling, Jia-jia decides to leave Pao-li. In order to win Jia-jia back, Pao-li takes a big risk.

On his way to school, Huang witnesses the death of Hsia, a popular teenager in their high school,along with Lin and Yeh, the other 2 students from their high school, whom Huang has never known before. Even though the three guys try to save her, she is now gone forever. Her dead body lies in front of them, and this shocking image ties their fates together, and this twisted fate is going to change their high school lives forever... Because of all different reasons, Huang, Yeh, and Lin start their own investigations in order to find out the truth for Hsia’s death.

영화나 소설에서나 보던 극적인 사랑은 잠시 접어두자. 이른 바 ‘생활형 사랑’이라고나 할까? 수자오렌 감독이 <17세의 꿈>에서 이야기하는 사랑이 바로 그런 것이다. 17살 고교생 샤오양의 주변에는 온통 사랑과 이별로 홍역을 앓는 사람들 뿐이다. 친구 샤오마는 애인 티안티안과 사랑싸움을 하고 있고, 누나 샤오랑은 실연당한 뒤 샤오양의 권유에 의해 아침식당을 운영하는 마이클과 다시 사랑을 시작한다. 주스가게를 운영하는 엄마는 옆가게 주인인 청년 아샨과, 인쇄소를 운영하는 아빠는 결혼을 앞둔 이웃집 처녀 샤오리와 점차 가까워 진다. 정작 이들을 바라보는 샤오양만 혼자이다. 그는 다른 사람의 연애편지를 전달해주고 읽는 것을 즐긴다. 사실 이들 모두는 아주 평범한 사람들이다. 샤오양의 가족 역시 별 문제가 없다. 그런데도 그들은 다른 사람들에게 눈을 돌린다. 그렇지만, 이들의 사랑이 지극히 현실적인 것처럼 보이는 것은 수자오렌 감독이 ‘사랑’을 ‘환상’에서 ‘현실’로 끌어내리고 있기 때문이리라. (김지석_2012년 제17회 부산국제영화제)

A crime drama of a group of 5 teenages.